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Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

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Read this dumb shit if you want your eyes to melt out of your head and mushrooms to sprout in your brain. I will never understand the insane urge to find some way - any way - to blame literally anyone else but the GOP for the GOP’s actions.

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Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 2 days ago • 862 comments

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

submitted 3 days ago • 624 comments

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.

submitted 10 days ago • 149 comments

🇺🇸 both sides forever 🇺🇸

submitted 10 days ago • 242 comments

“We must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.

submitted 10 days ago • 286 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 10 days ago • 10974 comments

Longest speaking filibuster ever was 24 hours, 18 minutes by Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. In a few hours, that record will be shattered by Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man, laying out the case for saving democracy from an aspiring despot.

submitted 10 days ago • 121 comments

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

submitted 10 days ago • 1098 comments

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

submitted 11 days ago • 270 comments

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 42 days ago • 179 comments

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

submitted 42 days ago • 148 comments

I am not the first to say it but I do sort of see where JD Vance's mom was coming from when she traded him for drugs

submitted 42 days ago • 90 comments

The Barstool conservatives are getting restless.

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

submitted 45 days ago • 108 comments

Pep Guardiola's got nothing on Pat Noonan's philosophy

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Do you think Cincinnati has the best street art in the country? Vote now!

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I am sure that my good friend Neil Gorsuch will not be swayed by his clerks that are taking money from Elon Musk. by Neal Katyal

submitted 62 days ago • 31 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 62 days ago • 853 comments

There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.

submitted 69 days ago • 156 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

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The latest I'm hearing about the new cash trade rule. It all starts with Evander and Lucho Acosta, plus why all of these deals are connected. One high-ranking technical staffer: "We're at the frontier here, this thing is new to us too." www.givemesport.com/mls-cash-tra...

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

Heartbreaking day for me. It turns out a different Sam Alito has been reading my Pornhub essays.

submitted 86 days ago • 322 comments

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

submitted 99 days ago • 80 comments

In the interest of balance, the LA Times will publish a respectful obituary for Jimmy Carter alongside a counterpoint right-wing obituary that derides him as a low-T beta cuck. by Patrick Soon-Shiong

submitted 103 days ago • 87 comments

This paragraph landed pretty hard.

submitted 102 days ago • 87 comments

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 113 days ago • 628 comments

Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.

submitted 113 days ago • 771 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 113 days ago • 2656 comments

democratic party is going deep with the president elon / vice president trump rhetoric and i hope they don’t stop with this bc it’s the most likely scenario for elon to be ousted out of the administration and i want him to suffer more than anything else

submitted 113 days ago • 103 comments

watching spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS for the first time in some years and that first attack set piece is, uh, way more upsetting than i remembered

submitted 113 days ago • 687 comments

David Zaslav, like so many other execs in creative industries and beyond, can’t imagine that something can be thriving and essential if it’s not growing exponentially forever.

submitted 117 days ago • 49 comments

Boston paid $53 million. My understanding is #FCCincy offered what was believed to be competitive market value, but Denver’s bid to pay double previous fees seems to have put them over the top of an otherwise impressive push from Cincy.

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submitted 118 days ago • 1108 comments

Another Washington Post article relying on unnamed sources to describe the UnitedHealthcare CEO as “well-liked” 👍

submitted 117 days ago • 188 comments

Every major media article about the Unitedhealthcare CEO

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