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submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

Love to become a subservient vassal state for a dying authoritarian nation with 90% lower GDP than your own, to own the libs

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Serious North Korean s****. The US Attorneys are not the presidents' lawyers. And they should not be "standing against entities... that refuse to put America first" as the President defines it. They are defenders of the Constitution and the laws of this country. What a perversion of justice.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Reading also hard

submitted 9 days ago • 241 comments

Protests beget more protests as people see that its ok to express frustration openly.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

If you are in the DC area. Protest on Monday. Apparently, protests ocurring in other cities.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

Openly defining the rule of law as whatever he says it is. Happening right in front of us.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

Wonderful column by Robin Givhan on pettiness of Trump and the Kennedy Center www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is — literally — unheard of in federal prosecutions. We can’t prosecute him because he’s a candidate for office? Wow.

submitted 17 days ago • 1914 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 19 days ago • 1490 comments

If you are in or near Washington DC, this is the place to be. Tomorrow/Monday.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent article

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

submitted 23 days ago • 940 comments

"in bombed-out Sudanese cities, Kenyan clinics and Mauritanian refugee camps, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s most vulnerable people" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 22 days ago • 42 comments

Remember: The tariffs aren’t about economics, and DOGE isn’t about fiscal responsibility. They are both about ••psychopathology**.

submitted 25 days ago • 788 comments

Random DOGE "personnel" are running around demanding access to classified information from government files in the latest development in the rolling quasi-coup we're facing www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p... Illegal without proper clearance

submitted 25 days ago • 66 comments

In the responses I see that people can't give up the belief that there must be a pattern or plan. What if these tariffs are just the result of a whim? A passing fancy?

submitted 25 days ago • 146 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 28 days ago • 1412 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 27 days ago • 134 comments

Kash Patel posted an AI video of himself chainsawing heads off of political opponents but Republican Senators need a hearing to think deep thoughts about whether he should run the FBI

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for - women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies - people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day. - apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.

submitted 29 days ago • 433 comments

Excellent article in WPost on Trump's hypocrisy and wind power. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

W Post analysis of the firing of the inspectors www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Dana Milbank does an excellent analysis of Trump - week 1 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 37 days ago • 1921 comments

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

submitted 44 days ago • 1865 comments

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

submitted 50 days ago • 1262 comments

even though the New Orleans attacker was born in Texas and is a veteran, House Republicans on Fox are following Trump's lead and just pretending that he came across Biden's "open border"

submitted 56 days ago • 384 comments

Wow this thread… a jail fed prisoners nothing but corn dogs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for three months straight. Alabama has a law that allowed sheriffs to keep any surplus meal money as PERSONAL INCOME. The US carceral system is beyond appalling

submitted 57 days ago • 12 comments

This is what has me so crazy about Kash Patel. Everyone has jumped right to the merits of Patel and no one has even paused to say, “Presidents don’t get to fire the FBI director without paying a huge political price.”

submitted 88 days ago • 194 comments

Period.

submitted 96 days ago • 31 comments

Incredible how the fucking wire services at AP can write a better summary of the Trump rally than New York Times political reporters:

submitted 131 days ago • 43 comments

Jesus Christ I have no love for Harvard, but these Nazi fucks are way, way, way too big for their britches www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

submitted 138 days ago • 39 comments

This chart is insane

submitted 156 days ago • 12 comments

The cyclist didn't just die. He was hit and killed. He didn't crash on his own. He was hit. I'm once again begging journalists to correctly describe crashes where drivers kill cyclists.

submitted 156 days ago • 26 comments

i am definitely Calvin’s Dad

submitted 252 days ago • 18 comments

Good article in WPost on Russian trolls and Ukraine www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

submitted 324 days ago • 0 comments

Big weekend for UCONN basketball so it’s probably a good time to note that the school is cutting 15% from all academic units over the next five years to cover a $70M deficit, yet continues to subsidize athletics with over $30M per year from the academic side.

submitted 326 days ago • 8 comments

Imagine what kind of person sees children being fed lunch in school and says "We must put a stop to this"

submitted 343 days ago • 9 comments

There are Justices on the Court who have agreed to hear a case about whether the last president is immune from prosecution for criminal actions while he is running for president again, and they will spend the summer giving lectures about how the Court is the non-political branch.

submitted 365 days ago • 30 comments

Trump's party: “Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees & espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.”

submitted 369 days ago • 14 comments

Annals of evil people www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 368 days ago • 0 comments

Sinclair Broadcasting - why people support Maga www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 375 days ago • 0 comments