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submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

This smug gleeful piece revels in scolding the dumb libs for being cringe and caring about things. It welcomes fascist Trump’s Ukrainian surrender and insists resisting against fascist Putin is impossible. People with seething contempt for EU liberals but resigned acceptance of fascism are fascist.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1816 comments

The United States is joining an international fascist network before our very eyes.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

i think there's room for some specificity: try "he's a dick because he's just a finance guy who doesn't know about anything other than regulatory arbitrage" and "he's a dick because he spend 23 hours a day replying to Nazi teens on twitter" or "he's a dick and you can tell because his kids hate him"

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Mr Garcia, I have drafted an appropriate response for you. You're welcome.

submitted 2 days ago • 248 comments

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

submitted 5 days ago • 278 comments

The great stitch-up begins in Riyadh today, as the US government seeks to hand eastern Ukraine, bound and gagged, to Putin. This, as Trump knows and wants, will encourage Putin to threaten and destabilise the rest of Europe. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing. I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

It's OK, I've been assured that they're only going to use this information to hurt the people I also hate, and never against someone like me.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

The Washington Post—owned by billionaire and Trump inauguration attendee Jeff Bezos—spiked a print ad critical of Elon Musk and his increased influence on the federal government.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

When even The Telegraph is sounding like this...: "The terms of the contract that landed at Volodymyr Zelensky’s office a week ago amount to the US economic colonisation of Ukraine, in legal perpetuity." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

submitted 5 days ago • 302 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

Tesla is particularly vulnerable to a boycott and anti-fascists should make every effort to make the brand as toxic as possible www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/boyc...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

No, federal spending and employment are not “out of control.” Not that facts will influence the current idiotic discourse, but you gotta try. A few words with graphs by me: lbo-news.com/2025/02/16/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

submitted 7 days ago • 288 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 7 days ago • 497 comments

Citizens Union is the obvious cause for the downfall of the American republic, but businessmen never should’ve had any say over government, and Dems are also guilty of enabling this

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1909 comments

I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & still get pushed out later.

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

Remember, if you see anyone else reporting from the Oval Office or Air Force One, that person is a spineless scab.

submitted 8 days ago • 60 comments

I really wish all these people who want to be ruled by a king would just fuck off to a country that has one. Thailand’s pretty and has amazing food. They’ve even got lèse-majesté laws to stop people from upsetting your bootlicking souls.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

The GOP controls all three branches of the government and they still don't have the courage to be honest about their plans for Medicaid.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 898 comments

For those not familiar with how financial markets work, US Treasuries are the ultimate safe asset, used as collateral for everything. Even a hint that some Treasuries might not be honored could bring everything to a screeching halt 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 197 comments

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

submitted 13 days ago • 215 comments

The superbowl whose ads are all nightmare visions.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

worth saying that vermeule’s view that “separation of powers means the president is an elected despot” is fucking stupid and has no basis in the constitution as written

submitted 14 days ago • 368 comments

Musk appears largely unshackled from ethical or oversight constraints despite wielding enormous influence over the American government and despite his businesses being deeply intertwined with the U.S. national security apparatus.

submitted 14 days ago • 118 comments

In this News Brief, "Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith 'Cost-Cutting Effort,'" we detail how NYT, WaPo, CNN and others continue to treat Musk's 'DOGE' committee as an aw shucks effort to "reduce waste" and "find savings" in our government.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

It is the position of the administration that a post saying “Free Palestine” or talking about diversity should ruin your life, but a post calling to hate people from India should not. That’s their moral sensibility. Nazi scum.

submitted 15 days ago • 136 comments

BREAKING -- Trump says he's kicking undocumented immigrants out of Social Security. One small problem, though -- undocumented immigrants are ALREADY ineligible for Social Security benefits. You know, because they don't have Social Security numbers. Because they're undocumented.

submitted 15 days ago • 676 comments

A Nazi billionaire is drilling directly into Fort Knox in broad daylight and we’re just watching it happen.

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

Our convicted criminal president ordered one of his billionaire henchmen to illegally access our treasury’s computers and give himself a back door to control trillions in government funds.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments