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Our current Director of National Intelligence:

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When you’re just grabbing brown people

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I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

I had no idea that when Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand recorded “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” they decided to go in costume as my parents

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You can't arrest people without warrants, you can't arrest people for asking to see a warrant and you can't bar reporters you don't like from City Hall press conferences This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

submitted 7 days ago • 704 comments

When a new Ms. Rachel video drops on YouTube...

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Neil Diamond releases “Sweet Caroline” today in 1969. No, it wasn’t about young Caroline Kennedy. “I needed a three-syllable name,” Diamond said. “The song was about my wife at the time — her name was Marsha — and I couldn’t get a ‘Marsha’ rhyme.” #SoGood 🎸

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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 43 days ago • 940 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 54 days ago • 1958 comments

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

submitted 56 days ago • 491 comments

Pete Buttigieg going on right wing platforms and not giving an inch is a million times more productive than Gavin Newsom inviting right wingers to his platform and letting them walk all over him.

submitted 59 days ago • 109 comments

Shocked....

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Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

submitted 68 days ago • 579 comments

Ken Griffey Jr took this photo

submitted 70 days ago • 56 comments

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

submitted 71 days ago • 450 comments

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

submitted 76 days ago • 1827 comments

We are seriously gonna have to go back to shoeboxes of cash under the bed again aren't we.

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Hmmmmm I wonder why that is...

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Have you heard about these tariffs on Canadian goods? It's gotten so bad that the Rush album 2112 is now known in America as 3113!

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.

submitted 81 days ago • 1208 comments

When billionaires are telling you to go hoard necessities...

submitted 82 days ago • 30 comments

One big point amid all the headlines: I was texting with press secretary Karoline Leavitt during the event and she confirms that the 34 percent tariff on China is ON TOP of the previous 20 percent. So that means the rate on China will be 54 percent when these tariffs take effect.

submitted 82 days ago • 161 comments

Anyone feel like this is escalating hella quickly and by the end of the week they're going to be deporting people for sending mean skeets? Oh, you unfollowed Tr*mp? Deported. Did you stand outside of Tesla holding a sign? Now you live in the Gulag. 😱

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Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

submitted 89 days ago • 2165 comments

Well if this happens and they continue to gut the IRS I guess I just won't be paying taxes anymore cause F em...

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Trump's talking about using federal money, i.e., taxpayer's money, to pay reparations to the January 6th insurrectionists. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 90 days ago • 35 comments

Pete is right, as usual. These people cannot keep America safe. I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

submitted 91 days ago • 60 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 91 days ago • 1995 comments

When they say the reason Dems lost is because they were too progressive...

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Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 93 days ago • 1525 comments

This is where I work!!

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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 96 days ago • 954 comments