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Stop the weaponization of law enforcement

Trump is 100% going to say some wildly offensive shit about the Pope and try to cartoonishly bully the Vatican into picking a right-wing replacement and the media and pundits are going to keep pretending he’s a hero of religious freedom

This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

We really went from, “We can’t possibly defund the police,” to “let’s defund everything else.” Smh

Calling this a “negotiation” is so morally bankrupt

I think it is good that Luigi is allowed to dress like a person but my clients do not get to wear normal clothes to every court appearance and I don’t think that dichotomy is fair.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

All white men should be increasingly concerned that they can’t be sure they got any job on the merits. Could be they are merely the lucky beneficiaries of rampant racism and misogyny. We’ll just never know. We should probably fire most of them to be sure.

just wild watching all the people who did crimes with and for Eric Adams face consequences for doing those crimes but Eric Adams gets to walk away because he took another bribe and sold out nyc one more time

Tough luck for Elon’s personal assistant

The Burt stare scene in the last #severance episode gave me very strong Goodfellas Jimmy Conway death stare vibes

When maga people talk about meritocracy, the only qualifications are being white, male, right-wing, and not at all qualified for the role you’re given

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Love how this guy is like “yeah fuck the other people that work for the government but not me, specifically, I’m special.” Really amazing microcosm of what maga is all about.

When the pentagon proposed specific budget cuts under Biden, republicans freaked out. Now that a South African Nazi wants to indiscriminately take a machete to whatever shiny objects catch his eye, the GOP won’t say shit

If you told me "an extremely senile Trump was re elected after being convicted of a felony but the real president is Elon Musk, who's a Nazi now, and he's employing his drug dealer and nazi child pornographers to tear down the entire US government" in 2020 I'd have thought you were on crack

It’s not hyperventilating to react to a president declaring himself a king and it’s pretty embarrassing that someone in the opposition party calls it a distraction. Too many of our elected leaders aren’t willing or able to take the fight seriously.

Judge Chutkan wrote a decision that should be reported as scathing for what Trump and Musk are doing. The decision is essentially that what they are doing is brazenly illegal, but the suit was brought but the wrong plaintiffs (or prematurely by the right plaintiffs).

The neo-Nazi american president is offering to sell out Ukraine to Russia. Every day he does something historically disgraceful, and this is destroying America’s standing in real time. He’s not a genius or strongman, he’s a moron who’s basically Elon Musk’s secretary.

Elon Musk’s elderly personal assistant announces that his boss believes he’s a tyrant

Having spent my entire childhood playing hockey, I know hockey players aren’t always the smartest people in the world, but this is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard

I don't necessarily disagree with this, but a decent part of the Democratic Party sees punching left as part of their identity and are surprised when those people are less than thrilled about it.

Growing up, many of my relatives - and my friends' families - would absolutely never drive a BMW, Audi, or Mercedes because to Jewish people, they represented Nazism and the Holocaust. We may be living in 1933 instead of 1935 and the decade that followed, but Teslas should have the same stigma.

People have asked it questions and it led to attorneys being sanctioned and fined because the LLMs fabricated answers, a very basic error that an actual human lawyer would not have made.

this is what it looks like to do the right thing.

CHUTKAN: Mr Musk has not been confirmed, appointed, or nominated to anything...This is essentially a private citizen directing an organization that’s not a fed agency to have access to entire workings of the fed govt, hire/fire/contract, terminate programs essentially w/out congressional oversight.

the trump administration's education department just issued an edict threatening to punish any school that teaches about racism in american history

just wild when the musk administration is actually purging words that the cancel culture grifters are still peddling this kind of garbage if this little gaggle of free speech warriors were sincere there’s a much better target than the mythological woke mob

shocked that a centrist septuagenarian white guy who became extremely wealthy running a venture capital firm would blame “wokeism” for his party’s failures

Trump declared himself above the law today. Literally announced it. Pinned it to his feed for emphasis. The White House reposted it. All to underscore it’s not some passing thought, which would be bad enough. It’s not the top story on any news site that I can find. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gavin Kliger posted on substack two days ago that he joined DOGE because he was inspired by a nazi. Now he has access to some of the most sensitive taxpayer data at the IRS.

another predatory company to boycott

I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

Hard to call this anything but a coup. A small group of right wing neo-Nazi tech dorks are breaking the law and issuing illegal orders with the backing of a declining, often incoherent president. If you’re in a position to physically block them from systems, I’ll contribute to your bail fund.

The best way to commemorate the Holocaust is for me to support today’s German fascists. Made you remember, right? by JD Vance