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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 10 days ago • 1991 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 9 days ago • 565 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 10 days ago • 1003 comments

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

submitted 10 days ago • 1372 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 13 days ago • 187 comments

Remember: Chuck Schumer said we couldn’t risk a government shutdown because that would allow Trump and Musk to shutter government offices and fire staff at will. So we kept the government open in exchange for nothing. And now this is happening.

submitted 23 days ago • 63 comments

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

submitted 25 days ago • 554 comments

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

submitted 30 days ago • 791 comments

Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges. There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

submitted 30 days ago • 276 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 30 days ago • 1510 comments

someone grab a giant showtime at the apollo hook and drag this guy off stage

submitted 37 days ago • 377 comments

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

submitted 41 days ago • 76 comments

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

submitted 41 days ago • 641 comments

There is a vacancy for leadership in the Democratic Party. It's a brand new ball game. Forget the old rules and customs. No one "deserves" anything due to age and seniority and donors. It's up for grabs, Democrats. Time to step up. Whoever is a fighter will be rewarded.

submitted 42 days ago • 150 comments

Can someone with a military background explain why this isn’t an act of war? The victim is a “US-flagged” vessel “at anchor in the North Sea and carrying huge amounts of jet fuel for the US military.” The deliberate attack’s aggressor is a Russian captain.

submitted 43 days ago • 868 comments

They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 45 days ago • 199 comments

Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the rest. Rightwing Greedy Billionaires Hate America

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

We are 10 years into the Trump era, we watched a speech in which Trump castigated Dems as 'radical left lunatics' & used a racist jibe against a Dem senator, & Democratic Congressman Jim Himes voted to censure Al Green because of the importance of 'decorum' & 'civility. Really? Really?? SHEESH.

submitted 49 days ago • 286 comments

The point was to destabilize and crash the economy. It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

submitted 50 days ago • 294 comments

A while back I was helping examine the security of the Starlink terminal and found a very obvious bug in the bootloader that was only unexploitable due to the memory layout of the terminal. Critical infrastructure shouldn't depend on Starlink without a shitload of auditing.

submitted 50 days ago • 81 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 51 days ago • 1804 comments

This seems bad

submitted 58 days ago • 2065 comments

🚨 The Trump WH is handpicking press, sidelining real journalists & stacking briefings with MAGA media. NYT’s Peter Baker: “Reminds me of early Putin-era Kremlin control.” This is state-run propaganda in action. Full breakdown in today’s bulletin ⬇️

submitted 58 days ago • 236 comments

I said it before and I’ll say it again… @maddow.msnbc.com @meidastouch.com and @mcuban.bsky.social should join forces and start a new network. Now is the time. What are y’all waiting for?

submitted 59 days ago • 514 comments

Is the legacy media going to do anything? Or is this it?

submitted 58 days ago • 1676 comments

The Tech Bros are colonialists. In case you were wondering where Trump got his inspiration. #NetworkStates #FreedomCities

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 58 days ago • 1620 comments

Practically eliminating Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and Medicare. Removing the Dept. of Education. MASS layoffs of the federal government and an indefinite hiring freeze and a national hate campaign against hiring Black people and women in the public AND private sector that will be prosecuted by the DOJ.

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

First they came for the federal employees, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a federal employee ... You know the rest of the poem. Act accordingly.

submitted 60 days ago • 326 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 61 days ago • 655 comments

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

submitted 61 days ago • 40 comments

Despite facing declining poll numbers and growing constituent unrest, Trump is now publicly urging Elon Musk to intensify his efforts.

submitted 61 days ago • 570 comments

Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era.

submitted 62 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: This is truly unusual, disgustingly insane trading. This morning, a trader opened more than 5000 $VKTX 33C expiring TODAY!!!! Hours later, a buyout rumor on $VKTX. The calls were OTM, expiring TODAY! $VKTX exploded and the calls jumped +700% in two hours. They made millions. Unusual.

submitted 62 days ago • 34 comments

BREAKING: A new coronavirus with the ability to spread to humans similar to the Covid-19 pandemic has been discovered in China, per researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology and Newsweek.

submitted 62 days ago • 44 comments

Something to note. The Proud Boys are at the Capitol today and Trump wore a yellow tie. Black and yellow are proud boy colors. It's very clear that he views them as his personal militia that will mete out political violence. "stand back and stand by."

submitted 62 days ago • 36 comments

BREAKING: The SEC has dropped its enforcement case against Coinbase. Coinbase spent $46 million to influence the outcome of the election. Now they're already getting their payoff.

submitted 62 days ago • 79 comments

These layoffs may include people who tried to roll out safety guidelines for AI oh and also people who worked w/Musk's AI competitors. Remind me who is keeping and visualizing the master list of Elon's conflicts?

submitted 63 days ago • 31 comments

At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, anxiety around officials possibly targeting officers and activities perceived as being disloyal to the president has cratered morale, a federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the agents' concerns tells WIRED. The FBI declined to comment.

submitted 62 days ago • 29 comments

i think it is cool that de facto first consul of the united states is a drug-addled maniac and deadbeat dad with a breeding fetish

submitted 63 days ago • 535 comments

Kash Patel is the fbi director Good luck everybody

submitted 63 days ago • 39 comments

They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 63 days ago • 2352 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 63 days ago • 839 comments

You name me one fucking reason I should not believe RFK Jr. will given authority to send me or my elderly disabled mother to a “wellness camp” for “3-4 years.” Tell me. Tell me why I should not BELIEVE these men.

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance

submitted 65 days ago • 2051 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 64 days ago • 3320 comments

I can’t stop thinking about these two headlines

submitted 64 days ago • 428 comments