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This about sums it up. But I would add, in the case of the government of the United States, because they can’t be trusted themselves.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

RFK Jr finally recommends vaccination to deal with the measles outbreak hitting Texas right now. This is quite the about face for a man who’s been spreading harmful anti-vaxx rhetoric for years. www.axios.com/2025/03/03/k...

submitted 22 hours ago • 417 comments

No one is going to be confused when the Pentagon starts offensive cyber operations against the EU

submitted 14 hours ago • 185 comments

Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1168 comments

This soundbyte is brought to you by Putin.

submitted 9 hours ago • 31 comments

News: RFK Jr’s top spokesperson at HHS just abruptly quit, after only two weeks on the job www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 9 hours ago • 157 comments

Vlad’s Buddy taking a shot at baseball now. Next will be apple pie and hot dogs.

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

submitted 2 days ago • 704 comments

Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic

submitted 2 days ago • 335 comments

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1120 comments

500 people protesting at Tesla downtown Manhattan. They got inside, occupied, with "Nazi" signs. Not a good week for Tesla. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-j...

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Really, Woody?

submitted 2 days ago • 817 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 2 days ago • 6028 comments

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

#Connecticut #Nutmegsky ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/02/28/c...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

submitted 2 days ago • 508 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 6 days ago • 684 comments

When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

submitted 6 days ago • 239 comments

The economy will soon crash and burn like one of his cars.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

Interesting they don’t mention that the about face came after a rule 11 sanctions motion was sent to the administration.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

yeah that’s the problem you fascist potato

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Murphy calls out the "Mar-a-Lago cabal" and says of the Republican spending plan, "you are taking about the most massive transfer of wealth and resources from poor people and the middle class to billionaires and corporations in the history of this country."

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

The markets understand that the Europeans know they’re now going to have to make their own stuff, and not rely on their strategic adversary, the United States.

submitted 6 days ago • 133 comments

We are just about at the point where a court orders the government do something & the government refuses to do it, which is practically what this amounts to. Either the courts find an effective mechanism to force compliance, or Trump steamrolls right over them.

submitted 6 days ago • 238 comments

INDISPUTABLE FACTS: •Russia invaded Ukraine. •Ukraine bears no responsibility for Russia’s invasion. •Russian aggression is a threat to the entire world. •We stand with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We stand w/all the people of Ukraine. Follow all: WE ARE THE OPPOSITION. go.bsky.app/AMZH6uh

submitted 10 days ago • 220 comments

Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

As if steroids and a really angry shaved boner took human form.

submitted 7 days ago • 109 comments

“The choice of Mr. Bongino is a radical and abrupt departure from that practice and raises startling questions about how two people who have never served as F.B.I. agents will oversee the vast surveillance and investigative powers of an agency of 38,000 people…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 765 comments

For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.

submitted 7 days ago • 677 comments

Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: And for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step to also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on TV...

submitted 8 days ago • 635 comments

Sir, you are literally in Congress -- checks, balances, do your damn job.

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 8 days ago • 761 comments

HOLY SHIT, the Philadelphia Eagles decided to REJECT the invitation to the White House, so I guess I'm an Eagles fan now. FLY, EAGLES FLY! 🦅💪

submitted 7 days ago • 639 comments

ICYMI: We know Trump is Elon's jester, but he desperately wants to be king. @therickwilson.bsky.social and @mayaonstage.bsky.social dissect Trump's delusions on the latest episode of The Breakdown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmI...

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

Can't imagine where they got the idea, but earlier in the week, the White House comms director posted (and then reposted) this.

submitted 8 days ago • 207 comments

Trump: "You (Ukraine) are attacked by someone bigger and stronger than you. And you don't do that." This is his foreign policy approach: Might make right. Greenland, Canada, Panama better capitulate and don't get attacked!

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

1/ “There was no legitimate reason for the Friday Night Massacre in the military. It was the slaughter of our integrity, our values, and our security.” joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-nig...

submitted 8 days ago • 473 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 8 days ago • 2643 comments

You know it’s bad when this is the post’s cover

submitted 10 days ago • 223 comments

This is really something

submitted 10 days ago • 1764 comments

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

submitted 10 days ago • 670 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

submitted 10 days ago • 137 comments

“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

submitted 10 days ago • 176 comments

Trump calls himself “THE KING”

submitted 12 days ago • 1593 comments

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

I enjoyed that little flurry of fake news reports that Trump and Putin weren't really talking, or that Putin was mad at Trump the "russia hoax" was always real, and this is an extremely well funded global authoritarian assault on law, informed consensus, empathy, and democratic order by sociopaths

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 13 days ago • 1193 comments

When the human form of political chlamydia calls you “parasite,” it’s extra special.

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

I don't recall that being his campaign slogan

submitted 12 days ago • 265 comments