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One man’s temper tantrum to feel powerful is having devestating consequences

submitted 1 day ago • 792 comments

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

submitted 6 days ago • 890 comments

A US president not knowing four US servicemen are dead 24 hours after it was reported is appalling.

submitted 9 days ago • 1080 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

submitted 10 days ago • 1149 comments

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

submitted 10 days ago • 792 comments

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

submitted 11 days ago • 647 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 374 comments

The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?

submitted 14 days ago • 363 comments

Everything we have stood around the world going back 80 years - collective security, honoring alliances, helping friends & allies, feeding the hungry, treating & curing diseases, humanitarian aid, the rule of law, broadcasting truthful news to people who can’t get it - all gone.

submitted 18 days ago • 583 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 24 days ago • 1106 comments

They want to cut USPS - so they can own it. They want to cut Amtrak - so they can own it. They want to cut Social Security - so they can force you to use private financial firms more. They want to cut Medicare and the VA - so they can force you to use private healthcare more.

submitted 24 days ago • 214 comments

“Trump’s latest positions on the war reveal that he is indifferent to ongoing slaughter—indeed, he is willing to increase it—and that his opposition to Ukraine’s independence has nothing to do with saving American tax dollars. Trump simply wants Russia to win.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 25 days ago • 137 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 363 comments

One day he’s telling us that tariffs are amazing because they will bring lots of new jobs to the US and raise so much money we won’t have to pay income tax, then the next day he’s telling us we aren’t doing them because people were nice to him on the phone.

submitted 29 days ago • 1713 comments

Let’s be clear. Donald Trump isn’t just abandoning Ukraine. By suspending military support and refusing to share intelligence, he’s actively and intentionally supporting Russia.

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

DOGE was never about saving money and eliminating fraud. It was about eliminating all of the people and agencies who could prevent Musk, Trump, and their oligarchs from stealing money and committing fraud while they hijack the government. It’s a coup.

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

Only been 40 days. The goal is to utterly dismantle America, sell it to billionaires, undo the world order to help Russia, privatize everything, and assume complete control and power for Trump who is never leaving peacefully. They want protests so he can crush them and declare Martial Law.

submitted 31 days ago • 174 comments

Tanking a 10+ year gaining economy in only 6 weeks has to be a record for any President

submitted 31 days ago • 776 comments

BREAKING: Trump has paused all military aid to Ukraine. To the rest of the world, we hate this motherfucker as much as you do.

submitted 32 days ago • 285 comments

I think Americans have to understand things won't go back to normal and no one is coming to save us. The self destructive decision to vote for Trump is going to cause long term pain, damage and weakness. We have to survive and try to rebuild something better. Generational effort sadly.

submitted 33 days ago • 194 comments

Zelensky is a heroic man handling a horrific and unjust attack on the people he loves with such integrity and courage that the morally vacuous grifters our country has bafflingly elected don't have the capacity to understand him. It is incumbent on all of us to support Ukraine.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

So likely the world’s first Trillionaire Elon, who received $36 Billion in govt subsidies and contracts to generate his wealth, is telling the people who built this country what they can live without, as he giggles with his chain saw. Something ain’t right

submitted 35 days ago • 563 comments

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

submitted 35 days ago • 939 comments

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the expense of the middle class.

submitted 38 days ago • 751 comments

Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.

submitted 39 days ago • 1142 comments

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

submitted 39 days ago • 541 comments

When America’s greatest generation fought the Nazis during World War 2, it’s doubtful they could have imagined a universe where Germany is a more trusted ally to the rest of Europe than the United States but here we are.

submitted 40 days ago • 38 comments

Looking forward to the Trump Justice Department explaining how birth right citizenship is unconstitutional but a South Africa born oligarch has the legal authority to fire every single federal employee by tweet.

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 44 days ago • 263 comments

Elon Musk — an unchecked, unelected oligarch — is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life — and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.

submitted 48 days ago • 205 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 54 days ago • 695 comments

The richest man on earth, Elon Musk is trying to kill a department, USAID, that helps the poorest people on earth Because USAID has been investigating Musk and his Starlink company — and their ties to Vladimir Putin and Russia THAT is why Musk is attacking USAID

submitted 55 days ago • 226 comments

Still can’t stop thinking about the binary nature of American elections, a few hundred thousand votes in three states all the distance between just normal stuff and armed officers keeping House reps out of the department of education and a guy named Big Balls canceling everyone’s Medicare

submitted 56 days ago • 94 comments

If you're not ok with sending a Nigerian prince your personal and private information, why would you be ok with a South African oligarch barging into government offices and stealing it?

submitted 59 days ago • 242 comments

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has learned to play Trump like a fiddle. She says what he wants to hear so he feels flattered -- and backs down. Because he actually hates confrontations and tends to cave in any protracted negotiation. He's not a dealmaker. He's a toddler.

submitted 60 days ago • 113 comments

Every time.

submitted 60 days ago • 91 comments

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

submitted 61 days ago • 391 comments

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

submitted 61 days ago • 844 comments

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 61 days ago • 3269 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 61 days ago • 724 comments

If Trump was actually concerned about honoring his promise to lower grocery prices he would have exempted all food imports from his new tariffs. He didn’t.

submitted 62 days ago • 44 comments

I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.

submitted 63 days ago • 422 comments

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy voted against FAA funding in 2019 during his time in Congress. His vote to defund the air safety agency raises questions about his current role overseeing transportation safety.

submitted 64 days ago • 477 comments

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

submitted 66 days ago • 110 comments

If you wanted to know how an autocracy would start in America, it begins by releasing violent thugs from prison who beat up police defending Congress, illegally firing every Inspector General, and seizing billions appropriated by Congress for people with no authority to do so.

submitted 66 days ago • 404 comments