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Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

submitted 17 hours ago • 1248 comments

America is more a Nazi game show than a country right now

submitted 15 hours ago • 101 comments

Every few years (as a federal worker), I had to take required training in preservation of government documents and records. This was definitely not in the training

submitted 21 hours ago • 66 comments

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.” - FDR, 1938

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

More of this!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1242 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 16 hours ago • 761 comments

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

submitted 3 days ago • 240 comments

A script to use for questioning any Democratic Senator at a town hall:

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Please take five minutes and listen to this. THIS is one of many reasons why eliminating the Department of Education is a bad idea, as well as pretty damn scary for parents of special needs children. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5320...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

Very sad to hear about this for Dolly and her family. apnews.com/article/doll...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Mike Lawler: "I've been very clear: I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid." (Bookmark this one.)

submitted 8 days ago • 1531 comments

I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!

submitted 9 days ago • 314 comments

The markets are crashing, we can't afford eggs anymore, the economy is shrinking, our allies are abandoning us... But we'll always have the Gulf of America.

submitted 8 days ago • 1439 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 220 comments

Baldwin: "Trump a little over a week ago said on Fox News, 'I'm not touching Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.' And he said it multiple times. The next morning he endorsed the Republican House budget which calls for nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 8 days ago • 399 comments

I've said it before but there should be a law that if in your Oscar speech you thank your parents "up there" you have to clarify if they are dead or in the balcony

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

I thought this was America …

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

All the glory and humanity of the national treasure known as Circus Circus.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Completely here for this level of petty.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, yes. Officially made it to Las Vegas.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 18 days ago • 447 comments

Not good. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This a really important and entertaining watch. youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw?...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The purpose of government is to keep us safe. This is the exact opposite of that promise. apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a slow reader. That’s partly because I don’t give myself enough time to read and also because I probably spend too much time scrolling through Instagram, between work, hanging with Jenn and the boys. Well, I just wrapped up one excellent book and I’m excited to start reading this one next.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Fucking insanity.

submitted 25 days ago • 221 comments

the MOST performative bullshit

submitted 25 days ago • 23 comments

Dem consultants: If you don’t mention inflation and betray trans people in literally every post, your career is over. Republican consultants: Hell yeah let’s have the puppy killer build the concentration camps and the corpse defiler fire the cancer docs, our base is going to love you forever.

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

Of course.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 26 days ago • 197 comments

In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.

submitted 26 days ago • 78 comments

This evening I was asked the question that every parent dreads: “Dad, what’s the backstory on, ‘The Dukes of Hazzard?’ I watched the first season online but can’t understand why Roscoe is still chasing them.”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

What an incredible level of evil this ghoul has achieved. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

submitted 28 days ago • 117 comments

climbing the ladder and pulling it up behind them is a parlor game for these ghouls

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

Many things these days are not great. This is especially bad.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually

submitted 28 days ago • 62 comments

Then it’s not a disclosure. Check the dictionary, folks.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE's chaos isn't preventing waste — it's causing it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 28 days ago • 146 comments

Describing Kenny Pickett as, “the human victory cigar” is just exceptional writing. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Cheney to Vance: “You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you’re losing. That’s tyranny.”

submitted 30 days ago • 92 comments

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

submitted 31 days ago • 262 comments

I completed our taxes this morning because I was hoping we could get our refund before the IRS is abolished.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

If I had to choose I guess I’d say my favorite unboxing video is “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” (Note: This joke seemed much funnier when I thought of it.)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Therapist: “So tell me more about how you knew she was the one for you.”

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments