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"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back

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Jared Golden endorses Elon Musk's lawless rampage

submitted 48 days ago • 175 comments

I used to grow alarmed seeing mounted police in DC but now I secretly hope we're being invaded by Canada.

submitted 48 days ago • 556 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 48 days ago • 303 comments

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

submitted 50 days ago • 2158 comments

"Did you know it would be this bad? Do you think it'll get worse?" YES to both. The questions I've been asked the past week by people who should've known better. I tried my best to warn folks. I wasn't the only one, of course. Alas, now we're all in it and screwed.

submitted 56 days ago • 76 comments

“Clients have the right to access their lawyer without interference by the government. Lawyers must be free to represent clients and perform their ethical duty without fear of retribution.” www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 56 days ago • 67 comments

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

submitted 56 days ago • 1696 comments

Great news for money launderers!

submitted 56 days ago • 902 comments

Why are American taxpayers going to bail out scam artists losing money in the crypto markets? We are going to borrow more money to pump it into the crypto market to enrich scammers and leeches who produce nothing of value for humanity?

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Remember: Things are worse than we realize because so many people and institutions are trying not to avoid attention for fear of being targeted.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

It doesn’t seem particularly well thought out to me to withhold Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits from masses of Trump supporters, who are predominantly violent gun nuts.

submitted 56 days ago • 118 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 57 days ago • 291 comments

So I guess now we're doing a war with Canada, Mexico & Ukraine and doing besties with Russia? And we don't need to know the weather. Or need immunizations. Education is for suckers & losers, apparently? And Social Security & Medicaid are a ponzi scheme. All seems legit insane, but what do I know?

submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 57 days ago • 3449 comments

Now that English is the official language of the United States, I look forward to everyone understanding the difference between “your” and “you’re,” “their” and “they’re,” and “to,” “two” and “too.”

submitted 57 days ago • 1388 comments

Folks are frustrated with Dems in Congress right now. Here’s my solution - get the hell out of DC and hold some hearings. I love town halls, but we need to focus on people right now. Have folks come testify about how these cuts are affecting them. Get local media there. Make it real.

submitted 57 days ago • 869 comments

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

submitted 57 days ago • 1141 comments

Vance to Zelenskyy: you don’t say thank you. Truth:

submitted 59 days ago • 305 comments

Russia, Russia, Russia.

submitted 59 days ago • 97 comments

We—Americans—are in enemy territory now. The regime—today is the day I think it crossed the line from awful government to actual regime—has fully switched sides in a war with an avowed enemy of the U.S. and of democracy.

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

Might be the most shameful moment of this Presidency so far. Zelensky vs two of Putin's attack dogs.

submitted 59 days ago • 254 comments

Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for. They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."

submitted 59 days ago • 419 comments

From a purely realpolitik perspective, if you're a middling country trying to navigate allegiances in a now multipolar world watching that meeting, why would you not take up with the Chinese?

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Dickless chode

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“This is a time that requires our moral clarity. Because it’s this clarity…that will give us the strength needed to see it through. Even on my worst days, I refuse to let these hateful, outrageous people drive me to despair, to burn out with rage or give up.” www.americaamerica.news/p/a-time-for...

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Even Fox is having trouble getting behind that Oval Office meltdown

submitted 59 days ago • 517 comments

There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.

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If there are any non Trumpy reporters left in the White House pool, one of them should ask Leavitt “do you think the President understands how badly he embarrassed America on the world stage with that disgraceful performance?”

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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 59 days ago • 3355 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 67 days ago • 4980 comments

Thursday’s front page of the British Daily Star. Putin’s Poodle

submitted 68 days ago • 544 comments

Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

submitted 70 days ago • 38 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 70 days ago • 2250 comments

Imprisoning journalists is fine when we do it

submitted 70 days ago • 598 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 70 days ago • 829 comments

Whether it’s Mussolini making the trains run on time or Donald Trump making the planes crash, both fascist dictators showed a strong interest in transportation.

submitted 70 days ago • 22 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 70 days ago • 596 comments

Because you are sucking up to the owner of your newspaper?

submitted 70 days ago • 1431 comments

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

submitted 70 days ago • 756 comments

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

submitted 70 days ago • 595 comments

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

submitted 70 days ago • 223 comments

it’s the literal least they can do, so maybe they’ll actually do it (shh, let me have my delusions)

submitted 70 days ago • 34 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 711 comments

The Guardian view on the US, China and the rest: Trump is opening doors for Xi | Editorial

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

submitted 70 days ago • 564 comments

Trump I: It seems that Igor Gregalegovich, colleague of Putin associate Dmitri Yulenkorenko, might have made contact with Paul Manafort in 2015 as alluded to on page 347 of the leaked dossier obtained by... Trump II: Hitler42069 has been named Chief Compliance Officer at the Department of Justice

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