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republican party making it clear they will not be outdone on cringe

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 comments

I mean, Trump has always been diametrically opposed to every populist principle he pretends to support, but I guess sometimes it takes releasing an accused rapist and human trafficker from custody for the phoniness to really sink in.

submitted 6 hours ago • 427 comments

Here's the election Elon Musk is trying to buy next: Not content with buying the presidency, billionaire Elon Musk has now set his sights on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court. A group tied to him is spending more than $1 million ahead of an April election to determine the fate of abortion rights,…

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I think this is worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Wz...

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

Hero

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 15 days ago • 463 comments

“Others that aren’t a criminal priority”. He means everyone. Everyone is going to go.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I have worked on civil wars and state capture for 25 years. So let me be REALLY clear about this for Americans: Your courts are only as useful as the willingness of politicians to comply with those judgments. And the willingness of police to enforce. And Musk, Trump & Co do NOT care about the law

submitted 18 days ago • 39 comments

Recently watched Serpico and loved the way Pacino and Robert’s played off each other.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: Groceries, sort of an old fashioned word. The price of groceries went through the roof… You take a look at eggs today— I mean, the eggs are double, triple, quadruple, they’re going through the roof. No, there’s some outside problem with eggs maybe.

submitted 20 days ago • 725 comments

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 20 days ago • 169 comments

Great point here from Pritzker. Elon is not the President. He was elected by no one. Make Trump own it all.

submitted 32 days ago • 58 comments

Cowards.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Then… do something?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I assumed everyone paying attention knew this is what making America "great" again meant. it's a return to the '50s before women and minorities had protections against racists.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sure he means California when he says this, but the gulf states will only need one major hurricane to need FEMA's help.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.

submitted 36 days ago • 225 comments

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

“I don’t know” pretty much sums up every topic he’s asked about.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I have been watching @cnn.com less since it was clear they were not only giving Trump a pass during the election but actively criticizing both Biden and Harris. This seals the deal for me. Not going to give them my ratings, clicks and whatever else they need to make more money.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

He would hate it if his ratings were low.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

"Everyone except me is lying to you!"

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"[Hegseth's second ex-wife] then made multiple attempts to contact the bureau for a more substantive discussion — but her calls were not returned last week, said those with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

submitted 44 days ago • 28 comments

Steve Bannon: “I want a complete 100% moratorium on all immigration." It was never just about illegal immigration for these people.

submitted 44 days ago • 71 comments

Because Hegseth refused to meet with nearly all Democrats before the hearing, it is all the more important not to allow them to fully question him during the hearing.

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

Trump is so thin-skinned. Also, "I got stuck watching" is his way to pretend that he doesn't spend nights channel surfing for anything that is about him.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a felon. #TrumpIsAFelon

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.

submitted 49 days ago • 446 comments

In 1860, conservatives blamed wildfires in Texas on abolitionists and “Lincolnites.” Many were executed merely on suspicion of being vaguely against slavery that year. Pretty easy to see the parallels to claims that “wokeness” and “DEI” are behind California fires today.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Man, they're not even in office yet and already walking back their promises.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever there is a tragedy, you can count on Musk to argue that the root of the problem is not enough white people are in charge

submitted 50 days ago • 308 comments

Trump attacks Gov. Newsom as "newscum" while he tries to deal with a horrific natural disaster in his state

submitted 50 days ago • 400 comments

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:

submitted 50 days ago • 71 comments

This is how you do it.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a Putin apologist and a Kremlin mouthpiece and always has been.

submitted 50 days ago • 251 comments

"About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox... They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording."

submitted 50 days ago • 130 comments

This would be a great example of mid- or late- 19th century American jingoism if it hadn't been posted (and deleted, by House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans) in the year 2025

submitted 50 days ago • 70 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 185 comments

It's the least he could do.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Worth remembering Facebook knew right-wing site postings (Breitbart, Shapiro, etc) were the main generators of hate speech comments and their own algorithms rewarded it (and they benefitted) —but did nothing because they didn’t want to seem biased. “The receipts exist” 👇🏽

submitted 50 days ago • 61 comments

Didn't he commit these crimes BEFORE becoming president? My understanding is that presidential immunity only applies to actions taken while performing his duties as president.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

1. Zuckerberg announced he was getting rid of Meta's fact-checking program, one of several moves designed to curry favor with Trump Fact-checking itself is important but Meta's program was very bad. It was always just a PR operation. When it stopped serving that purpose, it was killed

submitted 50 days ago • 48 comments

Holy sh*t. Donald Trump says he can’t assure the world he won’t use military force to take over Greenland or the Panama Canal. Greenland is a territory owned by Denmark. This is one of the dumbest and most dangerous things Trump has ever said.

submitted 51 days ago • 1380 comments