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Some North Carolina Republicans are trying to steal an election for the state’s Supreme Court (by changing the rules AFTER they lost) and disenfranchising thousands of voters. Raise your voice on this latest example of partisan cheating—you can influence the outcome. youtu.be/v9BSe6RnxGA

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Consider subscribing to deez nuts.

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

Well, finally.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is the logical step to take.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I was wondering how long y'all were going to let Bill Maher keep conning you 🙄

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

"We only have spoons because I was eating soup with a fork and it dripped and I said get me something to eat soup with and Ivanka or JD or Lindsey, I don't know, gave me like a little bowl on a handle and I said SPOOOOON because it was really so spoony, and nobody thanks me, but I'm used to that."

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Thank a GOP voter or nonvoter today!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Outstanding work, GOP voters and nonvoters.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Evil and stupid is a really bad combination.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Mostly because outlets like the New York Times did a piss poor job of covering the threat trump posed.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“Liberals all want participation trophies” says the party whose leader is throwing himself a parade for his birthday.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

Good early crowd here at the Washington Monument.

submitted 11 days ago • 275 comments

Here's a nice glass of Kool-Aid....

submitted 11 days ago • 426 comments

Look, guys, all I’m saying is that you gotta crash the economy if white people ever want to feel safe using the N-word in public again.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

Guys really do love to hear themselves talk, huh.

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

I’m sure the young guys who’ve been told the world owes them an easy life will jump at the chance to work a twelve hour shift at a blast furnace

submitted 11 days ago • 445 comments

Amazing. Sean Duffy braves the .... subways that nine year olds in my building go on every day to go to elementary school. Hope he was okay. Did he make it?

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

Let’s be crystal clear: Comparing @schumer.senate.gov — the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in Congress with family murdered in the Holocaust — to Hitler isn’t just vile, it’s antisemitic filth. This isn’t “free speech.” It’s hate speech. Shame on anyone defending it! www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 12 days ago • 465 comments

The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon

submitted 12 days ago • 173 comments

TOMORROW!! In Glendale, we're saying HANDS OFF our Social Security at the local Social Security office!! JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

HUNT: Is this Donald Trump's economy now? BURCHETT: Well, I don't know that I'd call it that HUNT: Really?

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

Amy Klobuchar on Trump reposting something on Truth Social claiming he's tanking the market on purpose: "I was thinking to myself, did he do that while he was on the golf course or while he was dining at Mar-a-Lago?"

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments

If I know anything about Americans, it's that they'll accept short-term pain for a hazy concept of a long-term pay off. This isn't a nation of low attention span get rich quick schemers at all

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

I do not infantilize nonvoters by assuming they are all too ignorant or incompetent in a legal sense to know what's going on around them. I'm sure many are, but many others just pouted. Those are the two choices. And here we are.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The way Fox News viewers still believe in Trump is like cows putting faith in the slaughterhouse.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder how many folks are going to end up ruined financially because their infobubble is reassuring them that the markets will be skyrocketing and prices dropping Any Day Now. Not that those of us in contact with reality will be MUCH better off.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

One of the defining books written about this era will be a narrative journey outlining the collision of Trump's incompetence with Silicon Valley's arrogance, and it'll win a bunch of awards for depressing the hell out of all of us.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

Tufts got the assignment.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Senator Angus King: "I have to point out, Mr. Chairman, in the hour that we've been sitting here, investors in the United States stock market have lost two and a half trillion dollars."

submitted 13 days ago • 284 comments

Gene Robinson was one of my top three favorite regular guests on Countdown. Invariably calm, with insight nobody else had, humor, loyalty. Damn Jeff Bezos and his amorality and the inflatable raft he's marrying. What they have done to that paper, and America.

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Zuckerberg is a thief. He'd face faster and more severe consequences if he shoplifte

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The huge gains Democrats made this Tuesday have to be scaring the pants off Republicans. Your mission: PHONE Republican Congresspeople in your state and warn them off passing any of trump’s ludicrous agendas, from cutting out government, to the SAVE act that disenfranchises women, to his tariffs.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments