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As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 9 days ago • 192 comments

“Pro-vaccine groups” are not a special interest group to be skeptical of they are ALL OF THE FUCKING MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS AND DOCTORS

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 16 days ago • 643 comments

Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

Ok I'm hearing they can print out your posts IRL, this is not good

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”

submitted 49 days ago • 355 comments

Got flexed on by raccoon who was holding a better bagel than me this morning.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

submitted 66 days ago • 141 comments

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

submitted 72 days ago • 331 comments

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

submitted 71 days ago • 161 comments

my offer to america: we bring woke back

submitted 75 days ago • 314 comments

The past two months have been the "Dark Knight" ferryboat scene except the ferries are universities or law firms and they blow each other up before the Joker even finishes his instructions

submitted 77 days ago • 28 comments

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

submitted 78 days ago • 589 comments

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

submitted 79 days ago • 109 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 79 days ago • 821 comments

It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce

submitted 79 days ago • 104 comments

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

submitted 81 days ago • 583 comments

how hard is it to message “rfk jr had his brain eaten by worms and wants to bring back diseases only pirates used to get”

submitted 86 days ago • 19 comments

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

submitted 86 days ago • 92 comments

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

submitted 86 days ago • 163 comments

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

submitted 87 days ago • 101 comments

I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.

submitted 88 days ago • 183 comments

every day i look at my phone and go “there’s no way we’re more fucked than yesterday”. every day i’m wrong

submitted 95 days ago • 5 comments

jesus: takes the wheel the cheesemakers: sonofabitch

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

submitted 99 days ago • 304 comments

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

submitted 101 days ago • 1084 comments

If you need to do this much throat clearing before you can manage to say "Kidnapping people for political speech is very bad, actually" then it's time to step back, have a lozenge, and cede leadership to someone more suited to the moment.

submitted 102 days ago • 47 comments

The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds

submitted 115 days ago • 59 comments

I may not be rich in money, but I am rich in small metal objects that I can’t identify but I’m afraid to throw away because they might be important.

submitted 114 days ago • 12 comments

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

submitted 116 days ago • 591 comments

Im gonna hit the duolingo Owl with my car

submitted 117 days ago • 19 comments

Every day is a new horror but I did just see a couple kids standing in a stream and poking at something with a stick, so it’s a relief to know that the old ways are not completely dead.

submitted 132 days ago • 13 comments

I didn’t think the Democrats were going to save us, per se, but I did not expect them to lie down on the floor and mildly complain about the smart heels of the fascists trodding upon them.

submitted 122 days ago • 18 comments

gravity is doing a better job opposing the GOP than the Democrats are

submitted 136 days ago • 77 comments

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 136 days ago • 2557 comments

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 138 days ago • 208 comments

(me watching burglars break all the windows and climb into my house) “Just give it time. They might cut their hand on the glass.”

submitted 138 days ago • 128 comments

Is any senator, member of Congress, or really anyone in a position of any actual power or authority, going to step up and express outrage with an actual plan to DO SOMETHING? These dipshit social media posts being like “Things are bad and illegal! 🥴” are about to make my head explode

submitted 140 days ago • 463 comments

grind the government to a halt stop voting for any nominees, object to every unanimous consent, do a rotating talking filibuster on the senate floor going over the transformation of the United States into Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s personal fiefdom act like what’s happening is happening

submitted 140 days ago • 88 comments