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Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration. It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

I just re-read the full Declaration of Independence. It's the most illuminating and depressing thing I've read in a while. Highly recommend folks give it a read. Many — if not most — of the complaints levied against King George are indistinguishable from those brought against President Trump today.

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

Very important historical fact: The Nazis had a plan to deport millions of Jews to Madagascar. When it failed, they tried to at least deport 338,000 Jews from Germany proper to ghettos in Eastern Europe. When it became apparent the ghettos were full, they simply started killing all the Jews.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2387 comments

Sebastian Maniscalco doing his Passover bit never gets old 🤣….Happy Passover to all that celebrate!

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

I GREATLY recommend everyone read about how trump has caused investors from around the world to lose confidence in US markets, US bonds and US dollar. I can’t emphasize enough how dangerous of an economic scenario Trump has caused. This is way beyond stocks dropping. This will impact all of us badly

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Japanese edition of The Divider w/ @peterbakernyt.bsky.social has arrived, two volumes!

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Bill Maher has always been a malignancy. For two decades.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...

submitted 1 day ago • 936 comments

Fact-Check: Bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 879 comments

Nearly all staff laid off today at the US-government funded Middle East Broadcasting Networks. President/CEO Jeffrey Gedmin tells staff that Kari Lake "is deliberately starving us of the money we need to pay you..."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If this is how he plans to attract manufacturers back to the U.S.? “Come back to America where you can pollute our air and waters at your convenience” 🤦‍♂️ EPA Plans to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting for Most Polluters www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Typical Trump voter, he can't understand why people won't empathize with him now that his family is suffering under the policies he voted for. He sure didn't care about the mass deportations or the stripping of rights from women and LGBTQ people. He voted for OTHERS to suffer, not him. Now he mad.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 82 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news. Key Takeaway- Surveillance State is coming

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U.S. President Donald Trump has inadvertently hit Russia’s economy after his "Liberation Day" tariffs caused oil prices to drop drastically on April 7, with potentially massive ramifications for the Kremlin's ability to fund its ongoing war in Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

submitted 1 day ago • 289 comments

Exclusive: Military contractors are pitching the White House on an unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to skirt immigration laws and transport detainees from the U.S. to El Salvador.

submitted 1 day ago • 385 comments

STRAIGHT UP AUTHORITARIANISM!!! DOGE is secretly monitoring staff — scanning messages, watching for disloyalty— and using AI to do it. No one should have to work under these conditions.

submitted 1 day ago • 229 comments

Lotta lies. Lotta fools.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well then, fund managers must be very slow learners.

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

submitted 1 day ago • 632 comments

“Mein Kampf” (TWO copies no less) remains on the shelves, but “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 1 day ago • 849 comments

"I think we made the right decision" -- Tom Homan on the deportation of a Maryland dad to a gulag in El Salvador that the administration has already admitted was a mistake

submitted 1 day ago • 1376 comments

Killer sign. A+++ sign

submitted 1 day ago • 480 comments

True story.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

You know fucking well it is not "realistic," #BrokenPost. Stop sanewashing his dangerous anti-science bullshit. RFK Jr. says we’ll know what causes autism by September. Is that realistic? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

submitted 1 day ago • 734 comments

This is insane. Also this brazen grift must be challenged.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

I love how MAGA forgot all about the Wall Trump didn’t build.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 2 days ago • 3623 comments

Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics — and Bondi Might Do It nymag.com/intelligence... @eliehonig.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

If your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to steal it.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Say it with us: “constitutional crisis”

submitted 2 days ago • 802 comments

Meta has added yet another Trump advisor to the board, this time Dina Powell McCormick. Like TwitterX, just another part of the propaganda arm of the MAGA Reich now.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The Trump admin has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new EO on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 566 comments

Presidents do not hang portraits of themselves on the state floor of the White House, where decorous portraits of predecessors are displayed after they leave office. But Trump today hung a pop-art painting of himself at Butler in heroic pose. @timbalk.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

SCOTUS: Facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia JUDGE XINIS: Tell me what you're doing to return him DOJ: We need a week XINIS: You have 3 hours DOJ: No There's supposed to be a hearing in 10 minutes.

submitted 1 day ago • 709 comments

Nutjob Trump raises China tariff to 145% Next drop: eleventy billion

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court says Trump administration must facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments