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This is going to sound mean & elitist & the meritocracy is bullshit but whatever: so many of the people they want to traumatize busted their asses & sacrificed & succeeded against big odds to carve out careers in government that don't pay well but help keep this place up & running...

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

One thing I'm trying to do in this is explain, in a clear, step-by step way - without abstraction or euphemism - why a national leader calling racial groups 'animals' is so dangerous www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout...

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Fresh out of prison after Trump’s pardon, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested today for assaulting a woman protesting his event.

submitted 1 day ago • 697 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

submitted 2 days ago • 1099 comments

The key point that was made in this clip is that it happened organically. We don’t come from the consultant class, we get zero legacy media hype, we don’t get invited on shows & don’t want to be on TV, no big money donors writing checks. It all happened one person at a time. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

submitted 3 days ago • 370 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2945 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

submitted 3 days ago • 1100 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1004 comments

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 4 days ago • 538 comments

Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage. Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …

submitted 6 days ago • 245 comments

This is why so many Jews are skeptical of the national GOP claim of support — it rings hollow & opportunistic. Vance visits a Nazi concentration camp, lays a wreath at a statue stating “Never Again,” calls it an “unspeakable evil,” & then promptly meets with & promotes a German Nazi-aligned party.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

Here is my third weekly dispatch, imagining how the US media should be covering the Musk coup if it was clear-eyed about the threat to our democracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

(1/X) One thing that I find very alarming these days is how many people whose politics I agree with are saying this like "I feel scared" or "why should we fight when we're going to lose?" Timothy Snyder has gone a great job of explaining the problem of obeying in advance...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 197 comments

BREAKING - Elon Musk slated to win $400 MILLION govt contract to make "armored Tesla" -- after $38 MILLION SpaceX contract yesterday Musk's plan: -- Shut down parts of the govt investigating him -- Claim that he's stopping government spending -- Give himself all the money

submitted 10 days ago • 178 comments

I hope it is lost on precisely nobody that Musk's entire communications M.O. is an extremely obvious game of "I am rubber, you are glue." Call him an oligarch? The next day DOGE is "taking down the oligarchy" Call DOGE a coup effort? The next day efforts to stop it are "judicial coups"

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 11 days ago • 390 comments

A quick search of Cotton’s accounts show that the first time he posted a single word critical of USAID was 5 days ago, despite serving in the Senate for 10 years and the House before that.

submitted 11 days ago • 1906 comments

NEW: ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Yes, the American Right happily consumes a steady diet of lies to fit the narratives their online grifters create for them.

submitted 12 days ago • 1024 comments

In 1987 the former chair of the Oregon Republican Party, Walter Huss, wrote a screamingly racist letter to Rep. Margaret Carter, the first Black woman to serve in the Oregon House of Representatives. Huss was appalled by her opposition to apartheid, and his letter contained this doozy of a "fact."

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

@annabower.bsky.social is fire

submitted 12 days ago • 85 comments