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The public justification for DOGE lawlessness is 'the US debt is a crisis' (it's not, or wasn't until now) & so huge cuts without & against legal authorization must be made. Losing $500 billion in income to the govt by crippling the IRS ought to definitively annihilate that line from news coverage

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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

submitted 22 hours ago • 117 comments

True, no cars were harmed in the attack on the United States Capitol.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Let it be noted that the Democratic politician with as much proven crossover appeal as any in the country has done it while making a point of not giving in to the resegregators and transphobes.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

"your opinion is worthless, shut the fuck up" is exactly the correct response to all the racist transphobic whiners bitching about the existence of anyone who isn't a white male in video games

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The governor of Kentucky talks more clearly about protecting LGBTQ+ children than the governor of California does.

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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 5 days ago • 281 comments

This is the final step on the road to authoritarian fascism. If the President can rule by decree and cannot be scrutinized or reviewed by the other two branches, then this experiment in democracy is done.

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

Everything Trump is doing with Palestinians, Venezuelan and Muslim immigrants are test cases for broad authoritarian rule. Americans don't realize he'll come after them as well. We never learn.

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

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The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific. This is 21st century Nazism. Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised. Where is the global outrage? The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

submitted 6 days ago • 398 comments

Just so that we’re all clear what’s happening here: The United States is deporting people without due process, sending them to labor camps in El Salvador, and paying the Salvadoran government for it.

submitted 6 days ago • 697 comments

CNN: A new poll gives us a sense of who Democrats and Democratic leaning voters think best aligns with the party's core values. And that's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

submitted 6 days ago • 549 comments

“Vote blue no matter who” creates a dynamic in which conservatives can run in the Democratic Party. That might not be the purpose of this ideology, but it’s the unintended consequence. Voters must have standards.

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We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

submitted 6 days ago • 987 comments

The government is about to give OpenAI the ability to legally steal if we do not flood this page in the next 12 hours. OpenAI will have immunity from all lawsuits regarding copyright infringement. All other AI companies will follow. Do you despise AI? Dissent, retweet. Do something. #furry #art

submitted 7 days ago • 173 comments

ICYMI — here’s the lesson Schumer and the other Dems just taught them 👇🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 330 comments

One reason this government can so easily frame protesters as terrorists is that others—including some at universities—have already laid the groundwork. When we treat students engaged in constitutionally protected speech like criminals, we make it easier for authoritarian governments to do the same.

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Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT. Fucking cowards

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

This is the right answer. Schumer is Robert-the-Bruce’s father

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Here are the “Democratic” Senators that voted YES on the GOP budget that doesn’t protect Medicare and Social Security: Schumer-NY Fetterman-PA Cortez-Masto-NV Durbin-IL King-ME Schatz-HI Hassan-NH Peters-MI Gillibrand-NY Shaheen-NH They should all face primaries.

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

There is a deep moral rot within the Democratic Party that prioritizes ultra-wealthy donors over working class Americans. It’s not just Schumer and it’s not just those who voted for the budget. It was never just Manchin & Sinema holding up progress. A new direction is needed.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Your sneering contempt for your party and the constituents who voted you in may look to you like 'tough talk,' but to the Left you look like a spineless coward, and to the Right you're a useful idiot. And we will vote you out.

submitted 8 days ago • 83 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

submitted 8 days ago • 613 comments

Vichy France ain’t got nothing on the Senate Democrats

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

submitted 9 days ago • 2756 comments

That's it. Remove @schumer.senate.gov as minority leader. Enough Quislings.

submitted 9 days ago • 202 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 9 days ago • 3688 comments

Yeah this is what I’d say. I don’t think you can in conscience vote yes on cloture knowing that amounts to singing off an anti-constitutional putsch. And but it’s also the case a shutdown is risky and could be bad! But what grown up politicians should do is publicly, transparently communicate this.

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Folks, DOGE wants unfettered access to your personal tax records real REAL bad www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 10 days ago • 525 comments

Per @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

When the world’s richest man gives giant piles of money to the president and the president does a TV commercial at the White House for the rich guy’s business, it’s obvious that your government is for sale.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

This is called skating to where the puck was, like three games ago.

submitted 11 days ago • 222 comments

I swear to God they could start building camps in this country and half the Democrats in Congress would go on social media and say, "Don't take the bait."

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex condemned ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, calling it a “tyrannical” move. “If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too."

submitted 12 days ago • 122 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 12 days ago • 470 comments

The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

submitted 12 days ago • 135 comments

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

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The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 13 days ago • 453 comments

if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime

submitted 14 days ago • 187 comments