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The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.

submitted 7 days ago • 620 comments

It’s fun watching people who don’t teach the ethics of scientific practice discover how many of our regulations exist because of Very Bad Things That Happened Before the Regulation Existed.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

I’m a strong tortilla chip but some days this salsa is just too chunky

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 13 days ago • 657 comments

Trump replaced the physical bribery palace of the Trump hotel with a virtual one and it’s doing orders of magnitude more business.

submitted 17 days ago • 245 comments

I posted a video of Stephen Miller on FB and then in the comments a photo of Joseph Goebbels and FB removed the photo and said it goes against community standards. The irony is thick.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“Also, we’re ending the environmental and regulatory standards”

submitted 18 days ago • 218 comments

Why do slow walkers insist on walking straight down the middle of the sidewalk?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes being a dad/husband feels like you spend all your time eliminating inconveniences for your family while they spend theirs adding inconveniences to yours.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my God, this really is Hegseth.

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

submitted 24 days ago • 997 comments

If Hegseth resigns and we get an Acting Secretary of Defense, it'll be the eighth time we've had one. One came under Nixon, a second under GHW Bush. And then we had five under Trump.

submitted 27 days ago • 93 comments

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

submitted 33 days ago • 868 comments

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

submitted 33 days ago • 827 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 237 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 39 days ago • 311 comments

Well there’s so many scandals this month…

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

1/4. If the US were engaged in an attempt to bring peace to Ukraine, it would place more tariffs on Russia, rather than exempt Russia entirely.

submitted 41 days ago • 57 comments

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

submitted 44 days ago • 545 comments

Kudos to the law firm Arnold & Porter. It is the largest law firm that is not either itself target by Trump or representing a firm targeted by Trump to sign the amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie. Put another way, A&P has no direct financial interest in the outcome of the case and yet signed.

submitted 44 days ago • 63 comments

@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social here is the liberal critique of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social ‘s argument: 1/ regulatory state is a means to an end not a cultural value; it was reaction to new deal including red lining, highway project dodging rich white areas and destroying minority communities.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Mack Schroeder, the HHS employee he taunted on that video, apparently held the "woke job" of ... budget analyst.

submitted 46 days ago • 147 comments

Part of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social blind spot in the Abundance analysis is how aggressive the GOP works to sabotage Gov. deferring to process was a backstop against when things go wrong and the GOP uses it to argue “see Gov sucks at everything.” It’s not a pillar on its own inside Dem circles.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

submitted 50 days ago • 1954 comments

Sooner or later, and it doesn’t matter who you are, he’s going to arrest someone you care about for disagreeing with him.

submitted 52 days ago • 55 comments

America once took pride in not requiring citizens to carry national ID—no "Show me your papers!" Now we have to carry passports to avoid being disappeared.

submitted 51 days ago • 154 comments

It’s crazy that the character Vito Spatafore Jr from the Sopranos is our Vice President. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJe...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has now targeted this exact firm in his ongoing crusade against lawyers. bsky.app/profile/cram...

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 52 days ago • 3032 comments

They lied. op: @senatorheinrich.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 207 comments

In other countries, we recognize this immediately for what it is.

submitted 53 days ago • 59 comments

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

submitted 54 days ago • 2401 comments

Remember when the president’s mental fitness was the most important issue in the campaign?

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

No more DUI hires.

submitted 53 days ago • 49 comments

When — not if, when — Hegseth’s incompetence results in a national security disaster or the needless deaths of soldiers, blame will lie not just with the Trump administration but with Congress too. Anyone who hasn’t demanded his resignation will share responsibility when that reckoning comes.

submitted 53 days ago • 27 comments