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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 16 hours ago • 298 comments

PRO PUBLICA: “IT IS CORRUPTION.” Trump officials were leaning on African countries to get Elon Musk’s Starlink approved, threatening to cut off 🇺🇸 funding to programs in their countries if they didn’t. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 18 hours ago • 162 comments

Congrats to all Republicans and 16 Democrats for passing the Bribing The President Is Legal Now Act. A cool side effect of this bill is it makes it considerably easier for your kid to buy fentanyl-laced narcotics from a new class of predators on Minecraft, also likely created by this bill.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

It absolutely disgusts me that both California Democratic senators voted in favor of a law that will force the rest of us, through our bank accounts, to subsidize the monumentally corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- They have chosen to join the corruption, and I'll remember that.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1049 comments

Well done, Miss Feldman.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

I refuse to get distracted by trivialities like this when new stories are breaking about Biden struggling through a 2023 interview.

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

This is genocide. My God.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

This is truly egregious. On May 13th, someone put $25 million in premium, 10,000x volume, in United Health, $UNH, $300 puts expiring 09/19/2025. Then news of DOJ investigating for fraud came out. $UNH dropped, and is down 50% in last month. This trader is up $80 million. Unusual.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

US poised to dial back bank rules imposed in wake of 2008 crisis, per WSJ

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit. And, they are cutting Medicaid and food stamps, even with this huge increase in federal deficit, all to pay for a tax break for the wealthy.

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Senator @ossoff.senate.gov lays out the depths of Trump’s depraved corruption and says @SpeakerJohnson and other congressional Republicans are complicit. cc: @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

i keep doing this exercise of like what does tech fascism look like in 5 years what does tech fascism look like in 10 years what does tech fascism look like in 20 years and its not good lol

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is VERY dangerous.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Just like the wheat board. And everyone complains about Trump kissing the Saudi's asses. You see where we'd be with another Con/Poilievre government. #cdnpoli

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

You all should know by now I criticize Republicans and Democrats, and have no problem calling out Dem leadership and Biden. However, the media obsessing over Biden's age while ignoring Trump is literally falling asleep during meetings and is the oldest man to be President is infuriating.

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

Donald Trump is as racist as fuck.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

That is in fact what this administration has done.

submitted 6 days ago • 698 comments

Trump’s new Qatar Force One is getting some criticism.

submitted 10 days ago • 777 comments

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 10 days ago • 413 comments

Trump got Loomered.

submitted 9 days ago • 423 comments

Every time a new scandal is reported from the Trump admin, which is every few hours, their first reaction is to call the story fake news, their second reaction is to vow to hunt down and jail the leakers, and their third reaction is to threaten the media company who published it.

submitted 9 days ago • 159 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 14 days ago • 119 comments

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

submitted 10 days ago • 916 comments

Why didn’t Welker push back on his statement that “we’ve had a massive expansion of government?” We’ve had the SAME NUMBER of government employees for over five decades. Corporate media, PUSH BACK WITH FACTS PLEASE.

submitted 9 days ago • 248 comments

Trump’s “very public and transparent transaction” on the Qatar jet grift only came to light after confidential sources told ABC about it.

submitted 9 days ago • 225 comments

Can Canada's MSM, for the love of God, hound Pierre Poilievre on his position on Alberta "independence?" Specifically, press him on why, if he supports independence, is he running to be a federal Member of Parliament? How do you support independence while wanting to be a federal MP?

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 9 days ago • 2741 comments

This is basically correct, and it's why these guys think they know more about science than scientists. They think if you are smart enough and want something enough, you can invent new science to bend reality to your will. But that just isn't how science works.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Casey Means, Trump's new nominee for Surgeon General, recounts seeking out therapy including "plant medicine," "the divine feminine" and "quantum neuro reset therapy," which soon led her to "deconstruct my identity as a feminist" and reject "equality" in favor of a relationship with a "powerful man"

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

This is the equivalent of the Nazi purge of what they labeled "degenerate art." Anything that went against the fascist view of the world. There's no difference between purging websites, banning books, and firing librarians and Nazi book burning and banning art and controlling culture.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

First, the company that owns TurboTax donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. Now, he’s going after Direct File, the IRS program that lets you file your taxes for free. Looks like Trump is choosing his corporate buddies over working families—again.

submitted 11 days ago • 99 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 226 comments

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

submitted 11 days ago • 913 comments

Xi and Putin pledge to stand together against US, — Reuters At talks in the Kremlin, the two leaders cast themselves as defenders of a new world order no longer dominated by the U.S. In a lengthy joint statement, they said they would deepen relations in all areas, including military ties.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

I know some of you may do this anyway, but I nonetheless urge you NOT to send items like these to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 601 D St. NW, Washington, DC 20530. Please do NOT do that. Thank you.

submitted 12 days ago • 749 comments

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

submitted 12 days ago • 3501 comments

While Americans pay the price for Donald Trump's senseless trade war, it looks like Trump officials are using tariffs as a bargaining chip to get sweetheart deals for Elon Musk’s companies. Looks like corruption to me.

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

Russia may be using children’s summer camps in occupied Crimea to discourage Ukrainian strikes against Russian military assets located throughout occupied Crimea, effectively using children as shields in a violation of international humanitarian law, which states that ... 1/4

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Criticize Others, Blame Biden, Accept No Responsibility, Make Promises, Live on Fox, Deliver Nothing. The MAGA credo.

submitted 13 days ago • 845 comments

Yet again, the MAGA rubes got fleeced by Trump and the grifters in his orbit. When will they ever learn?

submitted 14 days ago • 212 comments

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund. The Senate will vote on the GENIUS Act, a crypto bill which would make the President's grift even easier. If we don't fix that problem, no Senator should vote for it.

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

This is one hell of an exchange. This is argument in the 2nd circuit about returning Ozturk - the student in ICE detention for writing an op-ed - to Vermont from Louisiana. You can follow along here: bsky.app/profile/josh...)

submitted 15 days ago • 67 comments

Our democracy’s survival may well depend on government dudes with guns questioning illegal orders. Military, police, Homeland Security, Marshals, all of them. Honor the oath, not the authoritarians.

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments