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“Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.” It sounds like President Trump, to the world. But it was Caligula, to his grandmother. Megalomaniacs end badly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

submitted 10 hours ago • 94 comments

We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

submitted 11 hours ago • 374 comments

Kennedy Center ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent week-over-week after Trump announced his takeover www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

submitted 9 hours ago • 140 comments

#Emails2DOGE

submitted 11 hours ago • 171 comments

A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Was talking with a Canadian visitor in a hotel where I was staying in New York. I apologized-a lot-for what is happening. He looked at me, sadly. I said, "Well, this just shows how upside down everything is. An American saying 'sorry' to a Canadian..." We laughed and shook hands in friendship.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 1 day ago • 2169 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk is “exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what cybersecurity experts call an insider threat,” our columnist Zeynep Tufekci writes.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

This IS THE BEST thing I have listend to. Its long, 25 minutes. I PROMISE worth every second. Please folks, listen and share! Please.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

“Washington today echoes with so many uncomfortable reminders of that transitional moment in Moscow—the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the President’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative.”

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 13 days ago • 1045 comments

Musk is full of shit as always.

submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments

NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

It is a crime to lie to a federal judge - 18 USC 1623 ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

Profound…

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

“DOGE apparently didn’t understand the workers’ role”—in other words, that the “National Nuclear Security Agency” was an agency having something to do with national nuclear security

submitted 6 days ago • 434 comments

Peace in our time

submitted 7 days ago • 146 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

“I could’ve written about any number of the important rule-of-law and ethics questions arising out of the Adams/Bove affair. But the real issue to which I’ll dedicate my time is that Danielle Sassoon invoked her Scalia clerkship in her letter to the Attorney General.” reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

Dystopian. Hugh Hewitt. John Solomon. The National Archives.

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

C'mon, if you don't want to pay estate tax, you should do what Fred and Donald Trump did: Create a years-long tax fraud conspiracy involving sham companies and phony records to defraud the US government of hundreds of millions of dollars. That's the American way. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

I really just cannot brag enough about how good this new @indivisible.org resource on next week's congressional recess is. If you're looking for practical ideas about what you can actually do in this moment, check it out: indivisi.org/muskorus

submitted 8 days ago • 30 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 8 days ago • 17 comments

“The radical reorganization now underway is shattering the fundamental checks and balances of our constitutional order. The DOGE process mocks the tenets that we are a nation of laws not men and that Congress controls spending and passes legislation.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

WATCH THIS CASE!!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a 2019 Trump appointee, issued a TRO pausing the imminent administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees and a plan to withdraw nearly all of the agency’s overseas workers within 30 days. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 13 days ago • 384 comments

Literal Andrew Jackson backed off that position because he realized it would tear the Union apart, and he threatened to invade South Carolina over nullification a couple years later

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 13 days ago • 143 comments

Great point.

submitted 13 days ago • 1225 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 13 days ago • 429 comments

Most of my family and loved ones have attended, worked for, and/or received medical care at one or more of these institutions or do so currently — particularly those who work in any part of healthcare. This is a huge strike on American education, science, AND medicine, not to mention employment

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

If true, this is the economic ballgame

submitted 17 days ago • 98 comments

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is in the running to serve as health and human services secretary, revealed he was carrying up to $1.2 million in credit card debt in recent financial disclosures, per CNBC.

submitted 15 days ago • 166 comments

FACT: USAID funded projects in 120 countries - fighting epidemics, educating children, providing clean water, supporting life saving work. Now nurses laid off, clinics closed in 25 countries where 2/3 of all child deaths occur. All because of Trump’s inflated ego.

submitted 15 days ago • 295 comments

Not so brilliant.

submitted 16 days ago • 960 comments

Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

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At least Musk still lets Trump sign stuff so he thinks he’s still in charge.

submitted 15 days ago • 296 comments

This Ain’t The Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They’re Purges. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments