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"Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge."

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1. One is arguably a threat to free speech, the other a clear threat to free press. 2. They were both put equally with each other in the very 1st Amendment for a reason. 3. JD has spent 90% of his time as VP as a social media troll.

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1. Rubio will get owned by Lavrov. 2. He will come out with some shitty deal that nobody would accept. 3. Trump & Putin will blame Ukraine when it’s rejected (“they don’t want peace, etc”). 4. Pro-Ukraine Rs in Congress will say nothing.

submitted 6 days ago • 324 comments

Jesus, and they can't write for s*** either

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 6 days ago • 987 comments

Period.

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This recalls Matthew Shepard. Horrifying and infuriating.

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

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Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 2047 comments

Hey @democrats.org if you want to know how to stop trump. Ask McConnell. Or do what he did to hinder Dems when he had the minority. It's not that fucking hard.

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As a measles outbreak rages in west Texas & Republicans confirm anti-vax nutter RFK Jr to HHS, a reminder that measles wipes out the body's 'immunity memory' - the systemic, preventative response to past diseases & pathogens, from colds & flu to bacteria and viruses. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Adam Kinzinger just joined us to discuss everything from the state of democracy to Trump’s latest geopolitical capitulations, including his blatant giveaways to Putin and his reckless approach to global diplomacy. WATCH 👇

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A 71-year-old woman and others have died after oxygen supply was cut off and hospitals shuttered after Donald Trump announced a freeze on aid funding.

submitted 10 days ago • 245 comments

🚨🚨🚨 Trump just fired USAID inspector general Paul Martin—one day after he exposed how Trump’s foreign aid freeze & mass firings have made it easier for U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund terrorist groups like Hamas & ISIS.

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In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself." https://buff.ly/4bb7dqp

submitted 12 days ago • 90 comments

The fox sports robot is tossing mardi gras beads, so i can only assume it wants to see tits? AI is scary...

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Congratulations, America. He spent 18 million dollars of YOUR money to take a nap at the Super Bowl.

submitted 13 days ago • 883 comments

A bunch of MAGA homophobes find out Presler is gay and freak out. Debates/fights break out over whether you can be gay and a MAGA in good standing. As things begin to wind down, naturally they claim it was a “psyop from Leftists,” who have no clue any of this is even happening.

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🚨 BREAKING: Senator Cory Booker lays out four ways Democrats are going to FIGHT BACK against the illegal actions of the Trump administration. Here we go.

submitted 13 days ago • 253 comments

For his centennial Mr Edward Gorey #art #artsky #gorey #edwardgorey #gorey100

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The WSJ last April. The WSJ today. 🇺🇸

submitted 15 days ago • 107 comments

The new Spokesman for the US State Department.

submitted 15 days ago • 753 comments

Want to know what evil is? It's having $400 billion—and being projected to earn $600 billion more over the next 4 years—and knowing that you could awaken every morning for a month and point to a country and say I will end all hunger THERE without denting your lifestyle at all and instead you do this

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 66. 2/7/25. We begin to learn more details about the incels in Musk’s 6-person DOGE team, and it isn’t pretty. That, and everything else you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-m...

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Fake Melania is back.

submitted 15 days ago • 431 comments

One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 395 comments

So did bibi know Donnie was going to call dibs on gaza, or was that a spontaneous declaration?

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

President Donald Trump is wasting no time in carrying out his goal of throttling the free press. Over the first two weeks of Trump’s presidency, his appointees have wielded federal regulatory authority to punish outlets the president dislikes and American media moguls are responding with submission.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

“government gangsters” speaks volumes about this administration. It’s like they see Nicky Barnes as a role model.

submitted 21 days ago • 613 comments

Marco Rubio is visiting Panama this weekend to try to annex the Panama Canal. Panama is currently bracing for an American invasion and is warning there could be mass casualties. The U.S. is acting like Russia when it invaded Ukraine—and is making the world less safe in the process.

submitted 21 days ago • 744 comments