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Days ago, Trump said it should be illegal to criticize judges. Today he criticized judges.

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BREAKING: A federal judge found that Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution by unilaterally shutting down USAID: “For the foregoing reasons, the Court finds that Defendants' actions taken to shut down USAID...likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways…”

submitted 5 hours ago • 86 comments

Gifted | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put an end to Black History Month and other celebrations of identity. But St. Patrick's Day got a pass, and some are asking why. The questions come from the troops as well as administration critics. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 498 comments

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

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People dislike language policing so much, God was like, “do not take my name in vain or you will burn forever!” And we were like “well I wasn’t really planning on it, but since you didn’t want me to…”

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Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

The whole point is we don’t know if they are ‘foreign alien terrorists’! That’s the whole point of due process, and evidence, and a courtroom. We don’t take the government’s say so, especially a government with a history of relentless mendacity.

submitted 2 days ago • 340 comments

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

submitted 2 days ago • 2336 comments

I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.

submitted 2 days ago • 829 comments

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

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I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so. Seven years ago:

submitted 3 days ago • 844 comments

Is Chuck Schumer just angling to be guest on the new Gavin Newsom podcast or what the fuck is going on here

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

I'm so fucking tired of trump saying if he was President, the Ukraine war would never have happened. IF HILLARY CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT, THE COVID DEBACLE WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.

submitted 6 days ago • 397 comments

Protesters at the New York State Capitol chant "no hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here" to "border czar" Tom Homan. Love this for him. 🍿

submitted 6 days ago • 759 comments

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

submitted 7 days ago • 1397 comments

Donald Trump doing a Tesla infomercial for Elon Musk—his biggest political donor—in front of the White House is peak corruption.

submitted 7 days ago • 568 comments

Trump says electric vehicles suck, but wants you to buy a Tesla to help Elon, but he wants to dismantle Biden's plans to expand EV charging infrastructure. Why is that so incoherent?

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

BREAKING: The United States has agreed to lift the pause on military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. This is per a JOINT statement from the US and Ukraine.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

BREAKING Authorities in the Philippines have arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte. This comes after the ICC issued a warrant related to Duterte’s role in crimes against humanity during his administration’s “war on drugs,” which resulted in thousands of deaths and many extrajudicial killings.

submitted 7 days ago • 241 comments

SCOOP—Emails obtained by Prem Thakker and Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration one day before ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."

submitted 8 days ago • 151 comments

Three days ago, Donald Trump openly threatened to kill all of ‘the people of Gaza’ and it wasn’t even a story. No consequences. The media, the world, just moved on.

submitted 10 days ago • 432 comments

Fraud is a crime. Will people soon be indicted for all the fraud found by Elon and DOGE?

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

just inane. "For the farmers in the Central Valley, it was not irrigation season, and this was their precious summer supply..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 11 days ago • 576 comments

Shame on Democrats for not only failing to support Rep Al Green during The State of Dysfunction, but for voting to censure him. We need way MORE Al Green. And way LESS maga.

submitted 11 days ago • 507 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 13 days ago • 3337 comments

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who appreciates the fire shown by Rep. Al Green, who was ejected, and DEMs who walked out of last night's ugly trump speech. More should have booed, walked out, or even stayed home. It's time to get fucking hardcore.

submitted 13 days ago • 530 comments

"Free speech is back" says the president who this week posted on social media that he would be banning and criminalizing what he deems "illegal protests" at colleges and universities.

submitted 13 days ago • 78 comments

OK we have reached the part of the evening when he says he was chosen by God—yes, by GOD—to MAGA

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

"We're going to get" Greenland, threatens the President of the United States. Totally normal.

submitted 13 days ago • 551 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 16 days ago • 683 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 16 days ago • 2010 comments

I will admit to finding the “all problems are caused by evil and we could fix every problem without any trade-offs” worldview pretty draining and immature.

submitted 17 days ago • 286 comments

Personally, I have been opposed to the war in Ukraine from the beginning, and wanted a quick negotiated end to it and a ceasefire, but it is perfectly possible to hold those views without being openly pro Russia, and anti Ukraine, or parroting Putin talking points. Sheesh.

submitted 17 days ago • 400 comments

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

submitted 17 days ago • 2113 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 18 days ago • 2251 comments

Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

submitted 18 days ago • 1093 comments

This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.

submitted 18 days ago • 382 comments