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"Classified U.S. intelligence reports... cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the war against Ukraine, assessing that [Putin] has not veered from his maximalist goal of dominating his western neighbor" via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

submitted 1 day ago • 1144 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 304 comments

"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back

submitted 2 days ago • 3706 comments

Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

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Summarizing Elon Musk's government takeover thus far in under 60 seconds:

submitted 24 days ago • 68 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 5 days ago • 1296 comments

Sorry, dickdrip. You'd don't get to be a fascist who destroys lives and walk around without being called on it. I feel sorry for your daughter. One day she'll know what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 224 comments

Some 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. And the SAVE Act would require these documents to register to vote.

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Delaying Mexican tariffs but not Canadian puts the lie to the idea that the tariffs have anything to do with fentanyl flows (since there are effectively no fentanyl flows across the northern border and there plenty across the southern border.) It was all an empty pretext anyway. This just proves it.

submitted 7 days ago • 794 comments

New Washington Post supercut: After promising to bring down prices fast, Trump asks for more time youtu.be/NVgT7GoG70A?...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.

submitted 9 days ago • 1579 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 8 days ago • 1752 comments

I joined Times Radio host Hugo Rifkind this morning to discuss President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ecz...

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Ha! The internet remembers everything. 🤣🤣

submitted 9 days ago • 162 comments

Cartoon by successpictures.

submitted 9 days ago • 564 comments

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

submitted 13 days ago • 509 comments

Good god Republicans - it’s not worth it. Your country, your ethics, your self-respect, your soul - selling all of them for what? To keep your job? So no one yells at you? Why?

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

To be clear: Vance and Trump blew this up on purpose. Yet another gift to Putin. Pathetic.

submitted 13 days ago • 637 comments

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

submitted 13 days ago • 406 comments

Tesla stock fell 8% today. Time for Elon to send an email explaining what he does.

submitted 16 days ago • 354 comments

Remember when the U.S. helped rebuild Europe & condemned Russian attacks on European democracies, as opposed to encouraging such an attack & demanding the attacked democracy’s mineral wealth?

submitted 16 days ago • 226 comments

Trying to imagine this in the U.S. The highest turnout we’ve had since universal suffrage + the Voting Rights Act was 66.6% in 2020… a year when voter access was expanded because of COVID restrictions. Never forget that U.S. elections are mostly disenfranchisement-by-design

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If your Tesla looks like this, that bumper sticker isn't gonna fool anyone #TeslaTakedown

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

submitted 18 days ago • 3896 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 21 days ago • 1893 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

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— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 21 days ago • 1133 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 21 days ago • 859 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 21 days ago • 5066 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 21 days ago • 1247 comments

Kash Patel becomes FBI director.

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

👇🏻

submitted 22 days ago • 1374 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 22 days ago • 2049 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 22 days ago • 1376 comments

If you support Putin, you’re a fascist. Full stop. If you support Trump, you’re a fascist. Full stop. If you support, Victor Orban, you’re a fascist. Full stop. I don’t care what your ideology is You’re either anti-fascist or you’re a threat

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 22 days ago • 921 comments

oh wow this seems slightly inconsistent with a genuine mission to cut the deficit, oh well back to my job as a highly paid political commentator pretending DOGE is a legitimate cost-cutting effort rather than a bunch of incompetent white nationalists on a smash-and-grab heist

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 22 days ago • 1217 comments

“The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen more substantially, to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% right after he took office.” America’s sea cucumbers are very slowly starting to notice something is terribly wrong. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

submitted 22 days ago • 2101 comments

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico in the way it happened is a violation of Federal Law that bypassed proper administrative procedures, such as public notice and comment which violates the APA (5 U.S.C. § 551 et seq.). NOAA and US Board on Geographic Names oversee naming conventions. An NGO should sue.

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 22 days ago • 3365 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 22 days ago • 4534 comments