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submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

BREAKING: Despite Elon Musk's support, far right AFD party set to come in second place in German elections and will likely be shut out of government in a major loss for the far-right. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 10 hours ago • 137 comments

Amen to that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1951 comments

MUSK LOSES BIG IN GERMANY Germany’s CDU/CSU wins big, while the far-right AfD underperforms in second—despite backing from Elon Musk and JD Vance. AfD is now likely to be completely shut out of the governing coalition.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1279 comments

“No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 comments

Our latest: Despite reports to the contrary, the resistance to Donald Trump and his unique brand of dumbfuck fascism is alive and well and angry as hell. While too many elected Democrats have failed to meet the moment, the people are standing up.

submitted 9 hours ago • 86 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 1 day ago • 305 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

NEW: House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin calls on Trump AG Pam Bondi "to put an immediate halt to this illegal and unconscionable intimidation campaign" over the Eric Adams case. "It's time to do your job and stop this outrageous sabotage of justice in the interests of naked political corruption."

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

Yikes. Everything is breaking under Trump. Even Marco Rubio’s plane.

submitted 10 days ago • 187 comments

The Danielle Sassoon letter to AG Bondi is wow. If you have a tip about what’s going on in DOJ/SDNY, I can be reached on Signal at annabower.24 Read the letter: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 10 days ago • 212 comments

The role of the executive branch is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “No area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 12 days ago • 143 comments

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 12 days ago • 3442 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 13 days ago • 487 comments

🤑 Corruption Roundup 🤑💵💰🎁 💵 It’s now legal for government employees to accept bribes 💰 It’s now legal for American companies to bribe others 🕵️ Elon Musk can now destroy every federal agency that investigated his companies 🤫 Everything DOGE does is now a presidential records and protected from FOIA

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

They don't have the votes in the House to do this shit, and they certainly don't have the votes in the Senate to remove federal judges. This is all lazy political theater because they know what they're doing is illegal.

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

“This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.” - Henry Rollins

submitted 14 days ago • 136 comments

Shadow Cabinet: why the US needs one now — sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/dem...

submitted 13 days ago • 70 comments

WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

submitted 13 days ago • 382 comments

wrote about Joni Ernst and the GOP in congress handing their power of the purse to Elon Musk. They don't want democratic checks and balances; they are willing to trade their power as reps for white power. That's fascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/joni-ernst...

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

Sens. Schumer and Peters have just launched an online portal for whistleblowers to submit complaints in an effort to oversee the Trump administration: www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

submitted 13 days ago • 70 comments

Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.

submitted 19 days ago • 722 comments

Marbury v Madison is a seminal case from 1803 that holds that the federal courts must determine the constitutionality of the actions of the other two branches of government. Hope that helps, Stephen.

submitted 14 days ago • 1332 comments

J.D. Vance must’ve thought he was scoring points by saying “Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," but of course controlling abuses of that power is exactly what Federal Judges must do — and what Judge Engelmayer did in this very case. search.app/hHJJWzMXS2f2...

submitted 14 days ago • 218 comments

In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E

submitted 14 days ago • 252 comments

NEW: Did Elon just create a secret IT contracting vehicle at OPM to avoid Congressional and public oversight? We need to get more eyes on this so please share my latest (always free): www.muellershewrote.com/p/did-elon-j...

submitted 14 days ago • 147 comments

There is a lot of talk about why the ADL acted the way it did re Musk. I think many of the arguments re support for Israel are true, but I think the deeper reason is the below. Greenblatt thinks as long as he keeps giving in he’s protecting Jews. And yet, Musk keeps coming for us.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

This weekend’s news recap is packed: A judge blocked Musk’s DOGE from seizing the U.S. Treasury, and MAGA is melting down. Trump admitted he spoke with Putin and wants to extort Ukraine’s resources. And so much more. Read the full breakdown.

submitted 14 days ago • 106 comments

Yep.

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

🧵 What is Elon really doing?

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

BREAKING: A Reagan-appointed federal judge in Seattle has issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order, which sought to strip birthright citizenship from Americans born to two undocumented parents.

submitted 17 days ago • 260 comments

A dire warning from a chess master with Putin experience 👇🏽

submitted 17 days ago • 121 comments

Onward Christian Soldiers?

submitted 17 days ago • 77 comments

A second time?!

submitted 18 days ago • 318 comments

ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 17 days ago • 92 comments

Merkley: "We have an assumption of a foundation of law. And once that assumption is gone, you erase the line between a republic in which there is a Congress to make the laws and executive to implement them, and a dictator."

submitted 17 days ago • 123 comments

“President Trump regards people who take their constitutional oath seriously as, by definition, his political enemies. His attack on public service is not about reform; it’s a first strike against a key obstacle to authoritarianism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 18 days ago • 131 comments

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

submitted 19 days ago • 73 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 617 comments

BREAKING: DOGE has gained access to Medicare and Medicaid payment systems www.investing.com/news/politic...

submitted 18 days ago • 706 comments

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 20 days ago • 310 comments

pushback works, part infinity: apnews.com/article/immi...

submitted 20 days ago • 575 comments

Trump got Mexico to send the same 10,000 troops to the border that Biden already got them to commit. Trump got Canada to agree to the same measures to fight fentanyl that Biden already got them to agree to six weeks ago. Wow. What a dealmaker!

submitted 20 days ago • 211 comments

Thank you @meiselasb.bsky.social & @meidastouch.com for lifting up nursing voices! RFK Jr. is a threat to public health & unfit to serve as HHS secretary. Tell your senators to OPPOSE his nomination! @nursesforamerica.bsky.social @protectourcare.org www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-hel...

submitted 21 days ago • 78 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 comments

Elon Musk is NOT a legitimate government official -- he was not approved by Congress, and he has ZERO legal authority. He cannot shut down agencies. He cannot access Social Security numbers and payment info for millions of Americans. Take him to court and SHUT HIM DOWN.

submitted 20 days ago • 276 comments