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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 483 comments

The New York Times is so blatantly in the tank for Trump. Calling Canada and Mexico "recalcitrant" is just beyond the pale. It's straight up propaganda.

submitted 21 days ago • 71 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 20 days ago • 730 comments

The word for this is "coup."

submitted 20 days ago • 159 comments

Trump comes at you real fast

submitted 24 days ago • 118 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 23 days ago • 1414 comments

So many of Trump's executive orders are just straightforwardly illegal. Not gray area, "it's debatable" type stuff — contradiction of black letter statutory and constitutional text

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

submitted 61 days ago • 3674 comments

These two numbers tell you everything you need to know about our legal system: $40 million (amount paid to victims of an opioid company); $119 million (amount paid to Skadden, the corporate law firm that made sure the victims got no more). An outrageous saga: www.propublica.org/article/endo...

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

"Twitter isn’t real life" turned into "leaving Twitter is ignoring reality” very quickly!

submitted 83 days ago • 120 comments

Obama's '08 campaign won the biggest margin of victory in the last 30+ years. Within hours of his inauguration, Republicans went to dinner and agreed to oppose him on every single item. Two years later, they won 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.

submitted 84 days ago • 66 comments

This is how you know you're wrong

submitted 88 days ago • 63 comments

J.K. Rowling attacks another POC cis female athlete with anti-trans hate. She's as racist as she is transphobic. www.out.com/gay-athletes...

submitted 86 days ago • 40 comments

“If you look at the history of the segregation movement, they wanted vouchers to prop up segregation academies,” a professor who studies school segregation says. “And now they’re getting vouchers in some of these areas to prop up these schools.”

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: From 2018 through 2022, Palatine, Illinois, police ticketed students nearly 400 times. Black and Latino students sometimes received tickets when white students were given lesser punishments or offered help to cope with substance use, the probe found.

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments