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In the face of a lot of nihilism, here is some evidence that elections still matter. Still plenty of bad things happening, but this is absolutely a win.

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Just call it a "tax hike". Then maybe people will get the drift.

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The Trump administration is more than just a joke, they're a National Security Threat.

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure on Friday and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. Follow live updates.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

When MAGA folks say “no scalps” and pledge to stand by Hegseth no matter what, they are telling us something very important. More mistakes will be made. Signalgate can happen again. They are fine w that. People are going to get hurt.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 7 days ago • 668 comments

The more things change...

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ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."

submitted 7 days ago • 2001 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 7 days ago • 1334 comments

A stunning assault on the First Amendment Before Rubio's confirmation, senators and pundits acted as though he was a "sane," "rational," "normal," "moderate" nominee. He's constantly showing himself to be a right-wing extremist.

submitted 7 days ago • 218 comments

Plausible since these well-financed adversaries probably have subscriptions to The Atlantic

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Nobody in this government seems to know anything that is happening inside this government. Everyone is always unaware of everything. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 9 days ago • 321 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 10 days ago • 884 comments

Fired? Chelsea Manning was sentenced to THIRTY FIVE YEARS in prison

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Wow- Himes during a heated exchange w/Will Cain on Fox: "I'm not gonna listen to to you tell me that this about a partisan advantage...it is by the grace of God that we don't have dead pilots right now...it makes me want to throw up to hear you turn this into a partisan issue. You just need to stop"

submitted 9 days ago • 1930 comments

What our allies are asking themselves right now: "Is this a government and group of people you’d want to share your own sensitive intelligence with? "This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles"

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

JD Vance directs a White House Instagram video

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The Most Insane Trump Story of All Time…For Now

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NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

submitted 10 days ago • 1998 comments

Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."

submitted 10 days ago • 1280 comments

Oh no, we've found the one part of an insane plan to forcibly remove 8,000,000 people and send them to a slave labor camp that might be "impractical."

submitted 10 days ago • 151 comments

The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down. Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students. There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

Found some fraud and abuse… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Honestly, I think 10% is low

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Sondheim, born today in 1930. He is missed. 💔

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I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

submitted 14 days ago • 2312 comments

It'll be bad enough if they fail to send out SS checks. It'd be amazing if they somehow make it worse by insisting anyone complaining is a liar and a cheat.

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Billionaire Trump Official Says Missing Social Security Checks Are ... No Big Deal More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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If we can't illegally share Social Security information with the world's richest man, I guess we would have to drive millions of seniors into poverty

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“black servants who were their friend”

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The U.S. authorities denied entry to a French scientist and then deported him because his phone contained message exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his “personal opinion” on the Trump administration’s science policies, said the French government. nyti.ms/4iAZR2l

submitted 14 days ago • 96 comments

There is no plan

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Commentary: "Trump, a man who dodged the draft with phony bone spurs, and Hegseth, who has spent his career exploiting veterans for personal and political gain, have done more to dishonor military service than any foreign adversary’s propaganda ever could."

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

RT=Endorsement

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You think it’s an accident Tesla sales are down almost 80% in Germany? They know what his salute meant.

submitted 15 days ago • 325 comments

My old friend is Elon Musk's right-hand fixer. It was heartbreaking to write this. But it's an analysis I haven't seen elsewhere...Via @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Social Security Administration said that people who wanted to file for benefits or change the bank where their payments are deposited could no longer do so by phone and must first verify their identity online or go into a field office.

submitted 14 days ago • 107 comments

Not just any company, the company of a high-ranking administration official. Endless corruption.

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When asked about the reason for the removal of the story on the @DeptofDefense website on Jackie Robinson's military service, Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot said the following in a statement to ESPN.

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Elon musk is not a victim.

submitted 15 days ago • 525 comments