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How much WD40 do you have to drink to believe this shit?

submitted 4 hours ago • 328 comments

Wow. This is insane.

submitted 4 hours ago • 22 comments

The economy is crashing, we have declared war on the weather, and it’s only Monday.

submitted 3 hours ago • 81 comments

The stove's not gonna touch itself.

submitted 3 hours ago • 115 comments

"Writing the book actually made me more optimistic about the prospects for democracy ... if you look at things in a longer timeframe — the last 100 years instead of just the last decade — things have improved massively ... democracy is now normal, and that would've been unthinkable a century ago."

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

FAST FORWARD THREE YEARS: "Yup. It's still the Biden economy slumping " "Yup. Biden messed up so badly, it still is taking effect." "Yes indeed!"

submitted 2 hours ago • 74 comments

Autocracies usually go out of their way to take care of veterans, service members, police officers, and even most civil servants … because if you fuck those people over, they’re the ones who do coups.

submitted 1 hour ago • 38 comments

Tuberville: "Zelenskyy's gonna play hardball, but you know what? He's not even in the game. It's gonna be Putin and President Trump and the people on our side that will end up making this decision for the future of Ukraine."

submitted 7 hours ago • 1358 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has been on a tear for much of this hearing on CFPB dismantling. She's concerned the agency will be "choked out of existence before I get to rule on the merits." She wants an evidentiary hearing.

submitted 9 hours ago • 62 comments

Holy shit, that’s bad. Makes sense why they’re trying to exclude government spending to GDP to fudge the numbers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 235 comments

Now they're bribing people to resign because they know how legally difficult it is to fire people.

submitted 5 hours ago • 185 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE has deleted hundreds of items from the public accounting of its cuts — shrinking the savings it has claimed to provide by nearly half. Contracting experts say these mistakes raise questions about DOGE's basic understanding of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

submitted 1 hour ago • 68 comments

I want Trump and Musk to look straight at some of the people that they fired. People like Doug, who played a key role in funding critical scientific research. This isn't about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse — it's about hurting the future of our country.

submitted 51 minutes ago • 209 comments

It should be concerning that more that one media billionaire is experimenting with AI not just to supplant human writers, but to stigmatize their writing as "biased." They appear to take a dim view of their producers and their consumers.

submitted 51 minutes ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump orders pausing of US military aid for Ukraine after Oval Office blowup, pressuring Zelenskyy on Russia talks.

submitted 50 minutes ago • 100 comments

Per Gallup's latest, congressional Democrats are underwater on approval ratings 62% to 35%, and that's better than in some other polls (for comparison, Rs are at 56% disapproval to 40% approve). It's not just some Bluesky bubble. Jeffries and Schumer are objectively abject failures as leaders.

submitted 1 hour ago • 20 comments

(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

submitted 1 hour ago • 49 comments

This is oh so Soviet. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 7 hours ago • 330 comments

The "Gang Who Can't Shoot/Count Straight" - morons. SMDH...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

We are here. The Trump Administration is simultaneously imposing tariffs on Canada (for no reason) while seeking to drop sanctions against Russia (for no reason)...

submitted 5 hours ago • 28 comments

A true leader, Denmark’s prime minister, speaks out. Bravo! youtu.be/Ht0H4DeBwDI?...

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Trump's television host atop DOD just ordered Cyber Command to STAND DOWN all efforts to defend America from Russia, one of the world's top cyber offenders. See how this works?

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.

submitted 1 day ago • 1326 comments

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It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

submitted 2 days ago • 1108 comments

Yes this

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 3 days ago • 3411 comments

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

submitted 3 days ago • 398 comments

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

submitted 3 days ago • 4377 comments

"What MAGA celebrates as “free speech” is more often rightwing propaganda, a necessary tool in authoritarian regimes, or outright hate speech that marginalizes the oppressed and promotes violence against them." Excellent piece by @playtyperguy.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vanc...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 3 days ago • 12052 comments

Spineless Republicans In 2015 Trump said: “I will roll over them,” referring to the flaccid Republicans They were “puppets,” “not strong people.” He welcomed their contempt because that would make his turning them into supplicants all the more humiliating. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Tate brothers have been allowed to leave Romania, where they were charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal group to sexually exploit women. They arrived in Florida on Thursday.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

Reminder, bc this doesn't say it, DOGE's claims of cost-cutting have been debunked over and over again, some as outright lies, others as claims that reflect zero knowledge of the contracts in question.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP

submitted 3 days ago • 318 comments

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

1/ The nascent Tesla boycott movement got me thinking back to the 80s anti-apartheid movement. How it took off and literally changed the world. If the South African apartheid regime could be brought down, perhaps one South African oligarch could be? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 79 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 4 days ago • 197 comments

Gen. C.Q. Brown was at the U.S.-Mexico border when he was fired. Gen. Brown was fired as he was evaluating the military’s role in supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB). Fired as he was tending to one of Trump’s top priorities — border security.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

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‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Uniter Thank to Educators, Historians, Civilians, & Corporate DEI Leaders for their individual Acts of Resistance… …to teach us Black History! #BlackHistoryMonth Day 20 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory As Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. said, “There is no future for a people who deny their past.” 🔊

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

The lowest of low. Absolutely disgusting. These aren’t criminals. You lied abt deporting criminals! These are average ppl needing asylum & protection. This admin is reprehensible, crude, racist, corrupt! #getridofthisadmin #impeachfelonfotus #DemVoice1 www.comicsands.com/white-house-...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The @nytimes.com changed the story and has now added this info after I caught them last night. This is why I screenshot these stories. There was no editors note added nor did they point out that a stealth edit was made. h/t @shoq.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

N A Z I S A U F T E C H #DemVoice1 All eyes on Germany General Election 23rd February 2025 Musk has thrown weight of FascX behind the drive of the Neo Nazi AfD Partei quest for power Currently polling second predicting total power if not in 2025 than with another snap election before 2029

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments