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File under "fragile male egos"--- www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

Count me in.

As Orwell predicted.

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Alina Habba on veterans losing their jobs in the federal government: "Perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment." This bish is awful.

Wow.

Translation: "We are containing the geopolitical damage done by President Manbaby and the eyeliner wearing sofasexual."

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He humiliated the United States of America. And he made the world a much more dangerous place. Mob boss foreign policy will not work. The Trump-Putin axis fully came out of the closet today.

What an absolute fucking embarrassment this whole discussion was. It’ll play great on Russian media and with the useful idiots on Twitter, though.

Senator Whitehouse was at the bipartisan meeting with Zelenskyy earlier today with various D and R senators, ahead of the White House blowup Their second meeting this month after they were both part of a similar gathering during the Munich Security Conference

Some have disappointed, some have bad policy, some made big mistakes. But I’ve never in my life been ashamed of American leaders. Until today.

Trump and Vance just embarrassed America in front of the world. The only person happy about their despicable performance is Putin.

How the hell did 77 million Americans vote for this moronic clown? I’ll never understand it.

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Scotten served three combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer and earned two Bronze Stars. Clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh.

A glimpse of our immediate future — grim, but not inevitable. Please read this and share widely. “Even the smallest act of defiance—speaking out, refusing to comply, standing together—can unravel the system being built to control us.

A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics

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Feels like Cassidy violated more than one oath with this vote.

(AXIOS) - Senate Democrats are privately eyeing delays on all Trump nominees as retaliation for his restructuring of USAID, Axios has learned. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/02/04/s...

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How on earth can this be legal -- and can a judge stop it? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h... Cruelty as our national policy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u... Of all the scary $hit from week II, this might top the list.

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp