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Well, ain't that something.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 hours ago • 635 comments

its amazing the way conservative arguments fall completely apart in court when there are actually penalties for lying

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 3 hours ago • 903 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 3 hours ago • 337 comments

Nancy Mace is, among other things, just painfully stupid.

submitted 16 hours ago • 194 comments

When I was in residency I had to watch a teenager and her parents brought to tears when she learned that she had Turner Syndrome (XO). But Nancy Mace doesn't mind being horribly cruel.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Rolling out the heavy artillery: our metal lady is bigger than your metal lady

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

it's true civic degeneracy. no better than eating fritos and watching snuff films in the basement with a needle in your arm.

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

Raskin: "So who is leading DOGE? Is it the young man who calls himself Big Balls? Is it the racist on the night crew who's proud of the fact he was a racist before all of his friends were racist, and says we should legitimize Indian hate?"

submitted 19 hours ago • 42 comments

Lucky for him, he still has the treasury to rob.

submitted 17 hours ago • 176 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1182 comments

Take a moment to process this: Musk has had his private thugs—who aren’t public servants and don’t work for the government and operate under no known standard of conduct—as _federal law enforcement agents_. When a CPAC host told him his army of security is “enormous,” he replied it should be bigger.

submitted 19 hours ago • 157 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 21 hours ago • 75 comments

I love Chunk

submitted 18 hours ago • 62 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1683 comments

It’s only right for him to be on the first flight to Mars. It’s his baby.

submitted 19 hours ago • 461 comments

TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 21 hours ago • 2116 comments

Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

submitted 19 hours ago • 156 comments

Hypocrite says what?

submitted 22 hours ago • 245 comments

yooo I was just cited in a federal opinion & I'm ecstatic! I argued that the Supreme Court's originalist guns jurisprudence is asinine so lower court judges don't know how to apply it, & in footnote 17 this judge is like YEAH lmao www.scribd.com/document/823... ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/secon...

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

John Fetterman’s staff are leaving him in droves and there are awful rumors about how he treats them. Are we sure he’s not just three Kyrsten Sinemas sitting on each other’s shoulders in a hoodie? Our latest:

submitted 23 hours ago • 1087 comments

Breaking from Trump, Tillis calls Putin "a cancer" - stepping out and saying what many GOP members know to be true. #ProudBlue #DemsUnited #DemVoice1 www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

beyond parody

submitted 1 day ago • 343 comments

The reason the USA is so messed up is because everyone thinks bad things will never happen to them.

submitted 1 day ago • 367 comments

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

submitted 1 day ago • 2114 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2575 comments

This thread. Whew. Share it far and wide.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I don’t wish anything bad on that poor kid, but good lord, concepts of thoughts and prayers for the dimwitted parent.

submitted 1 day ago • 669 comments

In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 1 day ago • 299 comments