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The president doesn’t have the constitutional authority to abolish the Department of Education through an executive order. If he does, the constitution is basically just a series of suggestions and Congress is an advisory body with no real authority.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Scholar focused on [checks notes] peace... has been disappeared by our government. Apparently we can't have any crazy nonsense like "peace."

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump just illegally fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission – an independent agency that Congress created to protect your rights as consumers.

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 303 comments

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 2 days ago • 978 comments

Today it's Palestine, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", the next day it's the Luigi Mangione meme you liked on Instagram

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

When China and Russia are delighted, perhaps you’ve done the wrong thing.

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The scale of this rejection of Trump in his second term means that Republicans are also angry about the administration’s wanton destruction of foundational American institutions

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Just a reminder that while the Netanyahu government uses the hostages as justification for restarting the war, the former hostages and the families of those still held hostage in Gaza overwhelmingly oppose this course of action.

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The US Director of National Intelligence reposting a Russian propagandist in Malaysia posting lies that track Kremlin propaganda about an organization that has been a beacon of light to people around the world since 1942. We are entering a very dark place.

submitted 3 days ago • 660 comments

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Neguse: I think about the average working family in my district struggling to buy a new car because prices are soaring. Interest rates remain remarkably high, and what are they left with? The car infomercial the President of the United States conducted on the White House lawn.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Microplastics may be as great a risk to food supplies as climate change.

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And watch the incompetently engineered, flaming SpaceX rocket debris fill the sky like the most expensive fireworks in history.

submitted 11 days ago • 1096 comments

If one finds oneself arguing that House, Senate, and Supreme Court should all do what the president says because he squeaked through in the popular vote - that’s not a democratic republic. That’s an autocracy. Own your choices.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Traveling in Amman, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. Please keep it quiet, folks!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I feel very confident that the party backed by the billionaires who produce AI run robots is being totally honest when it says it’s imposing tariffs in order to bring old school factory jobs back to America.

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Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire

submitted 13 days ago • 456 comments

WOW. Doug Collins says Veterans shouldn't just "sit there" and "feel alone," and that it's their responsibility to take care of themselves. He also accuses veterans of being incapable of understanding what's happening to their care. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

submitted 14 days ago • 593 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 14 days ago • 486 comments

Three months ago.

submitted 15 days ago • 221 comments

The White House describes the tariffs as a response to inadequate border and drug enforcement. They are forecast to add thousands of dollars to the price of vehicles.

submitted 16 days ago • 162 comments

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

submitted 16 days ago • 839 comments

I’ll be on @msnbc.com in just a few minutes to talk about this story.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

It's very cool and totally not problematic to call the Jewish leader of Ukraine a "lizard of the New World Order."

submitted 16 days ago • 126 comments

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

A fringe right wing legal theory is sweeping through the Trump administration and it threatens the very foundation of American democracy. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/61DXpmLnI2E

submitted 17 days ago • 133 comments

Nikolay Patrushev: To achieve success in the election, Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations....he will be obliged to fulfill them. CNN: Why the US president would choose the Kremlin over America’s traditional partners remains the subject of intense speculation.

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

submitted 18 days ago • 562 comments

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 19 days ago • 1106 comments

mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial. Small trial, but the data is very good. Note that there is currently a GOP bill in Congress that would effectively ban ALL mRNA vaccines. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

The pattern of anger at a budget that sustains you is common to both the arrogantly rich Musk and the continually low-ranking red states

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

More abandonment of promises.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

And…that’s the point. Less money sent to its rightful owners. Social Security—they’ve come for it. Just like people knew they would.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

He really struggles with the concept of a constitutional republic with judicial review.

submitted 22 days ago • 1471 comments

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

submitted 22 days ago • 1074 comments

Spines still exist.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

And by this, do we mean non-secure systems (true) or deliberate leaking by non-vetted recipients (likely also true)?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

NEW LAWSUIT: An employee of the VA since 2006, who took law classes at night to get a promotion to the general counsel's office in 2024, was fired as a "probationary" employee because of her recent job change. She is asking a court for her job back. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 23 days ago • 235 comments

BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

submitted 25 days ago • 579 comments

MORE BREAKING: Judge K-K concludes that we have standing and she orders production of the admin. record! Those will be some of the first internal records that we will likely get re: DOGE

submitted 23 days ago • 58 comments