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submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

"The underlying issue that Navy leadership has to deal with is that... a kinetic war against China—is actually completely nonsensical...The Pentagon itself estimates that China’s shipbuliding capacity today is roughly 230 times greater than America’s." americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/amer...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

submitted 32 days ago • 1941 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 34 days ago • 1208 comments

This Repub CR, that they claim will keep the government open, is a perfect example of why you must read bills. Inside the text, you’ll find cuts everywhere, and so much money taken from vets you wouldn’t believe it. These guys are frauds. Nice try! Hard NO! Throw it in the 🗑️

submitted 37 days ago • 171 comments

A Texas charter school boss — whose schools collectively have fewer than 1,000 students — is paying himself $870,000 a year. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/06/v...

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 40 days ago • 1741 comments

I wonder if all the craziness about ceasing Federal payments will affect the American Institute in #Taiwan, also a line item.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Start saving now, says former SSA chief www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 42 days ago • 80 comments

Hmmm 🤔

submitted 43 days ago • 188 comments

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submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

DJT decides not to greet President Macron upon his arrival at the White House

submitted 50 days ago • 361 comments

An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

submitted 66 days ago • 576 comments

Today—right now, right here—is the easiest line to draw against Donald Trump. Every day, it will get harder—the politics more inevitable, the destruction more irreversible, the sheer waste more costly, the downstream impacts on American life more catastrophic. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/today-righ...

submitted 69 days ago • 10 comments

It really is this alarming....

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 73 days ago • 444 comments

In his defense, Trump told us all exactly what he would do and who he was. The media made it into a game. Dems failed. The GOP caved. And America ignored the warnings.

submitted 77 days ago • 44 comments