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I haven't even met Donald for negotiations and he's already given me everything I want.

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 3 days ago • 3218 comments

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

submitted 3 days ago • 157 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 438 comments

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

submitted 9 days ago • 401 comments

sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

submitted 11 days ago • 144 comments

This is absurd. We built this database to stop officers who commit misconduct at one police agency from being rehired at another. It's about transparency and safety -- it helps the hiring agencies and the public. With due process protections. Trump shut it down

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Another day (not) at the office.

submitted 12 days ago • 126 comments

Trump posted 14 times about his Daytona 500 trip—but not once about the deadly flooding in multiple states.

submitted 15 days ago • 969 comments

It’s not strange when you realize that some large percentage of the country wants self conscious evil bc their highest priority is hurting the people they hate.

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

"The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand that he’s laying the groundwork for Ukraine to lose. He doesn’t care if Ukraine loses. The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand he’s giving a massive victory to Putin. He's on Putin’s side." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-valentin...

submitted 19 days ago • 96 comments

Why did Trump have himself put in charge of the Kennedy Center? Because he knows that the educated and cultured people who patronize it despise him. So he seeks revenge. And he knows that his being in charge of the center will destroy it.

submitted 19 days ago • 1426 comments

Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza. "Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.

submitted 20 days ago • 281 comments

Had call with Trump. Apparently "The Art of the Deal" is to give me everything I want.

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

That only makes it more of a challenge.

submitted 20 days ago • 2358 comments

Trump spent his day on his golf course; last night was dinner w/GOP at Mar a Lago. Tomorrow he attends the Super Bowl making a tight security situation worse. He’s not a POTUS, he’s a grifter & predator. Musk is prob in DC tho, dismantling our federal agencies.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Another reminder of the power of rightwing propaganda and the failure of mainstream media coverage: more people probably have heard about USAID ‘funding’ Politico (it isn’t) than about USAID funding anti-malaria programs which were just cut off and frozen by Musk and Trump.

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submitted 30 days ago • 789 comments

It's like America's a bus & an elderly narcissist speed addict is maniacally driving us off a cliff; and we're all staring at each other because 30% of the passengers enjoy that his driving upsets the rest of us.

submitted 30 days ago • 186 comments

From a bored and affluent middle class who wanted another season of reality TV.

submitted 31 days ago • 239 comments

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 31 days ago • 134 comments

I'd like to apologize to Sex Workers for all the times I will be calling this cabinet "Whores."

submitted 31 days ago • 50 comments

Let Denmark cook.

submitted 34 days ago • 1697 comments

Imagine the message to America's enemies that the Secretary of Defense - normally a position filled by overwhelming bipartisan consensus - has squeaked into his job with a Vance tie-breaker after repeated concerns about his character and lack of experience.

submitted 38 days ago • 294 comments

America’s allies should be deeply concerned about Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, @RadioFreeTom writes in The Atlantic Daily. “America’s enemies, meanwhile, are almost certainly laughing in amazement at their unexpected good fortune.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 38 days ago • 94 comments

Right wing authoritarians want to deport a bishop for quoting Jesus. And if you think that's bad, you should see what the right wing authoritarians did to Jesus.

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If there's one thing I hate on social media it is the I-told-you-so game. But I can't help but note to all those who are celebrating these revelations about the super-empowered rich or oligarchs that people have been writing about them and warning about their influence for literally centuries.

submitted 47 days ago • 23 comments

Sources close to the president say they have advised Pete Hegseth to respond to all confirmation hearing questions with "I'm too trashed to remember."

submitted 49 days ago • 30 comments

Trump and Musk are spreading disinformation about CA for several reasons. First, they need their tribe to think the worst of both CA politicians AND those affected. So they invent stories to make it their fault. Second, they need govt to be incompetent to drive the dissatisfaction they feed off.

submitted 51 days ago • 61 comments

A good hiking tip!

submitted 65 days ago • 103 comments

I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.

submitted 67 days ago • 451 comments

What’s with all this expansionist rhetoric all of a Sudeten

submitted 72 days ago • 973 comments

Nancy Mace describes her assault.

submitted 81 days ago • 66 comments

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

submitted 90 days ago • 19 comments

In 2019, Amazon sold these sugar free gummy bears that unknowingly caused explosive diarrhea. And the poor souls who got hoodwinked submitted views en masse. Some wrote paragraphs. Others wrote full-length novels. THESE are the links to their stories. (a thread 🧵👇🏻)

submitted 96 days ago • 23 comments

A third of us tried to save two thirds of us from themselves. They’re about to find out.

submitted 95 days ago • 1441 comments