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Like wtf are we doing, guys. How is this our country 😞

submitted 10 hours ago • 62 comments

Professor criticizes various judicial behavior: Gets accused by right-wing judges and commentators of jeopardizing judicial independence and even provoking death threats against specific federal judges. Speaker of the House proposes dismantling federal courts: Crickets.

submitted 21 hours ago • 111 comments

Bingo

submitted 11 hours ago • 358 comments

dumbest shit ever

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Remembering when in December Trump announced: "The media is tamed down a little bit. They like us much better now, I think. If they don’t, then we’ll just have to take them on again, and we don’t want to do that." It is amazing how right he was and how cowardly so many of them have become.

submitted 17 hours ago • 110 comments

pedocon theory on its way to becoming a scientific law

submitted 19 hours ago • 433 comments

“We are dealing with a hostile regime determined to limit our speech, control our actions and dull our passions.” But we cannot “let some depraved two-bit conman determine what we love.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

These people are fucking cowards The whole lot of them. variety.com/2025/politic...

submitted 16 hours ago • 40 comments

“This hateful propaganda—in which Noem called the prisoners ‘terrorists’ without evidence—is brought to you by Trump’s America and 59 U.S. senators who confirmed her. Goodbye justice, goodbye even an iota of decency, hello hatred and cruelty.” www.americaamerica.news/p/reveling-i...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 1 day ago • 397 comments

“Experts define terrorism as the use of illegal violence and intimidation to achieve their political goals. But ask yourself: When Kristi Noem calls the prisoners in El Salvador cages ‘terrorists’ without evidence, who really deserves that label?” www.americaamerica.news/p/reveling-i...

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

the one downside of this app is that i can’t wave trump’s union busting executive order in the faces of every credulous dipshit who insisted that the GOP was a worker’s party now

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Trump's shocking project to relocate federal agencies away from the National Capital Region is designed to dismantle the government itself. Let's stop them before they put the White House in Moscow to be closer to the home office.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

How do you pronounce MAGA? Do you say “MAH-guh?” “MĂGG-guh?” or RAY-sis?

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

In a nutshell: — The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence. — The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information. Arrest them. Immediately.

submitted 3 days ago • 317 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 2 days ago • 3085 comments

😂😂

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Dr. Franks has read my mind and expressed my angst! 🤯

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

the party of forced pregnancy really fucking hates new moms

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

One thing that is fairly clear at this point is that the entire point of whisking people out of the country with no due process in defiance of a judge's orders to put them into a foreign gulag was so they could produce fascist content.

submitted 2 days ago • 464 comments

Agents of the state are kidnapping people off the street for exercising their first amendment rights. The definition of fascist behavior.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Wow, how bad are their internals right?

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

It's weird how if you elect a bunch of bumbling idiots, they have a tendency to do things that bumbling idiots would do.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

“Indeed, as a court in this Circuit recently noted, while ‘the government is normally entitled to a presumption of good faith,’ ‘the court will not confer that presumption when the government says one thing while expressly doing another.’ Nat'l Council of Nonprofits v. OMB … (D.D.C. Feb. 25, 2025).”

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

congrats to everyone who equated anti-genocide protest with supporting hamas

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is so very fucked up.

submitted 3 days ago • 367 comments

DOGE isn't making any part of the government more efficient. It's just increasing our risk of default.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Chris Murphy: "There has to be criminal investigations as well here. If the criminal code doesn't apply to powerful people, if it only applies to people without power, then we don't have rule of law in this country."

submitted 2 days ago • 525 comments

this is also a great example of what i argued in my column this week, that elon musk and the much of the MAGA right simply does not believe in the existence of legitimate political opposition to their agenda. it's not that there are tens of millions of democratic voters, it is that there's fraud

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Today’s bonus issue of “One First” uses Tuesday’s executive order on elections to illustrate what a President can (and, as importantly, can’t) do through an executive order—and how major media organizations should do better in reporting on them: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-134-...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

A US president not knowing four US servicemen are dead 24 hours after it was reported is appalling.

submitted 3 days ago • 1087 comments

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

submitted 3 days ago • 1955 comments

IDK what kind of people you hang out with but… Could you add a “random” to your group chat without anyone noticing?

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?

submitted 4 days ago • 347 comments

When Trump says he’s had two perfect months, the scary thing is he really believes it.

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

Crockett: "The idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullshit. We need to stop playing."

submitted 3 days ago • 819 comments

IF WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS SO RIGHTEOUS WHY DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR FACES?

submitted 3 days ago • 188 comments

you know i have never actually just listened to her speak and uh, the white house could use a professional up there

submitted 3 days ago • 1190 comments

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

submitted 3 days ago • 678 comments

The Trump administration has just filed its seventh emergency application with #SCOTUS (this one seeking to put back into place its blocks on certain Department of Education grants). From 2001-17, the George W. Bush and Obama administrations sought emergency relief a total of eight times.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Think I was fearmongerong about Social Security? This bombshell @washingtonpost.com article says otherwise. archive.ph/2025.03.25-1...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. I worked at the Pentagon. If information like this is not classified, nothing is. If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.

submitted 3 days ago • 288 comments

Again, these fucking white men simply refuse to take personal accountability, ever.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

🚨 WOW: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice says the Russians "undoubtedly" have all of the information shared on the Trump administration's Signal texts.

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

This is why you appoint qualified experienced people to high-powered, high-stress jobs. Trump’s team of amateurs ain’t it.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

submitted 4 days ago • 4019 comments

This is egregiously unacceptable, @washingtonpost.com. Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it! And yet, you still give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

1000%.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment