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This is the question we must all answer for ourselves. But if we cede democracy out of fear of Trump, things will not get better just because we cave. Freedom is worth the hard work it’s going to take.

submitted 20 hours ago • 141 comments

Mark Kelly is a retired Navy pilot, astronaut, and dedicated public servant. He is a hero. Elon Musk is a self-absorbed coward. Hope that clears things up.

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the urgent release of DOGE records, citing the office's "unprecedented" power and "unusual secrecy." Judge Cooper wants "rolling" productions of records to begin within weeks. Details TK ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

It’s nuts to waste a pardon on restoring the right to have a gun to someone who battered his girlfriend, just because he’s a Hollywood name. It’s government by grift. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

lol checkmate libs crashes the economy

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

1/ This is wildly illegal. That is not a question on which reasonable legally informed folks can disagree. It doesn't fucking matter that he ran on doing illegal things. They are still illegal. And striking at Congress's power of the purse is worse than illegal. It's anti-constitutional.

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The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

America apparently now doing the Russia-style "secret [ie totally made up] chemical labs in your country justifies the cross-border menacing we were already doing" move.

submitted 2 days ago • 194 comments

Fiery argument from Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on MSNBC just now: Raskin says Trump “didn’t have the verbal dexterity” to respond to Rep Al Green protest at Presidential address He says Pres Biden “responded like a man” when GOP reps yelled during Biden State of the Union

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Fact-check: True

submitted 3 days ago • 395 comments

Great work everyone

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Reminder: Republicans, Democrats and Independents have a common enemy in the oligarchs. Some of us don't know it yet. However, it will take all of us to stop Dark Enlightenment from becoming our dystopian reality. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 4 days ago • 817 comments

He legit ran on this. But the story was buried under Joe Biden old.

submitted 5 days ago • 191 comments

The American Bar Association is rejecting attacks on the court system — after Elon Musk called for the impeachment of judges who rule against Trump: "We cannot have a judicial system where the government seeks to remove judges simply because they do not rule as the government desires."

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Timely wisdom from Carl Jung.

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I hope it passes!!

submitted 6 days ago • 707 comments

NEW: A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and warned that the nation may be on a slippery slope to a presidency that is above the law. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

We’ve turned the entire Appointments Clause upside down and Article I inside out.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

This is unconstitutional. A violation of the First Amendment. A violation of federalism and the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutionally vague. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful.

submitted 7 days ago • 398 comments

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2546 comments

As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

So we’re seeing people protesting this disassembling of the federal government, here is an opportunity for democratic leadership to explain voters who are obviously very nervous about how they are going to TRY and protect them from these cuts

submitted 9 days ago • 273 comments

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

submitted 11 days ago • 193 comments

As Facebook doesn’t value moderating content responsibly, @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver has launched a useful website to help make your accounts less valuable to Meta, with steps on how to limit how your data is used for advertising. Visit: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

submitted 10 days ago • 3037 comments

Life is a series of passages. In every passage there is a death of some sort, the death of naïveté, the death of a dependency, the death of an understanding of self and world. And, after that death, there is often a terrible “in-between,” sometimes lasting years.~James Hollis

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Quite a collection of photos here. George Washington is rolling over in his grave.

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 16 days ago • 982 comments

This is nuts. But it’s effective fascist propaganda.

submitted 17 days ago • 163 comments

I can’t just sit by and pretend I’m not seeing what I’m seeing So, like, the Nazis are in charge now huh? I literally just watched multiple WWII documentaries over the past few months. It’s not funny, it’s not a joke. Like WTF. Grandparents & ancestors who fought this rolling in their graves now

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

X is censoring journalists. The United States Attorney for D.C. is sending officials communications exclusively through X. An agency that purportedly runs the government under an unconstitutional principal officer(?) who owns the site the agency communicates on exclusively. We got a problem!

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

submitted 20 days ago • 120 comments

One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.~Joseph Campbell, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩

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Every true and deep love is a sacrifice. The lover sacrifices all other possibilities, or rather, the illusion that such possibilities exist. ~CG Jung, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴, 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 10

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 24 days ago • 302 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 36 days ago • 1565 comments

Deeply ingrained in the infantile psyche is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the cure for depression is to replace it with pleasant, happy feelings, whereas the only valid cure for any kind of depression lies in the acceptance of real suffering.~Helen M. Luke

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Despair is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur w/out it.~Philip Elliot Slater, 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬

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