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The United States you know and experience is a product of the unelected bureaucracy that conservatives castigate at every opportunity. When that steady hand no longer exists… Well, you’ll see.

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People make excuses for this, but there's an extraordinary lack of civic virtue in this country.

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man, reading /r/army is kinda depressing

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I was in a federal building today and this is absolutely true

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Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

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This actually fits right into the Republican worldview that it’s somebody else’s job (usually the liberals’) to protect them from themselves. Like I think they really do believe this

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"The 3,000 agents Turner fired, each and every one of them first or second generation Americans. Is that because they lacked diplomatic skills, or did Turner not think it was a good idea to have spies who could speak the same language as the people they're fuckin' spying on?"

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it is cool how this is illegal and that does not make it into the headline at all

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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“Good, I’ll see you in court, I look forward to that, that should be a real easy one" -- Donald Trump, who has lost in court more than the Washington Generals

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Look, I know this is hard, but all the laws of political gravity haven’t just disappeared. He’s governing as though he won a victory that made Reagan ‘84 look like a nail biter, and it’s gonna start to catch up with him.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s fabricated immunity, he will go to prison if he’s ever not president again, and he knows it. The next four years will be about ensuring he can remain president for life, because the institutions with the ability to physically remove him from office won’t.

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

my hitler will be the good one

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To the extent that American men have specific problems linked to their gender this is caused by a lack of feminism, rather than its excess.

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I will vote for the first candidate who tells me they're going to make the biggest government possible. Reacher-sized agencies. Braun Strowman-level social benefits. Government so big it starts belching out National Parks and free healthcare. Chungus State.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

We all have lapses where our memory fails us and we forget some complicated technical term, or have trouble recalling some difficult bit of jargon, like "triangle."

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I'm nominating the American Flag to become the symbol of the new opposition movement.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

I empathize w Mr Friedman who hopes the law of gravity will kick in to save us. But alas: in Politics there is no law of gravity. It is up to citizens, leaders, & civil society who either act, or not. What may look like gravity is actually political courage www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

This. Let’s be done with the whole “run government like a business” bs, shall we?

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our despair has been because the Republican party has been choking out the possibility of change our entire live, and our octogenarian legislators considered that to be our grandchildren's problem. but we do not need to be content with that.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Taps Sign

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Going to be quite frank, I do not find anything about this “king” stuff to be funny in any form, don’t think there’s a place for us to just crack wise about it and pretend it’s normal, yes we are all irony-poisoned but if we don’t draw a line here then we have no line

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

Wages in the US are at least 5% higher thanks to foreign workers. Thank you. www.nber.org/system/files...

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I try to be optimistic and think most things can be fixed but I don't know how you fix never being able to trust us again

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

This means that there's Open Borders now. Those are the rules.

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I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA. The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

submitted 5 days ago • 359 comments

One of the reasons that I think economic pain is a predicate to fixing anything is that I believe there are too many people in this country who suffer from a malicious ignorance as a result of motivated reasoning. You have to alter the motivation.

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Protests beget more protests as people see that its ok to express frustration openly.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 6 days ago • 265 comments

It really is that simple

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“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers. www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I mean, it’s both, and if you can’t see how it’s both then I don’t think you have a good understanding of how political persuasion works in America. There are people at the fringes who should be welcomed back because they’ll flip, but the hardcore Trump supporters can only be humiliated.

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