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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is so enraging, on several levels. Trump has empowered and encouraged these assholes, and we're destined to see their sense of immunity play out in the future on a much larger scale, I'm afraid.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

One of these gestures is just like the other three:

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

"Anything that happens" such as -- I'm just spitballin' here -- the use of troops against American protesters?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

So, you get promoted, you're on probation in that new job, then you get fired for being on probation .... great incentive structure there, Elon.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't understand how making things shittier is going to make things better.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

😕

submitted 20 hours ago • 905 comments

DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

submitted 1 day ago • 306 comments

Hey that's Denzel Washington 🤣🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk's disdain and disregard for other human beings just oozes from the man. People like that should never be given power. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Costa Rica human rights ombudsman on US deportation flight yesterday: "We observed a significant number of deportees, babies in arms, children, women, elderly people, issuing calls for help, especially to be able to inform their families of their whereabouts, showing and expressing their distress."

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It's also where the non-woke go to die.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

They've gone from threatening to abandon Ukraine if it doesn't pay up to outright threatening to sabotage the entire country. Aren't we all proud of America? Isn't it great to see our country so great again?

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It'll be interesting to see what Trump's treatment of female and minority leadership does to the military's ability to recruit and retain from those demographics. If I was an officer deciding whether to stay or go, or a parent of a black child or daughter, I'm pretty sure what my decision would be.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1461 comments

Trump ordering a $200 million ad campaign to flatter Trump. We're laying off CDC personnel, parks personnel, VA workers, air-traffic safety personnel, while spending taxpayer money on publicly kissing Trump's ass. Just ridiculous. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 1 day ago • 2088 comments

It’s a cult.

submitted 2 days ago • 3312 comments

And there it is, right on schedule ...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The thing about a unitary executive is that if all the power and decisions flow from one man, then that one man must also bear all the blame when things go wrong. I don't make the rules, I'm just noting it for future reference.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They don't

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Maybe we should call them "monarchists." I think that is accurate and descriptive and it would strike a chord with many Americans.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

MAGA tries to justify what they're doing by claiming it's what voters said they wanted. That's a lie. Trump explicitly rejected Project 2025, repudiating any such plan. He did so because he knew Project 2025 was highly unpopular. This is Project 2025; this is what they promised they would NOT do.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone - EVERYONE - should stop referring to these people or their movement as conservative, either the noun or the adjective. They are NOT conservative. They are radically anti-American, they are a lot of words I won't use here. But they are in no sense "conservative." Find better words.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

We've seen the General Purge. It's Friday afternoon, will we soon see the Purge of the Generals?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 587 comments

Watch this. You'll feel better about our country. Because the American people are NOT having it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Exquisite, Mike.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has made this hockey game into a metaphor for his conquest over Canada, so no. Go, Canada.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 3 days ago • 2407 comments

For fame, riches and power, they are willing to poison the hearts of millions. Just extraordinary.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I put up a flag today.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A meme going around on Ukrainian social media today

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I hope Canada beats us 5-1.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Back in the '70s' and '80s, U.S.-Soviet hockey games were little morality plays, pitting the plucky, good-guy underdog Americans against the Soviet bullies, peaking in the '80 Olympics. Now that rivalry is being recreated, but with America in the bad-guy Soviet role. I hate it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So if Joe Biden had needed the vote of disgraced U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez to pass some important legislation, it would have been perfectly fine to order federal bribery charges be dropped against Menendez in return for that vote. That's basically what they're arguing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 2879 comments

Sen. Jon Ossoff did the right thing, not the political thing, in voting to block arms sales to Israel. My column, no sub. req., at: georgiarecorder.com/2025/02/20/b...

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So I guess yesterday was Lee Marvin's birthday, and I missed it. Sorry, Lee. Maybe next year. But I did go down a Lee Marvin hole and emerged with this, a hilarious account by Roger Ebert of a Malibu morning with Lee. If you know Lee, enjoy: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w...

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