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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 4 hours ago • 115 comments

I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Where things stand now. Trump's approval numbers are underwater because his policies are unpopular (and Musk in particularly is wildly unpopular). But because Dem leaders are do-nothing, their popularity is sinking even faster. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 228 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 556 comments

I don’t think people realize but we are like A degree or two away from North Korea levels of ridiculousness already. And it’s barely been a month.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Gonna have to shift from a "coming back" mindset to a surviving and overcoming mindset.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump owns every long airport line now. Shame. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Can't imagine a better side-by-side: On the day Republicans confirm a crooked MAGA partisan to run the FBI, the Dem NY gov decides it'd be...unseemly?...to excise the corrupt influence Trump has asserted over her constituents. A rebellion is brewing against Dem leadership, and shit like this is why.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

This is the most troubling of these confirmations, Patel at the FBI will have immense repercussions. Dems should’ve gone scorched earth on this. Abject failure.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

the future of the democratic party if it keeps on this weak path

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I’m starting to think these Nazi clowns aren’t the “best and brightest.”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I ❤️ that this was probably three different people who were moved by the Holy Spirit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

[half the cabinet is discovered trading CSAM on the website of one of the DOGE assholes] Jeffries: Mr. President, I implore you to do something about the cost of living like you promised!!!

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 118 comments

I would simply abuse parliamentary procedure to holler this into a microphone or bullhorn repeatedly on the House and / or Senate floors until Republicans forcibly removed me, thus bringing more attention to the sentence I was hollering.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 99 comments

I don’t think we talk enough about how functionally irrelevant Trump is.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Wow this is much bigger than I ever imagined!! Keep at it. #teslatakedown Elon Musk has too many conflicts of interest to have access to sensitive gov data and the authority to fire or lay off civil servants. He has already published confidential info. This is a crisis in public service.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This dude is still weeks away from tweeting out a Happy Valentines Day message.

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submitted 6 days ago • 225 comments

trump crash plane

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Solidarity: Learn it. Find it. Live it. Love it. Cause we’re all going to need it.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments