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People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

submitted 42 days ago • 52 comments

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

submitted 44 days ago • 891 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 55 days ago • 951 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 73 days ago • 643 comments

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

submitted 79 days ago • 183 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 80 days ago • 455 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 84 days ago • 522 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 84 days ago • 1972 comments

Despair is knocking heavy on my door, and Hope, long a guest in my home, is hiding quiet in the closet. But I'm not giving her up. Even if she's not cozy on my couch brightening my day, I invited her, and will protect her at all costs. I owe her that much. I owe myself even more.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 86 days ago • 333 comments

Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He humiliated the United States of America. And he made the world a much more dangerous place. Mob boss foreign policy will not work. The Trump-Putin axis fully came out of the closet today.

submitted 89 days ago • 76 comments

"In the 80s, the American public had a much more rudimentary understanding of colonialism’s dependence on racism than it does today. But even kids in high school knew that apartheid was wrong, and famine was wrong."

submitted 90 days ago • 17 comments

This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0

submitted 90 days ago • 4327 comments

Me: Everything is so awful. Am I going to lose my healthcare? Should I be leaving the country? The microplastic spoon in my brain: Be still, my child. Be calm. Send another email. Drink a Diet Coke. Watch The White Lotus Sundays at 9.

submitted 90 days ago • 40 comments

Not a bad idea -- if House Republicans refuse to hold town halls in their congressional districts, local Democrats should set one of their own up.

submitted 91 days ago • 114 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 92 days ago • 2750 comments

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” W. E. B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868

submitted 94 days ago • 14 comments

Trump now seizing the USPS. The USPS board has retained counsel to fight him. Breaking a 250 year precedent. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 97 days ago • 43 comments

Taps 🎤 Is this thing on? Trump wants control of the USPS so he can fuck with mail in voting. TRUMP WANTS CONTROL OF THE USPS SO HE CAN FUCK WITH MAIL IN VOTING.

submitted 96 days ago • 36 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 102 days ago • 316 comments

WATCH THIS CASE!!!!!

submitted 104 days ago • 126 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 104 days ago • 209 comments

alright let's do this: call-your-reps scripts for people whose reps dgaf

submitted 106 days ago • 71 comments

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

submitted 107 days ago • 417 comments

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

submitted 108 days ago • 59 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 108 days ago • 3163 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 108 days ago • 100 comments

submitted 110 days ago • 631 comments

Dear media, call it for what it is: a coup.

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 113 days ago • 73 comments

👀

submitted 113 days ago • 722 comments

bruh. this is what’s gonna be holding federal funding hostage. what the shit.

submitted 114 days ago • 198 comments

Dear Democratic Members of Congress: You need to either be physically at these agencies that are rapidly undergoing the Trump transformation to investigate or physically protest or in front of a mic, on cable news, screaming about what is happening.

submitted 114 days ago • 28 comments

“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists, and I just want to encourage people to do what they’re passionate about” - Beyoncé after winning Best Country Album for “Cowboy Carter”

submitted 114 days ago • 221 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 116 days ago • 799 comments

If this doesn't scare the crap outta you, I don't know what will. They better be looking into this.

submitted 118 days ago • 227 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 117 days ago • 2891 comments

It’s like that moment in Titanic when the ship is bobbing vertically and Jack warns Rose to hold on because when it sinks it’s going to suck everything down with it or is that just me

submitted 117 days ago • 39 comments

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan: www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 120 days ago • 103 comments

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

submitted 117 days ago • 349 comments

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

submitted 117 days ago • 645 comments

"Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions."

submitted 117 days ago • 4 comments

The unelected neo nazi ketamine freak muscling out treasury officials and taking control of government payment systems is the kind of thing that should be a bigger story in American media. Maybe. Perhaps.

submitted 117 days ago • 36 comments

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

submitted 117 days ago • 191 comments

Can’t amplify this point enough. Tariffs are import taxes paid by Americans, not the target country.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment