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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.

submitted 6 hours ago • 65 comments

Some of these questions are really incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLr2...

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Federal judges are facing unprecedented threats. So how does the Trump administration respond? After saying the threats are unacceptable, the White House spokesman adds, “A lot of these people are leftist, crazy judges that aren't following the Constitution.” www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

“The fundamental weakness of Weatern civilization is empathy.” —Elon Musk

submitted 4 days ago • 399 comments

The Bob Cesca Interview: Driftglass and Blue Gal Day #blogpost

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Trump’s message to the people of Gaza: “You are DEAD!”

submitted 4 days ago • 1524 comments

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

‘Prelude to privatization:’ Social Security confirms workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter offices www.govexec.com/workforce/20... via @GovExec

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

An Economy and a Government are Not Like a Business talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-ec...

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It's Monday morning, which means that I have once again done the thing I do. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

There's so much bad in this paragraph it's hard to know where to start. FAA is now controlled by Elon Musk. He's awarding himself this contract. That's not what a conflict of interest means. This is simple looting. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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NEW: Sources tell me that US Attorney for DC Ed Martin just demoted multiple senior attorneys who oversaw the January 6th prosecutions. The lawyers were told they would now handle low-level crime cases usually given to junior AUSAs. Martin sent the demotion email himself, per a msg I saw. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

Worse than the Ugly American. We are now Murdering America. This is being done in our name. U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

When Rufo shares the private communications of trans staffers: Haha fuck yeah!! Yes!! When reporters report on members of DOGE: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

POTUS suggests maybe a million federal workers “don’t exist.”

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

www.thedrive.com/news/trump-i...

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BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 13 days ago • 123 comments

The Trump administration is now bringing the postwar era to an end. No one should be surprised: this is what they said they would do. America's European and Asian allies need to adjust, quickly. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

"No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States." from @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 16 days ago • 46 comments

Never.

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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 18 days ago • 2036 comments

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 18 days ago • 556 comments

Interesting speech by Vince Gilligan, who is clearly chagrined over the bad-fan response to Walter White: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

America can no longer be trusted to be a leader in the world, as the two co-presidents prefer autocrats over democratically elected leaders, and both want to be dictators. The US now plays for Team Bad Guys. America First = America Alone, and anyone who thinks that's a good thing is nuts.

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Government does important work — but not if DOGE can prevent it paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-govern...

submitted 20 days ago • 75 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 21 days ago • 231 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 212 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 21 days ago • 273 comments

Trump may have betrayed Ukraine. But he betrayed other allies first.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

In internal memos obtained by TPM, court administrators describe their plans to mitigate the effects of the Trump administration's run of executive orders and other actions. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judicia...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

The world's richest man doesn't give a fuck about what these federal agencies actually do to help people, and he's piling on the brain rot of the MAGA base that it's all just "fraud." God help us all if we cannot show Americans how the world really works.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Holy shit, this Sassoon letter. I think that among other things this is a moment where some people are going to remember that no matter how in charge Trump seems right now, that won’t always be the case. So be careful about your criminal conduct.

submitted 24 days ago • 44 comments

"Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI, a bombshell letter obtained by The Post reveals." nypost.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 26 days ago • 390 comments

www.salon.com/2025/02/12/l...

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