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Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

Nothing happened, and I didn’t need to know anyone. If it doesn’t break my bones or pick my pockets, people should live in the way that makes them happy.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It’s surreal how fast the United States has fallen into a dictatorial regime. Checks and balances are gone, the president disappears innocent people into foreign prison camps, words get banned, and the Overton window shifts at light speed. I honestly wonder these days when they will come for me.

submitted 13 days ago • 599 comments

* I was born in LA when they were just starting to clean up air pollution * leaded gas was still in use * I would have died from pneumonia in childhood without antibiotics * acid rain and the ozone holes were major concerns we need to remember all these things

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

What’s that saying about doing things repeatedly but expecting different results?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

It is still very weird to me that there are people who were like “nah, he’s not going to do this exact thing he keeps saying he’s going to do that is contained in a 900+ page manifesto that he and his friends have been working on for four years.”

submitted 20 days ago • 158 comments

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

submitted 20 days ago • 1535 comments

What is even the point of the US Congress if they still aren’t doing anything?

submitted 22 days ago • 350 comments

I'M GOING TO RUN THE COUNTRY LIKE I RAN MY BUSINESSES! ~ Dotard Jenius Trump WooHoo! He's going to run the country like he ran his businesses! ~ Republican Party Were ANY of his businesses profitable or responsibly run? ~ Americans Shut up SOCIALIST, COMMIE, LIBTARD!!! ~ MAGAts & MSM

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

submitted 22 days ago • 907 comments

📣 Thank you to the Grit Daily News Hub for featuring the Science History Institute's Conference Center as one of the 10 Top-Rated Venues for Hosting Corporate Events in PA! gritdaily.com/top-rated-ve...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

submitted 23 days ago • 98 comments

I don't think you should be able to openly bribe people for votes but that's just me.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

💙✌️💙

submitted 27 days ago • 94 comments

Judges can't rule against him. Lawyers can't represent anyone who goes against him. Students can't write op-eds he doesn't like. Tattoos negate Due Process. Comics can't make jokes about him. Zoos and museums can't have "improper" ideology. A nazi can steal your Social Security. We great again yet?

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

This… it’s exactly how I feel most of the time.

submitted 26 days ago • 104 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 29 days ago • 596 comments

It's always wrong to vandalize personal property and that certainly includes Teslas, and also: your government is actively disappearing innocent people without due process, so, you know, that second one is taking up my empathetic bandwidth at the moment.

submitted 34 days ago • 518 comments

The fact that ICE agents are permitted to wear masks to hide their identities is, to me, the ultimate sign that US society is okay with fascism.

submitted 36 days ago • 90 comments

A clear-eyed letter from Columbia historians. “The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now.”

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

It becomes difficult to counter lies with evidence when all the entities that compile and track empirical evidence have been gutted. This assault on knowledge is extending across medicine, science, economics, and the social sciences. This is the most dangerous censorship of all.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

submitted 38 days ago • 715 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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submitted 41 days ago • 459 comments

QUESTIONS: If the money I earned & had no choice but to pay into Social Security, for decades, is being “privatized,” then which oligarch should I expect to receive my check from? Or are they going to keep my hard-earned money (aka stealing), then charge me for the services (“privatization”)?

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

submitted 44 days ago • 680 comments

Survivor Extreme, the For Fuck Sake Edition, Season 2025...

submitted 45 days ago • 68 comments

Sad reality

submitted 46 days ago • 164 comments

If you're a member of a supposedly Jesus-following church, and the leaders there don't specifically reference the inhumanity on display right now, and push back hard against it—you should ask them why they aren't. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

submitted 47 days ago • 42 comments

It's #InternationalWomensDay! The forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s. She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene, or identify key evidence in a forensic investigation.

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

Can someone please explain to Trump that the word "great" in Great Depression meant "big" not "fabulous" before we are all destitute?

submitted 50 days ago • 21 comments

News anchors and legal analysts, PLEASE. I beg you. America begs you: stop calling these SCOTUS justices "CONSERVATIVE." They no longer meet that definition. They are radical right wing activist justices.

submitted 50 days ago • 64 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 51 days ago • 1287 comments

RFKjr: As far as measles go we've been seeing great results from drinking your own urine while holding a gem that corresponds to your birth month and then walking widdershins around a red oak with a cockerel buried at its base

submitted 52 days ago • 391 comments

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

submitted 52 days ago • 89 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 52 days ago • 101 comments

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

submitted 52 days ago • 1206 comments