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submitted 3 days ago • 543 comments

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

submitted 3 days ago • 953 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 3 days ago • 815 comments

The Supreme Court decision should have been 9-0. The fact it was 5-4 reveals how utterly compromised the bench is in favor of right-wing authoritarianism.

submitted 4 days ago • 698 comments

I can’t get past how disconnected the Dem SOTU response was from reality. Those of us paying attention know the VA, NIH, and NOAA are being dismantled, SS is threatened, and US standing in the world has been irrevocably damaged. Rather than address any of that, Slotkin spoke within Trump’s frames.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

submitted 4 days ago • 725 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 4 days ago • 1573 comments

I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.

submitted 9 days ago • 649 comments

America is now violating the agreement it made with Ukraine in 1993 — guaranteeing Ukraine’s security in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear arsenal and Black Sea fleet Either America needs to honor its promises — or Ukraine gets its nukes and ships back, don’t you think?

submitted 8 days ago • 197 comments

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 8 days ago • 437 comments

"Shortly after becoming CEO of a cash-strapped Tesla in 2008, Musk fought hard to secure a low-interest loan from the Energy Department...holding daily briefings with company executives about the paperwork and spending hours with a government loan officer." And now he hates government.

submitted 9 days ago • 94 comments

Perfect

submitted 9 days ago • 302 comments

This is a point most profound

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line

submitted 9 days ago • 78 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 9 days ago • 774 comments

There's so much bad in this paragraph it's hard to know where to start. FAA is now controlled by Elon Musk. He's awarding himself this contract. That's not what a conflict of interest means. This is simple looting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 91 comments

Please keep this in mind as Trump claims he doesn't want to help Ukraine because US taxpayer money shouldn't be spent on foreign war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

The English language EO- the point of this is to remove any language assistance services (hospitals, schools, courses etc), dismiss translators, remove all information available in any language but English. Once I get ahold of the doc, I’ll share it

submitted 9 days ago • 59 comments

Slava Ukraini.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

submitted 9 days ago • 358 comments

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 9 days ago • 280 comments

One very strange aspect of middle class liberals developing self-awareness around privilege is that a lot of folks are OVER-estimating the protective powers of that privilege in conversations. There is a real imagination there that they are insulated right now. They aren't.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped monday. short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

submitted 9 days ago • 74 comments

I would like to emphasize that the governor of the state of NY, a democrat, intervened in college activities, something she has no business in, for political reasons. This is authoritarianism. Period. And the coverage is not nearly as forceful as that reality requires.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

What a terribly unfair position Zelensky is in. 3 years of brutal aggression against his people, a truly existential threat to his country—so serious that he’s even open to extortion of Ukraine’s natural resources to get security assistance—and faced with blatant, up-is-down lies about what happened

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower. Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

submitted 9 days ago • 825 comments

Things are coming apart quickly, so a word to white folk: you’re going to have to get used to property damage if you want to survive. Getting upset protesters set an empty Target on fire & making THAT & not police murder the focus is part of how we got here.

submitted 10 days ago • 68 comments

PEaCE ThRouGh StRengTh looks like Donald Trump having an unglued meltdown at Zelenskyy fact checking him in the Oval Office. Donald didn’t even know when the war in Ukraine started. He’s a global punchline.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

if you don't believe this run a search for "the sin of empathy"

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

"I’m not sure which is worse: the fact that Republicans are moving to gut the last lifeline for 72 million Americans who rely on Medicaid and 43 million Americans who rely on Food Stamps or the fact that they’re lying about doing it." Read more: plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republican...

submitted 9 days ago • 252 comments

Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.

submitted 11 days ago • 730 comments

Warren: "Our best strategy is to make sure everybody knows exactly what the Republicans are trying to do, and that is they want to give literally trillions of dollars in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they want to pay for it on the backs of seniors who are living in nursing homes."

submitted 12 days ago • 327 comments

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

submitted 12 days ago • 297 comments

I’m guessing Jeff Bezos isn’t going to love my op ed about how one of the preconditions for a free market is that you have enough players in the market that nobody has market-defining share.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

This is such a great point. One of the things that helped America prosper, in addition to the stealing land and stealing lives thing, is that we, as a nation, after we fought a war for our independence, were not saddled with debt so staggering that we are still paying it off today.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Seems like everyone has kinda memory-holed this one. thehill.com/homenews/new...

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

While some agencies have resisted efforts by Elon Musk’s team to access confidential records, HUD has opened the door. The potential harm to privacy could be significant. @jessecoburn.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

When Republicans say "These tax cuts will pay for themselves" reporters should treat it the way they do "Trump won the 2020 election," as a proven lie that requires IMMEDIATE refutation in the reporter's voice, to make clear that they have repeated this assertion for decades and it never happens.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

The federal government is methodically hunting and rooting out LGBTQIA+ people from service (with the help of alt right trolls) and this is the best NYT could muster. It’s pathetic and dangerous.

submitted 12 days ago • 104 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 12 days ago • 975 comments

DOGE: Radical transparency! Also DOGE:

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 249 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 13 days ago • 137 comments

When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

submitted 12 days ago • 237 comments

"Leadership matters in these moments. Not the kind that barks at people to stop asking questions and fall in line. Rather, the kind that compels us to do what we know deep down is morally and legally sound — and to actively resist that which isn’t."

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments