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It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

1. Had more sex than Elon. 2. Used less meth than Elon. 3. Paid for my children more than Elon. 4. Broke the law less than Elon. 5. Got fewer paternity suits than Elon.

submitted 31 minutes ago • 2 comments

Questions for the richest man in the world: 1. How many children do you have? 2. What drugs have you taken in the past 48 hours? 3. When is the last time you spoke with Vladimir Putin?

submitted 50 minutes ago • 0 comments

Leaking what? It's not a confidential communication.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 3 hours ago • 168 comments

Chutkan needs to reconsider that temporary restraining order.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

on balance Biden was a bad president who lost an election primarily for the thing he did better than any leader in history

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

138 cardinal electors. That's a lot of cardinal electors.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

"Conclave" comes from the Latin "con", meaning "with," and "clave," meaning "clave."

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Tom Homan's rhetoric is inversely correlated with the number of arrests he is delivering.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Pope Francis is not in any doctrinal way a liberal. He is simply not Extremely Online.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Hard line cardinal: sue the government for mistreatment of immigrants Harder line cardinal: interdict Democrats who support abortion clinics Hardest line cardinal: excommunicate the administration for "injustice to the wage earner" by firing federal workers

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

The better run congressional offices will be tracking trends in constituent service requests to see if the recent actions have an impact.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

"A more just and humane world" is when you recreate the environment of 1914 Eastern Europe except everywhere on earth and they all have nuclear weapons

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

His act was not a Ninth Amendment act and cannot be justified.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

"Does the president have unfettered authority to relieve uniformed officers on the basis of race or sex?" would be an interesting constitutional question.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

It's absolutely infuriating how this idea that Russia is a great power for tautological reasons is something believed by statesmen and world leaders

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

There is a very simple and effective solution to this, which Richard Spencer learned.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Not every billionaire is a policy failure, but some are kinetic energy failures.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The president fired the senior JAG officers because he wants war crimes. In Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama?

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Sometimes I forget that our own military has long been obsessed with Nazi Germany. That's a good thing if the leader tries to do all the exact same Hitler stuff. They're actually vaccinated against it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

He's gonna try this. It won't work, and it may lead to a hilariously Caesarian outcome, but he's gonna try this.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

A practical suggestion: if you're in any kind of job where you may be asked or told to do things you can't ethically or legally do, figure out now what your line is, and what you'll do if it happens. Don't be the boiling frog.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The US federal government has almost no capacity to resist a color revolution. The question is whether Americans have one in them.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Americans seem to think the only models for authoritarian states are Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and they don't even understand those. They think it's not real oppression until people are disappeared into prison camps or shot in basements.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

yes, i of all people, maginot line enthusiast, do not know about the french third republic.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment