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The grasping at straws to defame and slander the character of an innocent man kidnapped, black-bagged, and sent to rot in a foreign prison colony is one of the most despicable things I’ve witnessed in modern American political life, and that’s saying something. Legitimately, literally nauseating.

submitted 14 hours ago • 75 comments

Would not want a dime in the market if he tries to remove Powell.

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there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

submitted 2 days ago • 530 comments

The principle anyone (who isn't a slave) being held against their will has the right to some kind of process before a judge is so ancient the Code of Hammurabi takes it for granted. It's probably literally prehistoric, a practice predating written history. It is the deepest root of what law is.

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So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

submitted 2 days ago • 722 comments

Holy Week in America, 2025

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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1006 comments

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

I don't think it's an exaggeration that it's an existential moment for the U.S. Supreme Court, when the President works with a foreign dictator to openly disobey a 9-0 ruling.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

I know we beat this drum daily, but today especially it’s obvious these are not the actions of a party that anticipates ever losing power.

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Can’t say more strongly: they are claiming the power to disappear people with no recourse, to entirely remove anyone they want to, forever, with no ability to stop them. “Unamerican” doesn’t do it justice. Diametrically opposed to anything even remotely resembling a society we should support.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

“IDEAS”

submitted 6 days ago • 546 comments

is there an economy we can have that doesn’t hinge on dumb guys on cocaine

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

This does seem like a pretty big problem — summer Olympics in LA 2028, while Trump is still president? Will no one be allowed to compete except Boer farmers?

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics

submitted 10 days ago • 471 comments

The degree to which people romanticize farming is inversely proportional to their degree of actual proximity to farming and farmers This is basically a mathematical law

submitted 12 days ago • 317 comments

The official Democratic Congressional Campaign twitter account isn't mincing words

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

In 2015-16 it seemed like there really were a lot of 65-year old men yearning for a societal return to the factory jobs they had in the 20th century but they’re all long-retired now and Gen Z wants nothing to do with those kinds of jobs.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

submitted 12 days ago • 970 comments

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 12 days ago • 177 comments

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

submitted 12 days ago • 125 comments

at the risk of lawyer-braining too hard....Justice Jackson's dissent in this teacher development grant case is fuckin' brutal it's like, 17 footnoted pages of 'I just think it's funny how' and calling the majority everything but a child of God www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

It's been a fascinating experiment to see what would happen if we put the stupidest man alive back into the oval office, but I think we have enough data to draw our conclusions now and should probably move on to the next thing

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

RENMAC: “.. Trump believes he was spared an assassin's bullet to do this. .. I would not expect Trump to be the one to deescalate because he does not believe in trading with other countries. His heart is not in that. It really is that simple.” @sherwood.news sherwood.news/markets/stoc...

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 12 days ago • 339 comments

This was 156 days ago.

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The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 13 days ago • 269 comments

"I thought only other people would be hurt." - the epitaph on our national tombstone

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Lotta people who have spent their comfortable, unbothered lives smugly insisting they "Don't do politics" are about to find out politics have no issue doin' them.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

It’s hard to think of a single act by a single human that instantly damaged as many plans, careers, dreams in as many places around the globe For a supreme (and cruel) narcissist, the rush must be exquisite The whole world has no choice but to watch this wretched man

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

All of these firings, layoffs, RIFs, grant cancellations, changes to indirects, “pauses,” censorship of words, all of it is all illegal and completely unnecessary. It’s wanton destruction and I will never forgive Congress for allowing it.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

It is bananas that the president can unilaterally set tax policy in this scale. It’s a quintessentially legislative power. And that Congress would not resist on purely process-based grounds speaks to an utter collapse in institutional pride.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

do you remember five years ago when a decent chunk of the populace was like “hey we should build a society where Black people are not murdered with impunity by police, we should pay nurses more, and we should care for our sick?” This is the punishment for having dared to think those things

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

Two-thirds of both houses of Congress could undo this whenever they want by passing a bill over Trump's veto taking all power to set tariff rates away from him. Tariffs are set by law. The Constitution gives the president no power over tariffs--only our current laws do that.

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

deals are being made every day

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Restoration Hardware was doing an earnings call when the tariffs hit and I have never related harder to a CEO www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 13 days ago • 1187 comments

“In this economy?” jokes?? In this economy?

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