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What an embarrassment of a presidential administration

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

“Trump Gaza” would mean 100,000 American troops in Gaza — fighting Hamas, door to door — and coming home in body bags. Is that what you voted for?

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

Trump and Musk are literally looking to ram through a budget that would give billionaires like them a MASSIVE tax cut -- while eliminating healthcare for the poorest Americans, and jacking up YOUR taxes They're going to take a TRILLION of your dollars and give it to themselves

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

A president rapidly sundowning into full-blown dementia ambiguously handed power over the entire government to a delusional billionaire drug addict in a made-up illegal quasi-office and the Cabinet is split over whether their departments have to listen to his mad orders. It's day 34.

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.

submitted 12 days ago • 83 comments

Rep. Riley Moore says Republicans are looking to pay for more tax cuts with cuts to mandatory spending -- that is, Social Security and Medicare

submitted 21 days ago • 321 comments

A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 29 days ago • 537 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 29 days ago • 731 comments

unelected and not confirmed for any role by the us senate. this is as illegal as you can get, constitutionally speaking.

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

I don’t see a meaningful difference between this being done by Russian hackers or Musk’s cronies (who might be Russian hackers)

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

Jfc do not trade the fucking First Amendment for a goddamn merger www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 32 days ago • 120 comments

Remember — Tulsi Gabbard was on a TSA watch list because of suspicious foreign travel, including to Syria and Russia. Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for suspicious foreign travel.

submitted 32 days ago • 117 comments

This happened a week ago.

submitted 32 days ago • 66 comments

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

submitted 34 days ago • 111 comments