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submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

Almost every column I’ve written over the last four years has basically said: “Destroy the GOP; restore popular sovereignty; imagine big answers for big problems; respect the diverse Democratic base” and absolutely none of it was heard by anyone

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society right now and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

here’s my take as a linguist specializing in interpreting indirect language use: nazi symbols and gestures are a declaration of intent to commit violence and can therefore reasonably be responded to with the actions appropriate to one’s bodily safety being threatened.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Ketamine is wild

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Ukraine should not have worn such a provocative outfit.

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

One thing DOGE has gutted is an effort to REFORM how the US divvies up donated organs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

This.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

what people who don't play games don't understand about him paying other people to do things which he imagines himself as having done then fumbles remarkably badly in ways apparent even to total beginners when he takes control with his unearned confidence is that's all he's ever done with everything

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 8 days ago • 234 comments

He was too Black for the moment.

submitted 8 days ago • 451 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 8 days ago • 671 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 9 days ago • 198 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

"It's almost like watching state disintegration in real time."

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

More of this please, Dems (Aside: is Senator Smith the first Senator to actually grasp what's going on? Ds have AOC/Crockett/Frost in the House, but this is the only Senator I can recall whose posts don't read like a college debating society)

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

23 February 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Marguerite Gruska, was born in Metz. She arrived at #Auschwitz in a transport of 1,300 Jews deported from Drancy on 31 July 1944. She did not survive.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

They're not going to evaluate the responses. They're going to use the responses as fresh training material for Grok AI

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Oof this

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

The first person who stands up and says: “Mr. President, fuck off.” to his face is gonna be the next president of the United States

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

Weird little Vatnik trolls trying to use AI to find ways to upset me. Old garbage & hateful crap about my dad. Anything they can throw to distract me from posting news of what is going on in Ukraine... Just makes me want to post even more- youtu.be/VYquh21I4jg?...

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

What a dumb headline. "Self-inflicted" may be correct, formally, but it makes it seems like it's the 2-yr old's own fault. Deflects responsibility. How about "Dies after finding and handling a gun an irresponsible adult left laying out in front of children." www.wptv.com/news/treasur...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 10 days ago • 894 comments

Don't hold back now.

submitted 10 days ago • 283 comments

It is absolutely bonkers that cars kill so many people and it’s basically invisible.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 472 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 10 days ago • 301 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 10 days ago • 2919 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 10 days ago • 2529 comments

I really think having national columnists be forced to reread a decade old column once a month would be good for all of us

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 10 days ago • 127 comments

It's not Friday (and I'm keenly aware that ::gestures broadly:: is a dumpster fire) but just found out a guy I've worked with re decriminalizing weed in NC was badly injured in a runaway bus accident a couple months ago I'm donating $5-per-donor til 1159p tomorrow: www.gofundme.com/f/assist-chr...

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

SCOOP: Ashley St Clair sues Elon Musk for custody of new son. Musk is pictured with his latest baby in a lawsuit filed by St Clair, seeking sole custody and paternity. www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

submitted 10 days ago • 147 comments

Precisely. Authoritarians create loyal cronies through corruption & patronage. That's the plot!

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for thousands of Afghans, including those who worked with the U.S. military and their relatives. Two brothers hope answers come quickly for their sister and her husband @lomikriel.bsky.social @propublica.org @texastribune.org

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

If you can’t successfully message against this you don’t deserve another cent in fundraising and should go the way of the Whigs.

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments

What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

submitted 12 days ago • 1959 comments

No lie detected.

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 13 days ago • 1929 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 29 days ago • 4017 comments

"We have a responsibility as a party to block absolutely everything when they are putting a match to the federal government." — @aoc.bsky.social on IG live just now

submitted 28 days ago • 77 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 27 days ago • 939 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 24 days ago • 2167 comments