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submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

One of my big fears is that there would be a new Kent State massacre and people would be so brainwashed that they wouldn’t even be horrified because we’ve fallen so far but that is pretty much actually what happened at Kent State

submitted 9 hours ago • 47 comments

i don't know how many times roberts is going to have to learn this lesson, but he's had it repeated to him several times now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!

submitted 10 hours ago • 140 comments

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

submitted 12 hours ago • 256 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 12 hours ago • 918 comments

I’ve noticed lately if I click on the feed of a trollish reply there’s a lot of “I hate ______ too, but these liberals are going too far.” It’s cute to see them try to game this platform because they miss us on Twitter.

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

❗️“Iran, North Korea, China are already involved in the war, Putin has spent $1 trillion on it in 3 years.” A number of other statements by Zelensky: ▪️Putin cannot occupy us, and we do not have enough strength to de-occupy everything. There will definitely be negotiations;

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Not sure why anyone expected better, it's not like Andrew Cuomo gives a shit about anyone except Andrew Cuomo.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The divergence here from two companies with very similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Once again, we’re witnessing neither “deglobalization” nor the death of international cooperation/global governance. The rest of the world is watching Brexit On Steroids & saying, “No, we don’t actually want that, thanks.”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If these imbeciles ever try to conduct an actual hot war we are beyond fucked newrepublic.com/post/193930/...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

submitted 1 day ago • 284 comments

Maybe CBS can get out of this by giving Trump 100 free hours or propaganda or whatever the equivalent is of the major law firms bending the knee.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

"Verbal clamor" is all Dems can and should do.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Said this in a reply & seems useful to pull up: This is a global liquidity crisis & Trump's volatility is the core of the crisis. The stock market will continue to have turbulent swings up & swings down. I can't say how it will be resolved because no one knows & anyone who pretends to know is lying

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“While Russia has made strides in some areas, it struggles with the rapid pace of innovation required to maintain a competitive edge in modern warfare…China plays a pivotal role, providing crucial support, especially in areas where Russia’s domestic capabilities are lacking.” kse.ua/about-the-sc...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

submitted 1 day ago • 1419 comments

I’m loving Chinese manufacturers airing luxury brand’s dirty laundry on TikTok. [Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRMTmyP/ ]

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 534 comments

I tell anyone who will listen that Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for decades. Here are two Missouri Senators burning the “woke agenda” nearly two years ago. The photo op was meant to simulate Nazis burning books.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

Trump‬⁩ has trashed a century of trust & confidence in the US economy. The bedrock has been stability, predictability, rule of law. This imbecile wrecked it in months. Things will get worse because ⁦‪Republicans‬⁩ have no guts to challenge stupid. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

prosperity ahead

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments

Yeah we're going to Bruenig Man, why do you ask

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Who’s gonna tell this clown the news?

submitted 2 days ago • 931 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Psssst… Trump didn’t just cave .. HE REMOVED MANY OF BIDEN’S TARIFFS.. FFS content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

In case you come across this post which featured a video with WIRED branding, it's completely fake and is part of the Russian disinformation campaign known as Matryoshka—as confirmed by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

I'm curious to see if white folks on the left actively protest Republicans over decisions like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

Previously, the arrests of pro-Palestinian voices on university campuses would’ve drawn instant attention from the DHS civil rights office’s First Amendment watchdogs, attorneys in the compliance branch said. That guardrail is gone. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social & @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

i uh. don't think the canadian conservative sphere is capable of recognizing objective conditions at this point

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The United States Supreme Court, as packed by the Federalist Society, as supported by the Randy Barretts and Ilya Shapiros and Jonathan Turleys of America, is suited to squabble over what “facilitate” means but not to achieve justice or protect or defend the United States Constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

I mean this is not a big deal in the scope of things but the US produces less than 1% of the coffee it consumes and there's no room to chance that because there's nowhere to grow it. What kind of utter dumbass puts a protective tariff on coffee under those circumstances?

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

This explains why they think all those dead people are getting checks.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

"We can't fight extremism with moderation." -- Good line from Ras Baraka in the recent NJ-GOV debate

submitted 3 days ago • 5 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 3 days ago • 227 comments