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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 8 hours ago • 205 comments

The real kicker on the data isn’t the access; it’s the control. “Access” is abstract, diffuse, nebulous. That’s where control comes in. Because if you say, “Elon can now destroy the life of anyone, for any reason, with zero process or accountability” we know why we should be afraid.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

every single transportation conversation ever

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Tarrio was arrested yesterday, yet feels emboldened enough after a weekend of wandering around CPAC to harass a former law enforcement officer who was attacked on Jan. 6.

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

I’ve recommended this YouTube channel before but it takes outtakes and edits them into the episodes and if you have any affection for the source material you will be in a better mood after watching a couple youtu.be/l7oWXooPT80?...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 1 day ago • 572 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1459 comments

WATCH: “You just said something that’s not true — that tens of millions of dead people are on that list… but the same report you cited said almost none of them have received Social security.” Trump’s Press Sec hides behind saying they “suspect” it, then runs away 🤔

submitted 1 day ago • 372 comments

I mean defending torture is technically a principle I guess

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. That starts with banning super PAC donations in Dem primaries. There’s no way the party can speak for the majority of working people in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 2 days ago • 757 comments

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

Eric Adams Appoints Deputy Patsy For All Future Corruption Probes theonion.com/eric-ad...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

submitted 3 days ago • 346 comments

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

The time for action is now. Call Chuck Schumer’s office and demand he start mocking Donald Trump by repeating everything Trump says in a dumb guy voice

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

Anders Behring Breivik carried out the 2011 Norway attacks killing 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp, in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya. He too posted this same quote as part of his white supremacist manifesto. If you haven’t connected the dots yet, please try to.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

submitted 17 days ago • 415 comments

Lmao

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

MIAMI: “A man is facing serious charges following accusations of opening fire on a vehicle after he saw ‘two Palestinians’ in a shooting in Miami Beach this weekend, arrest documents said.” (The father/son victims were actually Israeli/ on vacation) www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

Um...EXCUSE ME???

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Trump and DOGE accused federal civil servants of fraud (with no evidence). Meanwhile, they're halting enforcement of a foreign anti-bribery law, dropping criminal charges against Eric Adams, and pardoning a former governor who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat. Hello?

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

Happy Congressional recess week! In honor of it, I put together a tracker of every vote the US House has taken so far this year. Which Democrats are standing up to Trump's agenda and which are being willful accomplices? docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 7 days ago • 2927 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 558 comments

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

if you don't click through to the article you'll miss that 1) this guy looks EXACTLY like you would expect a guy who owns a gold cybertruck to look like and 2) this is the "threatening" sticker lmao

submitted 11 days ago • 213 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe you could give them uniforms like matching brown shirts so we know they’re official

submitted 10 days ago • 373 comments

It’s probably a bad sign when the wealthiest person in the world, who’s already shutting down entire government agencies in a coup and has access to all our personal information, is now talking about “a second American revolution”

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 10 days ago • 465 comments

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up took $80 million from an NYC bank account!

submitted 11 days ago • 1751 comments

“Mistakenly.” As if. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 175 comments

“A driver experiencing a medical emergency saw matters go from bad to worse when she crashed and another driver started shooting at her…”

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

A haunted charlatan with cold black eyes dripping poison into the ear of a monarch is a tale as old as time. In 2025, however, we’ve replaced Rasputin’s menacing charisma with an effete, deadbeat Boer whose temperament is redolent of a middle school boy terrified to remove his shirt at a pool party.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Once again: The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

explaining his decision to declare martial law during his impeachment trial, insurrectionist Yoon Seok Yeol explains how the opposition party lawmakers failed to clap during one of his policy speeches. www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

Matthew Coleman, QAnon dad charged with slaughtering his kids, is ‘nearly incomprehensible’ behind bars as trial reaches deadline

submitted 17 days ago • 260 comments

In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation. www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...

submitted 16 days ago • 305 comments

Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."

submitted 18 days ago • 635 comments

The more the Elon/Trump junta antagonize the CIA, the more likely the Mormon White Horse prophecy becomes, and it gives me no real pleasure to report this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_H...

submitted 18 days ago • 131 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Anyway, if you were looking for a reason not to eat "6-9 pounds of butter every day," here you go

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments