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Gov. Hochul won’t remove Adams—instead opting to install a deputy inspector general to babysit We’ve seen how Trump treats IGs——this is a bandaid over a much bigger issue I’ll discuss tonight @ 6:25 PM ET on @cnn.com 👇-TN

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Folks, here is what I now believe we should demand from our lawmakers. You already know what I'm about to say next because you've felt it in your bones for a long time: Trump MUST be removed from the Oval Office and thrown in prison. Elon too.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Hell yeah.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They like doing whatever it is they do and they find it annoying people bug them. By blowing people off and pretending your voice doesn't matter, they are hoping you internalize it and go away.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I had someone message me "where do we go from here" and I think folks are missing the forest for the trees here. The attacks on the Democrats are 100% freaking them out. This is extremely good.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

THIS!! If we all stand tall on this, which we will: these nazis trying to control us are going to wish they were never fucking born in due time.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm just saying, the activists and the people protesting "impeach the motherfucking nazis. No kings." have literally all the momentum right now and the fascist enablers have like negative 1000 momentum.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Exactly.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"What exactly is Unanimous Consent?" Senate rules are boring and weird but they are also annoying to change. That means if the Senate followed all the rules, nothing would ever get done. The way around this is to ask EVERY Senator to ignore the rules. That is unanimous consent.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Just from talking to staffers on the Hill, I have no idea whats coming next but this pressure is absolutely getting to the offices.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Warnock should be giving this sermon from the floor of the Senate while denying unanimous consent on everything down to what time to break for lunch, but he's not, so he clearly doesn't actually care about what's happening.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 6 days ago • 760 comments

This absolutely will make flying less safe. Maybe not today. But inevitably. Conceivably this will finally get public attention? About the danger of just blowing up structures built with care over decades? Maybe some GOP Sen/Rep will think: "I'd rather not be on the wrong side of this one"?

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

"The price of eggs is not the main thing the Democrats should be emphasizing right now because the bigger problem is the overthrow of our fucking government."

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

to be a centrist pundit you need to be shameless enough to be proved 100% wrong about everything, then turn to the people who told you that you were wrong, cluck your tongue, and say to them with full confidence, "well I hope you've learned your lesson" truly extraordinary stuff

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 7 days ago • 275 comments

“If we don’t give him absolute power, he might try to seize absolute power,” cool cool cool.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

The Eagles said “Fuck the White House. We ain’t going” Bruh…. How do you suppose to not like that team? For the one time, Go F*cking Birds

submitted 8 days ago • 677 comments

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

The whole "We are going to use the government funding bill as leverage" is a total red herring. These people have proven themselves incapable of doing obstruction that delays them fleeing town for a SINGLE DAY. They are absolutely not going to do anything interesting with the funding bill.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

submitted 8 days ago • 182 comments

There are a lot of regular Americans who have been told for way too long "No, there is no way to convince your fellow Americans of something that is obviously true, so just ignore it." And I say maybe just once let's try treating the public like they are capable of thinking for themselves.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

"The University of Michigan’s consumer survey for February is at its lowest overall reading since last summer, and inflation expectations in particular jumped a full point to 4.3 percent, the highest reading in over a year." From @ddayen.bsky.social: prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Step up, Hochul - fire this disgrace of a mayor for the sake of your city, your state, your party and your name.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

A good explanation of what is really going on here - Adams just offered President Trump the ability to set NYC policy in return for not going to jail.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Quit a dream job???? That’s the takeaway??

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

Hell yeah @issarae.bsky.social. Hell yeah. people.com/issa-rae-can...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

huge part of the reason why these scandals don't stick is because dems don't treat them as scandals. they should be outraged! every senator should be screaming at any reporter that they can find that this is one of the greatest scandals in DOJ history! instead dems are literally flying out of town

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I can’t emphasize enough how true this is. When a party in Congress gets outraged about something important, it becomes a national story very quickly.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Very good idea. There should be a press conference every night, bringing Americans the facts about GOP corruption and incompetence, with spokespersons with working-class credibility.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The party of small government, federalism, and liberty strikes again.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Love to see respected political scientists questioning whether the US is a liberal democracy.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

today was a bloodbath.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1782 comments

!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 222 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

We are going to be all out of Holy Shits at this rate.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Incredibly, this is correct. They specifically decided not to call witnesses.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 11 days ago • 740 comments