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Even the Atlantic can slip into the trap of adopting Trump's rhetoric. It says "Trump is delivering" on his commitment "to...cut government waste." Trump is cutting government operations, not government waste. He's not evaluating what is wasteful; he's slashing important programs—which has a cost.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

#PsalmSunday Op-ed by the Rev Andrew Thayer, Episcopal priest #tec

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“Trump is engaging the full power of the presidency to settle scores,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “The White House was not meant for petty tyrants on revenge tours. In the biggest job in the world, Trump seems like a very small man.”

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In this cartoon submission from Stan Mack, a Times Opinion reader, he “imagines a time when many of us ordinary U.S. citizens (and cartoonists) may find ourselves in danger from our own government.”

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

submitted 26 days ago • 1256 comments

What a day. Trump backs off his trade war against the world -- and pulls the rug out from under his U.S. trade rep, who was on Capitol Hill defending Trump's tariff "strategy" in real-time as Trump paused them. “WTF? Who’s in charge?” www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 39 days ago • 1324 comments

All New! The Trump-Russia Timeline Project open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

🙌 🇺🇦 Lovely!! Neil Young is planning to play a free concert in Kyiv at a time when Ukraine desperately needs positive support from the outside world.

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

A Russian assault near Vovchansk was repelled. A Russian armoured carrier dropped off infantry units which were targetted from above. The carrier was finished off not much later.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

⚡️France announces $2 billion military aid package for Ukraine. The package includes anti-tank missiles, air defense systems, Mirage fighter jet missiles, armored vehicles, ammunition, and other aid, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

Man who stole 325 Creme Eggs banned from Cambridgeshire for three months

submitted 40 days ago • 30 comments

What The Actual F#%k!!!! Reporter: "Should the Defense Secretary.." MTG: What country are you from? Reporter: From the UK MTG: “OK, we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country?” What an absolute disgrace!!

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@schiff.senate.gov on top Trump officials accidentally sharing war plans with a journalist: “My guess is this is probably the tip of the iceberg... probably not the first time the people on this chat used Signal to communicate information… because no one on that chat seems to have objected to it.”

submitted 42 days ago • 23 comments

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

submitted 42 days ago • 803 comments

The repost, later deleted by Musk, said: "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

submitted 51 days ago • 38 comments

MAGA and modern conservatives cloak policies as "original intent of the Founders" but have they ever studied what the Founders actually said or did? For A Historian's Perspective on Trump's destruction of the First Amendment see: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #firstamendment #media #postoffice

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For a historian’s perspective on how Trump’s trade war mirrors the beginnings of the horrific age of colonization during the 18th century, see: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #trump #colonization #mercantalism #tariffs #economy #tradewar

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They would make a deal with the devil if they could.

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

Check out my new post! I do an emergency video analyzing the current fight over govt spending and the sheer maddening missteps of Schumer and others adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 52 days ago • 226 comments

People should NOT be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their PEOPLE. ~From V for Vendetta

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Hey @chuckschumer.com! If I wanted a New Yorker to screw up the country, I would have voted for Trump in the first place.

submitted 52 days ago • 49 comments

Imagine the kind of husk you have to be to go out and do this for a living.

submitted 52 days ago • 282 comments

My latest report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social ⤵️

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Notice how Trump and Musk are NOT firing the corporate welfare freeloaders or the corporate crooks hugely cheating federal programs like Medicare, Medicaid and the military budget. That’s where the biggest waste, fraud and abuse lies on the backs of American taxpayers.

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Zelensky: "We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same."

submitted 62 days ago • 31 comments

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

submitted 65 days ago • 3463 comments

Viral On The Way!

submitted 65 days ago • 24 comments

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

submitted 72 days ago • 851 comments

The 71st Jaeger Brigade repelled a massive Russian mechanized attack in the Pokrovsk direction. Several pieces of heavy equipment were destroyed.

submitted 73 days ago • 30 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 73 days ago • 282 comments

I think @owillis.bsky.social likes to point this out: In DC Comics, when Lex Luthor ran for president, he divested from LexCorp because the idea of him winning an election without doing that was obviously just crazy.

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

As the Trump administration is firing thousands of NIH workers — including 10% of the CDC team, the measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas has suddenly doubled to at least 48 cases. The outbreak has grown from 24 to 48 cases within the last three days. All cases are in unvaccinated people or…

submitted 80 days ago • 319 comments

Spot on.

submitted 79 days ago • 1536 comments

"Twenty-two of the 24 cases in the [Texas] Gaines County outbreak are children. At least two are under age 5. Nine resulted in hospitalization, some in intensive care. None had been vaccinated." www.cato.org/blog/red-ame...

submitted 81 days ago • 23 comments

I love this

submitted 82 days ago • 3224 comments

Very much the big reveal in Episode 8 of Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Why did Boris Johnson suppress the ISC's Russia Report? How did it finally come out? And what was really in it? shows.acast.com/untoldanalyt...

submitted 83 days ago • 9 comments

"“The rapid restructuring of government functions under DOGE, Treasury infiltration, and efforts to control digital platforms show that President Trump and the American public may already be now hostage to Musk’s demands”, warns the whistleblower memo."

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