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He thinks he's a king.

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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

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This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 1222 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 16 days ago • 2528 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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As I stated before, this man’s arrogance will be his downfall.

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Snap out of it, America. The warning lights are flashing red. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

submitted 33 days ago • 251 comments

Get them out of government. Most not old enough to be elected to anything. One suspects they are part of Musk’s gaming posse.

submitted 34 days ago • 1030 comments

Through comments, I learned about other big myths Americans believe about foreign aid: 1/ it's risen past 1% in recent years, esp. due to Ukraine - false, max is about 0.5% in 2022 $80B 2/ it's used mostly not for humanitarian aid - nope 3/ It's mainly about military objectives - nope

submitted 34 days ago • 81 comments

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

submitted 34 days ago • 1034 comments

Racism is no longer just an engine of the MAGA movement. It is now the official domestic and foreign policy of the United States of America. Not for the first time. But in new and ugly forms.

submitted 34 days ago • 14 comments

For people asking for non-meta options I’ll be posting clips tomorrow

submitted 34 days ago • 1631 comments

I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

submitted 34 days ago • 1350 comments

A few things Trump just made more expensive for you: Gas Cars TVs iPhones Xboxes Avocados Strawberries Furniture Power tools Modelo Refrigerators Microwaves Clothes Bananas Tequila Maple syrup

submitted 36 days ago • 1087 comments

Read the whole thing.

submitted 36 days ago • 77 comments

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Attacking DEI is racism. Period. It’s also sexism. Ableism. And a lot of other things. But mainly, at its heart, it’s white supremacist racist code. The attacks should never ever be presented as anything else.

submitted 36 days ago • 16 comments

Stating the obvious: tariffs are a regressive tax on the poorest Americans. A company pays the tariff, and raises their prices to get that money. That price is paid by the consumer. Duh

submitted 36 days ago • 966 comments

Pete Buttigieg responds to Trump’s vicious nonsense.

submitted 38 days ago • 405 comments

It has now officially been confirmed. We have reached the singularity

submitted 38 days ago • 351 comments

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 41 days ago • 179 comments

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Trump's entire strategy at the moment is based on the moral vacuity and inertia of however many Republican Senators will be required to convict him at his post 2026 impeachment trial. He has broken so many laws in a week that such a trial is an inevitability if a Dem majority returns to the House.

submitted 40 days ago • 20 comments

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

submitted 41 days ago • 221 comments

1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities THIS IS A LIE New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels

submitted 40 days ago • 131 comments

Dem Leader Schumer opening presser following OMB memo news on certain federal grants being frozen. “This is cruelty, this is lawlessness, this is a heist done on a national scale.”

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Schumer: "Last night, President Trump plunged the country into chaos ... "

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Ope! The bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

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This is an absolute must read. Backed by facts and context.

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When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

submitted 94 days ago • 1974 comments

Who votes no on something like this? Oh, that’s who.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

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Can’t wait to see the fireworks when Elon Musk & Donald Trump eventually have a falling out. This one’s going to be epic! Which staffer will let it slip to Trump that Elon’s the real President & watch his head pop off? 👀🍿

submitted 112 days ago • 111 comments

Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.

submitted 112 days ago • 635 comments

Rep. Mike Simpson’s (R-ID) reaction to the question if Matt Gaetz was qualified to be Attorney General: “Are you shitting me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated!” Truly one for the history books.

submitted 112 days ago • 25 comments