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"Competent officials need to be willing to tell the president when he’s wrong, but Trump doesn’t want to hear anything beyond praise and flattery. That leaves him surrounding himself with fools, grifters, conspiracy theorists, and whatever you call the spineless sack of gelatin that is Marco Rubio."

submitted 14 hours ago • 86 comments

Called it: "Texas bill would monitor wastewater for the abortion medication mifepristone" www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2... Wrote about wastewater as surveillance here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

submitted 7 days ago • 494 comments

Some videos you don’t have to add a thing cause they speak for themselves

submitted 5 hours ago • 67 comments

What exactly are the American people sacrificing *for"? Getting vengeance on the rest of the world for supposedly ripping us off all these years? Very inspiring.

submitted 9 hours ago • 78 comments

Trump’s back in the White House—and his kids are cashing in. Saudi towers, Qatari golf deals, crypto schemes. This isn’t public service. It’s a shakedown. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 290 comments

Larry Diamond: The MAGA project is going to fail in its ultimate test, which will be the next presidential election. Republicans will have been so chaotic and irresponsible and done so much damage to the lives of ordinary Americans that they’ll be decisively rejected. wapo.st/3RPktIo

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Hey! Press covering Trump! The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies. He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says “you CANNOT do this.” Do NOT say “Trump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

submitted 17 hours ago • 147 comments

Maybe democratic leaders need to make it clear now: if you’re a nation that engaged in absolute corruption with the Trump family, you will absolutely pay a price when he is out of office. Our people deserve better

submitted 18 hours ago • 416 comments

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 491 comments

When an American farmer sells $1 million worth of soy to China, the farmer and the US are losing money. When an American farmer lets $1 million worth of soy rot in silos due to lack of customers, the farmer and the US are making money. Very simple. You all just don't understand business.

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

You can have 5 pencils

submitted 1 day ago • 285 comments

I am constantly amazed by how stupid republicans think their voters are

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

It will never cease to amaze me that this level of unsubtle dishonesty, such explicitly self-serving rhetoric has managed to convince so many people.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

"You deserve less" is a great campaign slogan for Republicans. Keep it up

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Sweet. I’m sure Trump will applaud my plan to save myself thousands by refusing to pay taxes.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

submitted 1 day ago • 1119 comments

Mark Warner: "That cabinet meeting earlier this week where everyone went around and basically paid kudos to the great leader -- it was something that frankly I would've expected out of North Korea, not out of a cabinet meeting in America."

submitted 1 day ago • 933 comments

This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

I guess I'm showing my age but not all that long ago this would have been unthinkable. It truly is a shocking development in establishment GOP ideology. Do they understand what they are saying?

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

This is the space weapons system that Musk and other shadowy tech lords want to build and then make available to the U.S. government as a subscription, totally normal stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

The DOGE coup continues.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

The conservative wannabe-Trump opposition leaders in both Canada and Australia lost both their bids to become prime minister - but also their own seats! To quote ⁦‪Rick Wilson‬⁩: everything Trump touches dies.

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

We all must stand up every single day. "If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. First Trump illegally sent a child’s father to be imprisoned without trial or due process in El Salvador. Then ICE grabbed her mother to be deported to Venezuela. But despite the mom saying she wanted to leave with her daughter, ICE is keeping the baby!

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

This isn’t hard. Everyone gets due process. EVERYONE GETS DUE PROCESS. Everyone. Gets. Due. Process.

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

www.al.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

The underlying story is the oligarchy. The policy is the froth. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

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submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

As an absolutely out-of-control clinical narcissist Trump believes he deserves all titles, and is incapable of understanding respect or reverence. The more noise people make about this, the more controversy, the more convinced he will become that he SHOULD be Pope. Blow this up!

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

"He knows nothing, it’s a disaster": Bolton slammed Witkoff’s competence. He follows Trump’s orders but is clueless about negotiations. "He knows nothing about Ukraine, Russia, Iran, nuclear weapons, or arms control. Hard to imagine a less qualified special envoy," he said.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

"The tariffs on new auto parts are also expected to increase the cost of repairs and insurance premiums, because replacement parts will become more expensive. Rising car prices will contribute to overall inflation, which Mr. Trump had promised to bring down."

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

New in PN: Trump's brain is gone "Trump’s competence has always left a lot to be desired, but recent interviews show a president who’s no longer capable of even the veneer of mental acuity. Meanwhile, his party behaves like courtiers to a mad king."

submitted 3 days ago • 371 comments

This is a fantastic piece about America’s sudden descent into competitive authoritarianism

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

This article slapped Elon Musk so hard we could hear it from across the Atlantic. Our American colleagues are beginning to roar. God bless them. newrepublic.com/article/1947...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

submitted 4 days ago • 2010 comments

Pundits of every species should be clamoring for RFK Jr.'s resignation after this latest incendiary shit. It can't be normalized. It'll kill too many people.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Politico update and, sweet Cthulhu save us but the list beyond Witkoff is... something

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric.

submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

Kamala Harris had centered her closing argument of her unsuccessful presidential campaign on the dangers posed by Trump. These were her first major remarks since he took office.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

Whelp this is a HUGE ASS MISTAKE breakingdefense.com/2025/05/hegs...

submitted 4 days ago • 414 comments

CNN put together a sample of cabinet officials kissing Trump’s ass during the cabinet meeting

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments