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No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 4 hours ago • 158 comments

Klass is the most rooted, clear thinking, and articulate public intellectuals I know of. Read him for the deep drivers, meaning, and consequences behind the daily outrages and choices we face. @brianklaas.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

" ... there is no reason why any country or business or person who seeks to support democracy, the international order, a humane social order, or a society in which the average person has a fair shot at a decent life, should do business with any of Musk's businesses." Doug Ford - NO to Starlink.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Hey so they’re deporting people who legally came here to study.

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 202 comments

Why are so few former Joint Chiefs speaking out? Four stars? FBI Directors? Former Senators? Presidents? Thanks to those that do but we need some courage now!

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

Trump is weak towards dictatorships but ironclad against U.S. former closest allies. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

A king and a dictator said no to Trump and he backed down www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump can fume/pout all he wants but for a deal he needs to offer Ukr credible/immediate security guarantees; if not NATO then troops (Ze said 100K) deployed upon signing, without stipulations russia can scuttle. How he gets russia to agree is his problem. He's the one who insisted Pu wants peace.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 125 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1713 comments

Call it the Musk-Trump Veteran Firing Program. Nearly a third of the federal workers are veterans, and the figure is much higher at DoD. Musk and Trump are going to fire tens of thousands of American veterans, on top of the thousands they already fired. “Thank you for your service, you’re fired.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 353 comments

REPORTER: Germany has elections on Sunday. What are you thoughts? TRUMP: Who has elections? REPORTER: Germany. TRUMP: Oh, Germany. I wish them luck. We got our own problems.

submitted 19 hours ago • 221 comments

Over 21 MILLION US citizens don't have easy access to the documents they would need to register and vote under the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act isn't about safeguarding elections—it's about silencing voters. Learn why this bill would be BAD for democracy:

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump claims to only care about the undocumented. Instead he is de-documenting those here legally.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Another “the cruelty is the point” move by the Trump Administration: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 982 comments

CUT TO: It’s stolen. It’s all gone. Donald doesn’t have any idea where all that gold is, or who could have possibly stolen it. A real caper.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

Just set for a second aside the clear, unquestionable illegality and unconstitutionality- boy oh boy would I not want to politically own a postal service reorganization. Literally zero upside and cavernous risk.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Tonight I’m pulling an all nighter in what's called a "vote-a-rama" with my colleagues to amend and reduce the harm to Michiganders in the Republican-led budget proposal. www.youtube.com/shorts/-QBvs...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 1 day ago • 534 comments

If you're dumb enough to believe there is even one 150 year old person in the Social Security list of active recipients, please call me about a bridge I have for sale. You'll make billions and trillions on this deal! #TheArtoftheSteal #DOGE #Scam

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He's gonna fuck up every single independent creator who depends on the mail for their business. Call your reps and tell them you didn't vote for Trump to destroy your business. reps.fyi

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

the self abolishing Congress was a wrinkle I do t think was widely foreseen

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

seriously, it's not even like a coup at this point. it's just pure, mindless destruction and pillage and a divvying up of the spoils.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Senate Republicans just started the process to pass their budget giving billionaires a handout at the expense of the middle class. We will NOT let them do this the easy way. I'll be doing everything I can to make this as painful as possible for Republicans & put them on record.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk never believed in anyone’s free speech except their own," David A. Graham writes in the Atlantic Daily:

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 1 day ago • 545 comments

These 107 - unarmed young students - were mowed down on the orders of their OWN President, Viktor Yanukovych (with Paul Manafort - remember him? whispering in his ear.) How many more generations of young Ukrainians will die in their fight for sovereignty & democracy?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 1 day ago • 1912 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 2 days ago • 295 comments

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

The Judge said NIH grants for medical research had to be unfrozen; the White House found a way to refreeze it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...

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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

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The guy interviewing Mike Johnson at CPAC is Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty. As a local sports host in 2008, he killed a pedestrian while drunk driving. He somehow avoided homicide charges while pleading to DUI. Newsmax recently promoted Finnerty to primetime. www.bostonherald.com/2009/11/06/h...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

Two things that make America a democracy: Not having a king, and having a free press. A look inside the chilling cases from San Jose to Clarksdale that show a nation already on the brink of losing our First Amendment rights after just 1 month of Trump My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This is not how you cut waste. This IS how you cut oversight.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments