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submitted 3 hours ago • 669 comments

Jeffries: One, we do need to change the law so that sitting members of congress cannot trade stock. Period. Full stop

submitted 13 hours ago • 211 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 15 hours ago • 754 comments

"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century

submitted 16 hours ago • 131 comments

A fundamental shift has taken hold among investors, traders and analysts. Serious questions now exist around the wisdom of owning American assets that until recently were the envy of a risk-obsessed world. Read the Markets Daily newsletter.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

"The president just accelerated America’s democratic backsliding — all with just the stroke of his signature on two brazenly vengeful executive orders" A reality check on Trump's abuse of power & the muted media response. Read @swin24.bsky.social ⤵️ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

i never imagined marco rubio would end up being one of the central villains in this endless nightmare. an absolute monster among monsters.

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

submitted 2 days ago • 758 comments

Oh. We’re so, so fucked. Beyond fucked. Incredibly fucked.

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 212 comments

Welcome to Gilead. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

🍿🍿🍿 Share this if you want to see a one-on-one debate between Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson on the House floor over the budget resolution.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

77 million Americans voted for this monstrosity. I will never get over it.

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

submitted 3 days ago • 1069 comments

This was three months ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 848 comments

According to media reports, the list of Trump collaborator Big Law firms may grow to include: A&O Shearman Cadwalader Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Simpson Thacher If they do, they would join the already disgraced: Skadden Arps Paul Weiss Milbank Willkie Farr

submitted 4 days ago • 371 comments

Dems need to keep turning up the volume.📢 REPUBLICANS: Hiding behind Trump’s budget—tax breaks for the rich, cuts to healthcare and food aid. DEMOCRATS: Holding “People’s Town Halls”, talking with voters about what really matters—affordability, economic security, and survival.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

America. Home. Of. The. Corrupt. ✨

submitted 4 days ago • 164 comments

That’s right. That all went down yesterday morning. Thanks for getting caught up.

submitted 4 days ago • 1042 comments

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov :: you better not be playing cute with your language about stopping the SAVE Act. I hope you intend to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE, as opposed to what you did with the CR when you told us you'd vote no on the bill, but still voted YES on cloture. We are in no mood for games.

submitted 4 days ago • 998 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 4 days ago • 1527 comments

Nobody is saying this. They have to conjure up imaginary libs to argue with since they can’t win a debate with real ones on this issue.

submitted 4 days ago • 1853 comments

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

submitted 5 days ago • 1412 comments

Just call it what it is, extrajudicial ethnic cleansing by the United States government.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 211 comments

Every word of this Jamelle. Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”?

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Perfect MG moment.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 6 days ago • 101 comments

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments

This is not the “Trump recession.” It’s the Republican Recession. The GOP does this every time. We need to make the Republican brand known for economic crashes bc that is what they cause.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

So, to everyone who said that the pro bono commitments of the folding firms would not change the culture of their firms, how are you feeling?

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

I just want to reiterate that the White House Press Secretary — predictably but notably — lied through her teeth about this when asked.

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments

“I feel much better now.” —nobody

submitted 5 days ago • 480 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue I could not have said it any better than my friend, Rich. @eldredgeatl.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Note to Democrats: bipartisanship is NOT a positive feature in this political environment. Knock it off. Oppose the king with every fiber.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments