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Musk threatens to fire federal workers who don't respond to an email. Makes no legal sense. Like Trump, he seems to be doing it for shock and awe. Even if it makes no sense. How could the government even read and respond to all these?

submitted 15 hours ago • 39 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 16 hours ago • 342 comments

What ?!?

submitted 14 hours ago • 696 comments

Authoritarian leader cult alert

submitted 23 hours ago • 73 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 • 129 comments

"Your Flag"

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

According to Musk and most of tech: No conflict, no interest

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

“I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. “I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.”

submitted 2 days ago • 384 comments

Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

"The American republic is undergoing a constitutional crisis as the president attempts to rule as an autocrat, a heedless billionaire smashes through people’s lives with sadistic glee, and the U.S. is attempting to reverse eighty years of world leadership." www.thebulwark.com/p/america-jo...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Trump says it out loud. He's trolling all the liberals and the media. But still striking to see him say that he's the king.

submitted 3 days ago • 304 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2689 comments

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

submitted 5 days ago • 3747 comments

Accurate! #FeloniousTrump #ClusterB

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submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Woke up this morning wondering which of the Washington-based foreign journalists here will end up being their generation’s William Shirer 😬😵‍💫

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2047 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

This is about as disturbing as it gets. When Trump says he plans to be a dictator, there’s no reason not to believe him.

submitted 7 days ago • 622 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

“Seeking a Mar-a-Lago Vibe, Trump Considers Paving Over Grass in Rose Garden”. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

You can’t make this shit up.

submitted 8 days ago • 254 comments

"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

submitted 8 days ago • 100 comments

Wishing a happy Valentine's Day to my friends across the world, and particularly the attractive tabby that I sometimes see gliding through St James' Park

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

“Laws Don’t Matter” Is the Hill America Will Die On 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 tribunecontentagency.com/article/s-e-...

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submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

“This is the first time a sitting U.S. president has ever served in this capacity. It is also the first time a sitting U.S. president with terrible taste and limited interest in the arts has served in this capacity.” www.vulture.com/article/dona...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump’s press conference today was one of the most disgraceful moments in U.S. history, signaling a complete surrender to Vladimir Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 908 comments

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1432 comments

Trump is selling Ukraine out, sidelining them in negotiations, and handing Putin everything he wants.

submitted 10 days ago • 491 comments

I know this is a tired, cliched gripe these days, but if Biden had said something as remotely dumbass there would've been days upon days of stories about how he's too old and feeble to be in office.

submitted 10 days ago • 120 comments

Today it's over "the Gulf of America." What state-mandated language or positions will the White House require reporters to parrot to retain access to events in the future?

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

Just got this press release. Beyond dystopian.

submitted 10 days ago • 718 comments

Putin began the all-out war on Ukraine almost three years ago. I very much hope I'm wrong, but I'm very worried that Trump has begun the all-out betrayal of Ukraine today.

submitted 10 days ago • 121 comments

Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza. "Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.

submitted 11 days ago • 281 comments

Ron DeSantis on Elon Musk: "He really cares about constitutional government"

submitted 11 days ago • 415 comments

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 11 days ago • 3443 comments

Trump’s reckless comments damaged the fragile ceasefire. Why would Hamas give up at this point if they think he’s going to forcibly remove two million people from a tiny strip of land. If anything he emboldened and strengthened them. Why would they trust Israel? Such a master negotiator.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

The statements by JD Vance and Mike Lee about rejecting the separation of powers…. .....and therefore the constitution….. .....are evidence of the continual slide into authoritarianism. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments