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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 1 day ago • 3703 comments

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 days ago • 295 comments

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 24 days ago • 1888 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 27 days ago • 477 comments

@radiofreetom.bsky.social reacts to how President Trump is seriously thinking about making Canada a U.S. state "What kind of president sits around, having these kind of thoughts, especially when there are so many other problems here at home and around the world" #SundayShow

submitted 33 days ago • 35 comments

Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"

submitted 36 days ago • 91 comments

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

submitted 40 days ago • 847 comments

America (all of us) is about to go through some stuff. As someone who saw a lot of this coming, I’m frustrated and sad. My hope is that when the dust settles we will have a populous that is more engaged in the operation of their government. Perhaps this will be good in the long run.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I think it was the inevitable outcome of millions of people not understanding and not caring how their own government works

submitted 40 days ago • 116 comments

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

submitted 40 days ago • 234 comments

Dear Congress, Do your f______ job. R/ America

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is a good point. Franklin famously said that we have a republic “if we can keep it.” Americans have become complacent in keeping it. They have now in fact elected someone who has every intention to take it away.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Trump isn’t acting like someone who is worried about his party winning in two years or four. Might be a bad sign.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.

submitted 42 days ago • 238 comments

The last time people underestimated the authoritarian threat. We're living through the same cycle again.

submitted 42 days ago • 95 comments

You were warned

submitted 42 days ago • 95 comments

Time to flood the zone, people. Email all of your federal representatives. The only way this gets under control is if Congress starts doing its job.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Accountability is hard. So a 71 year old child who got caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar is begging for a pardon from a man he voted to convict of impeachable offenses. Left is right. Up is down. Whatever as long as I don’t have to go to prison.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

So I see we going to try isolationism again. Good times. It’s hard being one of the few people in the room who have read a history book.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

How is this not the biggest scandal in America right now? Isn’t this unprecedented?? Maybe Dems in the Senate should take a break from voting to confirm Trump nominees & condemn the guy who said he wanted Pelosi ‘hanged’ on Jan 6th, & also condemn the guy who just released him from prison! Sheesh.

submitted 48 days ago • 363 comments

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak. Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

submitted 48 days ago • 2034 comments

Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified nominee for Secretary of Defense in modern history. He should be rejected by the Senate.

submitted 49 days ago • 2280 comments

This was quite a thrilling read….

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Concerning.

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

submitted 50 days ago • 1517 comments

The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway. And those who warned America about it were right.

submitted 50 days ago • 1806 comments

Finding out is the hardest part

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 52 days ago • 1733 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 53 days ago • 1921 comments

Sometimes I think Adams was right.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Tarrio's indictment for seditious conspiracy, about as serious a charge of betrayal of country as there is. Can start with para 13-14 to get a sense of whom Trump has chosen to coddle. Might just as well pardon Timothy McVeigh, except he was a lone actor. www.documentcloud.org/documents/22...

submitted 53 days ago • 46 comments

Backing the blue while tackling those everyday issues that Americans care about

submitted 53 days ago • 42 comments

I’m sure this is meaningless.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Just spoke with former Officer Mike Fanone about the Biden pardon that covers him and other officers who testified before the Jan. 6 committee. “This is a different kind of American exceptionalism. It’s exceptionally fucked up.”

submitted 53 days ago • 73 comments

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

submitted 54 days ago • 3592 comments

It is President Nixon's position that foreign governments should not have broad access to Americans' private information, or have means to distribute misinformation among Americans that serves their ends. - RZ

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow a man will raise his right hand and swear to ensure the laws be faithfully executed. Unfortunately, we already know he doesn’t mean it. He will uphold the laws that suit him and ignore the ones that don’t. This is a sad and frustrating time for those of us who respect the rule of law.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Started //// going (Democracy dies in capitalism)

submitted 59 days ago • 557 comments

Bravo.

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

If you know anything about operations of federal government, Dunning-Kruger tech bros quoted in this story sound just like: How hard could it be to land a 747? How hard could it be to do surgery on the eyeball? How hard could it be to lead a SEAL team raid? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

submitted 61 days ago • 94 comments

People watching me get undressed before airport security in any country not named the United States; look at this poor soul.”

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

submitted 66 days ago • 114 comments

Since Trump won the election: End the war in Ukraine on day one: not happening Lower prices: pretty tough. Probably not. Cut the federal budget with Musk: nope. Deport all the brown people: sure, unless they are H1B brown people. Probably not many of the other ones either. We are unserious

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Reveals herself to be sane.

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