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there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 17 hours ago • 505 comments

It's almost as if government programs working to get new people into the pipeline were intentionally developed and had an important purpose.

submitted 14 hours ago • 83 comments

im not trying to say this applies to the people that are being let go but if youre not going to have a robust welfare state then youre gonna have to pay some people to do some bull shit jobs, its one or the other

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

"or exhibit symptoms consistent with" Won't be long until they start banning gay people and cis women who dress wrong

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 16 hours ago • 157 comments

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

submitted 10 hours ago • 848 comments

Lol I’ve seen lots of stuff in my day but blaming the Democrats for not getting shit done because if they hadn’t had the votes to pass the ACA they wouldn’t have passed the ACA is genuinely new to me.

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1403 comments

I'm no politician, but there's not a representative in this country who couldn't find a bright, young, patriotic federal employee from their district who got the buzz saw from Musk and Trump. Get them on camera. Make these job losses personal, ya know.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

At some point in the not-too-distant future there's going to be a dire need for a functioning federal government and it's just not going to be there

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Tesla owners are going through it

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

I preferred when the "Kennedy curse" only affected the Kennedy family.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I get the fear that the Musk/Trump junta are trying to provoke Americans to protest so they can invoke martial law, but that does invite questions about “who is gonna do the enforcing,” and further questions about “the regime is aggressively pissing off a ton of the people who’d do the enforcing”

submitted 14 hours ago • 85 comments

the thing about musk is that he has a very consistent pattern of behavior throughout both his career and his public life, and he will keep pushing until he's forcibly removed from a situation. peter thiel is the only person who has ever done business with him who knew how to handle him.

submitted 9 hours ago • 33 comments

abjectly horrifying that in eight years we have gone from a North Carolina bathroom bill creating a genuine backlash to a nationwide direct and explicit attempt to erase trans people from public life

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

There is an observed phenomenon called elite panic where the rich and powerful turn on each other in crises and all their decisions are driven by the erroneous assumption that everyone else is the same

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” -- Crystal Minton in Jackson County, Florida; 2019, per NYT

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

The thing about all the "Trump and his cronies are trying to overwhelm the zone" discourse is that I don't think Bannon and Miller meant "with a bunch of colossal fuck-ups and failures" when they talked about the Administration doing so much so fast that the media and public would be overwhelmed.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

It’s going to be interesting if the podcast lords suddenly find themselves in a position where blind support of Trump is no longer sustainable under some contrarian punk rock bullshit.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Why do I feel like the Trump message to people who have been contributing to Social Security for 50 years is going to be, “Too bad.” But the message to dudes who went big on crypto in the last year will be, “The government is going to help you out.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 40 comments

AI has so thoroughly ruined every god damn search result that now when I want to know something I start with wikis or reddit; those places (except actual Wikipedia) are populated by insufferable overserious weirdo goblin nerds who have lost perspective but they are at least human beings god dammit

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you have a job, even a great job you love that pays really well, YOU ARE NOT A CAPITALIST. You are still part of the labor class even if you are one of the luckiest ones.

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

my real dark take is access hollywood tape helped trump win in 2016

submitted 44 days ago • 17 comments

The speed with which the entire rightwing media and actvist machinery mobilizes, adopts the same message, in service of whatever the Trumpist regime needs at any given moment is remarkable. It's how they keep everyone on the Right in line, create cohesion. Nothing remotely comparable on the Left.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Shocking the extent to which a lot of the GOP is committed to killing their own voters

submitted 3 days ago • 1061 comments

Replacing in person services with Grok chat bots is just going to eventually lead to a massive class action lawsuit.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This also goes for race and LGBTQ issues where it’s important to remember that none of this would be possible without a large portion of the news media agreeing with it and saying the movements had gone too far and painting Trump as a moderate force

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Much like how I suspect the Koreans gave no quarter to a coup attempt because they have living memory of dictatorship, I wonder if being born to a family of dissidents under the Pinochet regime has made Pedro Pascal bolder about getting political

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

The people regretting their Trump votes are just mad the consequences of Project 2025 aren't being solely leveraged at the people they hate.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 760 comments

It really is reasonable to ask how we could possibly ever forgive our fellow Americans for voting for what is happening to us right now and what is going to continue to happen for years and years. I mean the simple answer would be... we just don't, right? Ever? Because some things are unforgivable?

submitted 1 day ago • 1461 comments

If anybody tells you it is hyberbolic to call these people "Nazis" because the Nazis killed millions of people, these clowns have done so, too.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Pedro isn't just a zaddy — his gorgeous trans sister Lux has often been his plus-one on red carpets, where he beams proudly. he's a real one. ❤️

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

They're going to kill a lot of people.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

you don’t need the press corps anymore — just pull out your phone. AOC did a livestream that spurred THOUSANDS of calls to congress. the msm wants drama? give it to them. like right now dems should have a fucking PARADE of fired federal workers out there putting a face on all this.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

submitted 1 day ago • 447 comments

(1/X) The next four years are likely to be a disaster in many regards: more plane crashes, more outbreaks of measles and other infectious diseases, snafus with tax refunds and Medicaid payments, terrorist attacks, and probably a recession. The media will tell us none of it is Trump's fault...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

that one worrying point when you put together a theory that feels crackpot but makes complete sense to yourself

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

This is just Nazism.

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments