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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 17 hours ago • 300 comments

Give Polly a cracker and he’ll say whatever you want him to.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I raise a glass to your mom.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

for the past few months the us has been ruled by a lawless triumvirate--a mobster (trump), a plutocrat (musk), and a commissar (miller)--haphazardly implementing, respectively, a great leap backward (tariffs), a kleptocratic shock therapy (doge), and a gestapo-spearheaded ethnic cleansing (ice)...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

submitted 11 days ago • 772 comments

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie The 100% Solution

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

To me her gibberish always sounds like that.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 27 days ago • 859 comments

To avoid conflict of interests, Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust while in office. From Trump, we get blind greed.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Data analytics??

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for the follow up. I wasn’t sure if it was in the bread or only a topping. Love za’atar, so I might give this a try.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Someone on X pointed out the scant coverage of Ron Johnson saying 9/11 was an inside job. The press assumes Republicans are crazy and malevolent, so when they say crazy stuff it doesn't get covered. But they assume Dems are competent & sane, so any data point to the contrary is treated as big news.

submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

Quick update. I got laid off a few days later and was out by the end of the month. Man, all this winning.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 32 days ago • 922 comments

You’re swinging an entirely unreasonable amount of badassery for one person. 💪

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Sunday morning April 20, 2025 Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov #AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw

submitted 31 days ago • 278 comments

I bet his browsing history would make Stormy blush.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

One of the symptoms of covid is no taste. I think we found patient zero.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.

submitted 35 days ago • 57 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 36 days ago • 1664 comments

Chef’s kiss!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 42 days ago • 391 comments

Joe Biden wiped out my student loan debt. Donald Trump wiped out my 401k savings.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Do you have any of those pre-surgery pain meds left you can share? I have my own whiskey to wash them down.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

tbh i didn't know one person could destroy the global economy

submitted 42 days ago • 761 comments

dire wolves more like liar wolves am I right

submitted 42 days ago • 85 comments

💥 Costco’s board of directors requested shareholders vote against a proposal to dismantle its DEI programs. Shareholders voted 98-2 percent to uphold DEI. 19 state AG’s demanded Costco repeal DEI. Costco hasn’t caved. 13 straight weeks increased foot traffic. chicagodefender.com/costcos-foot...

submitted 45 days ago • 142 comments

I assume he's disappointed in those numbers.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Oh. Oh. I remember this one. We get measles cases only because we do measles testing.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda feels right either way.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

When the Death Star destroys another planet, I’m sure you’ll be right there to compose a strongly worded tweet to the Imperial Senate.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I lost my job because of trump. My savings have crashed because of trump. Prices are rising because of trump. I protested against trump and received no payment for it. And no one had to pay me to vote for Harris either.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

THIS. #HandsOff

submitted 45 days ago • 213 comments

Happy to see some Canadians joining the #HandsOff protest in Charlottesville!

submitted 46 days ago • 44 comments

America. #1 in foot gun production yet again.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Isn’t -1500 the National Day Drinking Threshold?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 50 days ago • 11167 comments

It’s the proper look for the times. But if the photographer used a vintage Leica maybe we’d see a smile. 😀

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 57 days ago • 1139 comments

The Signal story is really the perfect example of how Trump's litany of abuses have completely warped media coverage and the standard he is held to. It's being covered, but on the Trump curve, it's just another scandal, as opposed to a major national security threat that should lead to resignations.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

My favorite thing about Elon Musk is that he proves money can't buy happiness. Or class, intelligence, friendship, love, purpose, grace, a sense of humor, a clue, taste, likability, expertise, empathy, enlightenment, compassion, respect, morals or whatever is the opposite of profound creepiness

submitted 58 days ago • 42 comments

If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion. If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.

submitted 62 days ago • 54 comments

I've lived long enough to go from "new phone. who dis?" to "old brain. who dis?"

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments