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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

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Trump admin claims: Thursday: Abrego Garcia is a top MS-13 terrorist Friday: Abrego Garcia killed JFK Saturday: Abrego Garcia is the head of ISIS Sunday: Abrego Garcia piloted all 3 planes on 9/11 Monday: Abrego Garcia ran the Fyre Festival Tuesday: Abrego Garcia beat Riley Gaines at a swim meet

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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There was a time when a foreign dictator imprisoning people from America would be the target of a missile strike. Now this. One of the most shameful images in Oval Office history.

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Now I see why they only let Vance write press releases in the Marines.

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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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Warner: "I just talked to senior folks on Wall St, and he described today's market as 'a good day in hospice.'"

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments

what a visual

submitted 10 days ago • 207 comments

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

submitted 10 days ago • 621 comments

From Nov 7:

submitted 11 days ago • 189 comments

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

submitted 11 days ago • 310 comments

OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.

submitted 12 days ago • 3348 comments

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 136 comments

#Greenland

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What could be more American than sewing t-shirts for Walmart at $7.25/hr? 🇺🇲

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Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil. As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course. (📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments

This is what you call two different readouts of the same meeting. Go Denmark, Go Greenland!

submitted 13 days ago • 387 comments

Target buys its T-shirts from China where they cost $2 each.🇨🇳 A T-shirt made in America costs $10.🇺🇸 Trump’s tariff means the T-shirt from China now costs $3. Will Target now buy from America instead? All that happens is YOU pay more. Its. A. Consumer. Tax.

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Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so

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If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

submitted 13 days ago • 597 comments

TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

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Tony Benn was born 100 years ago today. A hero of mine, he was steeped in the English radical tradition while maintaining an internationalist outlook. As we struggle to defend democracy against those who seek to avoid accountability, his five questions to ask the powerful are worth remembering

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We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 16 days ago • 936 comments