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Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly. Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.

submitted 54 days ago • 246 comments

🚨 I have just introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. Donald Trump is not above the law, and when he ignores the constitution, he should be held accountable.

submitted 53 days ago • 365 comments

Everything Trump touched dies: Conservative Party in Canada edition. :)

submitted 52 days ago • 31 comments

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

Trump is the first US president to lose a Canadian election. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #NeverPoliviere #never51state

submitted 52 days ago • 134 comments

🚨 HEY #CONNECTICUT: Republicans are targeting 322,000 of you on Medicaid via ACA expansion, but don't forget the 147,000 who are also at risk of seeing their health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if they allow IRA subsidies to expire. acasignups.net/25/01/23/how...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Fascism isn’t coming. It’s here. Anyone telling you you’re overreacting is complicit.

submitted 52 days ago • 96 comments

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

submitted 53 days ago • 195 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 82 days ago • 137 comments

anyway good night

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Please try to get your moderate relatives to understand that this setback will almost certainly, in the long term cause millions of cancer deaths that would have been curable under the 2024 status quo trajectory. They might die, you might die, of what would have been a treatable cancer.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

submitted 53 days ago • 668 comments

If your vote threatens someone's right to exist, then yeah I judge you based on your vote.

submitted 53 days ago • 159 comments

firmly believe they can’t round up the “millions of criminals” they promised because they simply don’t exist — so we get this hamhanded shit as they flail around trying to meet ridiculous quotas

submitted 53 days ago • 34 comments

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY), Sen Cory Booker, (D-NJ), hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of maga’s push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending...

submitted 53 days ago • 19 comments

I am so over the media's framing of these kinds of issues. Who effing cares if the Trump administration wants to "make" Canada a state? The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"

submitted 54 days ago • 378 comments

I think this issue (talking to strangers on airplanes) is really, REALLY gendered. I have had some lovely conversations on airplanes, but if you (female) find yourself next to a creep with no way to escape, it's unmitigated hell. I'm unsure whether guys commenting on this are thinking of this.

submitted 54 days ago • 23 comments

Why was Kristi Noem carrying $3,000 in her purse?

submitted 54 days ago • 4392 comments

Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries started a sit-in protest on Capitol steps 4 hours ago just the two of them streaming at t.co/0AW2Jy3HmK and now looking like this….if you’re in DC go down there to help them out….way better than a "strong letter" from Chuck Schumer that Trump will toss in the trash

submitted 54 days ago • 55 comments

NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps. Is this building into something? If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support. #Resist (📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)

submitted 54 days ago • 465 comments

The interesting power analysis around all of this RFK stuff AND the lady who is mad you won't talk to her on an airplane is that "weird" (ie non-normative) people have a lot more power in society now than we did when I was growing up.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Can't believe we still have to have this conversation There is a WORLD of difference between being kind and friendly to strangers and being forced to engage with someone you can't get away from because they have decided that you must engage with them. That is why everyone is mad at airplane lady

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My kindest interpretation of today’s main character, Airplane Lady, is that she likes to talk to people & meet strangers. Me too, Airplane Lady. In an ideal world, you and I would be sat next to each other. But it’s not an ideal world & you can’t just get up & wander off. The earbuds are clues>

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

The Justice Department quietly invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month, granting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents the power to conduct warrantless searches of people’s homes based solely on suspicion that they are “alien enemies.”

submitted 55 days ago • 405 comments

Trump is trying to fix the rules so he gets to rule forever; following the authoritarian playbook to the letter: - harass or co-opt the press - weaken the lawyers - silence universities and student protest - cut off funding for the opposition But we won’t let him win.

submitted 56 days ago • 66 comments

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) are executing a marathon live stream on east steps of Capitol Rep Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, says GOP House budget will gut health and nutritional assistance programs

submitted 54 days ago • 267 comments

Love this Area X bunny art by Castiel Frost, shown to me at last night's event.

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This is a moral moment in America. Sitting on the Capitol steps with Leader Hakeem Jeffries this morning to discuss what’s at stake with Trump’s budget and affirm the need for collective action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 285 comments

Due to the mass-casualty event in Vancouver, St Paul's, VGH, & Lions Gate hospitals have activated a code orange. These hospitals will be needing blood donations urgently. Blood clinics are closed Sundays, but please consider donating Monday if you're in the Vancouver area. #Vancouver

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

At some point, the people being beaten with the stick need to stop insisting it's illegal and just grab the fucking stick.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Many authors who don't have big clout are speaking up that when they complained of publisher abuse, it gained no traction. Writers, publishing, really ought to hear that and internalize it. Someone shouldn't have to sell X copies of books to deserve respect as victims of predatory publishers.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Americas starter Pokémon

submitted 54 days ago • 170 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 54 days ago • 868 comments

i genuinely want to know what the hell is wrong with this guy. he is a total monster and i am a little interested in how he got to be this way.

submitted 55 days ago • 2885 comments

caught in the act. utter villainy

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