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"During the president’s first term, Mr. Hegseth appealed to Mr. Trump to issue pardons for U.S. troops accused or convicted of war crimes or murder for their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan."

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 19 hours ago • 221 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 12 hours ago • 483 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 11 hours ago • 74 comments

this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

submitted 11 hours ago • 25 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 11 hours ago • 739 comments

Someone’s lying here, big time. And just this once, I don’t think it’s Trump.

submitted 17 hours ago • 175 comments

FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 12 hours ago • 147 comments

Imagine being an Article III judge and you get this email on a Saturday night lol

submitted 13 hours ago • 255 comments

Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

For all the concern about the far-right in Germany, keep in mind that all of other parties are committed to forming a government without the extremist party that Elon Musk and JD Vance are currently boosting. In the US, meanwhile, the far-right extremists are in power. www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/e...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Cutting air traffic controllers produces some immediately visible effects But most of the nihilism underway will unfold slowly over time as preventable roadway crashes, tainted food supplies, blighted neighborhoods, bank runs, collapsing pensions, poisoned rivers…the scope of carnage will be vast

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Not all heroes wear capes 🤣🔥

submitted 14 hours ago • 371 comments

Warren Buffett once said the winner of a coin flipping contest would be treated like a genius. That’s this clown: the guy who got rich on others’ inventions Given his record for overhyped BS, some smart analysts might dig deeper into his various corporate filings www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Members of Count Every Hero on tonight’s military firings: “The abrupt dismissal of general and flag officers without clear justification will disrupt the chain of command, diminish morale, and exacerbate the challenges facing our military at a time of...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

We need to think like an authoritarian if the pro-democracy opposition is going to win. Here's how to look ahead and run the authoritarian playbook in reverse. Read our latest briefing on reverse-engineering autocracy. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reverse-engineering-autocracy

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2409 comments

This is Manchurian Candidate-level farce

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

“I thought we were supposed to be in a new era of meritocracy. Not the indiscriminate firing of people,” said one Republican congressional aide granted anonymity to speak candidly. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

The Proud Boys are holding a press conference at the US Capitol, site of their violent crimes, because Trump wants paramilitaries and criminals to intimidate his critics and whip Rs into line Fear and intimidation will only grow if Rs and Ds don’t push back hard

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

“Trump’s embrace of America’s adversary and rejection of its ally has been so swift and complete that even top Kremlin officials are astonished.”

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 535 comments

First step towards paramilitaries working side by side with law enforcement, which @timothysnyder.bsky.social pegged as a death knell for democracy

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

More of this. Do not give in.

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Where have all those “family values” Republicans gone?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Big Law: you have an interest in defending democracy, and now is a good time to stand up. After all, your clients will no longer need to hire expensive lawyers when that money would be better spent greasing palms. A law optional society makes actual lawyering kinda superfluous

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I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

submitted 2 days ago • 1334 comments

It just genuinely feels like looting I don’t know how else to describe it

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

A law optional society is enforced by cronies who maintain enemies lists Justice isn’t about wrong and right, but loyalty and commitment to vengeance

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It was always about hate for Black and Brown people, about ethnic cleansing. We created a concentration camp in Panama. We are the bad guys now When/if we get through this, we’ll be apologizing for the rest of our lives

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Weak and pathetic: "The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to five western officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/7380...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

A law optional society also means opposition politicians are threatened (already happening) or jailed; votes are suppressed; elections become meaningless pageantry; and your advanced degrees (law school lol) won’t be worth the parchment they were printed on Just the dictator’s will matters

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A law optional society is what the dictator is after. If you don’t have connections, your: * restraining order won't be enforced * business agreement won't be honored * property can be seized * community will be filled with violence This is dictatorship. It will crush everything you care about

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

So what’s it called when the elected leaders of the country don’t trust the police to keep them safe?

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments