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this history is drilled in so hard for those of us who grew up a state that fought the Revolutionary War lol it's really not a game!

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

❤️

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

The people running the federal government hate New York City and want to punish people who live here for (by and large) having views and living lives that they dislike. Any gussied-up justification is working backwards from that desired result

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

Want to take a moment to thank all the #AltGov accounts for their ongoing service to the citizens of the Republic. Love, fortitude and endurance to all.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

Just called again and left another message. Could barely get through it without bursting into tears. We are utterly on our own.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

yes! the idea that the executive can simply make spending decisions independent of a legislature or parliament is basically antithetical to the entire anglo-american political tradition

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 9 days ago • 788 comments

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

submitted 11 days ago • 116 comments

🚨An open letter to the Democrats. 🚨 Get off your fucking letter writing asses and do something, anything that is not the norm. Every fucking one of you is still acting like the kid in HS that spent his time with model Gov or junior UN haveing debates full of platitudes and quips to win your point.

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

We’re all worried to some degree that Trump supporters are going to kill us or get us killed. It’s not going to get better for any of us unless good people resolve to stand up to them.

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

It’s only been 2 weeks: “The Constitution does not define “high crimes and misdemeanors” but historical uses included abuses of power, violation of the oath of office, serious derelictions of duty, conduct unbecoming the office, and misuse of the office for personal gain. Guilty on all counts.”

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

There is nothing illegal about naming inexperienced people currently accessing sensitive government data at the behest of Elon Musk. They are: Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran This is a major security breach. SPREAD

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

The Trump/Musk plan is to legally target journalists and publications for doing journalism. Even if the legal actions ultimately fail, they’ll bankrupt and smear the journalists and orgs along the way. Years of precedent for this, including Gawker v Hogan, financially backed by Thiel

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

submitted 20 days ago • 490 comments

To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 21 days ago • 285 comments

cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says

submitted 21 days ago • 1270 comments

Some thoughts on Wednesday-night’s tragic air accident near Washington, DC: The mid-air collision of American Airlines flight 5342 and a US Army VH-60 helicopter is highly personal for me. It literally hits close to home as I live approximately three miles away from National Airport.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Yeah well the problem is they’re going to be sued into oblivion without the institutional support of lawyers from legacy media and I hope people understand that. Musk, Trump, etc. can file nuisance lawsuits as a form of legal warfare and bankrupt journalists for having the guts to tell the truth.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 24 days ago • 331 comments

God bless

submitted 25 days ago • 527 comments

Virginia is the last refuge in the South for so. many. things. solely because we have managed to hold our state Senate even when we lost elsewhere. The Democratic Senate is the reason that Youngkin hasn't been able to do fuck-all for his entire administration. These elections matter so, so much.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

a bunch of east coast journalists got too rattled by having female employees complain about ass grabbing and in response they smugly tilted the entire board not just toward fascism, but to the stupidest motherfuckers in the room

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die

submitted 26 days ago • 91 comments

Politics is theater to white people. It’s all entertainment. They know they will not bear the brunt of this so they can be excited for things like this.

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

Some Thomas Paine for your morning.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Fox News host complains that "there's no pro-Israel stories" on TikTok

submitted 34 days ago • 55 comments

FUCKING. THANK. YOU. And for anybody who thinks differently, an excellent example of this is Chuck Schumer’s voting record

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

every person accused of being hysterical in 2016 was simply correct

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Hegseth: Anonymous false charges Kaine: They’re not anonymous.. We have seen records with names attached to all of these including your own mother

submitted 39 days ago • 262 comments

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

submitted 39 days ago • 1868 comments

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

submitted 44 days ago • 1940 comments

A tale in three images.

submitted 45 days ago • 69 comments

It’s such a powerful indicator of how we’ve lost our way. Not even this unprecedented tragedy could shake half this country awake. And what kind of nation doesn’t collectively grieve the loss of a million of its people in 3 years? A soulless nation.

submitted 48 days ago • 46 comments

To every guy who came into the comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” at me and demand I give due deference to the good guys… It’s time to be quiet. Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵

submitted 63 days ago • 113 comments

DO NOT USE PERIOD TRACKING APPS. NONE OF THEM. 23 states have formed a coalition (led by Texas) and are working on legislation to sue for women’s health records and data in order to arrest and incarcerate them and their providers for abortion

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

The striking thing about almost all of the top Nazis is that they were mediocrities and failures, who took advantage of the special circumstances in which they found themselves to wreak revenge on a world that had judged them to be what they in fact were www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/in-p...

submitted 77 days ago • 41 comments

Bitter Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network' https://gizmodo.com/bitter-americans-react-to-unitedhealthcare-ceos-murder-my-empathy-is-out-of-network-2000534520

submitted 80 days ago • 22 comments