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No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 3 hours ago • 154 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

Ah yes, use Pete Hegseth to arbitrarily rip apart the military and then install retired and unqualified stooges in their place the military is going to love this for sure

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

submitted 14 hours ago • 395 comments

rumble in the distance getting louder every day

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

after hearing from several of you last night, i think i have a general structure for this. it's subject to change based on feedback, but if you're a current, fired, or currently-being-litigated federal worker, i want to hear from you. here are the details.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

We're doing it, folks

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

the theological controversy here is that doug wilson believes that women who lead churches should be executed

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

I hope it goes without saying that this goes doubly for purged military officers

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 131 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 15 hours ago • 405 comments

the reason that the american right are leaning hard into their immorality - which they themselves understand very clearly to be immoral - is, at the bottom of it, they don’t believe in anything.

submitted 13 hours ago • 37 comments

The People are rising up. Even where The People live in places that are very cold right now.

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GRR Martin famously attacked Tolkien for not explaining Aragorn’s tax policy. But Martin also doesn’t logically explain anyone’s tax policy. I demand someone write a fantasy which gets to grips with the realities of premodern tax economics

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

This sign is so Jeffersonian.

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Left-isolationism should have been killed as a morally acceptable stance by the way that Trump has nakedly demonstrated how isolationism is an inherently imperialist worldview. But alas

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

yes

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 16 hours ago • 55 comments

Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

submitted 14 hours ago • 479 comments

Vichy Times gonna Vichy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Speaking as someone who has a disproportionate number of JAG friends, this is Bad.

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People make excuses for this, but there's an extraordinary lack of civic virtue in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Chicago Pride Pharmacy is a critical access point for patients with HIV in Lombard, but they're getting hit hard by pharmacy benefit managers. Unfairly high prices from PBMs have put a strain on them and their customers. It's past time we reform their unfair practices.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

No, the goal is not to "get the AP back in its rightful place" in the White House, it's to keep freedom of the press despite an abusive White House attacking it. Or at least it should be. You're in "hang together or hang separately" territory and you're pleading behind the scenes with the hangman.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A coup against the constitution, with willing participation from virtually every Republican senator

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Yeah. To put it into perspective, if Trump is permitted to rearrange the post office, he is also permitted to rearrange the lower federal courts however he likes. Both are spelled out as "The Congress shall have Power" in Art I, Sec 8. And there's more too, like armies and the militia, second pic.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

the bright side to this, as it were, is that it's impossible to say what 2030 or 2035 are gonna look like

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

submitted 2 days ago • 315 comments

Vance and others close to him are setting up the intellectual basis for American withdrawal from and hostile rivalry towards the EU based on the claim that a democratic Europe has betrayed an authoritarian vision that Vance presents as the epitome of "Western" civilisation.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments