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Excited to learn that there is going to be a deputy director of the FBI who once replied to me in a testy fashion after I tweeted something like "Don Bingbongo" at him.

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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

submitted 1 hour ago • 31 comments

VERY encouraging to hear Germany’s new chancellor treating the Musk/Trump foreign-interference threat as seriously as Moscow’s

submitted 59 minutes ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk at a public event

submitted 58 minutes ago • 12 comments

JD Vance's intervention for AfD not looking all that brilliant right now

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

donald trump 2nd term appointments is like adam sandler getting his SNL flunkie friends whatever gigs he can

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

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submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars has passed away at the age of 22. Mr. McQueen fell asleep in his garage and left himself running

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Vance reacts to AfD (slightly) underperforming

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

This is hilarious and brutal and their aim is true

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

I once wrote an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he said that IQ is a bad measure of actual mental ability. It got some of the most wild, furious responses online. There are people who base their entire world view on a relatively meaningless number

submitted 8 hours ago • 87 comments

If the subject isn’t “murder by boat,” I don’t see why Kevin O’Leary should be speaking 🛥️

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

The thing the right-wing took away from non-prosecution of W-era torture wasn't that they were fortunate that Obama was willing to look forward, it was that installing John Yoo's to write memos saying "[illegal thing] is actually legal" is a cheat code to rewrite the laws however you want

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 206 comments

It was always an obvious bullshit movement but seeing how fast the Freedom Convoy crowd have all of a sudden abandoned their National Pride and flag waving is truly incredible. Same goes to all those Canada/BC/AB Proud pages that have so much to say about identity but are now very quiet.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

And yeah, I used "praetorianism" as shorthand (somewhat breezily) for "establishing a palace guard," but whichever term we choose, it is the winnowing of an apolitical military and creation of a personal military force loyal to a single leader. (The actual praetorianism comes later.)

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

Spread this around. No curse quite like an Irish one. Thanks @seamas.bsky.social! "Musk is just a blinkered, blundering dunce; a man who thinks his ability to buy companies renders him a Godlike superintelligence, pathologically resistant to the idea...1/ www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

really good reporting here.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Compare this with Trudeau's readout

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 287 comments

I’m enjoying watching normal-speed hockey after two weeks of nitrous-fueled political hockey.

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It has felt like 4pm in December all day today.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2098 comments

Wow. What a loss for local news. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of the Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record, and the Tri-City News. It has been a privilege and an honour to serve you for more than 40 years.”

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

His addled brain just running the Twitter acquisition over and over and over.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Albertans are slowly waking up to the depths of the scandal enveloping the UCP government. A lot of folks are wondering how to explain what's going on to people who haven't been tuning in. Here's the what, so what now what, and what's next of the situation. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Opinion | It takes a corrupt sex offender to fight a corrupt sex offender. That’s why Andrew Cuomo is the perfect New York mayor to take on Trump. by Chris Cuomo

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The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The next pandemic is going to start inside an AirPods case.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Each of these four points is crucially important. They explain why Ukraine is not lost — and Europe is not threatened — without the United States. More commitment and expenditure will be required, but there’s no reason for surviving democracies to capitulate

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Really enjoying the stories about congressmen getting yelled at about DOGE shit in their town halls. Not because I feel like it's necessarily going to move things in the right direction in the next election cycle or two, really. I just like stories about congressmen getting yelled at I think.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

James Carville? From GI JOE: Retaliation?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1232 comments

Aww yeah Wordle 1,344 2/6 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago. the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Casually bringing this back… #OCanada 🍁

submitted 2 days ago • 321 comments

Elon Musk is an existential threat to our democracy and democracies around the world and the fact that he has been allowed to accrue hundreds of billions of dollars is why thats become the case

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump refused to release his tax returns like normal, because he knew what was in them and what they revealed about him and his business dealings. Poilievre is still refusing to get the normal security clearance, I assume, for the same reason.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

lol nepo baby saboteur

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

No, seriously, wake up, babe. New Lavender Scare just dropped.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Keep defending your public services!

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

It’s awe-inspiring how he unlocked the whole system’s capacity for the most shameless bullshit, he’s not John fucking Wick, he didn’t kill the dude with a stray pencil

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

One thing about elder millennials growing up playing Wolfenstein 3D and watching Indiana Jones repeatedly is you don't need to teach us that Nazis are the bad guys

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Nazi salutes are having a moment. Our critic weighs in. Steve Bannon’s offered precise form worthy of 1930s Germany, but Elon Musk’s honored the drug-fueled mania of the original Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments