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submitted 8 hours ago • 204 comments

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

submitted 7 hours ago • 247 comments

This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail. Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.

submitted 7 hours ago • 247 comments

No administration in American history, not Jackson w/ Indian removal, not Lincoln in Merryman, not FDR over the New Deal, not Truman in Youngstown, not Nixon over the tapes, not Bush with Guantanamo, has openly defied a court order like this, much less one unanimously endorsed by the Supreme Court.

submitted 7 hours ago • 62 comments

Our federal judiciary remains a vital check on tyrannical threats to liberty. Join the April 15 nationwide rally for justice speakupforjustice.law

submitted 7 hours ago • 61 comments

“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.” - GS Desk/Pasquariello

submitted 7 hours ago • 203 comments

🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 7 hours ago • 30 comments

Because people are talking abt Hanania again, here’s my story exposing his white supremacist past - and, I would argue, present. Straight-up eugenicist who wrote for Richard Spencer. Wtf are we doing here, why are people so determined to make him respectable www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

submitted 7 hours ago • 49 comments

Statement from Trump on Putin’s Palm Sunday Massacre missile attack that killed at least 34, including several children, and injured another 117 people:

submitted 7 hours ago • 341 comments

Doge not saving you money

submitted 7 hours ago • 225 comments

i never imagined marco rubio would end up being one of the central villains in this endless nightmare. an absolute monster among monsters.

submitted 6 hours ago • 176 comments

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

submitted 6 hours ago • 180 comments

Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)

submitted 10 hours ago • 233 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 58 comments

A) this is patently false. Many infectious diseases can and do kill “healthy” people. B) those who aren’t “healthy” matter too. Statements like this play into the assumption that disabled and vulnerable people are expendable. That only the “strong” deserve to survive. It’s eugenics.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

The attempt to burn down the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion is pretty clearly an assassination attempt, and it's likely an antisemitic hate crime. It should be referred to that way by political media.

submitted 9 hours ago • 119 comments

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 9 hours ago • 150 comments

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submitted 9 hours ago • 302 comments

We haven’t forgotten.

submitted 8 hours ago • 755 comments

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

submitted 8 hours ago • 205 comments

Excellent op-ed on why Dr. Henry is not the right person for the next Chief Public Health Officer of Canada role 👏🏼 Cc. @mark-carney.bsky.social @chiefscican.bsky.social canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/13/w...

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.

submitted 14 hours ago • 614 comments

beyond parody — the White House cites Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of his health

submitted 14 hours ago • 923 comments

Warren: "There is no tariff policy. It's just all chaos and corruption. That's all we have going on. And how can you believe any of these guys?

submitted 14 hours ago • 274 comments

We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Important to remember this didn't "just happen". It wasn't necessary. It was 👉 done to us👈, by people who couldn't put their egos aside for long enough to learn. Empire-building science cosplayers whose reaction to the real thing was to shut them out - then double down and bury their own errors.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Every single “investment expert “ is emphasizing diversification to include investment in other stock markets. And that will extend to private markets and start ups. It’s possible to export your smartest people, hire overseas , and fund their business at a fraction of costs you face here. Insane

submitted 13 hours ago • 377 comments

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

submitted 13 hours ago • 313 comments

this is the no fucking shit of all no fucking shits and yet barely anyone anywhere is saying it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 120 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 12 hours ago • 974 comments

Trump’s tariffs are hitting farmers hard — in ways you might not expect. This honey farmer voted for Trump 3X — now costs are through the roof, hiring’s frozen, and he’s lost $150K in government contracts. Asked if he regrets his 2024 vote? “Perhaps I should’ve considered other options.” NO SHIT!

submitted 12 hours ago • 778 comments

Pathetic.

submitted 11 hours ago • 824 comments

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

submitted 11 hours ago • 91 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 11 hours ago • 119 comments

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

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submitted 14 hours ago • 222 comments

“I think there is something wrong with the code. We keep programming this language model to teach us what we can do to improve humanity, and it keeps telling us to stop being a bunch of dicks.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

werent factory jobs sought after because they were good union jobs? I imagine most people would not want to simply shred their bodies 60 hours a week for minimum wage

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 11 hours ago • 484 comments

Waiting to see what governor or State AG is willing to fight for this country.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2222 comments

no one knows what they're doing, every day in this administration is just an exercise in obliterating whatever you read the day before, it's not even orwellian eyes and ears shit, it's just government by capricious dementia

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

Donald Trump is engaging in straight up market manipulation now saying that there are no tariff exemptions. This morning, Howard Lutnick said they were temporary. This administration is incompetent.

submitted 10 hours ago • 72 comments