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In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.

submitted 20 hours ago • 128 comments

NYT, circa 1930s: "As Hitler imposes totalitarian rule and removes legal rights of Jews, political opponents enter risky political terrain."

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

“.. by the time this deal closes .., the company will have spent an entire decade shuffling ownership from one entity to the next, .. all while the stock price and cash flow have steadily declined .. with layoffs .. never ending but executive pay rising.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

submitted 2 days ago • 265 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Where is DOGE these days?

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says deploying Marines and National Guard to protests in Los Angeles will cost $134 million.

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

submitted 4 days ago • 363 comments

Joe Rogan always looks like he’s being viewed on the back of a spoon.

submitted 5 days ago • 381 comments

Trump won. In two weeks he will have broken the richest man in the world and staged a military parade through the nation’s capital. His policy agenda isn’t doing great. But his consolidation of power is progressing.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Given the news—both what we're seeing in the streets and Stephen Miller saying the anti-ICE protesters are engaging in an "insurrection"—let me re-up this article from last year about why the Insurrection Act is even more dangerous than you might think. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-insu...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

We never had to worry about the U.S. military being used against our own country when Biden was president. But that’s exactly what’s happened under both Trump administrations.

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

This was the plan. California was always the target.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Okay there it is.

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

Newsom and Trump weigh in

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

ATTACK THEM ON EVERY FUCKING THING. EVERY TIME. EVERY DAY. RUIN THEIR MISERABLE LIVES. SHAME THEIR SUPPORTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. MAKE YOUR SUPPORTERS ASHAMED TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. You don’t even mention that he’s a rapist pedophile, why the fuck not? What’s wrong with you?

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

feel like @mattgertz.bsky.social has been all over this, but if you don't watch Fox, it's really been in Other World mode. No bigger story yesterday than KJP's book, for example.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

The stage of capitalism where a company increases its market cap by $50 billion on a report that its CEO will talk to the president.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Big downward revisions: Change in payrolls for March revised down by 65,000, from +185,000 to +120,000, and change for April revised down by 30,000, from +177,000 to +147,000. With these revisions, employment in March and April combined is 95,000 lower than previously reported.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 7 days ago • 162 comments

Insufferable hedge fund guy brokering peace between a pair of heinous toddlers is peak 2025

submitted 7 days ago • 317 comments

There is no way Ukraine could trust the current US government with info that they had operatives behind enemy lines in Russia to execute this operation. Telling that to the Trump admin would put their lives in even greater danger than they already were.

submitted 11 days ago • 530 comments

Trump working hard to release the Epstein files

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Trump went golfing after caving on No Tax on Social Security

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

Republicans are trying to pass the largest ever cuts to health care & nutrition assistance in our country’s history, but the savings from these cuts don’t even pay for their bill. The GOP tax cuts for billionaires will still blow up the deficit by trillions—even Elon admits it!

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

submitted 12 days ago • 7356 comments

This was the most troubling line in the troubling piece

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

submitted 13 days ago • 423 comments

Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

Yes she did vote for that and needs to live with her shitty choices.

submitted 12 days ago • 583 comments

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 1594 comments

Love seeing @nytimes.com swinging back at Elon Musk and defending our journalism against bad faith attacks.

submitted 12 days ago • 79 comments

Every accusation is a confession

submitted 12 days ago • 1435 comments

so glad we checked in with these folks

submitted 21 days ago • 100 comments

Mild critisism and stating the very obvious about the deficit is not exactly political courage and is no commitment to cost-cutting, especially given the needless havoc he has caused across the world www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell celebrated Wednesday, just days ahead of his trial for defamation related to false claims about voting machine company Dominion and one of its employees.

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I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

submitted 17 days ago • 661 comments

YES MORE OF THIS

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

the only question when you see his pardons is “how much did they pay” because everyone knows the white house is basically just a clearance table at macys now

submitted 16 days ago • 69 comments

A permanent injunction for Wilmer, Cutler. The score is now: Law Firms That Didn’t Cave 3 Trump 0 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 days ago • 62 comments

‘Terrifying’: Trump cuts CDC’s drowning-prevention team The loss of the CDC’s drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

In case y'all missed it - Utah Republicans ordered a study on transgender healthcare, expecting it to come back unsupportive. Instead, it found that trans youth care was safe and effective, and that transgender youth need it. Whoops. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 18 days ago • 90 comments

BAKER: “.. universities are actually a major source of export earnings for the United States. Last year, we got over $56 billion from tuition and other expenses paid by foreigners to U.S. colleges .. This number is likely to fall sharply ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

“Tariffs can’t cause inflation if we stop measuring inflation”

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

The Biggest Losers in Trump’s Megabill: “recipients of food aid” “Medicaid users” “college borrowers” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments