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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 2 days ago • 1653 comments

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

The obscenity (and the menace to Jews) of these officials pretending any of this police state assault on our constitutional order has anything to do with concern about antisemitism is off the charts. Just diabolical.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 4 days ago • 2273 comments

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 235 comments

“The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a ‘breath of fresh air…’” November 2024 apnews.com/article/delt... That air ain’t so fresh anymore, is it Ed?

submitted 34 days ago • 37 comments

Soon ICE won’t even have to send you to El Salvador for the full gulag experience. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 290 comments

Spending tens of millions of dollars to parade military equipment past offices you emptied out to save money. A rich text.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

At this point you could convince me we all died during COVID and are now living in hell.

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 7 days ago • 409 comments

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

submitted 7 days ago • 518 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 7 days ago • 849 comments

The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words "America’s astonishing act of self-harm" on.ft.com/3YjtOLV

submitted 9 days ago • 712 comments

How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment? They utterly failed the test of history.

submitted 10 days ago • 500 comments

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

submitted 10 days ago • 1295 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 10 days ago • 560 comments

“Appetite for risk” framing is a choice I guess @nytimes.com

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 11 days ago • 1386 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 12 days ago • 938 comments

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day.

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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

submitted 12 days ago • 1260 comments

Trump in August: “Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again." Trump economy today: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/b...

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

submitted 14 days ago • 668 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 14 days ago • 185 comments

EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD: vaccines are the safest and best way to prevent disease RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena

submitted 15 days ago • 215 comments

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 15 days ago • 855 comments

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

submitted 18 days ago • 103 comments

congestion pricing is one of the most comprehensively successful policies NYC has ever seen, so of course all the worst people want to get rid of it

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

This should be a much bigger story.

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1255 comments

Hi! Economy expert here: this is not funny. economies only do this when they’re in distress

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments