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He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1143 comments

He is systematically ensuring that every arm of government, even those arms historically independent and free from politics (i.e., the military and DOJ) is full of loyalists. It’s what anti-democratic leaders do.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Trump loses the first emergency plea of his second term at the Supreme Court. The case concerns Trump‘s removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court won’t take action on Trump’s emergency petition over the firing Hampton Dellinger, head of a watchdog agency. Dellinger will remain in his role until at least Feb. 26 as litigation continues in a lower court. Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u... Background:

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

NEW: The Justice Department now says Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters covers unrelated gun charges some faced after the FBI searched their homes. It’s moving to drop felony charges against Daniel Ball and Elias Costianes. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

The former bartender in me just instinctively slapped the tabletop and said, "OK, let's have the car keys"

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

NOTICE THE COMMON THREAD?: Elections keep going Deep State, we have to find a workaround; the constitution is being gamed by "legacy media"/Deep State, so we need to give "power of the purse" to Elon. The solution is always the same. Elon needs to be in charge of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Perfect sentence/parenthetical: "[Senator] Tillis has said that if people want to understand Trump, they should read the 2006 book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. (When asked for comment...a spokesperson...said it was false that the senator had recommended the book in that capacity.)"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1913 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Very excited about getting to work with Amy Jeffress, a brilliant lawyer I’ve long admired. www.law360.com/articles/229...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is forever projecting. "I'm not a puppet" part two... Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ Who Took U.S. Money to Go to War www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

submitted 3 days ago • 4827 comments

Same.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 3 days ago • 747 comments

Dear World, I apologize. We have a Russian asset in the White House. Trump stands with Putin. He doesn’t stand with Ukraine, NATO or the free world. Many, many, many of us Americans apologize profusely for this. Sincerely, A Ukraine-Supporting, NATO-Supporting American

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 4 days ago • 577 comments

This is very bad. Expect many more improper probes in DC, where J6 fan Ed Martin is the interim U.S. Attorney and just got nominated for a full term. And expect it at the FBI level, nationwide, if Kash Patel is confirmed.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8251 comments

Thousands marched in New York City against the fascist Trump regime. (📹@StatusCoup) "Fascist Trump has got to go" #3E #USProtests #fiftyfiftyone #NoKings #Feb17

submitted 4 days ago • 236 comments

Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

submitted 5 days ago • 216 comments

The richest man in the world with access to your tax records—what could go wrong? To start, how about misuse of your private information, targeting critics, rigging things for himself, and destroying trust in the IRS. This is illegal and dangerous.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data. The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances. Period. End of story.

submitted 5 days ago • 851 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

“We do have guardrails. But they assume moderately bad behavior. They don’t assume complete efforts to assault the traditional institutions of government.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

This is horseshit. If you fear protests will lead to martial law then you already live under martial law — and you’re the one who declared it. Plus, it won’t lead to a declaration of martial law and the fear misconstrues the nature of the threats we face.

submitted 6 days ago • 187 comments

The infamous memo from the Trump Administration reads like a ransom note. It openly acknowledges that it is dropping the charges against Mayor Adams in order to use him to carry out its immigration policy.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Very smart points in this thread.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I had been wondering how Pete Marocco could have so much bureaucratic experience and yet be so incompetent. This explains a lot of it.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

It takes over 25 ¶¶ before WaPo explains why Trump is failing to meet the deportation numbers he promised: Stephen Miller lied about the number of criminal aliens in the US to fearmonger and get Trump elected. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

FACT.

submitted 6 days ago • 651 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 6 days ago • 307 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 6 days ago • 942 comments

👇🏽

submitted 6 days ago • 329 comments