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It is This is the easiest -and by far the most articulate explanation:

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Tump has done nothing that would not be on a Russian wish list: -Ukraine invaded Russia. Support Putin. -A de facto Russian agent head of Intelligence. -Kills USAID, the largest competitor against Russia for foreign influence -A drunk cutting defense budget. That's a few. It's a long list.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

submitted 5 days ago • 992 comments

open.substack.com/pub/frankfig...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Media is so pathetic parroting BS that Musk’s doing “savings” by finding “waste.” Just about every outlet has said that. It’s obviously false. And you fell for this trick already! He says “free speech,” it looks like BS, he then does the literal opposite, and you still say it! Have some integrity.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Putin and Trump want to do to the American taxpayer what Putin and Trump want to do to Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Trump is trying to single handedly save Russia from certain collapse

submitted 6 days ago • 707 comments

It’s a cliché to say it—and no two historical scenarios offer a perfectly compelling analogy—but what each American is doing now is what they’d be doing were they a German living in Germany and were it 1936-38 There’s no more doubt about who the appeasers or the bad guys are—they’re in the open now

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

I do think we will see a lot of people leaving America over this. Our country is going back to factory settings.

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

In 2009 the Obama administration said it wouldn’t cater to Fox News. The mainstream media, led by Jake Tapper, freaked out. In 2025 Trump has banned AP from the White House because they won’t regurgitate his propaganda. Mainstream media response? “Yes, master, as you say master.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

"After seizing the capital in a fast-moving late January coup and with universal control of government...seemingly assured... South African oligarch Elon Musk spent his third week in power dismantling the legal constraints that would stop him...from turning the US gov't into his personal piggy bank.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How George W. Bush made Trump—and America—worse

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 8 days ago • 518 comments

Who will rake the forests? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

submitted 9 days ago • 500 comments

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics... All of this. All. Of. It.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Pitch perfect.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 10 days ago • 488 comments

The fact that NBC can (accurately) call the Administrative Procedure Act “obscure” just shows how little Americans know about how their government works. It literally is one of the most important laws ever enacted by Congress.

submitted 11 days ago • 273 comments

The press seemed happy to chat with Elon and Trump in the Oval. What if Biden had appeared in the Oval with, say, George Soros? They would have exploded. Screaming questions, totally unruly, abusive articles about his age and lack of cognition. The disparity in treatment is appalling.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I think about this several times a day. Is there any part of the way the House or the Senate is acting right now that makes you think they’re worried about midterms?

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

"No Democrat should be voting to advance Trump's nominees while all of this stuff is going on," AOC said. “There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they're setting a literal mash to the federal government."

submitted 18 days ago • 490 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

submitted 19 days ago • 78 comments

The end of the United States is going to go down in history books centuries from now as the most bizarre, impossible, craven collapse of a society in all of history.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 21 days ago • 821 comments

makes perfect sense but also wild to see retaliation focused on red states

submitted 21 days ago • 184 comments

Names and Adresses. It works both ways

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 23 days ago • 135 comments

Lmaoooooooooooo

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

This is the definition of a profile in courage. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

I voted NO to confirm Sean Duffy as Secretary of Transportation to register my firm opposition to a lawless administration that is right now illegally ripping away funding that communities and families across America are counting on.

submitted 26 days ago • 117 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 31 days ago • 4413 comments

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

submitted 33 days ago • 2217 comments

Angles matter.

submitted 33 days ago • 788 comments

Don't be fooled: The Laken Riley Act is "Show Me Your Papers" 2.0, supercharged & nationwide. It's a blueprint for turning America into a police state where anyone can be detained on suspicion alone. This isn't just unconstitutional—it's un-American.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

It’s a great vehicle for Trump family corruption. “Wire $100mm into my secret Chinese account, and I’ll give you a waiver. A waiver like you’ve never seen before…”

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit” President Joe Biden

submitted 38 days ago • 154 comments

this absolutely happens

submitted 38 days ago • 117 comments

Biden's speech was excellent. He's right about the oligarchy --- the tech industrial complex --- and the threat it poses. It's chilling. I attempted to write about it in a short piece today: www.salon.com/2025/01/15/m...

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

The tragedy of Laken Riley's murder by an undocumented immigrant should not be used to detain people of color on suspicion/accusation only. Sign the petition - tell your Congressional representatives and senators NOT to support the Laken Riley Act! #resistbot resist.bot/petitions/PF...

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

Reelecting this guy is one of the greatest own goals in human history

submitted 45 days ago • 580 comments

submitted 46 days ago • 1383 comments

AOC is the best

submitted 47 days ago • 399 comments

For the past 9 years I have tried to figure out how we got here and have written a lot about the Russian piece, the oligarchs, the christofascists, but not much about the boots on the ground. Mostly bc info is hard to get in a world of secrecy. This is intense 👇🏼 www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

submitted 49 days ago • 25 comments