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A cadre of billionaires, people who sit at a desk and type, and people who go on TV and talk are publicly denigrating hundreds of thousands of people who earn five figures, many of whom work on their feet, and it's the first group that's working class, sticking it to elites, do I have that right?

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I’m feeling just a little bit of hope this morning. Everything is still very bad, but there are heartening signs that there may be a gathering storm to knock Trump and Musk off course.

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Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women. Family values, GOP-style.

submitted 11 hours ago • 166 comments

The degree of psychopathology on display in Trumpworld right now is gobsmacking. Two malignant narcissists (and their minions) for the price of one.

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As America is being torn apart, weakened, and sold to the highest bidder, I think about all the folks who told me, "Well, it won't be THAT bad" and "We survived 4 years of Trump..." and "The systems will hold." All of them are privileged and well-off. Alas. We're all in it now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 97 comments

I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

submitted 21 hours ago • 122 comments

I love the idea that the ketamine and video game junky with 13 (known) kids who posts 200 times a day and who works for the golfer in chief is worried that other people aren’t working hard enough.

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

Every day, they're testing how far they can take this. If they think they can take it all the way, they absolutely will. But we don't have to let them.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old blood & soil factory. So when Steve Bannon and Elon Musk promised to bring back Heil Hitler salutes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

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Huge swaths of this country are hell bent on revenge and if we don't have a party who will channel that rage towards the people who deserve it, they're going to settle for the cotton candy nutrition of petty grievances against trans kids. SOMEBODY LEAD THEM.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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Markets like stability We have something close to anarchy

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Anecdotal European stuff: I have spoken to a few Italians about the US “situation” lately and all are pretty much asking themselves the same question: where are the American opposition leaders? Where are Obama, Harris, Biden? Their absence is as horrifying as the acts of the current administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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It's happening INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

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Surprising. I figured a second Trump term would be good for them.

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I want to go back in time and tell Reagan this is the leader of conservative America

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

The PRIME MINISTER of the COUNTRY of CANADA has entered the chat… 🇨🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Congrats to Canada! Better at hockey and better at being a country.

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35 years after the dissolution of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, Russia has defeated the USA just as Kruschev predicted: without firing a shot. Destroyed from within. And it was the party of Ronald Reagan and countless Cold Warriors who allowed it to happen.

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I can’t believe they actually confirmed that bug eyed freak.

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I always thought Wallace Shawn had the ideal career: you get to be this well-regarded highbrow playwright and art house movie maker AND you also get to be a part of millions of people‘s childhoods by being in Clueless, the Princess Bride, and Toy Story. What a life.

submitted 2 days ago • 467 comments

Democratic leaders are about to learn a very real, very hard lesson about the differences between appeasement and fighting hard and "strategic silence" versus a sustained media messaging campaign. They're now going to face life-changing investigations and likely arrests.

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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

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Hey Joe Biden - as your cherished international order is systematically destroyed, I would think you’d want to go to a podium and raise some hell. You won’t, of course, because you’re frail and confused, not to mention delusional enough to think the Dems owed you another term.

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Opinion | The last 80 years have brought unprecedented peace and prosperity to the US, Canada, and Western Europe. It's time that we ended it.

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

I strongly suggest that the UK, EU, Australia, Japan, and South Korea quickly form a defense alliance so that when Trump decides to pull US troops out of South Korea, Pyongyang is sufficiently deterred.

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Members of Congress swear an oath to defend the Constitution. If they are too scared to follow through on that—not unreasonable, many really are getting harassment and death threats—then they should step down so someone who is up for the job can do it. Of 220m US adults, only 535 are in Congress.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Has anyone checked in with Jack Dorsey to see if he’s still down with Musk’s mission to extend the light of consciousness?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Musk/Trump junta have declared open warfare on every American who isn’t a billionaire, and now we have to see how long it takes for aforementioned Americans to figure this out

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to stability

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

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The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

submitted 173 days ago • 55 comments