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2 lies I hear from the right about the federal government: "The federal government has gotten so bloated!" The federal government is the same size it was when Kennedy was president. "Reagan was the last president to cut the federal government!" There were MORE fed employees when he left office.

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 2 days ago • 1195 comments

Nothing says "homeland security" like gratuitously antagonizing a neighboring country

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

submitted 4 days ago • 180 comments

As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments

Trump behavior today with Pres Zulensky was shameful. We have lost our standing with Europe and global allies. We are now an ally of Putin.

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

submitted 30 days ago • 197 comments

I just want to know why Pete Hegseth has yet to show up before a camera -- whatever the cause of the accident, the Black Hawk would have had more ability to avert it. Was he drunk in a gutter when this went down?

submitted 35 days ago • 76 comments

If the roles were reversed, the House Republicans would hold three press events a day to demand the release of the report and to condemn the opposition for covering up sex crimes. But most of the House Democrats find partisan displays of politics *icky* so ...

submitted 90 days ago • 153 comments

TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies! BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that. MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!

submitted 93 days ago • 315 comments

MOOD FOR THE NEXT FOUR FUCKING YEARS. #goodtrouble

submitted 106 days ago • 1281 comments

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

submitted 107 days ago • 6104 comments