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Leading Democrats should send a formal letter to this clown that once Dems are back in charge, El Salvador will get the Grenada/Panama treatment. Maybe we won't follow through. Maybe we will. But we have to inject uncertainty into the decisions these MAGA allies are making. Impose potential costs.

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?

submitted 1 day ago • 890 comments

It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing

submitted 23 hours ago • 705 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 1 day ago • 3300 comments

I have confirmed this story. Honor Dustin West's name. He showed the courage to which we all have to aspire.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Democracy is great but we are giving it away

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

The administration is trying to destroy free speech and freedom of the press. The White House Correspondents Association does not want to offend them while they're doing it. Sad days when journalists are the ones greasing the slippery slope to fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 216 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“Improper ideology”? Get fucked.

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 14 days ago • 339 comments

‘People will die’: alarm after US orders removal of identity references from anti-trafficking efforts www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar... Child abduction, abuse, sexual assault & trafficking are qualifications for Trump. These are policy goals for these putinous mobsters…this is a feature, not a bug

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Emergency request: Send an email to the DC Bar Assoc. at [email protected] and tell them as a concerned citizen to keep Pam Bondi's Brother Bradley Bondi out of a leadership position at the DC Bar Association due to conflicts of interest & Pam's already public display of ethical violations.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 15 days ago • 515 comments

"If it continues like this, the United States will not score as a democracy when we release 2025 data" "US democracy will not last another 6 months." Source: 31 million data points for 202 countries, by 4,200 scholars, measuring 600 different attributes #3E #EndOligarchy www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7486317

submitted 16 days ago • 183 comments

On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

submitted 17 days ago • 211 comments

My feed of Democratic office holders mostly looks like everything is normal and nothing is happening. It’s insane to me.

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Not a drag queen. Not a trans person simply trying to exist in peace. This is who comes after your children: Republican men who hide behind a cross and wrap themselves in the flag. We need to protect our kids from Justin Eichorn and people like him who prey on them. #RepublicanPredators

submitted 18 days ago • 63 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 19 days ago • 645 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 20 days ago • 2788 comments

I know it's been (checks feed) seven minutes since I said this, but if Democrats tried to dismiss a lawsuit over more than 100 incidents of child sex abuse, the front page of the Washington Post would be an Op-Ed asking if it should be legal for the Democratic Party to exist anymore

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

"Cybertrucks and other Teslas can be set to record all the time in “Sentry” mode, meaning that these are not just trucks, they are surveillance devices on wheels." Reminder to MASK UP FOR HEALTH REASONS WHEN U DO ARTS AND CRAFTS ON THE ROAD

submitted 32 days ago • 35 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 33 days ago • 292 comments

Read! Elon Musk's incel grifters grifters stole your identity and financial deets over the weekend. They dowloaded all that data into flash/thumb drives at the behest of Elon Musk. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?" President Trump in 2025:

submitted 49 days ago • 296 comments

This sounds bananas but here we are and yes they should.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.

submitted 63 days ago • 378 comments

Trump is arguing for what's known in monarchies as a lese majeste law, wherein it is illegal to insult the personage of the king

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

Yes, but the late one still made me sad!

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

#Florida water managers approve captive breeding program for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, an Everglades species at the center of debate over how to move water into parched marshes to restore the wetlands. www.wlrn.org/environment/... via @jenstaletovich.bsky.social

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

If Democrats can’t mobilize to attack this truly insane proposal that puts everyone’s savings at risk, the party should be dissolved.

submitted 113 days ago • 12 comments

MAGA owns the Washington Post now. The Los Angeles Times. Wall Street Journal. Fox News. 200 local Sinclair TV stations. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Amazon. Google will kiss the ring. MAGA owns the news you see, the social algorithms you use, the products you're shown and, soon, internet search.

submitted 113 days ago • 11 comments

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

submitted 134 days ago • 40 comments

Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."

submitted 278 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

submitted 278 days ago • 38 comments

Legal elites sure fucking underestimated how lawless and shameless the conservative legal movement is.

submitted 278 days ago • 1 comment