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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 1 day ago • 1034 comments

It is almost impossible to explain the sheer insanity of Elon Musk apparently having the capability to email the entire federal government evidently without getting approval from anyone—and, apparently, against the wishes of most Cabinet departments.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.

submitted 1 day ago • 495 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 362 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 2 days ago • 1090 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 2 days ago • 452 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 4 days ago • 655 comments

Please read the Society for the Rule of Law Insitute's letter to senators opposing the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. societyfortheruleoflaw.org/letter-oppos...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 5 days ago • 156 comments

"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

submitted 4 days ago • 226 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 5 days ago • 4830 comments

Disgraceful

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

submitted 5 days ago • 1335 comments

one thing Congressional Democrats could be doing is using the franking privilege to send mailers out to every constituent informing them that an unelected organization without Congressional oversight has control of their social security information (which is in fact legal for them to do)

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

submitted 6 days ago • 696 comments

Alright, I’m resolving the debate. All of these are simultaneously true: 1) Dems are the minority in Congress, greatly limiting their institutional power 2) Congressional Dems can and should be doing more 3) Some Dems are actually doing opposition, drawing public attention, etc 4) Not enough are

submitted 6 days ago • 90 comments

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 7 days ago • 288 comments

cc: loners with rifles

submitted 9 days ago • 177 comments

Exciting milestone for @thebulwark.bsky.social! Congrats to our amazing team.

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

Melania Trump personally pitched her self-produced documentary about herself to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos's Amazon then bought it for $40 million, with 70% going into her pocket. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

submitted 9 days ago • 134 comments

A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.

submitted 9 days ago • 178 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 10 days ago • 865 comments

My 16 year-old son, to whom I gave my car keys and liquor this morning, made a “rookie mistake” when he drank the liquor before wrapping the car around a tree this evening.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Running the government like a business means letting Elon Musk use the White House--the people's house--to wheel and deal for his own private enrichment like he's selling timeshares from the conference center at a Ramada Inn.

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

She’s right. I mean, imagine if Donald Trump could be extradited to Russia and jailed if Putin didn’t like how Trump was running America. Nobody would think Trump could govern. I recognize this is a very silly hypothetical. Trump would never govern in a way that would disappoint Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 11 days ago • 147 comments

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

So, friends, we have finally found some "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the federal government. $400m worth, and it is from Musk himself. He's just outright stealing money now.

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 11 days ago • 230 comments

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Always nice when your employee bribes you with $10 million.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Those pesky Ukrainians were wrong to go into that war by being invaded by Russia, what’s not to understand here?

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

1) Trump is the anti-war, anti-imperialism candidate 2) Trump won’t cut Ukraine aid, and might increase it, to strengthen negotiating position 3) Trump would be the same as Harris on Israel, and may be tougher with Bibi, because he won’t like being used How are those pre-election arguments doing?

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Alexander Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist and Neo-fascist, tweets at Tulsi Gabbard after her confirmation and says “you are simply awesome.” Dugin, a close Putin ally, is often referred to as “Putin’s brain.”

submitted 12 days ago • 93 comments

The United States is now functionally an ally of Putin. Not just backing down or too friendly or compromised in our opposition to him. More of an outright ally of Russia than we are of Canada.

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

The official US position is now that Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and Ukraine should concede its negotiating position in advance rather than start high—a "high" that's simply in line with international law, BTW—and be willing to negotiate down in exchange for concessions.

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments