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Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 19 hours ago • 107 comments

Looking forward to the Trump Justice Department explaining how birth right citizenship is unconstitutional but a South Africa born oligarch has the legal authority to fire every single federal employee by tweet.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

Why hasn't the Soviet Russia held elections since the war began?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

has anyone pointed out that Donald Trump said Obama was from Africa so couldn't be president, only to years later basically make an African president

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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When I wrote that I was voting for Harris, two of the factors that pushed me from voting third party to voting Harris were Trump's attacks on the rule of law and his reckless position on Ukraine. Harris was right on those issues, and Trump was very wrong. Feeling pretty vindicated right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

Trump is surrendering America. Trump is the opposite of strong. He is a tiny, weak, small, scared, trembling, sissy, husk of a man. There is nothing manly about his fat, sweaty, smelly, gross, makeup'ed self An absolute joke

submitted 3 days ago • 1334 comments

Weird how the Jade Helm conspiracists are silent about this

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Experts: We have to tell the story of how closely the sequence of events we're seeing fits the modern authoritarian playbook People in public life: The president has literally declared he's above the law. It's time to start acting like this is a crisis before it's too late.

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

“In the past six months Russia has been humiliated in Syria, failed to dislodge three Ukrainian brigades from the Kursk region, and taken more than 200,000 casualties in advancing roughly the distance from central London to Heathrow airport.”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

There's a season to throw daily haymakers and the next 4 years is that season

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Our grandfathers fought the fascists in Italy and Western Europe but our generation is fighting them at home 🇺🇲

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s coming elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

submitted 7 days ago • 198 comments

The winners and losers of the American Dream

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Your oligarchy, ladies and gentlemen

submitted 9 days ago • 163 comments

No, you're not losing your mind

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Corrupt, unethical, incompetent actions can serve an authoritarian project, explained Hannah Arendt, by prompting people of integrity to resign. That creates more openings for loyalists, which makes orgs worse, prompting remaining good people to leave. Hollowed out institutions easier to take over.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

submitted 14 days ago • 84 comments

The DOJ is suing New York over bullshit while undergoing a Thursday Night Massacre over Eric Adams’ corruption. Just in case you were wondering why Biden pardoned all those people.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 240 comments

The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a major 1935 ruling upholding the independence of agencies like the FCC, FTC, NLRB, etc. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc... Because less independence is what we need...

submitted 10 days ago • 379 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 11 days ago • 899 comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

submitted 10 days ago • 146 comments

Trump believes he can do whatever he wants, and he will never be held accountable. And who can blame him? I mean…he tried to overthrow an American election and wasn’t held accountable. If I were him, I’d believe I could get away with ANYTHING. And he does. Of course he believes he’s above the law.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.

submitted 10 days ago • 355 comments

Trump’s end game here isn’t Ukraine ceding Crimea and Donetsk. It is setting up Ukraine to be South Vietnam in 1975.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Largest Inauguration in history, period! Part Deux

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Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 10 days ago • 1875 comments

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

submitted 11 days ago • 3643 comments

Donald Trump begins negotiations by announcing ahead of time that we voluntarily giving away every bargaining chip we have besides lifting sanctions. This is how Putin begins negotiations.

submitted 10 days ago • 140 comments

❤️

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When America reaps the whirlwind of putting Tulsi Gabbard in as the director of national intelligence, it will cost lives and honor beyond what you can imagine.

submitted 11 days ago • 394 comments

Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us

submitted 11 days ago • 1029 comments

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

submitted 12 days ago • 479 comments

The deal to drop Adams' corruption case isn't a one-off. In the last week, Team Trump functionally decriminalized covert foreign influence and overseas bribery. Oh, and they broke up the team that was taking Russian oligarchs' yachts.

submitted 12 days ago • 117 comments

It's important to remember that any principled effort to remove fraud from America's public life would start with an all-out push to prosecute and imprison Elon Musk. There is no bigger fraudster alive today.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

We're seeing a level of executive overreach that is unprecedented in the US But other countries have defeated autocratic forces before—& Americans can learn from their successes We outlined a pro-democracy blueprint👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

Fascbook

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74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 121 comments

Steroids is expensive

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments