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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 5 days ago • 8246 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 9 days ago • 491 comments

new resignation from SDNY Hagan Scotten -- he's a John Roberts clerk -- Roberts can't be happy at that -- and a 2 times bronze medal winner for duty in Iraq. This is the best of DOJ v the worst of the political system. The lines so clearly drawn

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

If you're wondering why Trump, Musk, and Vance are attacking the judiciary👇

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 16 days ago • 508 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

submitted 18 days ago • 888 comments

"The irony of threatening violence in response to a plea for mercy perfectly encapsulates the nature of this ongoing coup: it’s not about conservative governance or even maintaining power — it’s about systematic destruction of democratic norms and institutions, laced with gleeful spite and hatred."

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

One of America's two major political parties seems to have embraced the position that the founders of this country really secretly intended to create a monarchy just like the one they fought to overthrow and that all this democracy talk these past 250 years was just woke political propaganda.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

submitted 25 days ago • 256 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 26 days ago • 1093 comments

How it started How it's going

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

submitted 31 days ago • 741 comments

The VA is rescinding job offers. A nurse I know on IG posted this. She has worked with this resident and said he’s excellent and now this. So much for this admin supporting veterans.

submitted 30 days ago • 44 comments

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

submitted 32 days ago • 202 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 182 comments

Trump has set up a direct showdown on the 14th Amendment. This is not a test of Trump. This is a challenge to the remaining shreds of integrity of this Court which, when it comes to the 14th Amendment has shown little regard for original meaning, text, history & tradition or fairness.

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

This decision by @nbcnews.com to edit out Musk's clear fascist salute with a needless crowd scene is just craven, abject surrender. Simply absolute ham-fisted "please don't believe your own eyes" stuff. I never want to hear the phrase "liberal mainstream media" again. It is ... not that.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

Pete Hegseth is wholly unqualified to be Secretary of Defense.

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

Great thread to understand how the incarcerated firefighting program works.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Please share this. @rmayemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

1. Making George W. Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff the new Head of Policy. 2. Moving Trust & Safety Teams from California to Texas. 3. Appointing Dana White to the board. 4. Donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Sure feels like Meta is trying to tell us something... 🤔

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.

submitted 47 days ago • 191 comments

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

submitted 69 days ago • 351 comments

NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

submitted 71 days ago • 982 comments

This is Goose. He is currently locked in a game of tag with the doorstopper, and man are they good. 12/10

submitted 75 days ago • 39 comments

Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a historic $1.8 BILLION settlement for 4.3 million people who were charged illegal fees or defrauded by credit repair companies. Remember this the next time a billionaire says they want to get rid of the CFPB.

submitted 75 days ago • 171 comments

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

submitted 80 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 79 days ago • 28 comments

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

submitted 78 days ago • 1324 comments

Initial thoughts... - Ghoulish. Memorial Ceremonies should not be used for partisan gain - SECDEF is a civilian position -- NO service requirement - SECDEFs w/Mil experience not more effective than those that do not - There is nothing extraordinary about Pete's service record - This is tiresome

submitted 79 days ago • 14 comments

I am shocked that the true threat to free speech is a conservative government and not the oberlin sophomores this magazine has spent the last decade calling authoritarian threats akin to mao.

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

You see it, right? Trump told his supporters tariffs were about making stuff in America, about American jobs, about lowering costs for Americans. All bullshit, of course, but it sounded good to the MAGAs, even if Trump's own advisors kept telling him it wouldn't work. 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 52 comments