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Musk/Trump/NYT is going to call firing IRS agents savings, but the lost revenue will be many times their salaries: this all about making it easier for rich people to cheat on their taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Where did Trump get the 4% number from? That’s what Putin told him in their recent phone call. The American president takes lies about our allies directly from Putin and asserts they are true to the American people without telling them he got those lies from Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 277 comments

This is real. The White House instagram account posted this.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

This is happening to thousands of people but of course only your friend is worthy of the king's mercy. What the fuck are we doing here bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Isn't the natural next question "so should he give up his federal contracts?" Very weird that this is never asked. If the CEO of Raytheon got put in charge of DOGE you'd probably ask that.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One of the problems we have in this country is that “Republicans are good for the economy” is such a reflexive and deep-seated narrative, no amount of it simply not being true seems to budge the average person’s opinion

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Implicit in Susan Collins "reasoning" re: her Vought vote (if you can even call it that) is the idea that presidents have a right to pick their own teams. But Collins voted against 85 Biden nominees, all of them highly credentialed. (Google them!) So that rationale doesn't hold water. #MEpolitics

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Should a "kid" be given admin privileges to the Treasury payment system? Does a long history of promoting racism and eugenics show someone to be a "bad dude"? Everybody knows the answer to both, as does Vance. Hence his post: it's vice signaling, a core tenet of MAGA.

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

The outcome of this political moment depends a lot on Americans being able to escape or see past the billionaire-controlled prison of right-wing propaganda our devices have become www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

Donald Trump says The Washington Post should fire columnist Eugene Robinson for criticizing him. Remember when MAGA pretended to support free speech and oppose “cancel culture”?

submitted 16 days ago • 109 comments

Democrats stop asking me for 25 dollars challenge. I do not want to donate to your fight fund because what exactly are you fighting and how?

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

THEY DO NOT GIVE A DAMN They never have They are greedy, immoral narcissists who only care about accruing money & power & in the words of my late sweet mom: “What? They think their shit doesn’t stink?”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I truly hope the Trump era will make people understand that evangelical Christians are, by default, fucking liars.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

So now that Trump has banned trans people from participating in sports and trans teens from getting transition-related care, all of the "but we just have some concerns" people will surely come out strong in opposition to additional attacks on trans rights, yes? No? Ah well, nevertheless.

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 18 days ago • 821 comments

We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.

submitted 18 days ago • 110 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

They pulled Hillary's fingernails out one by one over an email server. And now we've got an unelected official and some hackers stealing everything. No wonder half their voicemail boxes are full. WE. HAVE. HAD. IT. Thank you! @repjasmine.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 184 comments

The people who voted for Trump because they thought he’d pull the U.S. back from foreign entanglements and overseas adventurism are really among the prime suckers of our era.

submitted 18 days ago • 172 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

shouts to all the media outlets who uncritically parroted him when he said he didn’t know anything about the same Project 2025 he’s now implementing

submitted 29 days ago • 262 comments

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

submitted 20 days ago • 2128 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 20 days ago • 165 comments

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

How stupid: The Right has a Bill Maher. It's Bill Fucking Maher www.thedailybeast.com/wheres-the-r...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

This may be old fashioned but I always thought when the news vans and satellite trucks show up outside is when powerful people start feeling heat. It’s unclear why senior Democrats haven’t set up shop outside Treasury or OPM with reporters in tow. But there’s no law the press needs an invitation.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Once the cyberbarons fully occupy and effectively seize control of the Treasury and other key government agencies, it won’t be long before they relegate Trump to a rubber-walled romper room, wheeling him out for occasional bursts of what passes for charisma to humor him with the illusion of power.

submitted 20 days ago • 255 comments

Worth noting that McConnell refusing to whip votes to convict Trump at his impeachment trial (or vote himself to convict) is why we’re now in a position where a trade war with our allies could happen. If McConnell is looking for the person at fault, he might want to consult a mirror.

submitted 20 days ago • 483 comments

🧵 The world is on fire. Chaos reigns. Why is this happening? Primarily because fundamentalist Christianity has become an undead intellectual zombie. What's even more bizarre and grotesque, however, is that Trumpian Christianity is much more about Nietzsche than Jesus.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments