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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 4 days ago • 221 comments

After all that Marko Elez was the first taker on the resignation program.

submitted 20 days ago • 207 comments

Remember when Trump called for "termination" of the Constitution in 2022? The New York Times played it on Page 13. Now that Trump's "termination" is happening, I wonder if the Times' editors have any regrets for years of normalization and "both sides" framing that comforted the would-be dictator.

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 23 days ago • 744 comments

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

submitted 24 days ago • 606 comments

all hail the drizz

submitted 26 days ago • 106 comments

Today is the day Donald Trump became president

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

This is pretty clear pattern at this point. There's now a waiver/exception/misunderstanding for each bad news story.

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Karoline Leavitt: "DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer dollars."

submitted 29 days ago • 547 comments

Yglesias and Smith use that word because they are eugenics-curious, or more than eugenics-curious. It isn't just some sort of contrarian shock value. (it never is). They use it because it embodies an ideology of contempt for the disabled that they like and want to promote.

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

There's obeying in advance and then there's whatever this is.

submitted 33 days ago • 303 comments

in retrospect which do you think is the graver, more unforgivable sin: leaking the Dobbs opinion or building an entire life atop a mountain of theft and fraud

submitted 41 days ago • 35 comments

If I'm Chair, the DNC will begin an audit of existing consulting contracts on Day One. We will root out conflicts of interest, prioritize impact instead of commissions, and ensure all spending aligns with our values and mission. Spend to win. No grift.

submitted 43 days ago • 99 comments

People thought Trump hadn’t learned or grown after the terrible events of January 2021. But this week has made clear that he’s now committed to the peaceful transfer of power.

submitted 69 days ago • 28 comments

Hate to spoil the storyline. But does the Times understand how northern migration to red states tends to make them bluer, like Georgia and Arizona?

submitted 74 days ago • 88 comments

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

submitted 81 days ago • 457 comments

For the record, it’s absurd that we are being thrust into four more years with a depraved sociopath in the Oval Office of the country that I love.

submitted 101 days ago • 103 comments