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This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 20 hours ago • 962 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 8 days ago • 5664 comments

I don't even really know how to put this in words but one of the signal experiences of the last decade is being confronted, over and over again, with how *weak* this country is. How hollow. There was so much less substance to it, to its leaders & institutions, than anyone thought.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

I want friends who will invite me over for the Super Bowl but understand I’m not gonna watch the game and I am there to eat a generous portion of the jalepeño-corn dip and hot wings and hopefully talk too long to somebody about jazz or Bob Dylan in the kitchen

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Walter Benjamin: "Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves...The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life."

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 18 days ago • 134 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."

submitted 21 days ago • 709 comments

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

submitted 21 days ago • 215 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 26 days ago • 938 comments

Allow me to add my voice to the chorus of commentators who believe that elected Democrats' response to Trump's blitz of lawlessness has been woefully insufficient. With some exceptions, this looks like total surrender. Embarrassing and alarming.

submitted 26 days ago • 50 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 56 comments

in early 2021 I proposed expelling the insurrectionist members of congress under the 14th amendment and using the temporary dem majorities to pass court reform stripping the federalist society of power in our courts. this idea was "radical" but, as we're seeing, less radical than the alternative

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

a reactionary revolution of the masters against the people. it's close to achieving it's goal and tearing down american democracy, then what?

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments