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A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

submitted 28 days ago • 841 comments

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

submitted 29 days ago • 1255 comments

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who agrees that if playing golf with the Saudis is more important to you than honoring our dead soldiers, or dealing with the financial crisis YOU started, you don't deserve to be President. RESIGN, trump. You piece of shit.

submitted 33 days ago • 122 comments

Minnesota lost a legend yesterday in wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg. Gwen and I are sending our love to his family. Here’s his photo ‘Chased by the Light’ taken in Ely.

submitted 33 days ago • 264 comments

Trump voters. And folks who stayed home. Do you believe her now? Why did you believe the best of him and the worst of her? If you had a do-over—would you choose differently? Don’t answer. Not yet. Watch this first.

submitted 33 days ago • 140 comments

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020. Can you guess who was president during both crashes? I bet you can!

submitted 35 days ago • 926 comments

If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs isn't justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.

submitted 35 days ago • 1315 comments

Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants

submitted 35 days ago • 83 comments

trump promised to bring down grocery prices on day one. So far, the only things he's brought down are the stock market, and the world's opinion of America. We are a shithole country.

submitted 35 days ago • 167 comments

Over $2.8 trillion in value wiped from US stock market today alone.

submitted 35 days ago • 225 comments

Don't let up on Signalgate. The Mueller report cited rampant use of Signal as a means of obstruction of justice. The entire discussion is fait accompli. Also guarantee it is how everyone inside this thug WH communicates. Which means the law is being knowingly & deliberately violated every day.

submitted 35 days ago • 331 comments

submitted 35 days ago • 1653 comments

They have our business!

submitted 35 days ago • 1138 comments

MSNBC just showed a montage of world leaders calling the USA idiotic, illogical, hostile, unhinged.... literally never seen anything like this. From the shining city on a hill to an object of global derision and contempt.

submitted 34 days ago • 1036 comments

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

submitted 34 days ago • 642 comments

Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

submitted 37 days ago • 591 comments

Cory Booker has been speaking for almost 24 hours. That’s like three hours longer than Elon has been an American.

submitted 37 days ago • 53 comments

I prefer presidents who don't illegally deport the wrong people to El Salvador prisons and leave them there just because.

submitted 36 days ago • 37 comments

Signalgate is a window into the administration’s approach to policy issues, but it mostly makes clear that these are stupid, reckless people pursuing stupid, reckless policies.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

On Friday, Elon Musk said he would travel to Wisconsin on Sunday to "personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote." This vote-buying scheme shows how far he’ll go to extend his plan for oligarchy.

submitted 40 days ago • 125 comments

Democrats "may find themselves quickly back in business if they can simply swallow their pride and follow Bernie’s lead."

submitted 40 days ago • 110 comments

Elon Musk’s America PAC and Building America’s Future disclosed spending about $17M on Wisconsin’s court race. Backing the same candidate are billionaire Richard Uihlein and Americans for Prosperity, a dark-money group founded by the Koch brothers. By @megomatz.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 64 comments

“What we’re seeing is a wholesale abandonment of consumer protection, leaving people to fend for themselves when credit card companies, banks, payday lenders and payment apps violate the law,” said Lauren Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center.

submitted 39 days ago • 35 comments

In other words, he fully intends to be President for Life and for the White House to be his retirement home. Thanks for nothing to the people who couldn’t take an hour out of their lives to vote!…

submitted 39 days ago • 70 comments

Congrats to the White House correspondents who failed to stand in solidarity with the AP and now get to stand by their new peer, a dipshit podcaster and Putin stooge. Dont complain, you earned this.

submitted 41 days ago • 210 comments

This image will go down in infamy: Kristi Noem using abused El Salvadoran prisoners—some of whom she illegally deported in the dark of night, without due process—as props in a Trump ad in which she sports a $60,000 Rolex These men have already been left in a hole to die—was that not enough for her?

submitted 42 days ago • 511 comments

Judge Susan Crawford has spent her career protecting the rights of all Wisconsinites. Over the years, she’s fought to defend abortion access, healthcare, and workers’ rights—and now, she’ll be a fair, common-sense voice Wisconsin deserves on the state Supreme Court. Vote for her by April 1st!

submitted 42 days ago • 51 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 42 days ago • 594 comments

Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.

submitted 42 days ago • 737 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 42 days ago • 790 comments

🚨🚨🚨HHS plans to shutter & downsize several of our health agencies, including the CDC. This has nothing to do w/ cutting waste, abuse, and fraud. They’re taking steps to privatize services for lucrative Gov’t contracts for the oligarchy. They don’t care about YOU. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 42 days ago • 56 comments

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

submitted 42 days ago • 282 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 43 days ago • 1689 comments

Trump and Musk are running the opposite of DEI: a full-fledged white rage errortocracy. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.

submitted 46 days ago • 70 comments

Fiorentini: Yes, he's turning The Kennedy Center into his private little jukebox to play Memories from Cats so he can think about all the women that he inappropriately touched

submitted 46 days ago • 134 comments

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 46 days ago • 689 comments

After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers. Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them. Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost. “All of a sudden, these cases…

submitted 46 days ago • 430 comments

Something special is happening, people. Ignore it or downplay it at your own peril…

submitted 46 days ago • 988 comments

It will never not be hilarious to me that people actually paid ¢100K for those hideous cybertruck monstrosities that got recalled because their bumpers are attached with fucking GLUE. GLUE! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 46 days ago • 307 comments

What Mike Lee is saying here is bog standard, American neo-Nazism. Read any George Lincoln Rockwell publication from the 1960s and this will be the starting assumption from which everything else proceeds. And by “Marxist,” Rockwell meant “the Jews.”

submitted 48 days ago • 70 comments

Yes, the "hard left" is snatching people from their homes and putting them on planes without hearings to send them to notorious, massive prisons in El Salvador to be tortured!!! Oh, wait . . .

submitted 48 days ago • 929 comments

@schumer.senate.gov - this is what you should have been planning instead of a tour to promote your book. We are at WAR to save democracy. Tim Walz gets it. Why don't you? We need a fighter, not someone who wants to wait for Trump to defy SCOTUS.

submitted 48 days ago • 48 comments

If you damage the businesses of the richest man in the world, his friend the President wants to put you in indentured servitude in another country. If you trash the Capitol to overturn the election, its pardons and praise.

submitted 48 days ago • 78 comments

Good morning,

submitted 48 days ago • 104 comments

“Are you worried?” That is always the first question. “Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”

submitted 48 days ago • 622 comments