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But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

submitted 33 days ago • 71 comments

JPMorgan said it now expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 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 22 hours ago • 456 comments

i have been joking that their plan is for your kids to grow up to work in a textile mill but they are serious

submitted 1 day ago • 967 comments

The White House have just released this Press Release: Week 11 WINS: President Trump Unleashes Economic Prosperity The S&P 500 $SPY just had its worst two day crash since Covid, down nearly 10% this week.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Trump holding up a gold card with his face on it: For $5 million, this can be yours

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

Wrote a big thing about how dumb I feel being American right now. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Lutnick: "European Union won't take chicken from America ... they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

submitted 2 days ago • 3128 comments

CNBC reacts right after Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff announcement: "And the market reaction after hours -- I’ve never seen anything like it. This -- I think, fair to say -- is worse than the worst-case scenario of the tariffs that many in the market expected the president to impose."

submitted 3 days ago • 147 comments

George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch. Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."

submitted 3 days ago • 2294 comments

Wild story: the acting Social Security chief was warned that terminating data collection contracts with Maine would increase fraud. But he responded that it didn't matter because it was more important to punish Maine's governor for disagreeing with Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

HHS doctors, scientists and tobacco control staff, rare disease experts, cancer drug wizards -- all fired today or leaving in recent weeks. Yet. 🚨 At HHS, staff make up less than one percent of the overall agency budget. 🚨 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

Morley: I think you’re confusing Roger Stone with Oliver Stone Boebert: I may have misinterpreted that. I apologize

submitted 4 days ago • 1318 comments

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

submitted 4 days ago • 607 comments

🔥 Neguse absolutely dog walks Newt Gingrich during a hearing about "judicial coups" today

submitted 4 days ago • 672 comments

Raskin: "My colleagues would rather go all the way down to the end of the field with Donald Trump rather than admit that that is a blatant violation of American due process and all of our constitutional values."

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing that it had wrongly deported an immigrant living in Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador despite a court ruling prohibiting it.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

BREAKING: Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, conducting research, regulating food and drugs.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

Paid protesters and out-of-state agitators

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

The guy who campaigned on lowering prices on day one now says he hopes prices go up Congrats, America www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 6 days ago • 929 comments

NEW: Noah Weiland spoke to Dr. Marks & we updated the article: “I did everything I possibly could for this administration to work with them in an effort to restore confidence in vaccines,” Dr. Marks said in the interview. “It became clear that’s not what they wanted.”

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this

submitted 8 days ago • 146 comments

Elon Musk advertises his blatantly corrupt attempt to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court:

submitted 8 days ago • 321 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 10 days ago • 1940 comments

Ah yes, admitting you can be easily scammed by a reporter, really solidifies the public’s confidence in your ability to handle security.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

submitted 10 days ago • 130 comments

Trump: "I haven't used the word 'groceries.' It's like an old fashioned word. But really it's not. And people understand it. And I campaigned very hard on groceries."

submitted 10 days ago • 383 comments

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

submitted 12 days ago • 372 comments

Sometimes it’s worth pausing and recognizing when he puts a new straight-up impeachable offense on the pile

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 14 days ago • 1567 comments

President Donald Trump’s focus on immigration is drawing significant resources away from other crime-fighting departments, according to more than 20 sources who spoke to @Reuters reut.rs/41QIh31

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.

submitted 14 days ago • 3011 comments

It is impossible to capture how catastrophic Trump’s recent moves and statements are for US defense contractors—this will have a huge trickle-down industrial effect given supply chains and subcontractors.

submitted 14 days ago • 151 comments

It's been several hours since I first watched this clip of billionaire Howard Lutnick ruminating about Social Security, and I still can't believe it. It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.

submitted 14 days ago • 341 comments

President Trump escalated his threats against people who vandalize Tesla cars, suggesting in a social media post on Friday that those convicted of damaging or destroying the vehicles — including U.S. citizens — could be sent to notorious prison complexes in El Salvador.

submitted 14 days ago • 147 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 14 days ago • 3524 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 15 days ago • 515 comments

yeah makes sense, he’s the president www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 217 comments

Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.

submitted 15 days ago • 770 comments

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

submitted 16 days ago • 728 comments

another one of those things to send to all your normie relatives

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Fox News is now talking about people getting the death penalty for attacking Teslas

submitted 16 days ago • 2757 comments

Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

submitted 16 days ago • 389 comments

This story is fucking bonkers

submitted 16 days ago • 297 comments