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The thing about Trump’s team is that we learn how many morally bankrupt, marginally intelligent, men of utterly average substance have walked among us, seemingly successful, running money-making firms, CEOs and venture capitalists - even the richest man in the world. They have been unmasked.

submitted 6 hours ago • 149 comments

His wife’s parents are foreign academics. Was it bad for America that they came? I don’t think it was!

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

Remember when they kept telling us that this administration is only concerned about “illegal immigrants?” Remember how mocked we were for calling it out for the lie that it is? This is not only unjust, it is cruel and barbaric.

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments

Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart.

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 1 day ago • 590 comments

U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”

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Pritzker: You know, I was asked the other day if I could say one thing to Donald Trump, what would it be? And I said, “What does Putin have on you?” Everybody rational understands that Putin is trying to rebuild the old Russian Empire. And Donald Trump is literally handing it to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

NEWS: An Indian national teaching at Georgetown was arrested by immigration authorities in Rosslyn, Va. Monday. His lawyers say he's being targeted for his pro-Palestinian views. His U.S. citizen wife's father was a Hamas adviser. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

submitted 2 days ago • 628 comments

What a dick. bsky.app/profile/patr...

submitted 2 days ago • 953 comments

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

So if we give Putin everything he wants he will agree to a ceasefire. Art of the Deal.

submitted 4 days ago • 695 comments

If the Democrats bail out Mike Johnson on ANY spending bill, they deserve the utter political destruction coming their way. Some are already falling for the "but we'll get blamed for shutting down the government" b.s. Have you learned NOTHING? Not. One. Vote.

submitted 25 days ago • 631 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 31 days ago • 4520 comments

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 30 days ago • 132 comments

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.

submitted 36 days ago • 1051 comments

The next Kennedy Center Honorees. Then, the Center and its awards will be renamed for a more recent president, the current one, and the woke rainbow ribbon design of the award will be replaced with bedazzled gold lamé.

submitted 42 days ago • 734 comments

Musk’s DOGE team is infiltrating the Treasury, fired racists are getting rehired by Trump, and corruption is running wild. Trump is fuming as people realize Musk is REALLY in charge. Today’s insane Meidas+ bulletin breaks it all down.

submitted 42 days ago • 252 comments

At least Musk still lets Trump sign stuff so he thinks he’s still in charge.

submitted 43 days ago • 295 comments

"Vance had a chance to defend his OWN family, and he opted to defend the Indian-hating bigot instead. Where are the balls on these Republican men? ... Elon wants his DOGE kid who hates Indians back and Vance does his bidding... Do they castrate these guys at the door of the RNC?"

submitted 42 days ago • 710 comments

Growing up, I was told that the demise of Christianity would be caused by our country rejecting God. Now I believe it is actually caused by Christians blatantly rejecting the teachings of Jesus for the sake of political power.

submitted 45 days ago • 41 comments

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 46 days ago • 224 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 48 days ago • 1976 comments

A very worthwhile use of your time today, since I know there will be a media void. Don’t skip the songs! open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Never forget.

submitted 75 days ago • 400 comments

My latest for January 6th: Still A Day of Infamy open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

submitted 75 days ago • 337 comments

I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.

submitted 93 days ago • 547 comments

open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment