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Doug Jones should take a crack at the seat. Nothing to lose, maybe you get lucky on another GOP freak implosion plus a strong national swing, and if nothing else it forces them to burn some money shoring it up they otherwise wouldn’t.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

submitted 1 day ago • 1517 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 3 days ago • 269 comments

This is a very, very complex and exceedingly thorough process that involves extensive use of the president’s TiVo remote, so please, please, everyone, give it time www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 2056 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

submitted 7 days ago • 336 comments

Ramp investor Keith Rabois is part of the “PayPal Mafia,” which also includes Musk and Thiel. He and his husband, Jacob Helberg, hosted a fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. Trump has nominated Helberg for a senior role at the State Dept. By @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption. i love how people think they just now made superheroes woke superman, woke since 1938

submitted 8 days ago • 188 comments

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 8 days ago • 1353 comments

Come. On.

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

submitted 8 days ago • 1591 comments

Whew, 4th Circuit not pulling any punches with their denial of the government's request to stay the Abrego Garcia order. This kind of rhetoric is very very much not normal--at least, not when directed against the government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Hey Jamie Comer, your job description says you "work tirelessly to boost govt. transparency and accountability." Yet you've taken no action on Signalgate — one of the worst national security breaches in recent memory. You're putting America at risk & are unfit to serve as House Oversight Chairman.

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 10 days ago • 991 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 11 days ago • 565 comments

I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect.

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 14 days ago • 872 comments

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

submitted 14 days ago • 809 comments

The Dem position should be "absolutely not." If Trump wants to keep his tariffs then helping farmers means restoring USAID, restoring all the food assistance grants/contracts killed by DOGE, and expanding programs like SNAP. We're not going to hand out money to watch food rot.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 16 days ago • 1937 comments

imagine being this pathetic, servile and eager to gulp up the slop

submitted 16 days ago • 1647 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 17 days ago • 1523 comments

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

No single person should have the power to do what Trump is doing right now unilaterally dictating world trade & fucking with the world economy. No person should have that power. Certainly not in this country. Shame on you Congressional Republicans for giving it to him. Shame on you.

submitted 18 days ago • 99 comments

Social Security is the new Space X rocket

submitted 18 days ago • 226 comments

The man pictured in the below post is Andry, who came to a port of entry seeking asylum. A foolish CBP officer threw him into ICE detention last year because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos with little crowns over them. That was bad enough. Then Trump sold him to El Salvador. BRING THEM BACK.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Unless it's measles. Or COVID. Or syphilis.

submitted 19 days ago • 591 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 20 days ago • 288 comments

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

submitted 20 days ago • 311 comments

What could be more Republican than the son of parents who fled a country with an oppressive regime pulling up the ladder from people fleeing other countries with oppressive regimes?

submitted 19 days ago • 120 comments

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery theonion.com/pete-he...

submitted 21 days ago • 354 comments

They are a bunch of cowards who will probably leave the room praising him and cutting another check in tribute.

submitted 21 days ago • 202 comments

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 21 days ago • 460 comments