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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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My dad (a lifetime Repub) braved the flak-filled skies of Europe in a B-24 for 34 missions. I got his smile (both of us at 21 in lower right) & I got to fly with him in a B-24 before he passed in 2011 (lower left). He would have seen Trump for the self-serving trash he is.

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submitted 6 hours ago • 376 comments

Agreed. He is a clear and present danger to our democracy and so much more imho

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Truth… thoughts?

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

And it's going to get much worse!

submitted 7 hours ago • 205 comments

100% agree!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

You simply can’t make this shiz up.

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How many Nazi salutes were done at CPAC?

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

The grift is great

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Almost cultlike #itmightbeacult

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When will Congress wake up amd act to stop this craziness… www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Cutthroat

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

submitted 13 hours ago • 230 comments

It’s imperative at this point that Europe develop a defense posture independent of the United States, which should be treated as the ally of Russia that it has now become.

submitted 13 hours ago • 256 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 1 day ago • 2347 comments

Patel’s First Move at FBI? Empty the 7th Floor. Before Patel even stepped into FBI HQ, support staff were told to clear out. The director’s suite was sealed. No transparency, no communication—just a reset. His first priority? Loyalty over experience. FBI employees got the message loud and clear.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Is... wait a minute... is this report indicating that Democrats sent a strongly worded letter? In response to beyond-Watergate-level corruption? Is that what we are down to, now? Strongly worded letters?

submitted 19 hours ago • 74 comments

Trump was thrilled to announce tonight that he has terminated America’s most senior military officer — Gen. C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump failed to provide a reason as to why he abruptly fired Brown from his position. It is, in fact, the first time that the…

submitted 19 hours ago • 214 comments

The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Wow!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Waiting to hear from all the “Trump-Russia was a hoax” crew and somehow they’ve evaporated into nothingness

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

If you take Canadian oil out of the equation, Canada actually has a trade deficit, and the U.S. has a surplus — of $58 billion. We supply cheap oil to the USA to ensure North American energy independence, so North America can never again be held hostage by OPEC countries. #Canada #Trump #cdnpoli

submitted 11 days ago • 38 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 • 551 comments

COMMENTARY: When government shuts out journalists and the public we serve, it's not a sign of strength. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldZ...

submitted 20 hours ago • 46 comments

Dan "Razin" Caine You can't spell Razin without Nazi.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 20 hours ago • 198 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 21 hours ago • 1934 comments

AMERICA to the PENTAGON: STOP SPENDING $70,000 PER TOILET SEAT PETE HEGSETH: ... AMERICA to the PENTAGON: STOP SPENDING $70,000 PER TOILET SEAT PETE HEGSETH: We’re going to fire 76,000 Americans

submitted 16 hours ago • 69 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 22 hours ago • 943 comments

Florida's new AG, James Uthmeier, is on Laura Ingraham's show announcing a new culture-warring lawsuit against Target for not being sufficiently transphobic

submitted 22 hours ago • 217 comments

white guy DEI

submitted 21 hours ago • 253 comments

Remembering tonight these very racist rants from the campaign trail that nobody seemed to take seriously at the time. Welp.

submitted 20 hours ago • 48 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 451 comments

Tax break is ridiculous. Also slashing nearly a trillion from Medicaid shocks the conscience. Clearly this administration could Not care less for those in need

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

Ffs. He’s ridiculous

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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested on assault charge outside U.S. Capitol - NBC News

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Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

🤦🏻‍♂️

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"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

It’s such a bullshiz lawsuit. Take it all the way to trial please

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