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Rejector of our ongoing political fecklessness. What happened to civic engagement? Tans more, rusts less these days.
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“Helping ensure our country is viewed as a force not to be reckoned with.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 1531 comments

Yeah, let's drive international students to colleges in other countries. That will really help us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Trump, convicted on multiple felonies, pardoned domestic terrorists and white nationalist gang members involved in Jan 6th. Republicans want immigrants with no criminal records locked up while their violent criminals walk free. That’s white supremacy, not public safety.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

My Trade Secrets today. It's a longstanding American grievance that predates Trump: US companies can't sell cars in Europe & elsewhere because of evil trade barriers. It's actually because US protectionism has encouraged its carmakers to make clunky great gas-guzzlers no one else wants to buy.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

When you stack your administration with incompetent sycophants, you can push things for a while. They’ll threaten your enemies and make all sorts of mischief. But when shit goes down, it’ll go down fast. They’ll fall all at once like a house of cards because loyalty to a crook is all they got.

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

Today in weird statistical coincidences

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Perhaps might be a good time to remind people that the "I was only obeying orders" excuse doesn't play well historically. For all the crimes and blatantly unconstitutional actions this administration is currently committing in broad daylight, the country will one day demand legal accountability.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The demand to meet with an independent non-profit organization and potentially embed its staffers there represents an expansion of Doge’s already sprawling reach www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

submitted 1 day ago • 6955 comments

part 1

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

El Salvador refuses to let Democratic senator visit or speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘We have an unjust situation here’

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments

It's an interesting way to create a groundswell of opposition.

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submitted 2 days ago • 218 comments

Here's a link thru the paywall; security details are obviously absurd here, but I also can't help pointing out that the clown below clearly has no idea how to wear his earpiece (which I see surprisingly often; it should be clipped to the shirt collar and hidden under suit's lapel) archive.ph/JNC70

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

For some inexplicable reason libertarians are back on my feed so it’s time to re-up this banger.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

There's a world where Dems won the House 218-217 in November and Rs now have a working majority bc Grijalva and Turner died. Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments