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submitted 3 days ago • 335 comments

In both the legal and colloquial sense, Russia has clearly been committing war crimes in Ukraine. Now we're negotiating with them, without so much as an acknowledgement of how they've prosecuted their war of imperialism. @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoying a movie from the days when we knew who the bad guys were

submitted 19 days ago • 161 comments

The first thing Trump & Musk did was attempt to freeze payments to woke trans marxist grants which turned out to be Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and police departments. So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

Listen it's not some huge scoop like discovering that Joe Biden is 81

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

"The Defense Department of the United States of America will now be run by a weekend Fox News host who wouldn’t be able to hold down a job as manager of the local vape shop." — Charlie Sykes

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Excellent post

submitted 28 days ago • 2082 comments

From Charlie Sykes, a short list of some of the crimes of the J6 seditionists with an emphasis on attacks on police. This is a window into who is being freed -- the worst of the worst.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

“We just released the leaders of two terrorist organizations,” a counterterrorism expert and senior Trump DHS official told me. “In the name of politics, we have just released violent criminals out onto our streets.”

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments

The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

submitted 34 days ago • 976 comments

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

submitted 34 days ago • 78 comments

www.instagram.com/reel/DE5A5IL...

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submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I had to snick this meme from Fark:

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

#KNICKS

submitted 61 days ago • 15 comments

DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at

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submitted 82 days ago • 68 comments

Yes. We already know he wanted to deny disaster relief to CA last time he was in power. I think every Blue state will face extortion at best to get aid. At worst…..

submitted 84 days ago • 73 comments

The purpose of propaganda is not to make you believe something. It is to make you believe nothing. Then you will do nothing.

submitted 84 days ago • 24 comments

"The real-life American revolutionaries were avowed enemies of monarchy, while today’s wannabe revolutionaries have as their leader and hero Donald Trump, the most arrogant, monarchical president in U.S. history."

submitted 86 days ago • 33 comments

Ukrainian boxing icon Wladimir Klitschko accused American podcaster Joe Rogan of spreading Russian propaganda on his show — and dared Rogan to invite him on for a chat.

submitted 90 days ago • 156 comments

Good advice from Tom Nichols. In addition to not "obeying in advance" he says, "I might add a corollary here: People should not panic and exhaust themselves in advance, either." I needed to hear that cuz I'm already worn out. Gift read. @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 90 days ago • 30 comments

Omg

submitted 91 days ago • 61 comments

Trump’s nominee to lead the HHS says that Heroin helped him study

submitted 90 days ago • 395 comments

#RESIST 🇺🇸

submitted 92 days ago • 1509 comments

Pete Hegseth has published three books in four years. Jonathan Chait spent the last week reading them—and concluded that Hegseth is almost certainly the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks. theatln.tc/80Muc59S

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Meanwhile…

submitted 94 days ago • 37 comments

"Who keeps doing this to us," ask the rural voters who keep doing this to themselves

submitted 95 days ago • 297 comments

Several of Trump’s nominations are so manifestly dangerous that they may, just may, be rejected by the Republican Senate. Those who are deeply unqualified have the effect of distracting attention. That leaves the barely qualified. NEW from @rosenzweigp.bsky.social:

submitted 95 days ago • 33 comments

Yowza. | www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...

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With the fall of France in 1940, Britain found itself with no allies in Europe, facing a triumphant Germany and its fascist Italian lackey. Cartoonist David Low illustrated Britain's defiant mood with this iconic cartoon: "Very Well, Alone.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 95 days ago • 24 comments

"Get ready for the attempted purges. Get ready to defend those whom the Trumpists will try to purge. And get ready to explain to the public why it’s important that in the United States civil servants do not swear an oath to President Trump."

submitted 96 days ago • 48 comments

"He runs the table on the seven deadly sins and demonstrates not a trace of any of the four cardinal virtues. He possesses not a single character trait that you would want your child to fully emulate." Yep, still true. Tim Miller from the archives:

submitted 96 days ago • 12 comments

I tried to warn the American Muslim community working against Biden/Harris that Trump has a plan to purge/deport them on his own campaign website. They called me a "fear monger." Agenda47: Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions

submitted 96 days ago • 34 comments

"The conventional wisdom seems to have settled on the view that, Sure, this is all very bad. But also: It’s ultimately fine. I view this as a dangerous failure of imagination." Let your imagination run wild with @jvl.bsky.social in today's Triad:

submitted 97 days ago • 54 comments

"It turns out that Trump Derangement Syndrome was actually Trump Discernment Syndrome. We saw Trump clearly. And so here we are with these ghastly nominations." Now it's time to stop them. Today's Morning Shots from Bill Kristol and @eggerdc.bsky.social‬:

submitted 96 days ago • 25 comments