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Pro-tip: Norway, Sweden and Denmark have education departments.

submitted 12 hours ago • 70 comments

Every rank-and-file Republican is like this now, on the verge of tears while saying "all I want to do is give my children a future by spreading AIDS and measles and unilaterally terminating every NIH grant and also making it illegal to be trans."

submitted 2 days ago • 172 comments

It’s time for the US to accept Trump’s election was a foreign funded coup d’état and that they are experiencing the seeding of a dictatorship.

submitted 1 day ago • 342 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," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social: theatln.tc/0N1YAksF

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Exactly what older rural white working-class Americans voted for The aggressiveness with which Trump & Elon are screwing their own voters is how you know they have no intention of ever allowing a free and fair election in the United States to happen again

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submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

Gassing people to death in Trump's America feels a little too on point www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Casey: There’s this whole mentality that MAGA has painted—like you’re either MAGA or you’re, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever. But there are a lot of people who are just like, “We’re just regular people—we don’t want a dictator, we don’t want to see people’s benefits ripped away..”

submitted 3 days ago • 207 comments

Voice of America is silent. I remember in the Cold War when the Soviet Union wanted nothing more than to silence the Voice of America. Today's the day it happened.

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

One of these things is not like the others

submitted 7 days ago • 670 comments

I think he’s righter than he means to be here

submitted 13 days ago • 59 comments

After the inauguration I told my parents that imprisoning trans people might soon be a possibility and they immediately told me I was being ridiculous.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon: "In a nutshell, in general, I don't want to see women in the public sphere."

submitted 15 days ago • 312 comments

Only been 40 days. The goal is to utterly dismantle America, sell it to billionaires, undo the world order to help Russia, privatize everything, and assume complete control and power for Trump who is never leaving peacefully. They want protests so he can crush them and declare Martial Law.

submitted 16 days ago • 176 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 1200 comments

The Springfield bullshit nudged us into a new frontier of lying. It isn’t just that they don’t back down from the lies. It’s that every lie is increasingly exaggerated to the point of absurdity. Shameless lying is a demonstration of your loyalty. The more shameless the lie, the more loyal the liar.

submitted 17 days ago • 68 comments

My latest. I bring receipts. Please read and share. "President Putin Occupies The White House" open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 17 days ago • 26 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 18 days ago • 3497 comments

. @middleageriot.bsky.social 🏆

submitted 18 days ago • 391 comments

He is not just Little Marco. He is Bloody Marco. He has the blood of starving children on his hands. That will never go away. What a disgrace to humanity. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Whoever supports this is a murderous ghoul

submitted 19 days ago • 202 comments

Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.

submitted 19 days ago • 136 comments

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

submitted 21 days ago • 300 comments

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

submitted 20 days ago • 452 comments

My latest on Bezos bulldozing the reputation and business of the paper he vowed to save. And yes, it’s personal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

The Revolution will be AI-icized

submitted 24 days ago • 3408 comments

"Inflation is back" - Trump, the guy who promised he would lower prices on day 1

submitted 30 days ago • 226 comments

Without passing a single law, Donald Trump has effectively declared DE illegal—government agencies are falling in line. Watch as his administration works to erase everyone but white men from inclusion in government, the military, and education.

submitted 31 days ago • 125 comments

To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it. Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.

submitted 31 days ago • 88 comments

Trump has issued an executive order directing his administration to examine what he and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. deem a “threat” to young people posed by antidepressants, stimulants, and other common psychiatric drugs. Kennedy, a lawyer, anti-vaxxer, and former heroin addict, believes he…

submitted 31 days ago • 259 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 31 days ago • 855 comments

WASH POST: “Musk’s DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial info about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in 🇺🇸 — sparking alarm within the tax agency.” Alarmed yet? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 132 comments

After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this. Musk. Owns. Trump. Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison. Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.

submitted 34 days ago • 137 comments

DOGE is about to receive full access to IRS taxpayer data. On its own, that’s horrific. But it gets worse. The guy with access reposted content by Nick Fuentes (who advocates killing Jews) & says he was inspired to join DOGE by Ron Unz (an antisemitic Holocaust denier). This is beyond dangerous.

submitted 32 days ago • 65 comments

the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo

submitted 32 days ago • 68 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 33 days ago • 540 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 34 days ago • 702 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 37 days ago • 574 comments

CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today? SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

submitted 37 days ago • 383 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 38 days ago • 406 comments

Millions of families rely on the Department of Education to help them achieve the American Dream. They need answers about whether an unelected billionaire now has access to some of their most sensitive personal information. I’m going to stay on this.

submitted 38 days ago • 41 comments

Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

submitted 39 days ago • 927 comments

This essay is truly remarkable -- really connects all the dots to explain what Musk, Thiel et al are actually up to, and it's much, much worse than you think

submitted 40 days ago • 31 comments

Love the idea of "doxxed" meaning a journalist reported that a 'special government employee' with no vetting and readily apparent conflicts of interest who was given unprecedented access into the federal government payment systems also had a long history of promoting racism and eugenics.

submitted 41 days ago • 25 comments