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He says he's buying a Tesla. What are the odds he drives into the White House fountain and strokes out while the Secret Service is on hold with Tesla roadside assistance trying to figure out how to open the doors?

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Wut?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Climate change poses the greatest threat to our national security, not Russia or China.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What Mike Johnson is calling a "clean CR", i.e., funding bill, is really an Elon licensing deal, free 6 months to keep up his wilding spree which has already gutted the VA, slashd social security, cancer cure research and more. Johnson needs Ds help to pass it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

This is all To pay for a tax cut for very wealthy people

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941) is also a powerful indictment of the moral abdication that fascism encourages and, eventually, demands.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Given the coordinated hollowing out of federal agencies to bring them under the ideological control of MAGA, it would be foolish to think universities aren’t next. They have been in the crosshairs of extremist conservatism for 70 years.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

NATO is done. These American graves in Normandy face west, across that "big beautiful ocean" he talks about. He's not only betraying our allies, he's betraying these soldiers.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“If [X] is found in your courses … will you move swiftly to remove it?” This is the template for future letters to every university, which will threaten to cut off federal funding and flag their graduates to employers.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Schumer is not a wartime consigliere.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Along with the savage cuts to biomedical research funding, assholery like this makes me think they just want a lot of people to die. That’s one way to claw back Social Security payouts, I guess.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I can, unfortunately, envision a scenario in which the Democratic members of Congress stand up and leave the chamber en masse in a dramatic repudiation of Trump's authoritarian braying. Trump then orders the doors be locked permanently. He is our Cromwell. He is our Lenin.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

As I’ve said before, it’s simply a gigantic heist.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

And if @benwikler.bsky.social can turn Elon's support of a right wing judicial candidate into a liability, $ millions and all, then it will have a real chilling effect on Elon's ability to boss politicians around.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Faced with high egg prices, normal people in a normal country might have thought, "Well, maybe I'll just have to eat fewer eggs for a while." But Americans believed the only solution was to vote for the Nazi.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump-Musk state capture is accelerating. Your tax dollars are being funneled into crypto-currencies held by their oligarch patrons. Cutting or eliminating Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will fund tax cuts for billionaires. It's simply a gigantic heist. #TheyAreStealingFromYou #DOGE

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

RIP David Johansen. Funky but chic

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I guess the best thing you can say about the grotesque betrayal of everything this country has ever stood for in the Oval Office today is that Trump didn't simply order his goons to zip-tie Zelenskyy, shove his head in a bag, and put him on a plane to Moscow.

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