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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 558 comments

I've said often, based on history, that there's no reasonable expectation most people will be courageous in the face of fascism. Bravery is rare. It's valued for a reason: Most people aren't cut out for it, for reasons good and bad. But man, you'd still sorta hope the ABA woulda held the line.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 2 days ago • 316 comments

saying it again: if there are "conditions" on aid to california, no democrat should vote for any disaster aid of any kind to any state. all states get aid or no states get aid. that's it

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 2 days ago • 208 comments

I’m a budget wonk. And while anyone who is not a budget wonk may not give a shit, the words “Presidents are not allowed to ignore laws” and “you have to carry out spending laws” are really f’ing important and need to be repeated over and over again. SPENDING LAWS ARE NOT OPTIONAL

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 3 days ago • 988 comments

"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 1559 comments

Americans HATED Jan. 6. That the political opposition wasn't able to harness that and turn it into a lasting defeat of Trumpism will be one of the defining stories of the 2020s, if not the century.

submitted 4 days ago • 113 comments

Paging Mr. Bashear. Mr. Andy Bashear.

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Dawg they Freedom Fried us, it’s so over

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8257 comments

Tom Homan asks "where is the line of impeedment?" I'm not sure what he's trying to say, but I'm certain that AOC telling people what their rights are does not meet the standard of criminal impeedyness necessary to open an investigation.

submitted 6 days ago • 484 comments

Trump is partly troll but partly serious His MO is to say crazy stuff he knows is ridiculous to “own the libs” then realizes he kind of likes it then he repeats to the point where it gets validation from his supporters That’s how he shifts the Overton window

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Vice President of our country has been publicly and forcibly rebuked by both the Chancellor of Germany and The Pope in the same week.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

Worth remembering that they collectively stood up to Obama and Biden at different times when then did much milder things. So, they'll do it- just not to a Republican.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 11 days ago • 491 comments

"No, they won't do that, because it would be wrong." - My mom, every time I tell her what the GOP politicians she votes for are planning to do.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Ohhhhhh god are we doing the “being a bad person makes you physically unattractive” thing again because I really don’t know how many disabled people yall need to hear from saying that’s exactly the reasoning Nazis use to call disabled people degenerates.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

regularly big pub journalists come on here to scream at people not to criticize them or cancel their subscriptions because JOURNALISM IS SO IMPORTANT and they can't even stick up for one of their colleagues

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Maybe you could give them uniforms like matching brown shirts so we know they’re official

submitted 11 days ago • 372 comments

a maximalist strategy of opposition against every nominee as unqualified would have stood a better chance of creating the kind of public outrage that might have led to more republican defections, but i'm sure the imaginary family that chuck schumer relies on to guide his decisions disagreed

submitted 12 days ago • 494 comments

Schumer's strategy of allowing/encouraging Dems to vote for the "normal" nominees in order to try and peel off Republican defections to block Hegseth/RFK/Gabbard appears to have completely failed.

submitted 12 days ago • 420 comments

Democrats, in my opinion, should not act like a bottom-tier presidential win, 4th or 5th weakest since 1960, voids the Constitution. They should, in my opinion, say we're done voting for anything until Trump remembers that the people run this government through Congress. And he must follow the law.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Once again, I am here from Poland to tell you that predicating your response to a rule of law crisis on fear of how your opponents will frame your resistance is as ineffectual as it is solipsistic.

submitted 13 days ago • 54 comments

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 13 days ago • 1059 comments

Don't make me tap the sign

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Rule of law is teetering on the edge of the abyss and the new rule of the jungle is emerging. Open corruption is not only legal but condoned as long as you pay deference to the corruptor and chief and the party. New York City is essentially an autocratic city state now outside legal authority.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 13 days ago • 252 comments

And those commercials are a huge part of the reason why drugs are so expensive.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is what Billie Eilish fans sounded like all last week, btw. 🐸☕️

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.

submitted 14 days ago • 168 comments

THE CHIEFS CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE

submitted 14 days ago • 77 comments

I gotta find a cliff face and carve WE REALLY DID THIS BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T SEXY LADIES IN THE BURGER ADDS AND GIRLS STARTED PLAYING VIDEO GAMES I SWEAR TO GOD IT'S WHAT HAPPENED in letters ten feet tall because no historian is going to believe it.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we instantly recognize in other contexts.

submitted 15 days ago • 410 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

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submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

submitted 17 days ago • 400 comments

Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.

submitted 17 days ago • 99 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 230 comments

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

submitted 18 days ago • 187 comments