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submitted 23 hours ago • 28 comments

Get your popcorn ready.

submitted 1 day ago • 2184 comments

There is simply no reason any government official — much less the vice president — should be taking time to meet with a self-obsessed conspiracy theorist.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Magnificent piece of writing open.substack.com/pub/louispis...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“If Trump and his supporters can defame others,” writes David Frum, “they can dull voters’ awareness of the astounding and horrible uniqueness of Trump’s corruption”: https://theatln.tc/8YM3Hqab

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

😹 trump having a day

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

it's pretty damning when it's all laid out like this www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 11 days ago • 124 comments

Dear Tim Cook, Extortion is a continuous process. Hope this helps.

submitted 13 days ago • 219 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 14 days ago • 415 comments

I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

submitted 14 days ago • 821 comments

It’s time to turn the lights out on Lauren Boebert

submitted 14 days ago • 928 comments

due process

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 402 comments

fun interview where you can listen to an ostentatiously devout catholic justify sending innocent people to foreign gulags www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 131 comments

While Elon Musk’s DOGE is taking an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. Seems fair, right? The US DOGE Service—formerly the US Digital Service (USDS)—has been interviewing candidates and offering salaries at the top of the government pay scale.

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Blumenthal to Noem: "Some of the expenditures your department is making- $200m for an ad campaign fawning over Trump's supposed accomplishments...none of these expenditures are in your budget...you're just spending recklessly & it would seem wastefully without authorization. That's against the law."

submitted 17 days ago • 301 comments

Senile man with blue tie: fumbles a debate Senile man with red tie: fumbles the global economy, trashes the federal government, revokes reproductive & civil rights, creates gulags, threatens war against two NATO countries incl Canada US media: we're not done talking about the blue tie guy

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

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from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or two-thirds of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

Hunger Games. These people are so evil that I literally cannot fathom it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

And obviously the Sky Palace is the same.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

It's wild how many people fail to understand this.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t forget, Chauvin’s state crimes can’t be pardoned - and that’s the longer of the two sentences. Also don’t forget the people who support that murderer.

submitted 22 days ago • 455 comments

Dereliction of duty.

submitted 23 days ago • 1155 comments

I would argue that they are both cruel AND out of touch. One leads to the other.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman

submitted 23 days ago • 764 comments

Congress should be speaking out about this every single day

submitted 25 days ago • 155 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 25 days ago • 2733 comments

Your friendly reminder that Stephen Miller is not a lawyer, just a sad, small, shell of a human being

submitted 27 days ago • 149 comments

I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him.

submitted 28 days ago • 88 comments

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

This whole thread should be required reading.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

So, back in the 70's and 80's there were a number of campus activist groups: CISPES, CUSLAR, Amnesty International -- trying to get the US to stop backing fascist regimes in South & Central America by writing letters to congresspeople, educating fellow students, holding peaceful demonstrations. 1/N🧵

submitted 187 days ago • 15 comments

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

submitted 32 days ago • 2877 comments

he's doing emoluments on the blockchain

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

And there you have it.

submitted 33 days ago • 1893 comments

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

submitted 36 days ago • 253 comments