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Apt.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Seen this happen more than once already

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for something absurdly petty in order to cow the rest. ...and its working.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

All we’re asking is that you treat the Republicans at least as harshly as a staffer who got a coffee order wrong.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

My god...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It really is this simple.

submitted 5 days ago • 180 comments

Seven years later, this is still true.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8247 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

This WaPo piece has something valuable inside: the names of some of the grownups running DOGE behind the scenes. The Incels are a distraction. These people are real. It'd be helpful for people in the agencies to ID anyone from DOGE for...reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 404 comments

A narrative tic worth noting: When Biden pardoned Hunter, lots of ppl erupted saying “this empowers Trump to do the same.” But when Trump says he is above the law, no one replies “this will empower a future Dem to think the same.” And not bc “there won’t be one.” It’s deeper than that.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 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

If Trump sells F-35s to India, the era of US air dominance is over. Full stop.

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

Again, this idea has been floating out there for ages, and many other governments around the globe use the concept of shadow cabinets. Why haven't the Dems actually done this?

submitted 9 days ago • 149 comments

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 9 days ago • 226 comments

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

The constitutional order is totally inoperable & the president is delegating powers he does not have to people who have no business even being in these buildings Federal law enforcement needs to start deciding whether they have sworn oaths to the Constitution or a Mad King bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

On those new Trump tariffs: I don't think people realize how narrow they are. They're ugly and stupid, but also arguably an attempt to save face after he lost his nerve on broad tariffs

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

Dems in Congress think everything's normal. It's not. One word describes them all: Failure. They've lost everything, and they're the first to point out out they have no power, that 215 Reps and 47 Senators is as good as zero. So why keep any of them? Their experience in failure and excuses? 🧹🧹🧹

submitted 14 days ago • 62 comments

Who thought that Dunkin commercial was a good idea?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Your periodic reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Just for reference: South Africa's Expropriation Act is no worse than eminent domain in the U.S., and it exists because 7% of the population owns 70% of the private farmland, the direct result of a 1913 law that stole the land from Black South Africans. And South Africa hasn't even used it yet.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Not their own economic anxiety, but the lack of that anxiety among their "lessers".

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments