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If Biden, as president, had fallen asleep at the Pope’s funeral, it would have been the top story in America for days. Trump falling asleep at the Pope’s funeral today won’t be, because our media is broken.

submitted 5 hours ago • 210 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 5 hours ago • 34 comments

💯 this

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

3rd grade level fabrications. How completely braindead is the portion of the country that hears this and accepts it?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

So the Trump admin suddenly yanked visas from thousands of international students—then backtracked only after getting dragged into court. Let’s be clear: they didn’t do the right thing. They got caught doing the wrong thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

submitted 2 days ago • 605 comments

A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

“Trump’s election campaign boast that he could strike a peace deal in 24 hours beggared belief. So has the incompetence and cynicism of his administration as it scrambles to land a settlement at any price.” — @financialtimes.com editorial board. on.ft.com/3GnwjqB

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 4 days ago • 185 comments

The mainstream media’s habit of taking what the government says at face value will never die. To say that the attack on universities is about “antisemitism” and “racial politics” is akin to stating that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is about “denazification”.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 19 days ago • 383 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 7 days ago • 394 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 7 days ago • 820 comments

👇🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 375 comments

24 years ago, in the days after 9/11 I remember leftists screaming that any civil liberty we gave up for anyone “because terrorism” would be used broadly against the left in years to come. At the time it felt hyperbolic. Today, it feels prescient. Terrorist just seems to be “POC I disagree with”

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

submitted 9 days ago • 2058 comments

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the most powerful tech surveillance guys are all directly connected to prominent fascists and/or South African apartheid

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

If China defeated the US in war and forced us to sign a treaty that would ensure a century of Chinese dominion in science and tech, they'd be smart to force the U.S. to: - slash scientific grants in half - reduce foreign students - gut our manufacturing base Instead, we're doing it all by choice.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The refusal to sell Ukraine air defences and missiles is a deliberate decision to leave Ukrainian towns and energy infrastructure exposed to russian terrorist strikes that are intensifying by the day. This has nothing to do with 'advancing peace.'

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

After writing my history of concentration camps, I came to believe that short of committing murder yourself, one of the worst things you can do is to abet or exploit the suffering of another human being to increase your own power in the world.

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

There is no negotiating with fascists. Every benefit they offer is a lie. Everything they threaten you with they intended to do to you regardless. Everything you let them do to others they will eventually do to you. Against fascists there’s only uncompromising defiance and opposition.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Happening right in front of us

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

The Bukele visit was the dark echo of the Zelensky one: The leader fighting to defend his people was called a dictator and disrespectful The leader we are employing to run a gulag was treated as a towering figure, someone worthy of incredible deference

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments