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A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship. Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it. What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

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A lie THIS obvious isn’t an attempt to fool anyone; it’s just a pure expression of contempt.

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They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

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I actually did grow up in the Soviet Union and I can tell you that peddling lazy innuendo about how the government can't do anything right is extra embarrassing now, given what our Business luminaries have been doing to both the private sector and the government recently

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"Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate." - Voltaire, 'Questions sur les Miracles' (1765).

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KAMLAGER-DOVE: Why do you think the head of RT would say this is an awesome decision by Trump? LAKE: I'm disturbed we spread Russian propaganda at VOA. You thought about that? KD: Allegedly there's a Russian operative in WH office of personnel. But you're not asking me Qs, I'm asking you Qs

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@bencollins.bsky.social is all of us right now: “[We] want Congress to understand that maybe they could fucking do something at some point in any capacity about the litany of horrors that we have been subjected to in the last six months.” 🙌🏼

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

The best claim this jet setting Atlantic staff writer has to living a life informed by the Soviet experience is through the woman his brother married.

submitted 1 hour ago • 117 comments

when i buy whiskey from the ABC store, that's like the soviet union, to me.

submitted 1 hour ago • 285 comments

Everyone in North Carolina buys 100% of their hard liquor from state-run stores

submitted 2 hours ago • 103 comments

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

submitted 2 hours ago • 96 comments

As they say in Washington, if you're explaining, you're losing.

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My “I am not a henchman” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

I actually believe that Emil Bove is one of the best human beings Pam Bondi knows.

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The President is threatening to impose import taxes on Americans to get back at Spain for the decisions Spain is making about military spending. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

This is the first real sign yet that the Trump administration knows that kidnapping people and throwing them into unmarked vans is deeply unpopular. Thank you to everyone out there filming people being kidnapped, at great risk to yourselves. You all are heroes. ❤️

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I was going to say Pam must not know any other people, but we know that's not true. So I guess by "finest" she means "shittiest." It's probably a semantics thing.

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I think this administration is running toward a truly epic record of perjuring themselves in front of Congress.

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My CT people should never let him have a day of peace. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump henchman Emil Bove says he's not a henchman.

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

Ah, we've reached Trump Excuse Phase 5: "I was just joking"

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Not credible

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Distance to Russia a strong predictor of these arming decisions

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Streisand Effect will soon be renamed Baby Vance Effect

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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When you pretend to never be wrong, to never lose, and otherwise make shit up every time you open your piehole, who are people going to believe? I mean, sensate people. Not the millions of gibbering, slack-jawed rubes who adore you. You blew a lot of sand into some doorways.

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HAPPENING NOW: Third Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Emil Bove--Trump's former criminal defense counsel--is set to face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hearing comes 1 day after whistleblower claimed that Bove suggested ignoring court order www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

submitted 3 hours ago • 37 comments

An executive fucking dining room? With federal funds?

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This is obscene. National Science Foundation being kicked out asap for this, with no budget for a move, no plan, no warning to employees, no new bldg or even which city identified

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

New: Chase allowed someone to open an account — online, without providing ID — under the name of a Boston garage. That account was then used to solicit hundreds of thousands of dollars from fraud victims around the U.S.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

as somebody who has closely covered this agency for decades it's not even close the most corrupt gaggle of weird and corrupt zealots ever assembled (and they're poised to nominate a completely unqualified 30-something white supremacist as commissioner in the next few months)

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Key elements available to Democrats everywhere: 1) Relentless focus on cost of living 2) Find new ways to get attention to that message. Then do it again. Repeat. 3) Build coalitions motivated by mutual dislike by unpopular elites / incumbents.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

🚨 🚨 I have watched this closely for several years. The politicians have been trying to undo Ohio teacher pension election outcomes for years. (Teachers want their full COLA back, and have voted accordingly). 1/

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

The problem in Canada-US relations isn’t that we have a bad treaty, or we don’t have the right treaty, or that US priorities have changed. It’s that the US has shown that it will not abide by treaties. A new treaty can’t solve this problem. It’s utterly delusional to think otherwise.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

This is an unappreciated downside of the Iranian airstrikes: it revealed capabilities of the MOD and the B-2 itself (both radar x-section and actual combat load/range) and, despite everything working perfectly, appears to have failed to destroy the program despite being built for this use

submitted 22 hours ago • 29 comments

New, from me: Congressional Republicans are attacking the Congressional Budget Office and proposing to cut the General Accountability Office in half. Why? They had the temerity to challenge what the Trump administration is doing, Y’know, checks and balances. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

To answer the question in the headline: You quote him, period. It is not our job, nor is it appropriate, to protect the reading and listening public from the vulgarity of this president. I’m dismayed that this is even a newsroom debate in 2025. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

ICE forces U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran to deport—after taking 2 bullets in combat. Sae Joon Park "miraculously" survived being shot in spine—then given 3 weeks to deport to South Korea. Will miss dying mother's funeral—then his daughter's wedding. Was legally in U.S. under deferred action.

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Yikes. Karoline Leavitt's statement basically completely confirms CNN's reporting. This is really bad for the White House and should be a major scandal. Trump lied. Again.

submitted 21 hours ago • 341 comments

My story. Told my way with truth and as much grace I can muster. Thank you, Tom.

submitted 5 hours ago • 28 comments

Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts We, however, have an unelected Super-legislature, composed of 9 Wizards In Robes, with supreme veto power over the other three branches of government

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Dr. Steven Rosenberg is a world-class surgeon who led breakthroughs in cancer research at NIH. He has been vocal about the delays to clinical trials caused by rampant staff cuts. Jay Bhattacharya, current NIH Director, has the weapons-grade arrogance to call Dr. Rosenberg a liar.

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

It's in the queue after the 90 trade deals.

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