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You pull out a cig, imagine the air in your lungs is gasoline Light the fucker up, some people get all the luck, but some gotta live

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“The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.” (1/2)

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"The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." --P.J. O'Rourke (1991)

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

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Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

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not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot

submitted 11 days ago • 377 comments

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

submitted 11 days ago • 1060 comments

Here it is in a nutshell: 1. Trump is an authoritarian. 2. With the GOP controlling Congress, courts are key to protecting democracy. 3. So far, courts are doing a good job on #2. 4. GOP will next attack election rules like they did in 2021. Don't let the cynics convince you not to fight. FIGHT!

submitted 11 days ago • 321 comments

HINT: The administration is not complying with the court order.

submitted 13 days ago • 568 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

A reminder that even as they destroy our world fascists are also pathetic and ridiculous and we should never stop mocking them

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

Dumb scandals only in this house.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Why does every memo and press release from the Trump administration have to be like

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“The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”

submitted 18 days ago • 180 comments

ANOTHA one. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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"Mr Trump’s chaos isn’t confidence – it’s desperation. He’s trying to conjure power he doesn’t actually have. He is manufacturing a perception of dominance in the hope that Americans will simply accept it. The real danger is letting his illusion of power become reality."

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Elon Musk said oxygen is a dangerous element that transmits the "woke mind virus." Proponents say it is a "necessary element" for "carrying out the vital function of respiration."

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

if I just refresh the timeline enough maybe someone will do something to stop all of this

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

the president can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

Me opening the news every fucking morning

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

This. They will never learn. It will always be the fault of the Deep State, or immigrants, or trans kids. There is always another scapegoat they can turn to in their desperate attempts to escape the truth of their own eyes and ears.

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What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

submitted 20 days ago • 390 comments

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 20 days ago • 75 comments

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

submitted 19 days ago • 64 comments

bari weiss-style free speech advocacy was always a way to pull difficult debates into friendlier waters. you might not want to be seen arguing about race and IQ, but you don’t need to be: you can make the discussion about free speech, and the audience will infer that some truth is being suppressed

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If you don't want to be accused of racism, don't vote for a fucking racist, this isn't exactly rocket science my dudes thehill.com/homenews/cam...

submitted 20 days ago • 2416 comments

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

submitted 19 days ago • 606 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 21 days ago • 364 comments

“UNINTENTIONALLY”?!?!?!? This was literally his entire economic plan during the campaign omfg what is wrong with these people hes literally saying right now that the tariffs will intentionally cause harm!

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

One thing I know from experience and continue to believe down to my very marrow: Telling the truth about the law matters. Even when it doesn't immediately (or ever) result in sweeping changes. It. Still. Matters.

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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