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What's the lesson, the smart capitalist looks for ways to make money after the pointless destruction of the citadel? Feels like Thenardier in the sewer picking gold teeth out of the corpses.

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Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

Finally, someone is going to speak up for free markets.

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With due respect, Senator, federal employees are not “his staff.” The whole damned problem here is that federal employees in no legal sense report to Elon Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

He nails it.

submitted 8 days ago • 1551 comments

"business acumen"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

He "flips the script." No, he surrenders an ally to the enemy. He surrenders to Putin. Baker, of course. #BrokenTimes. Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

US Senator Roger Wicker, head of the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, commented on the talks with Putin: "No, Putin cannot be trusted. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed."

submitted 12 days ago • 618 comments

Hard to overstate how much worse this is than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 12 days ago • 1064 comments

💯 NYT's horrible framing in a nutshell: when GOP is loafing and minority Dems are calling for action, it's "Congress" that is ineffective. When it's the reverse, it's "Dems in Disarray."

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Kinda love that we have an Inability Committee.

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Upon receiving the news that four of the City's Deputy Mayors have submitted their resignations, I sent the following letter to @nycmayor.

submitted 13 days ago • 240 comments

Not even six hours apart.

submitted 14 days ago • 1198 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 14 days ago • 273 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 14 days ago • 493 comments

A point to consider.

submitted 15 days ago • 1259 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 15 days ago • 957 comments

Great, good suggestion, let me just run this through a few focus groups.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 15 days ago • 541 comments

Seems to be pretty much 100% in conflict with the oath of office.

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Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla and donated the proceeds to NPR. “My parents always said... you are who you hang out with”

submitted 15 days ago • 73 comments

I see. So what you’re telling me is we need to organize a grassroots, civil-rights-style mobilization of the people to fight for the restoration of the germ theory of disease.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 17 days ago • 395 comments

Trump gets the most generous coverage of any American of my lifetime and there’s no close second.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 17 days ago • 147 comments

This entire thing is almost comically corrupt

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The racism and misogyny is just endless. I never want to hear the word “snowflake” come from a conservative ever again. gizmodo.com/nasa-ordered...

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This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

submitted 18 days ago • 108 comments

Ooof, a gut-punch of a piece. "we are hurtling towards having a Russian-type regime" snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 19 days ago • 420 comments

Good reminder that I hadn't donated to EFF in a while. (just did!) www.eff.org/press/releas...

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I have convinced myself Trump gave Ric Grennell the Kennedy Center gig because he's gay and Trump assumes all gay people love theater, I believe this in my bones

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

One thing that’s difficult to get people to really grasp is that impoundment is both lawless and actively undermines the basis of democracy. It’s one of those areas where rule of law and democracy are extremely closely aligned, the only area where it’s closer would be election law itself.

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?

submitted 20 days ago • 1420 comments

"For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart." that's a quote from an ACTIVE DUTY U.S. ARMY GENERAL.

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This is so nakedly corrupt, I'm having trouble believing it's real. They're stating, in writing, that the case against Adams must be dismissed so he can have more time to go after immigrants.

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