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Trump was willing to stand up there for a few minutes to pretend to care about black history, but hugging the guy was a deal breaker.

submitted 15 hours ago • 574 comments

And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too. Oh the shamelessness! This is who they are:

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1495 comments

Get Ready For Delayed Tax Refunds, Long Hold Times After Mass IRS Firings But wealthy tax evaders will enjoy “a feast” as the strained federal agency lacks the resources to hold them accountable, said one tax policy expert.

submitted 1 day ago • 899 comments

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 3 days ago • 564 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 2 days ago • 4218 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1922 comments

Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

submitted 3 days ago • 739 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1216 comments

There’s no way I could agree with this more strongly - perfectly stated ! freedom.press/issues/journ...

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 4 days ago • 1111 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

So many threads to pull here; the atrocious grasp of history & geopolitik, the glib lie about how the war in Ukraine began, the disgraceful abandonment of European allies. But it’s the alignment with the war criminal Putin, no friend of ours, that sticks out. What won’t Trump do to harm us?

submitted 3 days ago • 329 comments

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

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DOGE having access to Americans' Social Security data isn't just a major security breach. It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "waste and fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires another giant tax cut. Be warned.

submitted 4 days ago • 225 comments

This is the way Block all government Tesla and SpaceX contracts

submitted 4 days ago • 169 comments

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

The single greatest failure of the Democrats was not investigating this election.

submitted 4 days ago • 335 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 4 days ago • 1196 comments

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 955 comments

Hey @JDVance, and @elonmusk, and @realDonaldTrump it looks like the Auschwitz Memorial wants to educate you. STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

submitted 5 days ago • 828 comments

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

submitted 5 days ago • 961 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8247 comments

Hackers have illegally accessed our most private information and only half of America seems to care.

submitted 5 days ago • 659 comments

Money, Trump worships money. However. Musk has been in Communication with Putin for years. Trumps afraid of Musk like he’s afraid of Putin because maybe Putin gave Musk access to why Putin owns Trump.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Physically incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions.

submitted 5 days ago • 745 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

This is what our Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday as planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. I cannot remember a more dangerous time to fly and yet this reality TV actor-turned-Cabinet Secretary is busy watching cars drive laps at the Daytona 500.

submitted 5 days ago • 1511 comments

"Trump Wants a Monarchy, Not a Presidency. He Must Be Stopped" Writing for Zeteo, constitutional law professor @kimwehle.bsky.social says we are in danger of losing our democracy over the president's false claim to unlimited executive power under Article II. Read/share: zeteo.com/p/trump-mona...

submitted 5 days ago • 160 comments

Understanding what the courts can do helps us understand what we must do. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-courts...

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

Over at the other place, JD Vance is calling me a ‘dummy’ for pointing out his administration’s attacks on journalists and free speech here at home. Musk literally today called for the jailing of CBS journalists. The VP clearly has a lot of time on his hands.

submitted 5 days ago • 798 comments

here's today's post: "Team Donny: bird flu’s no biggie, because chickens can’t fly" — Donny’s Sewer Clowns have no idea what they’re doing. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

submitted 5 days ago • 476 comments

Trump has begun firing several hundred FAA employees. Guess who is visiting the FAA command center today to "suggest improvements"? Elon Musk, of course. The billionaire grift continues. https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437

submitted 5 days ago • 372 comments

Exactly 😡

submitted 6 days ago • 473 comments

Last Fall, the Washington Post allowed a right wing group to run a full page ad falsely attacking me for protecting voting rights. Today, Bezos' paper won't accept ads criticizing Elon Musk. Support pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 5 days ago • 637 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

submitted 6 days ago • 486 comments

This guy was once banned from Twitter by Musk for posting child exploitation photos. He spread the crazy conspiracy that Hillary Clinton & Huma Abedin raped/abused little girls & used their skin as masks. Now he’s invited to the Trump White House. No words. You can’t even do an ‘Imagine if Biden…’

submitted 6 days ago • 448 comments

Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

submitted 6 days ago • 886 comments

The unitary executive theory is about to get its test case. SCOTUS will decide whether to give Trump the keys to the destruction of our federal government.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Lots of good, decent Americans losing jobs that benefit all of us because the world’s richest man (who none of us elected) doesn’t think they’re important. Sure, MAGA.

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

Fascism is not on its way. It has arrived.

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2242 comments

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 788 comments

@stonekettle.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 7 days ago • 2927 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 7 days ago • 941 comments