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This hits rural areas hard; the core of his base.

submitted 18 minutes ago • 0 comments

A wild but totally possible scenario: Boasberg deputizes a private practice legal team to handle the prosecution, while DOJ brings on one of the Big Law surrender shops to handle the defense. A total breakdown of the department charged with pursuing Justice.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

MLB capitulates on DEI

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Coming soon

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Federal statute of limitations on bribery is 5 years. Next Dem administration needs to put all these crooks in prison.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 924 comments

Trump's physical indicates he's on both drugs

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They have destroyed everything that set us apart and created our wealth.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just insane stories from the graduate school communities, students getting kicked out of the country - medical and science researchers - because of trivial, decade-old violations, like speeding tickets, long ago, paid in full

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Only 3 orders of magnitude

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Nobody knows from one hour to the next what the policy of the US govt is that impacts trillions of dollars in global trade. There is no economic certainty for investors, corporations, or small businesses. Mad King Donald is determined to wreck this economy.

submitted 3 days ago • 756 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 3 days ago • 209 comments

Fuuuuuck

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 4 days ago • 222 comments

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

But didn't God give humans dominion over the earth? So...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So the point of tariffs wasn't to force manufacturing here? Huh.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Well oiled machine. The DOGE computer folks can’t fix it? Or are they the ones that broke it?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Who’s in fucking charge here?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fucking good idea

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"It is important to understand that there is no—none, *zero*—practical reason to imprison an American citizen abroad....The only reason America would need to use foreign prisons would be to get around the American legal system." And Trump has expressed interest in doing just that.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

It’s a scary time. So feel the fear, metabolize the fear and transcend the fear by working with other people to act with courage and stand tall for democracy and freedom.

submitted 7 days ago • 202 comments

They’re not just going after criminals. They’re taking away legal ways to enter the U.S. and kicking out people who entered “the right way.” Let’s call it what it is: this is about kicking out all immigrants who aren’t white.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

White House “Coal Miner" Is Actually a Supervisor for a Company That Recently Laid Off 165 Zachary Erdeljac wore a red MAGA hard hat, safety gear and praised Trump's tariffs meidasnews.com/news/white-h...

submitted 7 days ago • 158 comments

Per CNBC: White House is now saying EU will not be punished for their retaliation because it hadn't gone into effect yet. So they only get the 10% baseline tariff. That excuse just tells you in black and white how much they've contorted themselves in order to back the fuck off this poor strategy.

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments