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Clay Bennett nails it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 69 comments

Trump has again taken possession of the classified documents that are not his, but belong to the National Archives.

submitted 11 hours ago • 101 comments

Comments from Japan. Pay attention.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

submitted 12 hours ago • 285 comments

As a kid watching Red Dawn in the 80s, I definitely though the Russian takeover of the US would involve at least some tanks

submitted 14 hours ago • 266 comments

Glanced into Twitter for a sec, and it's all "Zelenskyy is a ungrateful villain, Trump really shoved him into his place." Fox News Cinematic Universe has breached the containment.

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

hat tip to @theliamnissan.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 278 comments

Whatever side of history Trump and Vance are on, I'm against it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt

submitted 15 hours ago • 74 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 16 hours ago • 94 comments

I'm not hung up on the whole "masculine energy" thing, but if I were the contrast between a humble, steadfast leader trying to defend his people from an unprovoked invasion and comfortable, cowardly blowhards trying to humiliate him into surrender would have me thinking hard about how I define it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

There are like 5 scandals every day that would have broken any previous Administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

We have an HHS director who appears to want many people to die unnecessary deaths.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 2 days ago • 479 comments

Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

A remarkable statement: Jeff Bezos decrees that henceforth, the Washington Post opinion pages will serve the rightwing political project. Probably self-evident to many people, but I think it’s worth unpacking why that is explicitly and unequivocally what this statement means:

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Just updated: Progressive journalists worth following. go.bsky.app/UhEw5qU

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 2 days ago • 187 comments

Bezos Goes Gilded Age www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/bezo...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I say again: The bridge between a time when living to adulthood was not certain and a time when it was is built on vaccines, antibiotics, and security alliances Choose the world you want to live in America

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Looking at voting in prosecutor primaries in Cook County over the past three elections, and a remarkable pattern is emerging: In precinct with a non-Black (or no) majority, support for reformer generally rises with adverse social outcomes. In maj-Black precincts: support high and invariant.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

mike johnson is full of shit, elon musk doesn't know what he's doing, read my interview with nate brought and understand that none of these people understand anything about government, they do not understand what they're tearing apart, and we will all suffer for it.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Striking chart here in Martin Wolf's latest column on Washington abandoning both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world www.ft.com/content/b46e...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

wow this is f*cking terrible. just caught maddow rightly calling this out

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 7 days ago • 589 comments

All white men should be increasingly concerned that they can’t be sure they got any job on the merits. Could be they are merely the lucky beneficiaries of rampant racism and misogyny. We’ll just never know. We should probably fire most of them to be sure.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

This is also true for impoundment.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This letter to the editor from 1961 voices the same diagnosis of the nation's ills and the same solution--to completely obliterate the New Deal state--that animates the MAGA/Project 2025 blitz we're experiencing now. That 1961 newspaper was put out by a fascist who helped found the Posse Comitatus.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

10th circuit judge states in published opinion that Trump may be eligible for election to a third term www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/10th...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

That is absolutely correct, and it’s one of the reasons that I have become much more blunt when talking about the full frontal attack on our society and the dismantling of government by Nazis and the wealth class. The information environment is so bad that precision makes you sound conspiratorial

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Getting cited by a judge for the proposition that SCOTUS is just chaotically throwing around unhinged ideas is definitely a major “achievement unlocked” moment. My envy is so green you’d think I was a leprechaun.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 9 days ago • 422 comments

Mugger (pointing gun at my friend): Give me your wallet Me (helpfully): Calm down he's just trolling

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Seems unconstitutional.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is the problem. Erstwhile allies were willing to view the first Trump Admin as an aberration. They are no longer under that illusion.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

this is kind of a remarkable thread from a governor

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments