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Protesters gather outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee following the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Time for today’s edition of Least Surprising News of the Day.

submitted 7 days ago • 1493 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 999 comments

China has returned two Boeing jets, each valued at $55 million. With $69 million in tariffs applied, the cost per plane increased to $124 million. Orders for an additional 130 jets have been indefinitely suspended.

submitted 6 days ago • 2234 comments

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

submitted 21 days ago • 191 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 12 days ago • 924 comments

If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.

submitted 7 days ago • 730 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 9 days ago • 1648 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 24 days ago • 934 comments

At least according to the movie “Ferris Buelers Day Off” the tariffs threw us deeper into the depression: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...

submitted 28 days ago • 228 comments

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

submitted 28 days ago • 60 comments

Thank you Senator @corybooker.com! That’s the post…

submitted 30 days ago • 335 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 33 days ago • 670 comments

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

submitted 33 days ago • 931 comments

Just left our town hall in Stamford. 1000 people ready to take action against Trump’s thievery and corruption. Heading to airport now to fly to Michigan for tomorrow’s town hall in a district where the GOP Rep is hiding from his voters. LFG.

submitted 33 days ago • 162 comments

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

submitted 38 days ago • 850 comments

Pretty interesting side note to Yemen story and AEA story. If I heard Goldberg right just now, Trump didn’t know about the leak 3 or 4 hours after happened. And he said he didn’t do the AEA proclamation (which WH tried to clear up unpersuasively.) is he just bloviator-in-chief while others run gov?

submitted 37 days ago • 197 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 38 days ago • 3676 comments

Not so different from the Nazi transport to the camps. What’s next?

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

submitted 41 days ago • 550 comments

open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 45 days ago • 1039 comments

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 45 days ago • 1336 comments

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

submitted 53 days ago • 1376 comments

I certainly hope this is because you’ll be running for president!

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

submitted 46 days ago • 1332 comments

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

submitted 46 days ago • 975 comments

Weak! You should resign.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

submitted 46 days ago • 1689 comments

Not nearly high enough. What are the other 46% thinking? 46% is a lot of morons!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

With us but his supporters think it’s great. His support is still unbelievably high considering the damage.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

50% of the country think he is doing a great job. Why? Even a complete idiot should see he is running the country into the ground.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Just fyi, If Trump tanks an economy that was on a good track because of his toddler like temper tantrums there will be hell to pay.

submitted 46 days ago • 771 comments

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 47 days ago • 366 comments

Of course, having to stay in DC past today would have interfered with Schumer’s book tour which begins Monday.

submitted 47 days ago • 2464 comments

Canada is slashing its order of F-35 fighters from 88 to not more than 32. It will re-invest the billions saved to purchase 60 or more Swedish Saab Gripen E/F-39's. The USA is no longer a trustworthy ally. Simply.

submitted 47 days ago • 1007 comments

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 47 days ago • 2894 comments

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

submitted 48 days ago • 743 comments

To think, Pennsylvania had Senator Bob Casey who STOOD up for John Fetterman every day. Senator Casey was the CHAMPION in the Senate for MEDICAID! He also fought for Social Security, Medicare, ACA, Veterans, CHiPs. Senator Casey NEVER would do what Senator Fetterman is doing now. I hope Casey runs!🙏

submitted 50 days ago • 56 comments

DOJ’s Public Integrity Section leads cases of corruption by government officials, especially in smaller districts that lack resources and specialized expertise. Dismantling it is one more signal of open season for corruption.

submitted 51 days ago • 51 comments

The Trump administration has ordered that the Justice Department unit responsible for prosecuting public corruption "will essentially be disbanded." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 51 days ago • 22 comments

This shit is so grim. These guys are grifting like they're stripping the copper wires out of a slowly collapsing building.

submitted 51 days ago • 191 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled. This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.

submitted 51 days ago • 1086 comments