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If you want to understand how we got here, you have to understand Christian Nationalism. It's the permission structure that justifies all of this harm and hate in the minds of so many Americans. Here's a reading list to get you started: bookshop.org/lists/unders...

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, PA, received the first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. Thanks to the vaccine, by the 21st century polio cases were reduced by 99 percent worldwide. #OnThisDay #Vaccines

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 480 comments

Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 9 hours ago • 158 comments

most of the return-to-office mandates come from a similar place: managers who need to justify their own existence. because let's be real — if you can't rely on adults to work well from home, you did a shitty job of hiring.

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 22 hours ago • 159 comments

If you review grants for the NEH, do not resign! They'll replace you with someone willing to follow the racist guidelines. The anti-DEI executive order is under injunction anyway, so you can just ignore it. Stay and approve what you would have approved regardless. Gum up the works. Fight back.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Folks, here is what I now believe we should demand from our lawmakers. You already know what I'm about to say next because you've felt it in your bones for a long time: Trump MUST be removed from the Oval Office and thrown in prison. Elon too.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

this kind of shit made sense back when musk was still widely admired and seen as non-political but the most recent polling shows he's hilariously unpopular, like 10-15 points lower than Trump's own low approval ratings. People hate this motherfucker! You don't need to clear your throat first

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

Time to start shorting broad market ETFs! #trumprecession

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Boycott them all!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." - Sam Spade #TheMalteseFalcon

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Co-sign

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 535 comments

Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

I am not kidding when I say Madison intended impeachment to be used on the first, next, and last President who referred to themselves as a king, and we ought to do him right

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

Pritzker is killing it right now. Why aren’t other elected leaders responding the same?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, listen to this guy. He served as chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, former senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and serves as board member @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & the Society of Labor Economists, & is generally a great labor economist. ⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

submitted 5 days ago • 1364 comments

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Not sure we’ve ever had a president who hates Americans as much as this asshole does

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

I mean, let’s be clear about this. US Citizenship and Immigration Services has faced cuts. USCIS is funded by immigration application fees. It specifically is not supposed to cost the taxpayer ANYTHING. & that money can’t be spent elsewhere. This isn’t an efficiency calculation!

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 6 days ago • 767 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

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Last month's SpaceX rocket launch:

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

submitted 6 days ago • 175 comments

It sucks that “an actual Nazi working at a new government agency named after a Shiba Inu meme, run by the South African shadow President, is trying to access all your banking information” probably sounds like some Lyndon LaRouche-level insane crank nonsense to normal people.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 8 days ago • 345 comments

we don’t have wwii levels of indebtedness we know where the money went (cutting taxes for david sacks) people talk about it all the fucking time

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

As Trump forces out the leadership of the National Archives, please don't forget his vision for proper archival management. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Don’t trust fascists bearing gifts!

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submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Super glad we torched our reputation with one of our closest allies by continually dangling a self-destructive trade war threat over their head, brilliant 14 Dimensional Chess move here

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

Just self-immolation after self-immolation, mandated by belligerently stupid men who think that if they don't understand something, it couldn't possibly be important.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments