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I guess the Dems didn't hear about Clinton's e-mails or Hunter Biden's laptop.

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I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

You sure are!

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Trump is making out like a bandit while playing golf even as the financial markets meltdown. When will people start talking about the "I" word? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

“They know this will make America both poorer and dumber. Those are the end goals here, because a destitute country is one that’s easier for them to rule… The more a dictator can expand the wealth gap inside the walls of their kingdom, the more comfortable they feel.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

What would he be doing differently if his goal were to crash Western economies and the Western alliance?

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

whew

submitted 11 days ago • 128 comments

Every statement from Trump officials right now is just “Evacuate now? In our moment of triumph?”

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

weirdly, looking at my phone for hours has not staved off economic collapse. sorry I tried my best

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

"Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is."

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The tariffs are wreaking immediate and catastrophic economic havoc, but make no mistake, the rest of what’s he’s doing, from gutting Social Security, the VA, and the NIH to undermine vaccines is just as reckless and will lead to the same scale of damage.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

In these dark times, we need sources of joy. Here’s a running list of 1-star reviews for Gavin Newsom’s podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom (Interviewing Only White Men In An Effort to Become President)”:

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

First time I can remember making a protest sign since - when - college? See you in front of Frederick City Hall and then at Baker Park.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

just wondering if there is an update to this post by a cato scholar who wrote a book about executive overreach arguing that Donald Trump is a better choice because dems introduced regulations on tailpipe emissions www.cato.org/blog/fear-lo...

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what makes humans great is that of all the species to ever live we invented subsistence farming and then immediately invented everything else we ever did in order to not have to do subsistence farming

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"The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence."

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Today's Daily Deal is the Party Backstory Generator. Written for any tabletop fantasy game, it is a great resource for Session 0; determining who the party members are and what their relationships are to other characters. Get it today only for 30% off list price. #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

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Only you can stop the tariffs

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

submitted 16 days ago • 103 comments

"To spend time with his families," no doubt. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

tick tock Rebecca, you’re up in 2026

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-kn...

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

My focus group broadly agreed that Trump seeking a third term would spur a Constitutional crisis. But they also felt that in a Constitutional crisis, America would benefit from a strong leader like Trump.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Trump & Musk are grabbing the headlines, but there's a much larger long-term movement behind them, that @katherinestewart.bsky.social explores & explains more lucidly than anyone else, imho. There's a lot of rich detail, but two explanatory frameworks are particularly noteworthy. 1/8

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

submitted 31 days ago • 351 comments

The Kremlin and other autocracies have long ached to see Voice of America and Radio Liberty destroyed, but even in their most fevered dreams, they could never have imagined that the Americans would do the dirty work themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 31 days ago • 79 comments

The rapid descent into clown-based autocracy threw me off my game for a bit, but I'm recommitting to fundamentals: running the damn ball and filing annoying records requests. If you have tips on the latter or are a FOIA lawyer who wants to annoy the government with me: DM or email. Also on Signal.

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

Politics gets dirty and I don't mind a Dem playing coy with their position as a negotiating tactic to extract more—that's how the sausage is made—but what happened here with those 10 Dems achieved nothing because it had just one objective: to deceive Democratic voters. That cannot be tolerated.

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

Just imagine if those elected to defend us and responsible for our public safety actually spoke this way after school shootings and other shootings. I guess in this White House, and under the direction of @PamBondi, a Tesla is worth more than victims of gun violence like my daughter.

submitted 35 days ago • 60 comments

Apparently, the Trump term we didn't get in 2020 would have been way, way better than the ones we got in 2016 and 2024. Just our lousy luck to be on the Bad Timeline, I guess.

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New from me and @reason.org's Adrian Moore: the multiple laughable and lamentable facets of Florida's lawsuit against Target over its (constitutionally protected) decision to sell Pride merchandise. www.yourobserver.com/news/2025/ma...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

A bunch of mediocre white dudes throwing in for the presidency early because they sense an opening does not make them front runners On the off chance the country is pining for the Newsoms and Immanuels of the world, we'll know it when (if) they do well in the primary

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This month only you can get the ebook of the first novel in my increasingly aspirational-seeming big gay space opera series about people who have had a lot of therapy and mostly don't vote to have leopards eat their faces for a mere $1.99 in the USA. books2read.com/u/bPkqYz

submitted 41 days ago • 28 comments

My latest — a reflection on the madness, cynicism, selfishness, and absurdity A decade of information manipulation has left us a nation of cripples on our own psychological defense It’s nearing the end of the republic but we’re cheering for the pickled egg www.greatpower.us/p/america-ne...

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments

i mean, the whole thing is that earnestly believing in anything — literally anything — is at odds with all of their worldviews. that's the thing that unites trump, musk, vance, miller, and most of the cabinet heads. they all think that principles, values, and beliefs are for suckers.

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Another scoop from Kabas. All you losers better give the credit to @marisakabas.bsky.social when you pick this up.

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For more on this alternative timeline where The Bulwark existed 10+ years ago, Google "Weekly Standard."

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To Russia With Love Pete Hegseth doesn't care if his drinks are shaken or stirred but his Dr. No-NATO routine is very live and let die. What would it take to convince incel-in-chief Elon that Europe is forever? Pussy galore might help. by Maureen Dowd

submitted 59 days ago • 26 comments

Gathered with perhaps 400 friends and neighbors in front of Frederick city hall to register our protest at recent happenings. Many good signs and this was one of my favorites.

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Today's Daily Deal is Battlelords of the 23rd Century, an rpg of stompy robot action using the Savage Worlds system. Get out last new copy today for 35% off: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #flgs

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"Having Kaplan extend and then retract these arguments is like watching a slow-handed dealer try to pull a three-card monte trick."

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

The New Republic has kindly published what the LA Times and its RFK Jr-supporting billionaire owner Pat Soon-Shiong tried to suppress: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 76 days ago • 86 comments

Why'd RFK Jr. choose New Hampshire as the place to file his suit to silence a blogger? "New Hampshire is one of the few states with a three-year statute of limitations on defamation, and so it is often a destination for defamation tourists whose claims are time-barred in their home jurisdiction."

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