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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 4 hours ago • 200 comments

I’m so angry. The party that claims the lives of autistic people are worthless are the same people who wanted Terry Schiavo to live in a vegetative state forever.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I think it upsets about as many people now as it did then

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submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

When the regime talks about kidnapping people because they might be violent someday, I wish the press would always note they also released without hesitation people with a history of legal run ins who were violent on January 6th and unrepentant about it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 40 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 12 hours ago • 226 comments

it’s been 4 months since everyone has abandoned Woke and everything is so bad Woke is starting to return already. Woke is back

submitted 13 hours ago • 234 comments

I think what’s most striking about the last few months is how rarely anyone in the GOP applies this simple test. A lot of checks and balances rely on this kind of worrying about precedent but it’s now totally absent, as if they don’t think they’ll ever be out of power again.

submitted 12 hours ago • 880 comments

Almost wish I was a film teacher again so that I could show students this. He’s explains it all with such enthusiasm, knowledge & clarity: youtu.be/78Ru62uFM0s?...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

During WWII the US deployed a Naval ship whose sole purpose was to make, store, and provide ice cream to troops actively deployed to heavy combat areas. Now you can't even have 9 ball

submitted 17 hours ago • 205 comments

a throughline in Ian Toll's great history of the Pacific War is US commanders gradually realizing that rest and entertainment were vital to maintaining military effectiveness, while Japanese ones dismissed the idea as effeminate weakness

submitted 15 hours ago • 24 comments

They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates

submitted 14 hours ago • 41 comments

All of the increasingly bellicose rhetoric from an ever-widening array of admin officials makes it feel like they realize this was not the test case they wanted for this policy and are worried the removal plans and any public support for them could crumble very easily.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Sen. Van Hollen has been denied a meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Demand proof of life, now.

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

The US plan to weaken Ukraine and push them to bow down to Russia has run into the intertwined problems of the Ukrainians not wanting to, the Russians giving them no reason to, and the Europeans having resources.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

We have an amazing checks and balances system created by genius Founders where the President can do anything they want and there's really no practical way to stop them.

submitted 15 hours ago • 58 comments

Trump, convicted on multiple felonies, pardoned domestic terrorists and white nationalist gang members involved in Jan 6th. Republicans want immigrants with no criminal records locked up while their violent criminals walk free. That’s white supremacy, not public safety.

submitted 15 hours ago • 64 comments

conservatives took the exact opposite position a few years ago when Biden moved to end the Remain in Mexico policy

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

The machine built to eat people never stops eating.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

losing my mind that jair bolsonaro is in the hospital for the 7 trillionth time and posted this video on his twitter. he is the michael phelps of being sick

submitted 1 day ago • 369 comments

I'm not a Hogg fan, but it is an extremely weird broken thing among America's hollowed out parties, this idea party orgs have an obligation to defend incumbents for however long they want to keep running. Deciding which candidates to nominate (and who not) is the core function of what a party is.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

your budgeting around your poverty level is killing the economy

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

submitted 17 hours ago • 273 comments

A woman was threatened in the bathroom by an unhinged man and the woman got fired, here in the land of the bully and the home of the coward.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

If they’re arguing that Harvard hasn’t done enough “in the public interest” to deserve tax exempt status, wait until they get a look at evangelical megachurches!

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

The American Nazi Party demands the right to kidnap you and send you to a death camp, and if you say that's not right, then you get kidnapped to a death camp as well.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Cartoonish lying. They have absolutely nothing on this man, who has 34 fewer felony convictions than the President.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

All the norms of this profession's mainstream are aligned against speaking straightforwardly about what is happening to this country. That's not just true today. It has always been true.

submitted 23 hours ago • 26 comments

50 years of lavish subsidies for right-reactionary think tanks and universities have ensured that this is a booming industry; in tandem with their strategy to take over the courts and then cement these views into constitutional doctrine, it’s created a powerful feedback loop

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

So it turns out Musk offered via DM to impregnate this influencer, and when she told others he unfollowed her and cut her X income stream. This is the guy eliminating core public services.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

submitted 1 day ago • 1012 comments

“My recent performance review was rife with DEI language.” 🤔

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

given the blatant human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, the most moderate position from the democratic party in this moment should be that they prosecute and lock up the entire trump administration and heavily sanction el salvador

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

[david bowie "let's dance" voice] heinz kranch

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 1 day ago • 1384 comments

The Oprah coaching tree is worse than Belichick’s.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

listen, i don't wish hardship on anyone, but trying to get a job right now is grim, and if i'm going to suffer for this president's horseshit when i didn't even vote for him, i'm not going to be for a single moment bothered by the fact that so many who did vote for him are also going to suffer

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

If the government won't fund my plan to populate Mars with my legion of illegitimate children, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

if we replaced the entire Democratic Party with about 40 people who have ever had a real job we would have a better shot at keeping the right wing from destroying the country

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Life is hard and harder if you’re stupid.

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

That’s right… Bill Kristol?

submitted 1 day ago • 353 comments