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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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So thankful Pritzker is my governor. He's one of the only Dems actually doing this right. 💪

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We should do a better job of communicating about why Government is Good Actually, though looks like the Musk/Trump junta may teach people that lesson the hard way

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

love love love this

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

THIS.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Mood.

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Two messaging options to consider below, which works better? Senate Dems: we stand ready to unite in bipartisanship to move America forward Governor Pritzker: beheads a Republican Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Felt this hard today.

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The short, medium, and long term consequences of what Trump and Musk have done will be devastating. Families will be ripped apart, careers destroyed, and the US will be totally unable to respond to whatever political or financial crisis inevitably results from Trump's cruelty and incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Highly, highly, highly recommend this. Alt text is part of the community ethos here, friends. It's easy - just takes a few seconds.

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments

laugh/cry emoji

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5669 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

😂

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🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

submitted 7 days ago • 335 comments

Hard not to feel like this is going to end exactly as we think. The president of a democratic country is approvingly quoting Napoleon.

submitted 6 days ago • 329 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2047 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 7 days ago • 345 comments

A little Friday levity

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The position I'd like to see House and Senate Democrats take is pretty simple: We refuse to cooperate with Republicans on anything until they stop breaking the law and trashing the Constitution. We want Musk out, DOGE dissolved, and the Trump administration complying with federal court orders.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 8 days ago • 3236 comments

The good news is we are doing some much self-destructive shit on a such a short period of time we are almost bound to badly burn our hands. Wait. That's not good news

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

They’re doing the meme

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

musk is to government waste and his contracts as oj was to looking for the "real" killer

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Have confirmed the same. Truly fucked up. And, should go without saying, illegal.

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 10 days ago • 424 comments

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

Can faculty strike or something when your admin starts complying with fascism or are we all just going to let this happen like it’s fine

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

THIS.

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The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

No one elected this dork-ass loser, so what the fuck is he doing in front of cameras in the oval fucking office?!?! Why are reporters giving him air time? He's so epically stupid. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. We need to take this clown's money and start a new fucking country.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A thousand times, this.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is it. This is the take.

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

Whoever gave the tip that adding profanity to your search will shut down the garbagey AI response is a saint. It's easy and it works.

submitted 13 days ago • 108 comments

One key thing studying ancient Mesopotamia teaches you hard is that people don’t change

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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