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Arrests have a cost yall: - time in jail - bail - dealing with lawyers / courts - no contact orders - employment - travel restrictions Civil disobedience with the intention of provoking arrest has a time and a place. It's best done as part of a widespread, dedicated campaign supported by normies.

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

submitted 11 hours ago • 263 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 1418 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 14 hours ago • 1253 comments

Always like to see a drunken, incoherent shitbag pass judgment on someone whose boots he's not fit to clean. About one step away from the "What do you call a black man with a Ph.D./four stars on his epaulets?" question

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Two special elections on April 1 could end Trump's control of Congress. If there was ever a race that needed even your smallest donation... it's this one. @joshweil.bsky.social is running against Trump/DeSantis' hand-picked ultra-maga extremist, Randy Fine, who will be a Trump rubber stamp.

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 13 hours ago • 145 comments

Free website

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

"Soon you will understand why it is important to maybe have somebody who isn’t loud and ridiculous and maybe ‘Sleepy Joe’ is what we wanted because we could at least sleep at night.” #JasmineCrockett

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 14 hours ago • 760 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

When taking actions late on a Friday night, a government sends a message its trying to pull one over on the public and the media, that it is hiding something or doing something it believes it should not do or will be seen as controversial. That is certainly true in this case.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

We have not yet had a president from Maine...

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AOC is showing what resistance looks like; Schumer, Hochul, and the rest of D leadership not so much. www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Quite the gall to stand there and compare people sitting down at a town hall meeting to January 6th insurrectionists, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Murdoch’s New York Post today. #ukraine🇺🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Surgery regret rates: Hip/knee replacement: 10-20% LASIK eye correction: 1-4% Spinal fusion: 15-30% Liposuction: 10-25% Rhinoplasty: 10-15% Breast jobs: 10-20% Weight loss: 5-20% Prostate: 10-15% Gender-affirming care: <1% Find a new argument.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

americans are ahead of the politicians "Americans disapprove by a 2-to-1 margin of Musk shutting down federal agencies that he decides are unnecessary, and most (63 percent) are concerned that his team is gaining access to sensitive personal data of individuals"

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

BREAKING: Steve Bannon just did a Nazi salute at CPAC. THEY ARE TELLING YOU WHO THEY ARE!

submitted 2 days ago • 595 comments

"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative."

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

JD giving license to Bro Culture and all the abuse that comes with it. Our culture is sending a message to young men to not be mentally or physically abusive, sexist, misogynistic, condescending, and not be like Vance or Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's not as if someone didn't try to tell everyone way back at the beginning of Trump I in 2017. I think of this book way more often than I should have to.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Egyptologists have discovered the tomb of King Thutmose II, who ruled three-and-a-half thousand years ago. A British-Egyptian team located it in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

You need to watch this great and important speech from Governor Pritzker www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fhPXAs/

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Yup. The GOP was bad long before 2016. It was bad in 2009 when I started blogging about it. It was bad in 2006 when Tom Mann and @normornstein.bsky.social wrote The Broken Branch. It was bad at least from the 1990s on, when it was the party of Newt and Rush. And it just got worse, worse, and worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

submitted 3 days ago • 1950 comments

It feels like we are careening into global conflict where the US is opposed to the coalition of free democratic nations.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 845 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1465 comments

Really not great that Trump is just outright referring to himself as king.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 923 comments

lol "states rights" party says what?

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Justice Connection, an organization that supports DOJ employees facing "unprecedented attacks," made public an open letter praising prosecutors who resigned or whose jobs were threatened over the Eric Adams case. It was signed by more than 850 ex-federal prosecutors. Among the signers: Jack Smith.