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relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

submitted 3 days ago • 302 comments

If this was a set up -- 😡. If this wasn't a set up --

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Does anyone else experience nausea and chills when Trump says "World War III"? I'm afraid if he feels cornered and his sense of being the Ultlimate Alpha Dog is challenged he might well think, "What the hell, I have a bunker."

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A part of me wishes that Zelensky had retreated to Ukrainian and required the translators to step in to slow things down. But I suppose that one way or the other Trump/Vance were going to strut their obnoxious stuff.

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Our new allies: Belarus. Burkina Faso. Burundi. The Central African Republic. Equatorial Guinea. Eritrea. Haiti. Hungary. Iran. Israel. Mali. The Marshall Islands. Nicaragua. Niger. North Korea. Russia. Sudan. And the United States of America. I prefer the old ones.

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Dear MAGA friends, I've always been curious about what you consider the "Great" time we need to get back to. Now that you are standing by your guy even as he calls himself King and promotes a portrait of himself wearing a crown, mystery solved! You want to take us back to 1775.

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DOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across Government talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

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Dark Pence is back.

submitted 12 days ago • 4548 comments

HELL NO www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Important point from the always trenchant @emptywheel.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

I love this

submitted 18 days ago • 3284 comments

Trump's opposition would be well-advised drive clips of this weirdness on social media and in 60-second ads, making sure the clips have Trump, Musk, and X all in the frame.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The real reason Trump is dumping the penny? He's jealous of Lincoln.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

In the torrent of well-justified criticism of the first three weeks of the Trump administration, I think just two opposition phrases will have real bite: "unelected billionaire" and "bait-and-switch." Pound on those and find a few more, please.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently Con Law has become an elective at Yale Law School.

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 23 days ago • 1492 comments

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

submitted 23 days ago • 180 comments

NEW: The Department of Government Efficiency has built a “firewall” separating Elon Musk’s team from the 200 or so legacy United States Digital Service workers, sources tell WIRED.

submitted 24 days ago • 95 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 23 days ago • 861 comments

Ethics. It doesn't happen on its own.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Let's be fair, though. She's earned an A+ in consistency.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 488 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 27 days ago • 619 comments

How long before a Presidential order purporting to undo this judicial action?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Time to say it. The basic assumption when someone blames a problem on DEI is that the professional work of anyone other than a white male is somehow substandard. Because (I personally can't remember back that far) but apparently nothing bad ever happened when white males did all that work.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

No doubt about it, sometimes people here on work visas do some really disturbing things.

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January 24, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I don't want those minutes back. Good stuff.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Right on. You can't really understand the arc of our free speech law without delving into Holmes and appreciating his ability to change his mind.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is the guy that extremists have demonized for political gain. I believe that many casual Trump supporters who have absorbed the lies about Fauci might think twice if they knew about Fauci's extraordinary level of courage, character, and dedication.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Extremist platform messaging: how up becomes down.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Also interesting: Mangione was a high school valedictorian; so was Thompson. Who'd have guessed that the public school valedictorian who "walked beans" in the summer would be the one at the top of a powerful industry, while the elite high school valedictorian would be the assassin?

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Hmmm.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Still worried.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

He should. They should. But they won’t. The Democratic Party and much of the media has already implicitly—even explicitly—capitulated to fascism by refusing to make the hard choice to do everything within their power to oppose it. It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.

submitted 104 days ago • 308 comments