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It really seems like he have to learn some hard lessons again, on war, on economic policy, on taxes, on democracy, and certainly on vaccines and public health. These lessons would not have to be relearned if Americans had even a shred of historical context or understanding.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

When you don’t want that measles smoke >>>>>>>

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Put another way, Democrats are demanding the Trump administration comply with the law, and Republicans are saying they want him to keep lawbreaking.

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Republicans are doing this because they want gay men and transgender women to contract HIV. They believe that dying of AIDS is a deserved punishment for having gay sex, just as they think that forced childbirth is a deserved punishment for sexually active women. This is not especially complicated.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

MAHA going great

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Me with a headful to my friends who wanted to take the subway instead of walk a few blocks in the rain after a MSG show:

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Hamas murdered Eli Sharabi’s wife and two daughters then kidnapped him to Gaza where they tortured and starved him.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The outcome of this political moment depends a lot on Americans being able to escape or see past the billionaire-controlled prison of right-wing propaganda our devices have become www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

this really is the absolute apex of “move fast and break things” - except the thing in question is the entire United States government and we are in the process of learning what a catastrophic mistake the entire ideology was from the start

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

So, what happened today? I am going to try to explain it in brief as best I can for my non-tech friends. A statement for the beginning: we are living in unprecedented times, and this is very real. I am a person who is generally not very serious. But this is. So here is what I can distill for you.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

submitted 20 days ago • 1124 comments

Everyone who spent months going after Biden and Harris over their Gaza policy really did an outstanding job here. People with a really profound understanding of the intersection of foreign policy and domestic politics! Great job, folks!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Ill-Matched Couple, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530, 📸 by @Mikeyyowens

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

My heart breaks for the trans kids who were playing soccer with their friends without issue who now have to learn the sting of exclusion from the fabric of their communities. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them and mean it.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Congrats on being another sloganeering voice delivering the Palestinians to Netanyahu, Trump and yesterday's moment. "Genocide Joe" was exactly the hype that those two men needed to get rid of an administration still committed to 2state negotiations, to working for a ceasefire and sanctioning...

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

This is going to be like his new Hannibal Lecter shtick... it makes no sense and in a few months we're going to find out he won't shut up about it because he doesn't understand basic words or sentence structure just like we did with "asylum"

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I say it people push back but- Republican voters vote that way because they believe things that aren’t true. They are not responding to real problems and cannot be reached by nuanced critique

submitted 25 days ago • 69 comments

It’s really wild how much Trump doesn’t even understand basic economics and instead is just performatively signing EOs that are meaningless. He is a figurehead head of state while Elon Musk runs the government.

submitted 24 days ago • 181 comments

He will do whatever the fuck he wants until stopped. There has to be a massive campaign to raise the public’s attention. I said Friday and I will say it again at this point only the very online are aware. Only ends with extreme public pressure.

submitted 24 days ago • 46 comments

Why target USAID when it’s <1% of budget? “USAID funds democracy-promotion programs around the world, including in European countries where right-wing populist movements are thriving. Musk has become an ally of those movements, some of whose leaders have specifically targeted the agency…” Gift link

submitted 24 days ago • 63 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 26 days ago • 311 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 28 days ago • 1050 comments

He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.

submitted 28 days ago • 83 comments

It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.

submitted 31 days ago • 625 comments

Where was this before the election?

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

submitted 32 days ago • 65 comments

Pot calls kettle black

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is where it goes from here. Sadly, it’s totally predictable and Dan lays it out perfectly.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Jan 6 was investigated and largely prosecuted as domestic terrorism. The pardons should be reported and spoken of accordingly. An endorsement of terrorism. Trump sprung his terrorist network - including, by extension, himself.

submitted 36 days ago • 55 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 37 days ago • 1182 comments