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Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

submitted 13 hours ago • 510 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 10 days ago • 419 comments

Auchincloss: "This issue about the Maryland man is not about border security or immigration. It's about freedom. Freedom in the US means that if your feet are on American soil, you get to stand in front of a judge on an equal basis to the awesome power of the state and put forward the facts."

submitted 10 days ago • 469 comments

This is some sick shit

submitted 10 days ago • 5463 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 11 days ago • 8499 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 14 days ago • 1993 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 13 days ago • 565 comments

Yup!

submitted 20 days ago • 482 comments

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

submitted 19 days ago • 235 comments

I will say that it is funny that three positions that were the core of my youth: the current neoliberal trade regime is bad, the Iraq War is a monstrous mistake and George W Bush sucks, have now become right-wing canon.

submitted 23 days ago • 214 comments

Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.

submitted 25 days ago • 1195 comments

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

submitted 25 days ago • 2511 comments

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 31 days ago • 1022 comments

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

submitted 33 days ago • 1692 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 2088 comments

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

submitted 34 days ago • 465 comments

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

submitted 34 days ago • 3987 comments

if Pete Hegseth shot himself in the dick with an unsecured firearm JD Vance left in the SCIF no one would get fired

submitted 35 days ago • 58 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 35 days ago • 3679 comments

I think it’s worth noting it is utterly VITAL this dead child’s mother cling to her anti-vax beliefs. Because otherwise, if she accepts the fact that vaccinations save lives, that also requires her to accept personal responsibility for the needless death of her child. She can’t do that.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 39 days ago • 2582 comments

Biden really played the long game by diligently cleaning up the mess Trump left him, but rigging things so that the economy got bad as soon as Trump returned to office. For a sleepy guy, he's sure been pulling a lot of strings!

submitted 48 days ago • 185 comments

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

submitted 53 days ago • 232 comments

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

submitted 53 days ago • 226 comments

Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones. Democrats: [wave placard] Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]

submitted 55 days ago • 193 comments

Trump just repeated the Kremlin lie about what the U.S. has spent in Ukraine, literally a figure that comes from Russian intelligence He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

If RFK Jr. knew vaccines save lives yesterday, he knew it two weeks ago and two years ago. He just refused to admit it because it would affect his brand. He's an evil man.

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

Buddy, you're telling me my choices tonight are watching a doddering old man piss on the ashes of my country or play the new civ content drop? Gosh

submitted 55 days ago • 39 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

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submitted 56 days ago • 53 comments

Swalwell: The stock market is crashing, and prices are rising. This guy has gone to the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, and a UFC fight. He should go to the fucking supermarket and see what people are spending to feed themselves

submitted 55 days ago • 324 comments

JFC

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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 59 days ago • 11832 comments

Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

submitted 61 days ago • 1235 comments

The moment in the cabinet meeting where RFK Jr, acting as the actual head of HHS was asked to respond to a deadly measles outbreak caused by vaccine refusal was one of those out-of-body, waking nightmare moments of the Trump era.

submitted 61 days ago • 185 comments

They’re going after the judges

submitted 61 days ago • 399 comments

Bitch you are the government.

submitted 62 days ago • 1231 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 69 days ago • 1169 comments

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

submitted 68 days ago • 2346 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 73 days ago • 1076 comments

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

submitted 79 days ago • 573 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 78 days ago • 692 comments

NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 81 days ago • 1228 comments

How we talk about Trump’s coup shows how we view systemic issues vs. overt violence. H e’s using the system to do what he couldn’t on Jan 6, just like Hitler after his own failed violent coup. The goal is the same, yet we act like a coup via the system is different from a violent one.

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 82 days ago • 2796 comments