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Just to remind everyone: this is our fucking money--locally raised tax dollars--that Congress simply won't let our government spend, for no reason other than spite. This is why DC needs statehood. But also, this is just petty, petty bullshit by House Republican leadership.

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

The simplest answer is that Jennings has traded whatever virtue he had for the power and prestige of being a MAGA spokesperson.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

but but but you don’t understand! my dog is the greatest dog ever in the world!! and YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY THINK SO TOO!! stop being such a spoiler!

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Since when can law enforcement violently enter a vehicle like this?

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 7 hours ago • 157 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 160 comments

Instead of NYT trying to rehab alt-right influencers pretending to see the light, it would've been genuinely interesting journalism to read profiles of people who clocked them all as grifters, conmen, and dipshits from the get go. Maybe people want to understand how to also spot the grifter?

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 7 hours ago • 421 comments

I always wondered if the "don't exaggerate" people worried about looking foolish once the worst happened Turned out they went with "nobody could have seen this coming"

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 18 hours ago • 655 comments

there’s no reason not to do this. it’d probably end up with another kind of constitutional crisis, which is exactly why it should happen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

submitted 17 hours ago • 61 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 18 hours ago • 49 comments

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

submitted 18 hours ago • 476 comments

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 218 comments

also it’s obvious but it needs stating: the idea of turning into salvador into a giant lawless zone of gulags for americans who displease the administration is not authoritarian: this is one of the first major acts by MAGA that id classify as literally arendt-style totalitarianism

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 23 hours ago • 2765 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

This isn’t doomerism. This is reality. This is the whole constitutional ballgame. I need y’all to understand that. For Bukele to say this while the president smirks knowingly should be the end of the Trump regime. Trump must be impeached and he must be expelled. This is bigger than everything else.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This meets @schumer.senate.gov's test of "defying the Supreme Court." SCOTUS unanimously held Abrego Garcia "was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal." But Trump admin says right person, right place.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 2 days ago • 653 comments

I wonder if giant megacorps who can afford to purchase access to the president getting tariff exemptions will be good or bad for small businesses 🤔

submitted 2 days ago • 174 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 2 days ago • 106 comments