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remember kids EVERY day is Relitigate The 2016 Primaries Day if you're an insufferable white boy on the Internet

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Ackshually... "remotely competent" historians recognize how much of progress and "major events" (e.g. abolishment of slavery, civil rights, women's voting & reproductive rights) are the result of ordinary people organizing and relentlessly demanding their governments to form a more perfect union.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Our first time in La Marque, TX was purchased through the FHA.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

The guy who steadfastly refused to let voters see his tax returns is now letting anyone he likes look at your tax returns

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I do wonder why someone with skillz hasn't made a video of Trump with Wallace's voice: "I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 11 days ago • 465 comments

in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

Neither Trump nor Musk nor anyone in their orbit knows how to run a legitimate business. It's all scams, so they don't understand why "just bribe them" is bad business. People who run actual businesses understand the value of blaming the lawyers for why you can't do a thing you don't want to do.

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

If you've ever heard people blame the New York Times for being complicit in the demonization of trans people, this article does a good job of tracing those roots and naming the sources they draw from.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

It’s in Article III, Section 2: “The judicial Power shall extend … to Controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

submitted 13 days ago • 86 comments

I gather from the amount this old post is going around again that awful people are mad about the halftime show.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

submitted 13 days ago • 467 comments

I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

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I’ve always said this was a big key to Trump’s appeal: What perversely excites a lot of people is that he represents liberation from the tyranny of basic decency.

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

submitted 95 days ago • 43 comments

Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.

submitted 20 days ago • 56 comments

The federal government regularly spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 21 days ago • 205 comments

So a foreign intel service just has to find someone close to Musk who is motivated by: (a) greed; (b) ego; (c) disdain for the United States; (d) a drug problem; or (e) all of the above, and then they'll access to the keys of the USG. And don't worry, Trump suspended background check requirements.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 24 days ago • 575 comments

LAUSD doing some good. The Right will absolutely shit themselves over this. www.cbs42.com/news/nationa...

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Said it over and over before the election: Project 2025 is the plan for a coup from within the government - the transition from a liberal democracy to an illiberal authoritarian state.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

It also makes it impossible for other countries to enter into treaties, agreements, pacts or really even just conduct regular day-to-day business with us, because not only are we led by a maniac, but even if we get him out we can’t be trusted not to vote in a maniac again.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

So interesting that adolescent black boys are perceived as hardened adults but a rich white man who uses his wealth to influence politics around the world and is eligible for AARP benefits gets infantilized as just a little silly goose. You don’t know how much this shit right here pissed me off:

submitted 30 days ago • 49 comments

Clearly what needs to happen is for all scholarships to be turned into "gifts from friends," which are totally non-taxable and above board, as evidenced by the $2 million dollars in "gifts" Clarence Thomas received.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Why is anyone surprised by a republican Senator saying "yeah, he broke the law I wrote, that's fine with me"?

submitted 28 days ago • 52 comments

Not just unusual. It’s unprecedented. It’s a seismic reordering of American government and an actual instance of the “weaponization” of the DOJ that the Republicans were heretofore so fond of complaining about (when it wasn’t happening).

submitted 30 days ago • 98 comments

Restoring my faith so I can see the kingdom of God, the one place that remains billionaire-free

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Three things that remain true, no matter what Trump does: 1) Trans people have as much right to express their identities with dignity as anyone else. 2) Immigrants are awesome, create wealth, and make our culture better. 3) Trade with people around the world enriches us, and not just financially.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

No thanks, Trump inauguration. If I want to watch an unqualified man accept a job a woman should've gotten, I'll apply for a promotion at work.

submitted 35 days ago • 22 comments