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This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

submitted 3 days ago • 273 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

The intermingling of fascist paramilitary and propaganda groups with the federal government is a literal hallmark of fascism. Do with that information what you will and really sit with what it means that a stochastic terrorist is now essentially deputized by the state to do as she pleases.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The Pentagon has deployed the largest number of B-2 bombers in U.S. history as part of its showdown with Iran: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/pentagon-p...

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

this is horrifying, the biggest blank check to the administration since Trump v. US

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap. Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month. Insulin costs $2 to make.

submitted 7 days ago • 127 comments

This dude is currently live on Tik Tok protesting. I’m telling yall, the waters are churning more and more out there.

submitted 8 days ago • 154 comments

The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.

submitted 8 days ago • 116 comments

Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIDAtyB...

submitted 8 days ago • 194 comments

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

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This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

Trump rolled out “reciprocal tariffs” based on fake math, waved around a chart that looked like it was printed at Staples right before the press conference, and House Republicans applauded like it was genius. None of it’s real — and Americans will pay the price.

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Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 9 days ago • 523 comments

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump Wants You to Die. Here's Why This Could Work

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

it worries me when the narrative about trump is that “it’s dumbasses that don’t know what they’re doing”. they know exactly what they’re doing. peter thiel is a close ally of trump and owns JD vance. peter thiel is a believer in curtis yarvin thought, which is 100% in line with what’s happening

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"

submitted 10 days ago • 684 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 10 days ago • 1678 comments

Americans will destroy themselves with an unnecessary trade war and a potential depression because they can't stand seeing people of color and women moving up a bit and getting a small piece of the pie. Same as it ever was.

submitted 10 days ago • 349 comments

This

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Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

submitted 10 days ago • 266 comments

In this Ohio diner, 36% still means court-ordered child support, not a tariff on Chinese goods. But they do know this: while daily necessities will get more expensive, you can't put a price on banning trans swimmers from the Ivy League.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

He fucking put tariffs on— Penguins. And the news will call them ‘reciprocal’. Tariffs. On uninhabited islands. Where there’s…penguins. The ‘president’. Did that. For a fake emergency Congress can stop this. Right. Now. But they won’t

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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 10 days ago • 474 comments

There's no question that today's tariff announcement will give the United States the highest tariff rates of any industrialized country. And it's not even close.

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

submitted 10 days ago • 1121 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

submitted 10 days ago • 187 comments

Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵

submitted 25 days ago • 728 comments

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

submitted 20 days ago • 424 comments

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

submitted 20 days ago • 106 comments

Violation of court order to deport a life-saving doctor. I think ICE has been assigned quotas.

submitted 26 days ago • 211 comments

New Yorkers: make sure your Measles vaccine is up to date ASAP

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Today is day 12 of a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no medicine, no water. This is US-backed mass slaughter.

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

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The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize. They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace. Your door could be next. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

submitted 34 days ago • 85 comments