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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 243 comments

Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

coiling yourself in knots to act like you don't recognize a sieg heil gesture because you're worried about the blowback from the "terrorist fist-bump" people is some worm hall of fame shit

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

McConnell's legacy is grim - he fought campaign finance reform, stonewalled Supreme court nominees - but what stands out most? More than any single person, he had the chance to end Trump but chose not to do so, even as he understood the risk Trump posed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

feel like we're at the point where we can maybe start wording the letters a little more sternly than "it appears to violate Department guidelines!"

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

the average overzealous Daily Kos diarist in 2007 had a better read on what Republican politics is than 95% of elected officials, staffers, lobbyists, and pundits, and so did Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Honest question: Why are people obeying DOGE?

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

Reacher is a fucking prince.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

submitted 3 days ago • 315 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

“WE ARE ADVERSARIES”

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Remember Jocelynn. Rest in peace, sweet girl. www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Run these guys for Congress in every district in America www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

President Emmanuel Macron of France called a second emergency meeting of European allies on Wednesday to devise a united response to President Trump's remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war.

submitted 4 days ago • 107 comments

Normally I would re-post this with an excerpt; hard to pick just one, here. @radleybalko.bsky.social lays the cowardice of Thom Tillis bare. Just read the whole thing (and throw him a subscription if you can.)

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is the politics every Southern lib/leftie has had for decades and I for one am glad to welcome everyone else to the “all that actually matters is how evil these people are” tent.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1064 comments

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

I hate that this is right, but it is. Europeans would be very foolish to think they can wait 4 years and NATO will snap back. -4 years is a long time -US unlikely to have free & fair elections -Even if it does, Dems might lose -Even if they win, US could be 4 years away from being anti-NATO again

submitted 4 days ago • 91 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 69 comments

people will come on this website and say anything. "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a liberal". no he wasn't. that isn't true.

submitted 5 days ago • 62 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 5 days ago • 8249 comments

This is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. NYT is such a disgrace

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Our elites are so terrible

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump say it should absolve their child-porn charges, too www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 5 days ago • 113 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real.

submitted 6 days ago • 428 comments

We haven’t always lived up to the myth that we’re a beacon of hope for those “yearning to breathe free.” But putting families on planes and dumping in them countries they’ve never known is especially contemptible. Not to mention that Panama is only accepting them under Trump’s threat of invasion.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

The White House in 2026: Elon Musk: we need to cut social security by 70 billion... and give them to Spacex to build pickle riiiiiiick! JD Vance: Reichsfuhrer Weidel, wir mussen uber die Judenfrague sprechen Trump: no, no, no, no! Gina Carano is the worst ever as Grizzabella the Glamour Cat

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments