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Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

submitted 9 hours ago • 148 comments

This is absolutely off the rails batshit lawlessness. Tina Peters was properly tried and convicted, with full due process, for committing election fraud to prove the existence of election fraud.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

If the courts cannot pretty rapidly step in and stop this obvious abuse of public funds to settle political scores, they won’t do a whole lot else to hold against an authoritarian state

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

the story all but says it but hegseth is very clearly trying to purge the leadership of the military of black people and women

submitted 1 day ago • 269 comments

The rest of the world is prepared to take advantage of our feckless, idiotic, and myopic government led by unqualified right-wing TV hosts and social media influencers as Trump ushers in a new era of American mediocrity.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

NEW: Sources says several federal prosecutors have resigned after Trump's new U.S. Atty in Los Angeles offered a misdemeanor plea deal to a sheriff's deputy -- after a jury had already convicted him of a felony: www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with this

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Wanted: a mean liberal | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/35331161-6cdd-47fd-a8ef-f5db8ac6ca2f

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Trump just fired the researchers behind the National Climate Assessment—the blueprint for federal agencies to tackle the climate crisis. This essential report helps communities prepare for billion dollar climate disasters and save lives. Trump’s move is costly and deadly.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Shout out to @microsoft.com They dropped a law firm that made a deal with Trump, and engaged Jenner and Block who are fighting Trump!

submitted 5 days ago • 274 comments

The first 100 days, in photos. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

submitted 8 days ago • 275 comments

We’re entering the “so much depends on whether the military will disobey orders” phase of authoritarianism. None of this is good and I wish I could say the danger of protesting and mass action isn’t rising. But it is, and yet the time for protecting and mass action is now.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

It's not just Vance - the sense of unearned entitlement is a defining feature of this administration. People who know their careers are built on a grift respond by self-righteously demanding deference and respect. "Did you even say thank you?"

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Cooper: Wow, his image is being shown on a monitor.. that's why you hear people actually applauding. They're applauding President Zelenskyy when he appeared on some of the Jumbotrons

submitted 10 days ago • 669 comments

NEW: Trump on Wednesday quietly pardoned Paul Walczak, a healthcare executive sentenced just 2 weeks ago for tax crimes. His mother & sister had played a role in an unrelated scheme to publicize Ashley Biden’s stolen diary ahead of the 2020 election.

submitted 11 days ago • 107 comments

Stephen Miller is in overdrive: "A Central Florida doctor is pleading to keep an 11-year-old girl with a rare genetic disorder and the girl’s mother in the United States. This is as ICE ordered the mother to deport in the next two weeks" www.wftv.com/news/local/c...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

“There is no basis to say that anything other than the most stringent First Amendment protections apply to medical journals,” she said. “It appears aimed at creating a type of fear and chill that will have effects on people’s expression — that’s a constitutional concern.”

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

The arrest of Judge Duggan reeks of desperation. They've had a really bad few weeks. Trump's poll numbers have plummeted. Putin & Xi are mocking him. Defiance in the US is growing. The economy is getting worse. They keep getting routed in court. Anything, anything to keep the focus on "illegals."

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Bad math. The costs far exceed the savings. Therefore there are no savings. Combine that with the disruption of vital services and DOGE has been an unmitigated disaster and complete failure.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

submitted 12 days ago • 1078 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 13 days ago • 858 comments

This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

submitted 13 days ago • 313 comments

Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms?

submitted 12 days ago • 415 comments

Trump discovers the US is no longer indispensable | Opinion https://www.ft.com/content/c2ebc194-790f-4b9c-a1d9-3e0840f0ee38

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 13 days ago • 833 comments

Oh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 36 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 15 days ago • 251 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 15 days ago • 228 comments

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

“Replacing Hegseth may ultimately do little to repair to the damage Trump has done at home and abroad. But the long journey back to democratic accountability and political responsibility begins with a single step. Forcing the removal of Hegseth would be such a step.” @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

I did, a kids book about January 6th. With maga doing everything possible to rewrite history and whitewash what happened that day, it is more important now that ever to make sure history is remembered accurately. Thanks for your support!! Available in paperback or ebook. harrydunnliveactionhero.com

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 16 days ago • 1238 comments

Was down in Mexico city last year, and had a beer with a guy from Iceland, who was doing basically what these students were: a world tour without a fixed schedule. It seemed incredibly cool, and also something that can get you locked up when you try to enter America.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

submitted 17 days ago • 460 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

submitted 17 days ago • 124 comments

When a tyrant starts to stutter and sends signals that his outlandish demands were sent without his authority, you know he’s a paper tiger. That’s when you’ve gotta double down on your resistance! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 17 days ago • 91 comments

Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of - Well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 18 days ago • 480 comments

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

submitted 18 days ago • 72 comments

Madness. Our enemies couldn’t do more damage…

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

MILBANK: In 100 days, “He has been a legislative failure .. .. an economic failure .. a foreign-policy failure .. a constitutional failure .. a failure in public opinion.” “.. chaos and destruction so high that historians are hard-pressed to find its equal ..” @danamilbank.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments