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complaining about "the far left" is such loser energy. oh no, not the people who want everyone to have human rights!!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

submitted 3 days ago • 1079 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 211 comments

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

White power and fascism depend on a nuclear family and a traditional nuclear family to enforce hierarchy and power dynamics that are then reproduced later in life within the fascist system. People who are LGBTQ plus knock a hole in this fundamental lie they require to to reproduce their ideology

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Human beings deserve human rights. All of them. Even ones whose governments and/or representative bodies commit atrocities. Even ones who--yes-- commit atrocities themselves. You don't lose your right to human rights, ever. That's why they're called inalienable human rights.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

What’s happening now is part of a plan to end democracy: “It is clear that Thiel sees corporations as the governments of the future and capitalists such as himself as the kings, and it is also clear that this is a shockingly common view in Thiel’s cohort.” thebaffler.com/latest/mouth...

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 23 days ago • 1276 comments

“The DOGE team plans to replicate this process across many departments and agencies, accessing the back-end software at different parts of the government and then using AI technology to extract and sift through information…” Keep the leaks coming! Gift link: wapo.st/4gDmPnG

submitted 22 days ago • 35 comments

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

submitted 22 days ago • 434 comments

It used to be that “revealing the identity of covert operatives” was the goal of the villains in a Mission: Impossible movie but now it’s just a normal day at the White House

submitted 23 days ago • 65 comments

Elon Musk spent over $280 million to elect Trump and his GOP allies. Now Musk is collecting on that investment—grabbing control of the system that gets your grandpa his Social Security check, pays your mom’s doctor through Medicare, and keeps your kid’s Head Start center open.

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

Oh

submitted 23 days ago • 169 comments

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

submitted 23 days ago • 146 comments

If you ide tiny as a woman and are letting anyone determine how you look or behave outside of yourself and your own morals, stop that shit.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

submitted 23 days ago • 148 comments

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 23 days ago • 2095 comments

An unelected billionaire is illegally seizing control of the US government apparatus and carrying out a flurry of crimes as part of an unprecedented authoritarian power grab that directly violates several laws and the US Constitution. Say it plainly. It’s fact.

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

I just want to take a moment to appreciate all the savvy pundits who argued trump was the less interventionist candidate

submitted 23 days ago • 47 comments

There are more anti-trans bills than there are trans athletes. This is a solution in search of a problem. A villain for the GOP to distract Americans from the fact Musk is stealing all of our money. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 23 days ago • 58 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 23 days ago • 2611 comments

MAGA Feeding Frenzy Has Caused a Constitutional Crisis The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. It’s not a single master plan – it’s comprehensive chaos. New piece:

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 1840 comments

A radicalized Trump voter was the one who tried to assassinate him. Radicalized Trump voters attacked the Capitol. A radicalized Trump voter blew up his Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel. The GOP is playing with fire. They created this monster and they think they can tame it. Good luck.

submitted 37 days ago • 140 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 37 days ago • 2387 comments

Global far- right extremists gather as invitees to the inauguration

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is the world’s richest man who just bought the presidency and seized unprecedented, unaccountable power over government resources.

submitted 39 days ago • 17 comments

So this is basically an untraceable bribe collection mechanism, right? Someone asks Trump for something, he sets a price, a big crypto purchase at a very specific sum happens and makes him richer, but no one knows where the money came from except Trump (based on timing/figure) and the purchaser?

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

It turns out the “free speech” guys want the federal government, or its proxies, to control all major communications platforms

submitted 40 days ago • 213 comments

What these people want is a society in which every reactionary crank, every aggrieved asshole can act as the deputy of the authoritarian state in a comprehensive effort to chase down anyone who threatens the white patriarchal order and anything deemed subversive or deviant.

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

America voluntarily transforming into a broligarchy in service to King Trump before our eyes. Just like that, folks. All bending the knee. What a sad time.

submitted 42 days ago • 68 comments

Authoritarianism is systematic, weaponized abuse. You’re supposed to feel alone and powerless and worthless. That’s the whole point behind the gleeful cruelty. We defeat authoritarianism by organizing, but also by remembering that we deserve better. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/you-deserv...

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

when i see a headline like "company is putting a halt to its DEI program," i process that as "company stopped pretending to care about discrimination. this will change nothing about the amount of discrimination the company does"

submitted 48 days ago • 26 comments

You know who believes in climate change...house insurance companies

submitted 48 days ago • 169 comments

Q: Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of areas like Greenland or Panama you are not gonna use military or economic coercion? TRUMP: No. I can't assure you. I'm not going to commit to that. It might be that you'll have to do something.

submitted 52 days ago • 697 comments

Not one single person who voted for this man will be vindicated by history. He’s a fucking lunatic, and his voters are the most irresponsible people who ever lived.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments