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Quick reminder that the current craziness did NOT START with Trump and Elon Musk, but in the early years of George W. Bush‘s presidency, when one adviser told journalist Ron Suskind „we’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 11 hours ago • 148 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1064 comments

Trump realized earlier how shallow the leadership bench is in the GOP. "Little Marco", etc. stung because of their core truth. Rubio will do what he's told just as GOP senators will roll on his most egregious nominees. Backbones & principles aren't their thing. www.publicnotice.co/p/usaid-dest...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

This was the most validating moment for the most cynical voters in America. Biden launched in 2019 saying this was a battle for the soul of America and he sold out that rhetoric for a dumb as fuck photo op.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

If a Dem president was at a car race the day after a major national disaster had 3 states underwater with fatalities, most of the posts on X tonight would be trashing that president. But whether bad or good, Dems politicians don’t seem to like to play that game. But it is effective.

submitted 6 days ago • 425 comments

We actually appear to have a situation where Trump is just a confused old man ambling about the White House while his henchmen run the country into the ground, and the press is just not very concerned because they frequently get to see the confused old man. -OS

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Starmer's final sacrifice, his last ruthless deposition, will be his former self Mr Rules will be replaced by someone willing to shatter norms to deliver for voters. Morgan always wins. 1/...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

In their rush to destroy our government The Trump administration fired the workers who keep our nukes safe And-realizing how badly they screwed up Are trying to rehire them But can’t-because they don’t know how to get in touch with the fired workers The incompetence is unprecedented

submitted 7 days ago • 127 comments

He or she who joined SCOTUS’s opinion in Trump v. US should really contemplate what they’ve done

submitted 7 days ago • 72 comments

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

submitted 7 days ago • 1307 comments

This is a quote ascribed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who launched a coup against the French Republic and installed himself as First Consul and later Emperor of the French Empire. So, yeah, things are going great.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 688 comments

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

Just two years into the Attlee government, Churchill was likening Attlee to Hitler, dismissing the 1945 landslide as a "freak majority", accusing ministers of "dictatorship" and demanding new elections. Churchill only really had one rhetorical register, and he struggled to dial it down in peacetime

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

This also confirms @lromeranth.bsky.social's point that Trump was able to enlist a lot of Latinos into his "coalition of the makers" while dividing them from the alleged "takers" in immigrant ranks (Haitians eating pets, migrants supposedly straining welfare services, etc).

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Great. Let’s see how it goes with the stubborn, partisan and ignorant in charge. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Pretty depressing to see how many Americans—in this case, from a majority Latino city in Pennsylvania—voted for a fictional Donald Trump they somehow imagined, who is almost the opposite of the real politician that repeatedly showed, with words and actions, who he really is and what he really wants.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

voters can smell phony. they know trump is a huckster but they also know he essentially owns being a piece of shit. meanwhile the democrats look extremely inauthentic. they say trump is an existential crisis then two seconds later theyre slapping his back and attending his inauguration.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

JD Vance's speech is best to be understood as a culture war twitter thread rather than an announcement of any coherent strategy

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

In the past two election cycles, Dem Party pushed out the members refusing to fall in line and ‘recruited’ professionals who know the ground game well (generals, intel officers & prosecutors). Controversial & probably not the best practice in normal times, but effective in fighting coup plotters.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

submitted 9 days ago • 221 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 9 days ago • 491 comments

A possible pretext to a larger campaign against the judiciary or even defiance

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

Crazy: Putin is now openly flattering Trump for threatening tariffs on our allies, claiming it shows how strong Trump is. That's telling. Putin knows tariffs could weaken the western alliance, so he's egging Trump on! Me and @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

This is such a sinister prospect. We might be witnessing the first example of an individual successfully achieving world domination solely through the accumulation of business assets and wealth. Is this what late-stage capitalism looks like?

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

the beyond parody presidency

submitted 11 days ago • 969 comments

Before Bretton Woods and democracy things like #imperialism, #genocides and #slavery were pretty common and standard practice around the world. Forgetting the lessons of #history means we're bound to repeat it.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Having a liberal arts education and wading through years of "death of the humanities" narrative, one of the most hopeful aspects of AI is that we can fundamentally reorient university education back to basics. Very few people will need to learn how to code going fwd, frees more time for history ed.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Circling back on Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Bernie Sanders publicly praising Elon Musk and expressing eagerness to work with DOGE, treating it as a good faith effort. How's that going? Did boosting Musk get military spending cuts like they wanted?

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 15 days ago • 1041 comments

Bush officials bragged that they could impose their “reality” on the world. They were wrong. But with the extraordinary level of control and manipulation their tech billionaire allies can exercise, Trumpists are much closer to that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

Here’s fake, illegitimate US Attorney Ed Martin on January 6th. Now he’s threatening people who question DOGE’s legitimacy and legality. This is a coup by insurrectionists who should be in jail.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

republicans want racists to have access to your social security records

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

make them arrest u then

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

If anything is good for the public, Musk & Trump want to destroy it. These men are evil billionaires who want all money for themselves and nothing for others. Trump has nominated at least a dozen odious billionaires. Just wait when they come to Social Security and Medicare!

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Organizations like USAID is what made American relevant around the world. It's one reason the world looked to American for advice and leadership. Trump is making America Last Again by destroying these things because nobody will need American anymore.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance wants the fired racist back.

submitted 15 days ago • 1579 comments

I do think the quickest way to deal with Musk is for every paper to do variants of this until Trump cracks.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

The people who tell you to stop beating up on Democrats for not being tough enough on Trump aren’t just wrong, they’re doing the most to enable Trump. Blind trust in the Democratic Party that keeps failing us helped to get us right where we are now.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

Taiwan's armed forces have a Chinese spy problem. Prosecutions for Chinese espionage have jumped fourfold in the last 4 years. 2/3 of alleged spies last year were current or retired military personnel. China is also using new tactics to recruit younger collaborators www.economist.com/asia/2025/02...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

There it is

submitted 16 days ago • 801 comments