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We were spared the embarrassment.

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

A CNN investigation pushes back on the denials by Israel about the attack on crowds of people in Gaza trying to get aid. Full: x.com/jdiamond1/st...

submitted 8 hours ago • 19 comments

💥”The federal judge who issued the order essentially exposed the scheme ICE confirmed in a letter yesterday that the government was not willing to initiate deportation proceedings against the Chung, let alone serve her with a notice to appear, without imprisoning her first.” Banana republic stuff:

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump’s grandfather also tried to go BACK to Germany, because his new wife, who didn’t speak English, hated it here. But he dodged the draft and was persona non grata. So he came back to the U.S., and we took him. And here we are

submitted 8 hours ago • 102 comments

Remember this headline from 2019? Nothing should surprise us.

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care” Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll

submitted 7 hours ago • 245 comments

"Few prominent figures talk more often about urban crime than the president himself, whose view of the city he grew up in seems frozen in the New York of Charles Bronson’s 1970s 'Death Wish' movies, in which an angry white man goes around the city blasting away at black and brown toughs."

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

Russia mounts deadly barrage of Kyiv after vowing revenge for Ukraine attack on bomber fleet

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

NEW: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking DOJ's Bondi and FBI's Patel to "immediately clarify" whether Musk's claims about Trump and the Epstein files are true, @axios.com has learned. www.axios.com/2025/06/06/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 112 comments

As Trump and Musk suck up the oxygen in political news, is it worth noting that Vought and Project 2025 continue to work in the shadows, grabbing more power

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

On the left is what I wrote on Substack 11 days ago about the Billionaire Bailout Bill's section on contempt of court. On the right is the bond suggested by Judge Boasberg in the CECOT case yesterday. haha

submitted 8 hours ago • 43 comments

Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"...

submitted 14 hours ago • 250 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 9 hours ago • 255 comments

Within a few hours of Harvard's motion for a new temporary restraining order, judge grants the temporary restraining order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 hours ago • 31 comments

After Jesse Watters brings on Scott Baio to gripe about George Clooney, Hannity kicks off his show with the Joe Biden autopen conspiracy in Fox’s alternate universe they created to make the faithful feel safe in their happy place owning the libs.

submitted 9 hours ago • 101 comments

Tren de U.S. Marshals

submitted 9 hours ago • 54 comments

This is not a denial

submitted 12 hours ago • 340 comments

WSJ reporting economists are questioning the quality of U.S. inflation data, after the Bureau of Labor Statistics was forced to use a less accurate method for guessing price changes, given staffing cuts and a hiring freeze limited the number of companies that were surveyed. How convenient.

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

JD is being really quiet huh

submitted 9 hours ago • 381 comments

Trump is closing a major airport to accommodate a military parade for his birthday – the parade is estimated to cost as much as $45 million. This coming from the president who said little girls are fine with 2 dolls not 30. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 14 hours ago • 78 comments

Oh, this comment

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

All those of you advising Trump and Musk to calm down and be reasonable...what's the matter with you?

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

This sounds like literal hell

submitted 9 hours ago • 75 comments

Please show us the federal law requiring that Harvard indoctrinate conservative viewpoints in the humanities

submitted 20 hours ago • 79 comments

While America’s front doors are closing to China, back doors are opening in the form of personal payoffs to Trump that result in alternative routes for America’s advanced technology to reach China. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/while-americas-front-doors-are-closing

submitted 19 hours ago • 28 comments

As I predicted, we are now entering an era where we cannot necessarily trust data coming from the federal govt on things like inflation. Something to watch VERY closely for GDP, unemployment, everything. www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 520 comments

They have to lie to try to sway public opinion because they know the loss of coverage is not popular. Gotta make sure their lies get well covered

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

White House puzzled that normal rules for care and feeding of your narcissist don't seem to be working. 😂 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The only period when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

submitted 20 hours ago • 49 comments

The Trump administration sued Texas yesterday in a single-judge division in a suit that took just over six hours to produce a final judgment blocking a Texas state law. If that sounds fishy (and beneath the dignity of the federal courts) to you, it’s because it is. Me in today’s bonus “One First”:

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

If you had important information for voters, and kept it to yourself to sell books after it was too late, you’re not a hero. You’re an asshole.

submitted 1 day ago • 572 comments

COLLINS: What economists that Republicans have heard from have told you this bill will not add to the deficit? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Well, the same economists that you're referring to said the TCJA was gonna add $1.5t in deficits (That's a long way of saying "none")

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Lordy!

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worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

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This is the part that falls me. Despite the idiocy and incompetence of Trump’s cabinet, the scary fascists are still moving towards their goal

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Chris Murphy on Trump's travel ban: The bill actually costs money for 40% of the public. You get poorer if you're in the bottom 40%. The richest families get a tax cut of $270k. Nobody wants that. It's super unpopular. So how do you get it done? You distract people by making them afraid

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

👇👇👇👇

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Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Totally not fascist.

submitted 1 day ago • 668 comments

All Dems need to be consistently providing this message, top to bottom

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SENATOR MURPHY: "The entire Trump administration is a grift from top to bottom — Musk didn't get everything he wanted in this bill so he's throwing a temper tantrum... none of this is on the level. This is all about a bunch of thieves stealing from us."

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, 22-year-old Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official that Trump’s team tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

The US dollar: * worst performing G10 currency this year * tracking for its worst year-to-date performance since 1975. 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

The Republican National Committee filed a motion to intervene in ongoing federal litigation against Trump’s executive order on voting, which would roll back mail-in voting, impose proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration, and penalize states that don’t comply.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Goldman on Trump's travel plan: "It's pretty consistent with what his 'immigration policy' is, which is just essentially to keep anybody who's not white out of the country."

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Goldman: "The idea of focusing on President Biden is a way of distracting from Donald Trump's efforts to completely undermine our democracy, to grift and engage in corruption, and to help out his billionaire buddies by cutting their taxes while taking Medicaid away from the American people."

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

lol

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