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This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

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Elon Musk: I have a wild thought. I must post it. Conscience: Shouldn't you check if it's true? Elon: I'm really rich. It must be true. Experts: It's not true. Elon: Fuck you. You're not rich. MAGA: Elon must be right. He's really rich.

submitted 10 days ago • 151 comments

I come from the right. It’s the cruelty. For the right, the cruelty is the point. The cruelty sells.

submitted 15 days ago • 1361 comments

OH NO DIVERSE MICROBES

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

More relevant than ever

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

That sound you hear is a dog dunking a basketball.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in: 1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments 2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal 3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team 4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system

submitted 16 days ago • 80 comments

Trump may have pardoned the rioter who viciously attacked officer Michael Fanone on January, but Judge Amy Berman Jackson made a few things clear when she dismissed the case, as she had to:

submitted 16 days ago • 176 comments

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Judge Coughenour was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

submitted 16 days ago • 176 comments

President Trump is imposing tariffs while his company creates a "Made in America" ETF President Trump is deregulating the energy industry while his company creates a "Energy Independence" ETF President Trump is promoting the crypto currency industry while his company creates a "Bitcoin" ETF

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2838 comments

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people.” I’ve had my differences with Justin Trudeau, for sure, but he rose to the occasion here.

submitted 21 days ago • 136 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 24 days ago • 3793 comments

This is f*cking hilarious. Desantis is melting down after his Republican House Speaker and Senate President slapped him down today and took away his ability to appoint a state deportation czar and gave it to the Ag Commissioner, who he doesn’t especially like.

submitted 26 days ago • 877 comments

This is Musk's new pinned tweet. - It's Latin meaning "no one provokes me and gets away with it." - He attributes it to Sulla, the Roman general who marched on Rome, named himself dictator and launched a notorious reign of terror, executing much of the city's elite. - It's never linked to Sulla.

submitted 27 days ago • 317 comments

No. The “CIA” doesn’t favor it, Trump appointee John Ratcliffe does. And, buried 14 paragraphs in: “The agency made its new assessment with “low confidence,” which means the intelligence behind it is fragmentary and incomplete.”

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments

My dispatch from opening statements of the Oath Keepers trial, in case you need to be reminded of who Trump considers a VIP: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

submitted 28 days ago • 41 comments

lol…how humiliating! “There is a lot more ass-kissing that needs to be done,” says a senior Trump administration official. Zuck “just needs to prove himself. It’s a good start, but he can’t just snap his fingers and make the past not happen.”

submitted 30 days ago • 107 comments

Never going to forget or forgive a single fucking person who supported him.

submitted 34 days ago • 403 comments

In 2020, Trump tried to ban TikTok. He cited one of his reasons was "retaliation for the China virus". He tried to force a sale to American Oligarchs. He was overruled by a federal judge. In 2021, Biden revoked Trump's EO banning TikTok. 🧵

submitted 35 days ago • 174 comments

To whom are you beholden?

submitted 41 days ago • 678 comments

Leave it to the business reporters to understand exactly what is going on. Framed perfectly.

submitted 48 days ago • 664 comments

Wow the fuck is this????

submitted 60 days ago • 3442 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Trump shut down the government because he didn’t get more money for the wall than he had asked for, and then caved after he got less money for the wall than he had shut the government down for, but nonetheless claimed victory.

submitted 65 days ago • 151 comments

I don’t really see why the Biden pardon is still a topic, but it certainly doesn’t need whataboutism to defend it. Joe Biden pardoned his son because his son was clearly going to be an ongoing target of the Trump admin in an effort to hurt the Biden family. That’s the whole of the story.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

submitted 87 days ago • 868 comments

This was the guy who didn’t qualify for a security clearance in his last administration. He also knows fuck all about counterterrorism, so there’s that. And there’s the small problem of the Hungarian neo-Nazi ties. I’m gonna need more scotch.

submitted 92 days ago • 633 comments

🔥Ana Navarro: Bill Clinton had two attorney general nominees who had to withdraw because they had employed illegal nannies. Matt Gaetz is accused of sleeping with a girl who's almost young enough to need a nanny x.com/rpsagainsttr...

submitted 96 days ago • 55 comments

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