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Never forget he believes American soldiers are “suckers and losers.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

submitted 17 hours ago • 474 comments

No criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelans deported to CECOT, the El Salvadoran maximum security mega-prison known as a “black hole of human rights.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

The Trump tariff market crash continues as S&P futures fall 4% while stocks plunge over 8% in Japan, 5% in South Korea and 6% in Australia. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Hey, at least the guy who singlehandedly cut your 401K in half overnight isn’t spending the weekend enriching himself and the funders of 9/11 at a golf tournament… Oh wait.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

So much winning. They must be sick of it by now.

submitted 4 days ago • 147 comments

"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

Trump touted 72 ICE arrests on social media, calling them "some of the worst." Half were already in prison, @WashingtonPost.com found. "The White House and the Department of Homeland Security did not dispute The Post’s findings."

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

submitted 4 days ago • 274 comments

A reminder to reporters: Because Trump tariff numbers are made-up nonsense, using the phrase “reciprocal tariffs” is lying to your audience. The phrase itself is propaganda. They are not reciprocal.

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

If you thought Brexit was the best example of a nation committing collective national suicide you would ever see…you were wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 75 comments

Canadians have more respect for themselves than, say, America’s big law firms

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

As the administration continues to shutter vaccine sites and lay off cancer researchers, Trump has spent $40 million to hold migrants at Gitmo for the last month. Currently, there are more than 1,000 military personnel there — and 85 migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

•••••••BREAKING••••••• Elon Musk’s role in Washington appears to be coming to a close. The day after Judge Susan Crawford’s massive win in Wisconsin, Trump has privately indicated Musk is on his way OUT. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

submitted 5 days ago • 435 comments

Fascism requires the ash and ruin of democracy to build its New World and American fascism is no different in that way than it’s historic counterparts the more death, fear and ambiguity. There is the more powerful fascism becomes. it feeds on our misery and our fear and uses it to hold its own power

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

One reason they won’t bring any of these people back is they don’t want them around to testify to what’s happening

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 9 days ago • 1476 comments

Talk about waste, fraud & abuse. Kennedy NOT A DOCTOR will have this NOT A DOCTOR person run studies that have already been debunked by actual scientists. This harms our children. They have no shame

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Meanwhile, Musk gets his contracts and the rich get their tax cuts. Sigh.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Senate Republicans would rather you didn’t find out they just voted to give the biggest banks billions in profits from overdraft fees that kick working people when they’re down. Disgraceful. Meanwhile, every Senate Democrat voted against it.

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

Gallego on Trump not knowing about American troops dying in Lithuania: "This is setting up for a horrible scenario when it comes to our national security."

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

The people who provide healthcare are being squeezed - just like the public. From the perspective of those of us who work in the ER, the collapse is already happening.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

We don’t want foreigners to cause a ruckus now excuse me I have to go help the President give a medal to Andrew Tate

submitted 11 days ago • 103 comments

Freedom of speech and the right of due process - unless you "create a ruckus," then you'll be disappeared by masked agents of the state. Fundamental constitutional protections - officially suspended for foreign nationals. They'll remain in place for US citizens until the regime decides otherwise.

submitted 11 days ago • 139 comments

free markets babyyyy!!!!!

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Republicans in the Senate voted tonight while no one is watching to fatten Wall Street profits by jacking up overdraft fees on you. So much for lowering costs.

submitted 12 days ago • 188 comments

See what DOGE is really all about???!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The next time someone says he had a mandate from the "people" - feel free to share this @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

On the day lifelong public servants at the Department of Education have their 30-minute, Trump/Musk-ordered “take your shit and go” windows to pack up workspaces and exit buildings—bring your own boxes and tape, they were told—the AG is _fuming_... about vandalism to Musk products. This is America.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Foreign students pay full tuition so that universities can give financial aid to students from the US.

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 20 days ago • 191 comments

CAN I GET 70 MILLION REPOSTS ON THIS? Send this message across America! Let's go for it!

submitted 25 days ago • 86 comments

"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 1552 comments

Holy shit, a whopping 56 percent of Americans DISAPPROVE of trump's abysmal handling of the economy. This is lower than any other point even in his first term. PASS IT ON.

submitted 26 days ago • 1226 comments

DOGE IS A SCAM!

submitted 27 days ago • 229 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 1233 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 33 days ago • 484 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 33 days ago • 1747 comments

It was Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse who introduced the censure resolution of @algreen.house.gov today. Funny how Newhouse didn't have any of that energy for the repeated outbursts, interruptions, and "incivility" of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

submitted 32 days ago • 338 comments

Just saying the quiet part out loud

submitted 33 days ago • 692 comments

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

submitted 41 days ago • 1064 comments

Jeffries: "Republicans are not the party of fiscal responsibility. Stop trying to convince the American people otherwise. In fact, during Trump's first 4 years, the debt exploded to such a degree that 25% of our nation's debt came from just the first term of President Donald Trump."

submitted 41 days ago • 107 comments