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Chris Murphy: "This deal that Donald Trump just cut with the mayor of New York -- it's a big deal ... they did that out in the open on TV because it's a signal to everybody else out there that the law will be applied differently to you if you are loyal to the president."

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Money talks

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

🚨Joint letter to Congress signed by former FBI & CIA Director Judge William Webster, the FBI Agents Association & other FBI law enforcement groups warning: this is political retaliation that threatens national security.

submitted 19 days ago • 250 comments

The start of week three:

submitted 19 days ago • 492 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

NEW: We uncovered more deleted tweets from Darren Beattie, the White House aide fired in 2018 for speaking at a conference alongside white nationalists who Trump just appointed to a top level State Department job. In purged tweets, Beattie cheered on Jan 6th riot. www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

submitted 20 days ago • 133 comments

If these men are harmed, it's on Trump. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 24 days ago • 212 comments

This is a private company taking over a federal agency, with no authority to do so. Why does anyone think their rights are being protected? “Two top security officials at the independent agency were removed after they refused access to” Musk employees. This is gone past “unprecedented.”

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 20 days ago • 425 comments

This is correct.

submitted 20 days ago • 655 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 21 days ago • 1977 comments

I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.

submitted 23 days ago • 209 comments

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

submitted 22 days ago • 387 comments

Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.

submitted 22 days ago • 428 comments

The Trump administration has stripped away the legal-immigration status of 600,000 Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

Trump is attacking the FBI and his supporters use the rationale that it’s necessary because people no longer trust the FBI - conveniently ignoring that people don’t trust the FBI because Trump and his ppl have spent years attacking it

submitted 23 days ago • 172 comments

It’s important to keep in mind that though the administration is deliberately and gleefully evil, some of the bad things they will do will be out of stubborn ignorance and indifference to how things work

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

Just FYI re Ed Martin, interim D.C U.S. attorney appointed by Trump: Last year at an event at Bedminster, Martin introduced Timothy Hale-Cusinelli, a man with a "well-documented history of extreme antisemitic and racist rants," praising him as an "extraordinary leader." www.npr.org/2024/09/12/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 54 comments

Because they are evil, we must stand up to them. But because they are also stupid, we needn’t be afraid to.

submitted 25 days ago • 1631 comments

do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right? it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC. i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 2012 comments

I’m confused how awarding 4 years of back pay in a lump sum to 8,000 service members who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated is good for the morale of the other 99% of troops who spent the last 4 years working their asses off on active duty for that same pay.

submitted 27 days ago • 1264 comments

Mike Johnson represents a state whose largest city was built below sea level behind levees sandwiched between the ocean and a massive river on hurricane alley, but he doesn’t want to give aid to CA because their policies invite natural disasters.

submitted 27 days ago • 1151 comments

All of these inspectors general Trump just fired will be replaced with loyalists. This was always the plan.

submitted 29 days ago • 48 comments

Marocco drafted the State Dept global stop work memo for US assistance issued yesterday, according to copy I saw

submitted 29 days ago • 31 comments

PEPFAR is the one undeniably good part of George W. Bush's legacy—it has saved over 25 million lives since 2003. And Trump just put it on pause.

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Quiet Striking. newrepublic.com/post/190555/...

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Trump pardons Silk Road founder of darkest Internet illegal marketplace in history. People used Bitcoin to buy hundreds of kilos of drugs: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

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The annual number of billion-dollar disasters in the US has risen from around 5 in the ‘80s to 27 in 2024. The costs of climate change are too high — we can’t afford to continue this trend.

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

Home insurance premiums are rising across the country because climate change is causing more insured losses. (And in some markets, insurers are pulling back or out altogether.) Climate change is already increasing our cost of living — and it’s only going to get worse.

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Nothing to worry about, just the pro-Putin president getting the anti-Putin intelligence committee chair who does oversight removed from his position

submitted 39 days ago • 83 comments

Dems need to fix their social media game or they will never overcome this crap. They let conservative influencers overload the system with these viral claims and the truth is just being constantly trampled on.

submitted 45 days ago • 21 comments

Justice Samuel Alito talking to Trump two days before SCOTUS could be deciding on whether Trump’s sentencing proceeds is another disgraceful reminder how little Alito cares about any appearance of corruption or impropriety.

submitted 46 days ago • 206 comments

New evidence has emerged from The Insider that Russia did indeed offer bounties to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan. A reminder that Trump downplayed and protected Russia in 2020 when the NYT broke the story

submitted 46 days ago • 143 comments

"Biden should publish both volumes of Smith’s report before leaving office. Doing so would serve the public interest and—most importantly—would be legal. Because, as an official action of a sitting president, it falls under the Supreme Court’s blanket of immunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-has-...

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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

submitted 46 days ago • 333 comments

Mike Johnson is still suggesting that "the wide open border" had something to do with the attack in New Orleans, which was perpetrated by a guy from Texas

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“None of these headlines communicate the important fact that Cheney didn’t commit a crime and this is all a meritless, vindictive investigation. The Times in particular plays up Trump’s desired strongman image. This coverage gives Trump exactly what he wants.” www.publicnotice.co/p/liz-cheney...

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"Give a man a sword and tell him he’s defending the cross, and there’s no end to the damage he can do." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/o...

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Rand Paul had been in the Senate since 2011. He is the nepo baby of Ron Paul who served 12-terms in Congress and ran for President 3 times. He’s literally the “swamp” like few others. The self awareness of an amoeba.

submitted 65 days ago • 494 comments

Here's what this means: Republicans are plotting to cut health care for seniors and veterans to grease the wheels for tax cuts for giant corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 65 days ago • 317 comments

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

submitted 65 days ago • 946 comments

So crazy to go through this cycle yet again. We have decades of examples of people blundering around saying foolish things like "It will be easy to balance the budget by cutting government waste and the public will love it!" and yet here we are. FAFO time for team DOGE.

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

Sadly, Elon’s weird cult stans will believe him.

submitted 66 days ago • 194 comments

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

submitted 66 days ago • 56 comments

Fuck cancer. Especially pediatric cancer. These people want to punish these precious little kids to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history. Shame on them.

submitted 66 days ago • 319 comments

Six days before Christmas, the richest man in the world condemned children to a slow painful death.

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