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The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 18 hours ago • 188 comments

I used to be a government traditionalist. That part of what keeps our government and country functioning is people remembering the other side deserve respect. That we should act in an adult responsible way. That when they go low, we go high. Fuck that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i don't understand why the dems aren't raising hell and getting kicked out one by one rn

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

Today I got a giant doctor's bill, found out my property taxes are increasing $100 a month, plus with the new tarrifs I'm sure every trip to the grocery store will bring new horrors. The year is going great so far. Might need a second full time job for the first time since my early 20s.

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How much will I regret my choices if I opt to watch the speech tonight? I'm going to guess I may lose the will to function, but maybe it'll have the reverse effect?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 57 days ago • 59 comments

If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 201 comments

Every time I see posts like this, I wonder if Canadians know their media is also feeding them propaganda because there are daily protests and lawsuits. You think nothing is happening because it doesn't look like fighting back in smaller countries.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 20 days ago • 3241 comments

There are a lot of us who are not well-positioned for street activism (in my case, I can't risk detainment because my youngest still mostly depends on breast milk for calories), and discounting work that can be done on digital space isn't just inaccurate, it's shaming of vulnerable people

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you might hit a SpaceX rocket

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

Brian Krebs confirmed what I suspected. Like most people who worked for Path Network, Edward Coristine came from the cybercrime community, and was active as recently as May 2024 krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

submitted 26 days ago • 108 comments

⚠️ DOGE staffer Edward Coristine was fired for leaking info from a data-security firm. He later bragged he retained access to the firm’s system. He was also on law enforcement radar for communicating in an online chat room with an alleged hacker under investigation. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 26 days ago • 85 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 108 comments

I guess maga is over Clinton's emails now, right?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

How much clearer does this guy have to be? When they tell you who they are, believe them.

submitted 30 days ago • 226 comments

Was just thinking about effective and counterproductive civil disobedience. Extinction Rebellion in the UK gives me examples of both. In April of 2019, Extinction Rebellion took over several locations in London, and held them for (IIRC) more than a week. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It is kind of hard to find out who the actual bad actors are and who are just lazy, cynical people who don't want to fight.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

I talked to some folks who are surprised by this. I'm not. And I think it is a good example to drive home the reality of where we are, so that people can start getting serious.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

And today's recent headline is why I joined with the uncommitted movement BUT argued with anyone who voted for t or didn't vote because it would somehow be better for Gaza and Palestinians. Yeah not quite

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is the cruelest, most unnecessary shit

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

But I mean thank god we got rid of the real problem: minor government functionaries asking Twitter not to platform vaccine misinformation during an unprecedented medical crisis.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

submitted 29 days ago • 74 comments

I just put in my contacts and looked at my phone for the first time in a while (phone reading and games are generally sans eyewear). I think I might need reading glasses. When did I get so old???

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Seems quite possible this is the tap the President sent the military to turn on—an unscheduled flood release from Army Corps reservoirs into the surrounding farmland 200 miles and a couple mountain ranges distant from the wildfires. sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

submitted 33 days ago • 55 comments

My job is collecting forensic traces from fleets of machines and my first instruction is leakers never hit printscreen. I can see that.

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 33 days ago • 134 comments

Hannibal Lemon

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments