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I was reading about Justice Brown-Jackson’s remarks and wondered why I haven’t seen any of the expected attacks on her for being an affirmative action hire, etc, that (say) Justice Sotomayor always gets, and then I realized: I’m not on Twitter anymore. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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The hopium is wild to see. No, Trump isn't "fucked." He is in a moment many fascists were, which is to say losing popularity once in power. But that is why authoritarians take power: so no one can take it from them. Popularity doesn't matter as much when you're in complete control.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

They're arresting judges. It won't be long before they start arresting politicians, journalists, & educators. Every single time any institution & leader that has backed down has led to this. Compliance won't protect you: it leads to worse. We need them to stand up. And we need to show them how.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 8 days ago • 610 comments

“I’m not vouching for the man, but for his constitutional rights.” —Senator Van Hollen

submitted 10 days ago • 68 comments

It's time we got more creative and impactful with our protests. Need to get to the manure at the French capital level of protest. Any ideas?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"Economic growth and fighting climate change go hand in hand." -Michael Bloomberg who is funding the U.S. Paris Agreement Budget and backing clean energy investments with his American Is All In. www.bloomberg.org/environment/

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 437 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 12 days ago • 1362 comments

"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over." Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it

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Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.

submitted 16 days ago • 364 comments

The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Sanders: He now wants to take away CBS’s license because they did a story that criticized him. Oh my word, CBS criticized him! Oh, let’s drive them out of business, how terrible… If you can’t take criticism, get out of the political process. This is a democracy

submitted 18 days ago • 362 comments

There we go. Support this man.

submitted 18 days ago • 1027 comments

In his letter to the community explaining his decision to defy the Fed Gov't's demands, Harvard President Alan Garber included a link to the letter laying out those demands. Here it is: www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

submitted 18 days ago • 106 comments

If America was a business the board would have fired the president, the employees would have sued, and we would be able to plan for the next year let alone next quarter

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 22 days ago • 3612 comments

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

submitted 22 days ago • 1223 comments

As a licensed healthcare provider, I know that firing HHS workers strains our hospitals and puts lives at risk — delaying treatments, denying cures, and stealing hope from patients. These cuts are more than numbers on a balance sheet — these are lives that hang in the balance.

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Gasparino: Let's be clear what happened, who capitulated here and why? You know, I don't want to say this because I am a patriot, I am an American, but it is The White House who capitulated based on everything I hear and all my sources

submitted 23 days ago • 596 comments

Opinion If SCOTUS is not prepared to protect human beings from being snatched off the street and shipped out of the country to torture prisons, it has no standing to represent the interests of any people in the country. It has no credibility.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Here’s the real reason why DOGE is gutting the IRS. (Hint: it has nothing to do with “efficiency.”)

submitted 25 days ago • 506 comments

3.5 million people turned out yesterday. Not one Capitol building stormed, not one police officer attacked. #handsoff

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“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.” —Victor Hugo We’re entering the “worse” phase.

submitted 26 days ago • 142 comments

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

submitted 27 days ago • 1692 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 28 days ago • 1279 comments

Yet another reason our enemies are celebrating this week. Firing 4-stars without explanation is unprecedented, disruptive and dangerous. I’ll join #KatyTur on MSNBC at 330ET for my weekly visit with more and the latest. www.thecipherbrief.com/abrupt-chang...

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

submitted 28 days ago • 1206 comments

The White House Correspondents’ Association said it fired host Amber Ruffin so it can instead focus the dinner on celebrating the First Amendment. Which apparently can be done best by preventing a gay black woman from speaking.

submitted 34 days ago • 931 comments

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency. Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

submitted 36 days ago • 272 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 37 days ago • 793 comments

Ouch

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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 37 days ago • 1705 comments

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

submitted 38 days ago • 673 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 38 days ago • 2073 comments

Warner: And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can't talk about it here. You can't have it both ways.

submitted 39 days ago • 575 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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I hope I never again see an administration filled with so many corrupt rat bastards, from the top down. The fact so many are incompetent doesn’t negate their corruption.

submitted 39 days ago • 51 comments

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

submitted 39 days ago • 789 comments

Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content

submitted 39 days ago • 1741 comments

There is a new democratic movement bubbling up underneath the surface. It is developing organically and being arrived at both individually and through networks. It is there, it just needs to keep getting tapped into and released. And people who see it need to coordinate and connect.

submitted 108 days ago • 19 comments