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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 418 comments

We need to save some smoke for voters. Trump was very clear during the campaign that he planned to settle Russia's war on Ukraine quickly and on Putin's terms. 77 million people voted for him anyway, and now he's following through. American voters sold out our ally.

submitted 2 days ago • 372 comments

We are entering a new era—Government by Gimmick. Policies won’t be serious efforts to solve real problems but mere attention-grabbing stunts.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

submitted 3 days ago • 159 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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submitted 3 days ago • 998 comments

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

submitted 3 days ago • 882 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 3 days ago • 781 comments

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

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This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on. That is part of the crisis we face.

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 7 days ago • 2782 comments

If “couldn’t be me” was a resignation letter

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submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

This is almost too stupid to comment on, but I hope it's clear to everyone what's going on here: authoritarians bully you into doing little shit like this as a way to train you to comply, to grease the skids for bigger things. You talk yourself into a little thing, the next thing is easier.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Neville Chamberlain was unjustly denied the Nobel Peace Prize. by Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Of course the Democrats will be going to Houston to find and interview voters who were laid off , to ask them what their expectations of the new administration were and how they feel they are doing at the moment. And posting here and everywhere. Right ?

submitted 8 days ago • 1423 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 8 days ago • 593 comments

Pete Hegseth: our military sucks lol Linda McMahon: knowing things makes Jesus cry RFK Jr: polio vaccine? that’s RACIST Marco Rubio: other countries can go fuck themselves Tulsi Gabbard: none of our business what Russia is up to Pam Bondi: state courts AND federal courts? Crazy!

submitted 8 days ago • 99 comments

This is the story running through everything, GOP remaking itself as a MAGA People's Assembly that just approves what the party leader wants.

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

submitted 9 days ago • 185 comments

If this is a direct quote, it's one of the most irresponsible and reckless things a SECDEF has ever said

submitted 9 days ago • 562 comments

Obligatory “I have officially reported for spring training” pic. Feeling fortunate I’ve had the opportunity to do this for so long.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Impunity

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

From this day forward, it shall be known as Lake MoPac

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

"We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. "There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this."

submitted 11 days ago • 121 comments

Nobody remembers the Colonial Pipeline hack (four years ago!) but the speed with which Biden enemies blamed this on him/the Green New Deal/canceling Keystone XL should be studied. apnews.com/article/dona...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

plane crash thing probably not actually directly linked to FAA ,media likely just choosing to highlight on it in wake of big crash because it's topical, but on the other hand things with order of magnitude less basis regularly become GOP agitprop so fuck 'em, Donald Trump crashes planes

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Just awful: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts. It's time to follow up on that. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Are eggs cheap yet?

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

submitted 15 days ago • 486 comments

President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP

submitted 16 days ago • 1482 comments

I've been voting for Donald Trump in every election since 2016 based on his promise to follow email security protocols. A dark day.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments