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Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1036 comments

Quick note to everyone pretending that Zohran Mamdani somehow favors communism, here’s the Republican president literally saying on camera that he wishes America were more like Communist China.

submitted 1 hour ago • 53 comments

Young anti-establishment candidate wins Dem primary in NYC. Experienced pol wins Dem primary to succeed his Connolly in VA. It’s a big country. The party needs to speak for diverse voters in diverse places. But one common theme: housing affordability. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

Faux populism is a helluva drug.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1439 comments

Unsurprising from a regime attempting to subvert the Constitution and transform the United States into a personalistic authoritarian system.

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Net approval of ICE: All: -17% DEM: -80% IND: -32% GOP: +60% Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

submitted 23 hours ago • 156 comments

Good afternoon to all the expendable decoy staff!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

This is amazing reporting. A must read. And insanely scary. One of the people discussed is a woman who started using Chat GPT to write a book (of course) and ended up having a psychotic break thinking she could heal people like Jesus. Frightening shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

submitted 1 day ago • 996 comments

Warning signs flashing red - increasing dehumanizing rhetoric from a fascist authoritarian leader and his partisan allies

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More Jan 6 prosecutors have been fired. Per a memo sent to one of them .. the termination is “effective immediately” (Reminder: Justice Dept prosecutors secured a 100% conviction rate at jury trials)

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"What kind of self-respecting governor would let the Department of Justice midlevel functionaries kick out the president of the flagship university and not say a single word? Not say one word?" - @SenTimKaine bluevirginia.us/2025/06/vide...

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? Harvard undergrad, Harvard Law, magna cum laude, cum laude, and editor of the Harvard Law Review. That’s what elite talent looks like. Charlie Kirk? Dropped out of community college. Game. Set. Match.

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The speed with which it became unremarkable for a sitting senator to call people "rats" is shocking. We know who he means by "inner city." But my family was once called the same. My dad came to the states because he thought it couldn't happen there. I'm just thankful he didn't live to see this.

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As a UVA Alum who also has worked in Virginia politics, this is somewhat surreal all the worlds are combining Youngkin has been stacking the Board of Visitors and now that Jim Ryan is out. They’ll make a move for a right wing sympathetic President. This is why you do not obey in advance..

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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

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Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.

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a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan

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Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 1 day ago • 321 comments

So my former political party has become a fascist-embracing cult, but everybody goes on & on about how messed up the Democratic Party is? Seriously? It’s the “Democratic Party” that has issues? Not the party that’s given up on democracy and ignores the rule of law? Fuck that.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Horrendous

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Fox & Friends brought on Jennifer Griffin to talk about the presser -- and somehow didn't ask her about Hegseth's personally dissing her during it

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

The word "Kafkaesque" fails to do justice to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, migrant Everyman who got in his car and ended up in a Salvadoran gulag, with a regime that will never let him free Why they defy judges and invent crimes to deny one man due process. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

This is on Trump’s head. Should be headline in every paper

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

'born on an overseas military base' like bitch so was John McCain wtf?

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It'd be nice if NYT treated likely lies with skepticism, rather than uncritically broadcasting them. Good chance what happened was: 1) Trump lied, falsely claiming "obliteration" 2) US intel leaked their assessment saying limited damage 3) Trump demanded staffers lie 4) CIA Director Ratcliffe did

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

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This won’t succeed but it is not normal. This is very dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1305 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Y'all, this past week for science funding lawsuits has been 🔥🔥🔥 ✅ Major recent wins regarding: 1. U of California researchers 2. NSF indirects 3. NIH terminations 4. EPA terminations Plus: 5. Brand new NSF lawsuit (about terminations & slowdown of new awards) 🧵 Let's break it down

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Trump says he gave Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 3 days ago • 385 comments

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

submitted 3 days ago • 151 comments

RFK Jr. is threatening the routine childhood immunization schedule. This is bad. We all need to be paying attention. Get loud. Stay loud.

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

Why the zip ties ? I need to make a trip to the Russell Building. I’m never getting over it ! 😤

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Wired continues to rise to the moment.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

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Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 304 comments

Attorneys General do the darndest things: Bondi's DoJ sues every federal judge in Maryland, demands they all recuse to consider challenge to court rule "that bars the government from deporting undocumented immigrants for at least one day after they file a legal challenge to their detention." /1

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

adding re the quick decline of democracy: Roberts only struck down the formula, not the law itself, and kicked it back to Congress knowing that they'd never pass a new formula. but in 2006, just years earlier, the formula passed 98-0 in the senate and only slightly more nay votes in the house.

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From #ABC: RFK Jr meets w/ his new vaccine panel this week to plan #flu season protocols, raising concern due to their anti-vax history. @craigspencer.bsky.social warned that Kennedy “has an unbelievable ability to drastically change the access and availability of vaccines in this country”. More ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump administration is arresting more and more immigrants with no criminal records. To maintain the illusion that their focus is criminals, they're ginning up charges including by leveraging testimony from criminals who then get leniency.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Many of us already knew this, but MAGA will claim someone paid this guy off to lie. Obviously the deep state got to him.🤷‍♀️

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