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What the hell is happening to this country?

submitted 4 minutes ago • 0 comments

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 8 hours ago • 243 comments

"Vance Boelter, the man accused of killing Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, voted in the March 2024 Republican presidential primary, belying online disinformation that has sought to paint Boelter as a leftist with ties to Gov. Tim Walz." minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/17/v...

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

Colorado's KNUS-AM played a key role in boosting unsupported claims that the 2020 election was rigged by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems. KNUS' owner, Salem Radio, is now offering an apology and retraction.

submitted 20 hours ago • 81 comments

Phang: You know where these things are happening? These ICE raids are happening at Home Depots, on farms and in fields, at construction sites. These immigration raids are happening in places where people are fucking working.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

when 4-5M people march peacefully against the current regime it's the story of the year. NYT cannot bring itself to focus on that reality.

submitted 3 days ago • 482 comments

Donald Trump is such an obvious moronic grifting asshole who looks like someone dipped their ball bag in bowl of Cheetos. It will never make sense to me how anyone could like him, let alone vote for him for President. And they want him to give him total absolute control.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Trump's parade was like the Trump university of Trump steaks.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

This man is a bonafide idiot.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1059 comments

Why can’t half of adult Americans see this?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments