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If you beat a Capitol police officer with their own shield in an effort to overturn a free & fair election, you go free, but if you vandalize an electric car, you get 20 years in an infamously brutal El Salvadoran prison.

submitted 35 days ago • 539 comments

President Trump's endgame is to remain in power for as long as he wants to, according to author, Michael Lewis. And the bestselling writer of The Big Short says Elon Musk is working to 'attack' any parts of government that could 'interfere' with Trump's power

submitted 39 days ago • 27 comments

Musk working to keep Trump in power – Michael Lewis | Interview www.channel4.com/news/musk-wo...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Great podcast! @timmiller.bsky.social interviews, first, Michael Lewis, and second, Sarah Vowell. (Her part was too short -- bring her back, Tim!) Trigger warning: it will make you love lowly civil servants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbGq...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

👀 WATCH: Best-selling author Michael Lewis skewers Elon Musk, Thiel and the other MAGA tech billionaires on the @thebulwark.bsky.social podcast with @timmiller.bsky.social Full: youtu.be/TbGq0KEiPNg?...

submitted 34 days ago • 28 comments

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

submitted 46 days ago • 2929 comments

NEW: After Mike Johnson's chief-of-staff crashed his white Tesla into a black Chevy after Trump's speech at the Capitol last week, he was "staggering" and slurring his speech as he tried to use voice activation to open his glove compartment, according to police. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

submitted 46 days ago • 86 comments

Breaking news: The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees.

submitted 48 days ago • 133 comments

Did he just say "I wipe my phone every night of evidence?" Sounds like a confession to me.

submitted 50 days ago • 396 comments

I was sitting just off frame two rows up to the right, and can confirm this was the woman

submitted 51 days ago • 56 comments

I think the most disturbing sight at the council meeting tonight was a woman giving eight sieg heils, claiming she wasn’t a Nazi and it wasn’t a Nazi salute. She left quickly thereafter.

submitted 51 days ago • 69 comments

Wall Street worries Trump tariffs could wreck the souring economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 51 days ago • 30 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 55 days ago • 844 comments

Rep. Tom Suozzi gets huge applause and a standing ovation after calling out Trump’s ambush of President Zelenskyy at the White House. Suozzi is a Democrat who won a special election in a red district—more of this, please! Every single Dem should be holding town halls across the country RIGHT NOW.

submitted 54 days ago • 246 comments

🗣️MUST-WATCH: “It will only take a few of you to protect it… WHERE DO YOU STAND?” A @RepHarshbarger constituent on Obamacare presses her to protect the health care of millions — as she pretends not to know Project 2025 is targeting it Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGsx4ck...

submitted 54 days ago • 608 comments

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

submitted 55 days ago • 595 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 56 days ago • 2230 comments

Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.

submitted 56 days ago • 756 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 58 days ago • 1619 comments

At first, I thought this was a joke. But he actually said it.

submitted 58 days ago • 162 comments