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The median American voter will no longer be able to vote after being murdered in a Salvadoran concentration camp, so it’s hard to see why the media is chasing this story. by Matt Yglesias

submitted 51 minutes ago • 5 comments

Been traveling this week (mostly Pittsburgh) and the Garcia/El Salvador story is coming up all the time. Main topic at Dem town halls/campaign events, I'm overhearing people talking about it at cafes, etc. There's a DC CW that Dems should pivot to some issue that polls better. Not their choice imo

submitted 1 hour ago • 29 comments

My cab driver in Branson was a Trump-Trump-Trump voter. She said that if Trump cuts her Social Security, she'll have to cut back on luxuries and focus on the essentials: food, gas, Trump cryptocurrency, Trump political donations, sweepstakes to meet Trump, and MyPillows.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Analysis | Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife says she'll do anything to bring her husband home from a Salvadoran prison. Then why hasn't she offered to bribe Trump via one of his many cryptocurrency scams?

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

Bondi, Rubio, Homan, and Miller all are vulnerable on the El Salvador flights. Probably Noem, too.

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

Fuck the morherfuckers doing this. I don’t say this lightly, but they need to go to prison. End stop. That’s it. You can’t normalize this. You can’t pretend the situation is anything but what it is.

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

FYI - this Supreme Court is a GOP Court which strongly tilts to the right. It's not about Democrat versus Republican anymore. It's "Rule of Law" versus outright criminality.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon using the social media platform he owns to DM random women with the promises of financial rewards to have his children so he can create a compound filled with women in Texas is the sort of thing that sounds like it should be a QAnon conspiracy instead of being a real story from WSJ.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

submitted 14 hours ago • 942 comments

These guys are evil and believe in nothing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Cump's PoliSci 101: Democracy only works (sort of) when the dumb voters cancel each other out. The problem arises when a political party attracts nearly all the dumbs, who are always the majority of any country. That's what Trump has done. That's what dictatorial takeover is. 1/4

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The numbers are in after yesterday’s tax deadline. Minnesota’s new Child Tax Credit delivered an average $2,400 back to working class families, benefiting nearly 400,000 kids. Regardless of Washington chaos, we’re still making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

submitted 15 hours ago • 156 comments

When Black people talk about and honor their African ancestry, fascists like Vance do this awful racist “we wuz kangs” bit. But they love to talk about “muh ancestors”

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submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

submitted 19 hours ago • 54 comments

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

submitted 19 hours ago • 90 comments

Proud of my senator

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

If as a Democrat you can't draw a rhetorical through-line from Trump's abuse of IEEPA to bypass Congress, weaponising tariffs as his personal extortion racket, and his using ICE deportations to El Salvador to bypass immigration courts... ... you are bad at politics. Get out of politics.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

i will quit my job and drop out of college to shine shoes outside of a federal courtroom if it means i get to be there when someone sentences this human-shaped clump of sewer scum to rot in a box

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Welcome to the free thinker’s podcast, the last space where you can say anything in this woke culture. Please refrain from criticizing the President of the United States and the richest man in the world because those guys are my friends. Here’s six hours about how hard it is to be a cop.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has committed hundreds of crimes. And the fact that we can’t find evidence of any of them proves just how devious he was about covering it all up. by Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

A rich con man twisted due process to escape justice, then turned around and sent an innocent father to a political death camp without even a shred of the same respect for the law. This isn’t “just one man.” It’s a test of who we are. And I refuse to accept that this is what America is becoming.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

The Declaration of Independence laid out several abuses of King George against the colonies, here are a few. Notice any similarities to our current administration?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Interesting. Two of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence condemned the Crown for denying legal protection, especially imprisonment without cause. “For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.” “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.”

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Again, if the idea is that when someone in custody leaves the nation’s airspace there’s no way for a court to compel the state to return them—or exert any jurisdiction at all—then you’re simply saying whoever’s in power can fly people 100 miles offshore and push them out of helicopters into the sea.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 2 days ago • 368 comments

if they knuckle under for this their legitimacy is shattered, to the point that I'm not sure that district judges will still be bound in practice. If SCOTUS starts seesawing every which way in a web of contradictory John Robertsian evasions it effectively makes federal law Choose Your Own Adventure.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

The reason why Bluesky is left-leaning is that Elon Musk took Twitter and turned it into a right-wing cesspool. Not sure what all the hand-wringing is about.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

"in 2025, Bill Kristol is to the left of the PA Senator on Palestine protestors and and Drudge is a resist lib"

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

When the rule of law breaks down, violence becomes inevitable. This administration appears to be aiming for that outcome. Perhaps to consolidate power. This is a moment when every college, university, major company, media outfit, law firm, etc. must stand up. Be the sand in the gears. Fight back.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

if Ritchie fucking Torres can do this and Chris Van Hollen can fly to El Salvador the rest of the Dem caucus can show up too hell, everyone should go on the El Salvador trip now’s the time, folks, this road ends with you in the foreign prison

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

really would be good to have an opposition party

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Zelensky: My country's under brutal foreign attack. Whatever your opinion, whatever your policy, don't blatantly lie about well-established facts about the war. Trump: How dare you! Ungrateful! Bukele: I can't put one man on a plane even if you ask me to. Trump: I'm a smol bean, whatcha gonna do.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There's so much to be mad about but nothing has caused my blood to absolutely boil more than watching two so-called "world leaders" lie that an innocent good father and husband and hard-working union apprentice is a "terrorist." I hope these monsters burn in hell

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

the republican party must be outlawed from existing in the united states. we cannot live in a civil society with people as inhumanly evil as this

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

A+ work to certain of the New York City media outlets that participated in the multi-year subway crime panic that led us to this moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Congratulations to John Roberts for enabling two heads of state to mock you openly.

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

The Trump admin has been in contempt of court for days now. Will anyone be jailed? Of course not, no judge seems willing to assert their power, fearing to set the precedent that politicians have to follow the law or face consequences.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Openly defying the supreme court and congress is on vacation. We have a one branch government, folks.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

in addition to the support for genocide, Biden's total refusal to hold Netanyahu at all accountable for his extremely obvious pro-Trump ratfucking sent a pretty strong message that there were no consequences for that kind of behavior world-historic mistake on many levels

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

One of the worst things about Trumpism is the indignity of the regime constantly treating the public like they're idiots. Or worse, too cynical to care about what's happening right in front of them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments