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I love paying with cash, I love having paper money, I love the rattle of the change, I’m a sicko, I know how to add just enough over the cost of something to make change come back in pleasing amounts, this is my design

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

If (big if) Europe pulls off rearmament, it will be worse for Russian security to deal with many heavily-armed states, including several directly bordering it, than to engage with with one superpower that keeps most of its capabilities at a distance.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

This letter is a remarkable combination of stupid and ominous.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

When I wrote that I was voting for Harris, two of the factors that pushed me from voting third party to voting Harris were Trump's attacks on the rule of law and his reckless position on Ukraine. Harris was right on those issues, and Trump was very wrong. Feeling pretty vindicated right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

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submitted 3 days ago • 998 comments

Honest question for Elon: What explanation would you like me to give my constituents who rely on this program? Or the other 9/11 families? Because I'm about to get in my car and drive wherever the hell you are right now to find out myself. This makes me sick.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

submitted 4 days ago • 141 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8246 comments

Resigning now will be less humiliating than losing your primary by 20 points to a political novice who simply makes it clear that they’ll actually fight for us.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

submitted 17 days ago • 415 comments

Why this weekend's protests at Tesla dealerships are so important

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

She deserves a round of applause!!! 😂

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

time and time again these people prove that nobody can be trusted with a billion dollars if this is how you repay society for allowing you to acquire wealth beyond your wildest dreams it should be taken away from you

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The infamous memo from the Trump Administration reads like a ransom note. It openly acknowledges that it is dropping the charges against Mayor Adams in order to use him to carry out its immigration policy.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

A whole lot of incumbent Democrats in DC are simply not up to this moment and need to be both (1) shamed into whatever action we can get from them and (2) removed at the soonest opportunity.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 788 comments

Wow, who could have foreseen this?

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

you kind of have to hope that the next president rides in on a giant wave of civic nationalism. i will work for the next government, whatever that government is.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

I have to say my expectations have been flipped on their head. I assumed that the stable, predictable operation of the hegemon was so desirable that once Trump et al began to destroy it, en masse leaders would stand up to object. But it seems that acquiescence is what keeps the system going.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

No Constitution No Union

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

spotted in new york. the american people aren't happy as elon's approval rating tanks.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

will be interesting to see if Vance urging Europeans to embrace extreme right parties helps his fascist fellow-travelers there or hurts them — because the draw of the far right in Europe has never been to have swaggering Yankees telling them what to do, or as the fancy ones call it “Atlanticism"

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

"I am not the world's most important and famous deal maker," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius just said in Munich. "But if I were, I would know that I don't take any essential point of negotiations off the table before the negotiations begin." #MSC2025

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

It’s not only that AOC knows how modern media works better than anyone else in Congress. It’s that she’s braver too. This is an example of both.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1781 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 9 days ago • 3234 comments

“.. The series of events .. represents an extraordinary shattering of norms,” and “sends a message that, under the Trump administration, the Justice Department will make prosecutorial decisions based not on the merits of a case but on purely political concerns ..” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

An extraordinary reputation of Trump, Bondi & Bove— from a conservative Scalia clerk who was chosen by Trump to lead SDNY. While longer than Robert Welch’s famous, “have you no shame” response to Joe McCarthy, no less historic. If the GOP Congress had as much … 1/2 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

Monday Changed Everything: Gov Hochul Needs to Remove Eric Adams from Office talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/monda...

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

BREAKING: This is the lieutenant governor of New York calling for Mayor Eric Adams to resign. This is a bfd #ByeFelicia

submitted 9 days ago • 248 comments