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submitted 13 hours ago • 2240 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 16 hours ago • 1184 comments

Trump and Musk are cutting off cancer research.

submitted 12 hours ago • 62 comments

If this ambush of President Zelensky was planned, it makes the behavior of Trump and Vance even more disgraceful. What democratic ally can ever trust a single word uttered by these despicable men who spit in the face of every American who fought and died to save our democratic nation?

submitted 18 hours ago • 207 comments

Good lord, that last sentence of Viser’s is so deeply contemptible and illustrative of how American journalists have lost their way entirely.

submitted 20 hours ago • 321 comments

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly just ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Per @chrisdjackson.bsky.social on another platform: “It took me 30 seconds to find at least ten postings from Zelensky directly thanking the United States for their support. There are many more. This is pure BS.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 932 comments

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1853 comments

Plane crashes, measles, and expensive eggs. You’re doin’ great, sugar.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

So when the right says “free speech” they just mean “rape and sex trafficking”?

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

The USA: hold my beer

submitted 19 hours ago • 96 comments

Gotta love Betty, because she tells it like it is! ❤️✨

submitted 1 day ago • 402 comments

More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.

submitted 19 hours ago • 712 comments

hat tip to @theliamnissan.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 295 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 1594 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1193 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 196 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

The Elon Musk playbook: 1) kill govt agencies investigating him 2) remove govt officials who could stop him 3) kill govt contracts belonging to rival companies 4) give all the govt contracts to his own companies

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.

submitted 1 day ago • 877 comments

it's like watching ants find their way around a puddle. you can do it little guys! keep working those tiny brains!

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

So Trumpers, three options: He's senile. He's a liar. Or both.

submitted 1 day ago • 1420 comments

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

submitted 1 day ago • 4673 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 1028 comments

Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

submitted 3 days ago • 2113 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 3 days ago • 373 comments

BREAKING: House Republicans just passed their budget resolution 217-215 that would virtually guarantee deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, all to fund a major tax break for the ultrawealthy... and still add trillions to the national debt.

submitted 3 days ago • 809 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 3 days ago • 602 comments

Still on the White House website. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Guess who’s getting a new FAA contract to help privatize air safety? Elon Musk. He’s cutting the FAA and everything else in government — and carving it off for himself. THE WHOLE THING IS A MONEY GRAB

submitted 3 days ago • 231 comments

Mitch McConnell on the Ukraine war: "Blame for this human catastrophe rests solely on Vladimir Putin … If Russian forces laid down their arms, Europe would be at peace. If Ukrainian forces laid down theirs, Putin's aims would not stop … Mistaking this fact is as embarrassing as it is costly."

submitted 4 days ago • 261 comments

I'll tell you what I didn't get done last week. I didn't fire every federal employee and/or agency investigating my companies for unethical and illegal conduct. You?

submitted 5 days ago • 335 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 4 days ago • 491 comments

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

submitted 5 days ago • 1680 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

submitted 5 days ago • 1331 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 2643 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 6 days ago • 2221 comments

Another shakedown: U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

submitted 7 days ago • 177 comments

General Brown is a brilliant, amazing leader. I worked at the Air Staff for three years and it was known that he read everything the staff wrote for him. He believes if an analyst took the time to write it, it’s his responsibility to read it. Very few generals do this.

submitted 7 days ago • 213 comments

"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

AP sues Trump, stocks crash, consumer confidence plummets, Trump fires the ICE director over poor deportation numbers, GOP has horrible fundraising numbers, and more. Catch up on today's news!

submitted 7 days ago • 153 comments

One of my best friends and coworkers was told he’s most likely going to be laid off tomorrow because he’s a probationary employee He’s only probationary because he’s a veteran hire and they have a 2 yr rather than 1 yr period He’s the highest performing person here This is so fucking stupid

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 7 days ago • 1301 comments

lmao, jesus

submitted 7 days ago • 284 comments

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 7 days ago • 253 comments

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

submitted 8 days ago • 1708 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 2115 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 9 days ago • 2872 comments