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

submitted 36 days ago • 851 comments

While Los Angeles burns and people point fingers at Democrats, let’s take a moment to appreciate the state’s GOP delegation that fled the state to spend the weekend pledging their loyalty to First Felon Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 75 days ago • 271 comments

Cannot emphasize enough that this man was directing the unit that was simultaneously undertaking this. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 96 days ago • 16 comments

For some reason, none of the 2,000 word articles talking about Elon's power grab mention that he destroyed ~80% of Twitter's value. Like, wtf have you all been hyperventilating about "DOGE" when destroying value is Elon's immediate precedent?

submitted 99 days ago • 80 comments

Who would’ve guessed the lantern fly had more tenacity than the murder hornet

submitted 99 days ago • 11 comments

It was always ever and only about the tax cuts and deregulation. This election was a broad daylight bank heist.

submitted 100 days ago • 96 comments

submitted 104 days ago • 36 comments

When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.

submitted 106 days ago • 216 comments

The NYT just found that Musk’s charity has been shirking it’s responsibility to the tune of 400 million. He is not alone. Read @michaelmechanic.bsky.social’s investigation into the widespread practice from earlier this year.

submitted 106 days ago • 19 comments

That's certainly part of it, but Trump does the promotion part of politics quite well -- tweets about every economic milestone, even if it has nothing to do with him, and floods the zone with brags and boasts. Meanwhile, Democrats sit quietly in the corner hoping teacher notes how good they are.

submitted 107 days ago • 53 comments

Chuck Schumer should immediately announce Democrats will accede to Trump's wishes here and do away with the Electoral College once and for all. Here's that bipartisan push the pundits are looking for. Let's go!

submitted 109 days ago • 392 comments

. No matter how bad life gets, there is always some kind of potato dish that can make things just a little bit better.

submitted 109 days ago • 68 comments

I mean if people had affordable vision insurance, maybe more people would have seen something?

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Friendly reminder: unless you own a means of production, you too, are working class. $10k a year or $850k a year, you can and will be replaced by another working cog. Mr. United Healthcare’s position was advertised less than 48 hours after his death.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.

submitted 112 days ago • 654 comments

My neighbor once called him Timmy Potatoville and I will never be the same