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Vote on government funding in the Senate 85 to 11

submitted 68 days ago • 34 comments

LET'S FUCKING GO, UNITED!!! #GGMU #MUFC #UTFR #ARSMUN #PremierLeague

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Protect norms and institutions Protect norms and institutions Protect norms and institutions Protect norms and institutions www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 86 days ago • 374 comments

I love this idea that Biden pardoning Hunter will somehow ‘justify’ or ‘excuse’ Trump pardoning the Jan 6th prisoners, ignoring the fact that: 1. Trump had promised to pardon them long before Biden did this. 2. There is nothing comparable between Hunter’s crimes & their crimes.

submitted 86 days ago • 278 comments

didn’t see quite the same level of outrage about these pardons

submitted 86 days ago • 1112 comments

So @janemayer.bsky.social does not miss www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

submitted 87 days ago • 517 comments

nightmare rotation

submitted 86 days ago • 260 comments

Pete Hegseth, nominee for Sec Def: - zero experience - his own mother will not endorse him - not a single reputable member of the military has come forward to support his nomination - has a history of sexual assault, financial mismanagement and being drunk on the job You're all caught up.

submitted 87 days ago • 843 comments

Here’s a crazy idea. Let’s make sure the proposed new FBI Director can pass an FBI Background Check.

submitted 86 days ago • 690 comments

BACON: “On K-12 ed, (bipartisan) voters unify against powerful conservative groups & Republican politicians— 70% of 🇺🇸 are satisfied with THEIR public school.” @GovBillLee’s private school voucher scam is back. Will your reps betray your schools? Call them. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 87 days ago • 12 comments

When making a MAGA cabinet, it's very important to strike a careful balance between billionaires, sex criminals, Russian assets, anti-vaxxers, and just plain unpleasant people.

submitted 88 days ago • 200 comments

Shameful behavior from a bunch of cowards.

submitted 89 days ago • 1217 comments

🇺🇸 hard to argue

submitted 88 days ago • 61 comments

The time the new nominee for FBI Director told Steve Bannon I was "the enemy" because I "always find a way to win."

submitted 88 days ago • 233 comments

No, this is whining. You don’t have to accept that Twitter is “the playing field” and you don’t have to surrender to Elon’s “terms” either. Grow a goddamn spine or get out of politics

submitted 87 days ago • 159 comments

Read this story - which is bonkers in places - about Patel from my colleague @epcalabro.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 88 days ago • 101 comments

The Ref has been a cunt, alright. To be expected in a United game, given the conflicting duties of having to give "fair" decisions, with some of them possibly FOR United. No qualms if it was going against, however absurd it may be. 2 stone wall penalties, 0 given. 🙈 #PGMOL. #ManUtd #GGMU #MUNEVE

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

That is the United I want to see, every single day, every single game. 👏👏👏 #GGMU #MUFC #MUNEVE

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever a border czar is, they don't have arrest authority. Federal law enforcement officers do, pending judicial enforcement. Consultation with prosecutors is the norm for pre-planned arrests & here's the kicker: people being arrested must have actually committed a crime.

submitted 88 days ago • 783 comments

When rumors of banning LGBTQ+ books hit the library board in a small Louisiana town, @librarianjones.com took action, facing death threats. For her, silence was never an option. “Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned,” she writes. Join us at 11aET for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub. #Velshi

submitted 88 days ago • 362 comments

Just weeks after being banned from Australia, Candace Owens has been banned from New Zealand as well.

submitted 88 days ago • 1230 comments

Trump throws down the gauntlet. The answer from the Senate MUST be no. Kash Patel cannot be put in charge of the FBI.

submitted 88 days ago • 605 comments

I spoke with @marcelias.bsky.social about exactly why Kash Patel is one of, if not the most dangerous Cabinet picks. Watch below:

submitted 88 days ago • 184 comments

Andrew McCabe on Trump’s pick to lead the FBI

submitted 88 days ago • 44 comments

Fun fact: there’s never been a Democratic director of the FBI in its entire history.

submitted 88 days ago • 744 comments

My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 88 days ago • 548 comments

Trump’s FBI nominee writes children’s books glorifying ‘King Donald’ while casting Hillary Queenton as the villain. It’s fitting for someone set to lead an agency through the lens of a partisan fantasy.

submitted 88 days ago • 27 comments

News outlets are all for some reason emphasizing that Patel is a loyalist versus the more important fact that he’s an extremist and conspiracy theorist with no allegiance to the truth.

submitted 88 days ago • 221 comments

The @washingtonpost.com is definitely just trolling us now

submitted 88 days ago • 668 comments

"A lot of people say he's crazy," Trump said about Patel, according to an adviser cited by The Atlantic. "I think he's kind of crazy. But sometimes you need a little crazy."

submitted 88 days ago • 25 comments

Who wants to tell her?

submitted 88 days ago • 829 comments

Meet Trump's FBI director Kash Patel: “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day 1 and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.”

submitted 88 days ago • 226 comments

Putting people in charge of departments they want to destroy is kind of the unwritten subtext of project 2025

submitted 88 days ago • 670 comments

There were a record breaking 60 voting and election lawsuits filed in November -- exceeding the totals in Nov. 2020 and 2022. It was the busiest month ever for new cases. Stay informed by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 88 days ago • 34 comments

Seems like maybe part of the problem is turning to 80 year-olds who don’t know what TikTok is and are just now realizing people get their information differently to ask them what the problem is? newrepublic.com/article/1888...

submitted 88 days ago • 224 comments

It would be good if senators from both parties started getting a lot of calls and emails requesting proper FBI background checks for all cabinet appointees, and for Kash Patel not to be confirmed under any circumstances. Many in the GOP are not comfortable with this either. Let them hear from you.

submitted 88 days ago • 59 comments

But Mr. Thune’s election was by secret ballot, and Mr. Gaetz likely represented just the first, not the last, effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to bring the Senate to heel. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...

submitted 88 days ago • 120 comments

Trump is seizing control of the investigative and prosecutorial powers of the state by staffing them with the most conspiratorial and blindly loyal nominees : Gaetz/Bondi, Patel, Gabbard. Political retribution is his priority. The rest of governing he doesn’t care about.

submitted 88 days ago • 680 comments

This precisely: “We have to be going to places where voters are hearing only about Democrats from Republicans. If voters hear about Democrats only from Republicans than Democrats are going to lose.” @benwikler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...

submitted 88 days ago • 39 comments

What’s worse? (1) having your mother call you out as a dirt bag in an email published in the New York Times (2) having a porn star you paid $130K in hush money pick little plastic mushrooms depicting you off a tray on the Jimmy Kimmel show

submitted 88 days ago • 1747 comments

LET'S GO UNITED! #MANUTD #GGMU #UTFR

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Crockett: The fact that we have Americans that are saying, wait a minute, are you saying that tariffs are going to negatively impact me? It's kind of like that wall that we are still waiting on Mexico to build, that they are going to pay for. No, we are going to pay for it.

submitted 91 days ago • 578 comments

Resistance HQ Bulletin 15, 11/28/24. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 91 days ago • 147 comments

Elon accuses Alexander Vindman, who sounded the alarm about Trump blackmailing Ukraine to get dirt on Biden, of “treason” 👇🏽 thehill.com/policy/techn...

submitted 91 days ago • 66 comments

I mean, Joe Biden did walk a picket line. He canceled student loan debt and nominated Lina Khan to the FTC. Kamala Harris talked about corporate price gouging and having Medicare pay for home care.

submitted 92 days ago • 96 comments

Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled.

submitted 91 days ago • 2028 comments

Like any genius with narcissistic personality disorder, Donald Trump views the USA as entirely self-sufficient, importing nothing and exporting everything. His binary mindset sees America as flawless and the rest of the world as the source of all its problems.

submitted 91 days ago • 20 comments

Now that Donald Trump is headed back to the White House and Special Counsel Jack Smith asked to dismiss the DC and Florida federal indictments, what happens next? @harrylitman.bsky.social and I discuss the future of all of Trump’s criminal cases. youtu.be/KVuTTKVetZA?...

submitted 91 days ago • 131 comments

Boris Epshteyn being accused of pay-to-play is very Trumpy… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 91 days ago • 139 comments