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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

Jamie Raskin: "Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.” Amen!!

submitted 4 days ago • 747 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.

submitted 6 days ago • 2287 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

Said every tyrant and dictator in human history to justify his actions.

submitted 8 days ago • 1307 comments

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

submitted 16 days ago • 382 comments

James Madison nailed it "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

Article 1 Section 8 CONGRESS shall have the power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations NOT THE PRESIDENT. NOT DOGE.

submitted 18 days ago • 416 comments

On some level, my biggest qualm with Garland isn’t even on a political level. It’s on personal one, these people kept you from your dream job and you still wouldn’t stand up for yourself and prosecute people who not only broke the law but also hated your guts. Just complete cowardice.

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

Hold the fuck on — the Department of Government Efficiency, the entity which claims its mission is to end “wasteful spending”, was given SEVEN MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS to cover its “expenses” in the span of a single week?!?! Are you fucking kidding me?!?

submitted 18 days ago • 1482 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

This asshole could have ended it all by voting to convict and remove. He can fuck off with this late stage bullshit.

submitted 20 days ago • 1430 comments

This guy should have no role in running our government. We didn’t elect him. He’s not a gov’t employee who is accountable. He hasn’t taken an oath to uphold the constitution or work on behalf of the American people. He’s in it for himself not for us.

submitted 20 days ago • 757 comments

Summary of Today in Tariffs: Trump sets house on fire, then congratulates self after putting it out.

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

The irony of people doing this fake virtue signaling (after an entire campaign rife with fainting spells over the cost of eggs), is that their political deity is famous for manufacturing his clothing outside the US and for failing to pay American contractors.

submitted 21 days ago • 1305 comments

Did anyone notice how Russia was spared any tariffs?

submitted 21 days ago • 886 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 134 comments

Trump went from the world’s foremost expert on water management and forest fires to an aviation and crash reconstruction expert, all in one week. He’s amazing!

submitted 23 days ago • 782 comments

Watching these red states attack federal funding—apparently not realizing that most of their states are broke and would completely collapse without it—will always be hilarious to me. “Give it all back to the states!” Sit down, Cletus. Your state can’t buy sandwiches for kids.

submitted 25 days ago • 677 comments

I’m trying to think of a reason someone would fire Inspectors General that doesn’t include corruption.

submitted 29 days ago • 79 comments

Every fucking MAGA cultist who fucking assured me that Trump had no fucking plans whatsoever to implement fucking Project 2025 can go fuck themselves.

submitted 30 days ago • 827 comments

Empathy

submitted 30 days ago • 357 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 30 days ago • 140 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 30 days ago • 1357 comments

Of course ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. So is a third term in office. But I thought the same thing about presidential criminal immunity and holding office after inciting an insurrection. The obvious is not so obvious anymore.

submitted 30 days ago • 1003 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 1839 comments

If you find that your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic, please consider that “all the experts know something I don’t” is a much more likely explanation than “I alone solved a complex problem that all the world’s experts have long been studying.”

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

The irony of MAGA wanting to take over Canada and Greenland but can't handle being outside in the cold for a single day for Donald Trump's inauguration. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 37 days ago • 174 comments

2009 Obama 28°F 1977 Carter 28°F 1961 Kennedy 22°F It’s not about the cold… it’s about the small crowd size.

submitted 37 days ago • 1499 comments

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

submitted 38 days ago • 583 comments

Sen. Tammy Duckworth to Pete Hegseth: "You say you care about keeping our Armed Forces strong and that you like that our Armed Forces' meritocracy. Then let's not lower the standards for you. You sir, are a no-go at this station."

submitted 40 days ago • 142 comments