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Remember, those who claim to be enraged that an almost imperceptible amount of federal dollars goes to NPR and PBS are currently before the Supreme Court demanding that your taxpayer money be spent to fund a Christian school in Oklahoma that definitionally trafficks in propaganda

submitted 3 hours ago • 132 comments

While it is understandable to focus attention on Trump’s attacks on democracy and the rule of law, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the Republican Congress enabling his authoritarianism. Ignoring their complicity in Trump’s actions is a mistake—both legally and strategically.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

What happened to this American family has got to be illegal on so many levels. 20 armed men raided their new home, terrorized them and stole all of their money and electronic devices. Since no govt agency will take responsibility they dont know who has their belongs. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

not saying China doesn’t have a ton of structural problems as a global economic superpower but it is still punishingly funny that Trump and bunch of his MAGA deputies had psyched themselves into believing that in this kind of shambolic massive trade war, China wouldn’t immediately get the upper hand

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

I'd like to see more people point out that every time the Trump Administration complains about leaks—or we learn that another Trump department has threatened employees over leaks—the stakes aren't about leaks at all. The Trump Administration is scared that media will find out what it's really doing.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Folks always ask me what stories aren’t getting enough attention. Pay attention to India and Pakistan - this is the most tense situation in several years and has the potential to spiral out of control if cooler heads don’t prevail.

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

“If Biden had done it…”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The divergence here from two companies with very similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

I am for every day all of us turning our first focus on fascism (or, if you prefer, authoritarianism) itself. They are attacking and gaining ground on countless fronts. Time spent arguing with those with whom one could be in coalition is time fascism uses to seize more territory.

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

But more afraid of joining the Democrats? 🤨

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 18 days ago • 226 comments

This is truth. People are being disappeared by this administration. Let’s not dress it up or frame it via one egregious case or another. This is a systemic effort to violate US law, international law and human rights.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

submitted 22 days ago • 334 comments

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

submitted 23 days ago • 564 comments

Tank the market with tariffs so rich people can buy low then “pause” the tariffs and all those people make vast sums of money?

submitted 23 days ago • 893 comments

SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited.

submitted 23 days ago • 144 comments

It's outrageous that they gave Trump the powers trusted to them in the Constitution, even if just on an "emergency wink-wink basis" It's unconscionable that they're now proposing a way to block themselves from taking their rightful powers back.

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

This is big: House Republicans tucked language into the budget res “rule” that bans the House from voting to terminate Trump’s emergency declaration used to impose tariffs. TL;DR lawmakers who vote for this are officially giving up their power to revoke his tariffs until October.

submitted 23 days ago • 266 comments

LUJAN: Do you agree w/ President Trump that families are gonna have to feel a little pain? GREER: I'm not gonna speak for POTUS L: I know none of you have the courage to stand up to him. Do you agree that what the president said about people having to feel pain? G: Of course I agree w/ POTUS

submitted 24 days ago • 98 comments

CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

submitted 25 days ago • 102 comments

Congressional Republicans can stop this madness if they want. It’s a choice to keep Trump in office to destroy everything.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

there’s a lot of hopium going around that somehow tariffs will lead to building more things in america. i deeply, profoundly ask any and all reporters who quote a single politician making this claim to interrogate how making stuff more expensive will mean building more things.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

submitted 29 days ago • 907 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 29 days ago • 557 comments

This is what you voted for, MAGA.

submitted 28 days ago • 149 comments

This feels like the sack of Rome in 410 CE…😢

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

American economic power depends greatly on soft power and reliability as an ally who doesn't bully, lie, and demand obsequiousness. The Trump-Musk duo have greatly eroded the fundamental bases of America's long-term success in 2 short mths. America will gradually find itself abandoned and replaced.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Most people have never been brave. Folks, there is no golden age of "bravery" in any cultural context or historical moment. People are just people and what makes people more brave is if others take brave action [and this only works sometimes].

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

The right wing influencer machine is telling everyone that Trump is going to announce the “External Revenue Service” and abolish the IRS today. What’s actually going to happen if he establishes the ERS is that you get taxed twice.

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

Hundreds of members of the National Academy of Sciences share an open letter on supporting Science and rejecting the current administrations attack on the same: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 32 days ago • 789 comments

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

submitted 35 days ago • 299 comments

"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..." www.propublica.org/article/elon...

submitted 36 days ago • 529 comments

Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a signal chat and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter. Really unbelievable shit here. But her emails, right?

submitted 39 days ago • 238 comments

Apathy is the enemy

submitted 42 days ago • 175 comments

I wrote this in July 2016 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

submitted 41 days ago • 255 comments

There's a reason why they're freaking out over what's happening to Tesla. It's working. There's a reason they're threatening absurd consequences. They need to scare you back into civility and compliance. As long as we're reluctant to cross the lines they ignore daily, they have the upper hand.

submitted 41 days ago • 950 comments

"The country has invested in, and innovated through, this scientific public service for over a century, not for selling it to the highest bidder, but for the common good. Dismantling NOAA and the National Weather Service is a presidential grift that we must oppose."

submitted 40 days ago • 88 comments

Canada needs to develop its own nuclear program “There is a rationale to developing a nuclear capacity for Canada that aligns with European allies and directs it toward Russia, while ensuring our continental security against a former friend, the US.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 40 days ago • 147 comments

If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law? To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.

submitted 40 days ago • 409 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 41 days ago • 336 comments

2022: "The Supreme Court would NEVER overturn Roe v. Wade!" 2025: "The administration would NEVER take away Social Security!"

submitted 41 days ago • 581 comments