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“there are brave Americans who are making it damn clear that we are not just gonna roll over for America’s Hitler or his dorky, deadbeat dad super-villain friend.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2187 comments

"Thanks to the hiring freeze, when they go, they can’t be replaced, and they’re taking a lifetime of intensely specialized knowledge out the door." Goodbye hard-earned institutional knowledge. Hello...

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

submitted 12 hours ago • 439 comments

Too simple to even try and cover his tracks.

submitted 12 hours ago • 180 comments

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

submitted 11 hours ago • 579 comments

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 527 comments

Yes great point!

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Arresting someone for calling you fascist seems an excellent approach to proving their point.

submitted 3 days ago • 269 comments

Peace or Partition? Brilliant analysis by Timothy Snyder. "It is a truism of international history, as well as simple common sense, that if you are not at the table then you are on the menu." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 5 days ago • 1469 comments

Another good trope for Not My President’s Day

submitted 6 days ago • 188 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 5662 comments

1. Yes, this is some weird shit. 2. He’s getting ready to do something really fucking illegal.

submitted 8 days ago • 721 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 8 days ago • 303 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Eric Adams is terrible and needs to be removed from office. Gov Hochul let's get busy.

submitted 9 days ago • 277 comments

A huge decision from Judge Amir Ali, meticulously reasoned and utterly scathing, finding that Trump’s foreign aid freeze is almost certainly an illegal and arbitrary abuse of power. He orders the immediate restoration of all international assistance. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

On left: Acting Deputy A.G. Emil Bove memo orders firing FBI officials because they worked on Jan 6th cases On right: As SDNY co-chief, Bove "gave strong, direct encouragement to the line prosecutors to aggressively pursue the investigation, legal process, support FBI," former colleague tells NPR

submitted 10 days ago • 100 comments

“Private schools might find themselves under no obligation to accept any of our kids; they could be rejected because of their religious affiliation, their disabilities, on the grounds that they’re not bright enough, because administrators don’t like their looks—any reason not excluded by law.”

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

A reputable national survey, from the Marquette University National Poll, shows 52% of Americans disapprove of Trump's performance. 63% of independents, 91% of Democrats and 11% of Republicans are not satisfied with what Trump has been doing in his first 30 days.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: I just reintroduced my We the People Amendment. It’s past time to reverse the disastrous Citizens United decision and put power back in the hands of the American people. Corporations are NOT people. Money is NOT speech. Let’s get this done. jayapal.house.gov/2025/02/13/j...

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

Europe needs to back Ukraine with everything then freeze Trump out. Make him absolutely unimportant

submitted 10 days ago • 1138 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 10 days ago • 5019 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 10 days ago • 418 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1247 comments

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

Every. Word. Of. This! Senator Alsobrooks: "In his wicked hunt for vengeance, this president has decided that no target is too small, no family is too vulnerable, and no American is out of bounds."

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

Thank you, Southwest Airlines

submitted 12 days ago • 233 comments

If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy. If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.

submitted 12 days ago • 1853 comments

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 12 days ago • 3442 comments

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 324 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

President Trump plans to fire several Board Members at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and indicated that he's naming himself chairman. Here's why it matters.

submitted 14 days ago • 236 comments

The driving force for the guides on the Chicago Black Muslim History Tour is the idea that Black Americans and Muslims must unapologetically tell their own story, an experience that so many of their ancestors were robbed of due to slavery.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 15 days ago • 1489 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 15 days ago • 3256 comments

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that a bunch of fucking 19-year old randos named "Big Balls" should not have access to our most sensitive information, and that should be a bipartisan issue. This is a national security crisis waiting to happen.

submitted 16 days ago • 529 comments

A new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker will make it easier for extended relatives to become caregivers without the need to become a licensed foster parent.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

A dystopian drama. In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, the illustrator reimagines Elon Musk and his cohorts at the Department of Government Efficiency as the antihero droogs in “A Clockwork Orange.” www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bli...

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

RUH ROH

submitted 17 days ago • 1328 comments

They could be doing irreparable damage to the federal civil service in their attempts to thin it out, with few, if any, ways of finding out what they’re doing. It kind of makes Hillary Clinton’s storing of government data on a private email server look rather quaint, doesn’t it?

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

jefferies is saying the things we want him to say, whether it breaks through or not

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

What percent of MAGA (including the children working with Elon) do you think know that US Aid is spent on AMERICAN PRODUCTS? Except Israel has a 75 percent waiver, and they spared that aid

submitted 20 days ago • 262 comments

Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa has arrived in Saudi Arabia and met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on his first foreign trip since being named president of the transitional government ⤵️

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

submitted 21 days ago • 2414 comments

Facts.....

submitted 22 days ago • 633 comments

How the fuck are we doing this shit again?

submitted 22 days ago • 488 comments

I’m not a religious mac, but I like this Psalm which seems custom made for the Felon in Chief..

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment