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There is no reason that Musk and his DOGE shits should have access to everyone's IRS data. It has nothing to do with rooting out "fraud" or "abuse" at the agency. And if they're looking for individuals evading taxes, well, that's what the fucking IRS is for if you don't fire everyone.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

These motherfuckers.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A fundamental story of the last decade is that a lot of basically incompetent people got fed up by competent people telling them they were wrong, constructed a more welcoming alternative ecosystem of competency cosplayers, and then somehow turned the whole government over to them.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Man, I can't believe the bad luck in @elienyc.bsky.social writing a book about the worst laws on the books about 30 seconds before laws ceased mattering.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wall Street's touching the stove moment might end up being not tariffs or debt default, but rather DOGE techbros causing a bank run by carelessly demonstrating they can now yank funds out of commercial bank accounts on a whim. A very pure distilled demonstration of no rule of law, no capitalism.

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

submitted 11 days ago • 146 comments

The government asked people to make sacrifices to help each other in an extraordinary circumstance and it completely broke some people

submitted 16 days ago • 122 comments

for over a decade now, the dark matter of American politics has been the willingness of conservatives to simply threaten to murder anyone who disagrees with them. even after 1/6, it can't be confronted directly, because it is genuine failed state shit

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

She's just the best.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I practice archaeology in all its forms.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is how you do it...

submitted 32 days ago • 1053 comments

As I’ve predicted every day for the last two weeks. A prearranged scam between Trump and the CCP to deceive the American people, enrich himself, and fool users. And it will work because there are plenty of rubes & suckers in this country and Trump has had their number for years.

submitted 35 days ago • 602 comments

Why is the "anti-woke" right leaning so hard on the R-slur these days? It's a rhetorical flourish in their wider campaign of dehumanizing cruelty—a claim that their opponents are not merely wrong but incapable of forming a viable opinion.

submitted 47 days ago • 63 comments

I think Stancil is right about most things. But my man posts more than any human alive and will occasionally put up a clunker. It's just the law of averages.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

it has always been a long reaction to the New Deal. from then to now, capital had seen the New Deal as the sin that must be purged so that the rest of us understand our place as grist for their mills

submitted 70 days ago • 250 comments

It’s incredible how predictable this country is. The market collapses following deregulation and overconcentration of wealth, there’s a period of necessary reform, then it’s dismantled and it happens all over again. The only thing that changes are the innocent people whose lives are destroyed

submitted 72 days ago • 12 comments

For most of my life large scale political violence in America was largely unthinkable because our culture was very good at keeping us placated and tuned out. The lifestyles of the wealthy were seen as aspirational, with the lie that this could be you being a major part of the American Dream.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

As police hunted for the missing gunman in a fatal “targeted attack” on the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, social media erupted with contempt for the health insurance industry he represented—and his company in particular:

submitted 81 days ago • 96 comments