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Our country is a joke. A sick joke.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

submitted 2 days ago • 236 comments

What the actual…

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

submitted 10 days ago • 2299 comments

@dgraham.bsky.social: “The Supreme Court has, in a series of recent decisions, made prosecuting politicians for corruption harder and harder, but that doesn’t preclude the rest of us from using plain language.”

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

This x100

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”

submitted 52 days ago • 418 comments

NONE of this is normal

submitted 62 days ago • 1772 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 66 days ago • 1683 comments

Call it by its name: Trumpcession.

submitted 81 days ago • 576 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 80 days ago • 1199 comments

DO IT

submitted 81 days ago • 935 comments

OK FINE we are DOING THIS. Another 🧵as that sociopath Musk claims no one got hurt by the stoppage of foreign aid and his henchman Marocco prepares to LIE LIE LIE to Congress tomorrow. Can @propublica.org just testify instead please. We have shared so many stories about the harm 1/

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

We choose the kind of government we want. We can use it to improve lives, elevate our standard of living, and take care of our most vulnerable. We can scale it down to bare bones and let people fend for themselves. Or we can use it to enrich billionaires and cause harm to anyone they don’t like.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of how much coverage it gets, Trump aiming to install a military command that places loyalty to him above loyalty to the constitution needs to be a much bigger story.

submitted 91 days ago • 74 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 94 days ago • 1029 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 94 days ago • 1440 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 95 days ago • 748 comments

"Food and medicine and infrastructure buy good will, good will translates to conversations, and conversations turn into intelligence and partnerships." Will Selber on how USAID helped the military mission in Afghanistan:

submitted 100 days ago • 13 comments

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

submitted 100 days ago • 302 comments

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

submitted 110 days ago • 385 comments

Um, hi. Congressional Democrats, exactly WHAT IN THE FUCK (!!!!) ARE YOU DOING?! Can we PLEASE wake up and get this foreign actor the God fearing fuck out of our government?! What exactly are you waiting for? Here is your actual formal invite to this fight. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 111 days ago • 70 comments

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

submitted 111 days ago • 1091 comments

Donald Trump closed the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention two days ago.

submitted 121 days ago • 32 comments

It’s alarming, but not surprising, the way that corporate media has normalized Trump’s extreme cabinet picks. These are appalling and dangerous choices that imperil our democracy. They should be covered as such.

submitted 173 days ago • 104 comments