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we are living in fascism right now

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In any functioning democracy the elimination of an extant department that protects children from lead poisoning would be a game ender for the entire administration under which it occurred. I’ll expect a strong statement from Chuck Schumer and some fundraising texts.

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Who invited the birds to the smoke sesh?

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

he might be a finance and wall street guy but he has unmatched aura

submitted 20 hours ago • 64 comments

im no gordon gekko or anything but i feel like a stable government that invests in education and infrastructure would be better for business than whatever the fuck is happening now

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

submitted 2 days ago • 1530 comments

potential message: the GOP just raised taxes by $6 trillion potential message: the GOP is kidnapping and trafficking people for things they MIGHT say dem message: the GOP might be insider trading—a thing you associate nancy pelosi with—and we're sending them a nice letter asking them for evidence

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

Victim complex

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

submitted 2 days ago • 460 comments

Illegal ideas.

submitted 2 days ago • 542 comments

Kurt Vonnegut man

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

The IRS working with ICE is proof this was never about removing dangerous criminals. Criminals don't pay their taxes. ICE is too lazy to find criminals.

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

lol

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

re-upping my position that raimi’s spider-man 2 is the single best superhero ever made, one of his best movies, and also the closest thing anyone has ever done to putting a silver age comic directly on screen

submitted 3 days ago • 144 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

i’m going to repair the economy by making interesting sports videos

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

submitted 4 days ago • 1107 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 4 days ago • 396 comments

1. Trump has announced that transgender people are an "improper ideology," and has demanded that the Women's History Museum remove them or lose funding. It is the latest in a government campaign to erase transgender people. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 4 days ago • 207 comments

"Over the weekend, Trump endorsed sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 5 days ago • 221 comments

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 4 days ago • 209 comments

I wrote about tariffs and the longstanding conservative desire for conflict and strife, even when it doesn't seem to make any sense.

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BREAKING: The D.C. Appeals Court’s 7-4 vote reverses a separate court decision that upheld Trump’s dismissal of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) member Cathy Harris. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

HEY REMEMBER THIS?? bad-faith-times.ghost.io/we-need-to-s...

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