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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 22 hours ago • 1144 comments

it’s hard to know what the fuck this country looks like in 2028 but one thing I remain convinced of is that the Dem nominee will be whatever governor does the best job standing up to this shit and so far Pritzker and Walz are the front runners

submitted 9 hours ago • 69 comments

Democrats even thinking about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.

submitted 16 hours ago • 337 comments

Yeah, I'm sure there was an elaborate planning session with political strategists who pull down seven figures and told Newsom that this was the Savvy Move, but this is an absolute deal-breaker.

submitted 11 hours ago • 108 comments

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2493 comments

And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

submitted 12 hours ago • 24 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1167 comments

Imagine watching Office Space and rooting for The Bobs.

submitted 18 hours ago • 33 comments

Everyone else has said this, & I will say it too: it is INSANE that 4 justices think that the president should have the power of the purse.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Fuck everyone who ever voted for, apologized for, or supported this guy in any way.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

If I had one wish... comic book companies would have little kiosks at movie theaters selling comic book stuff like this to people coming excitedly out of a film. Just like they do in Japan...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Still wild to see Dems sit and watch Rep. Green get escorted out and none of them thought they should abandon their own little individual protests and get taken out with him. They just watched as the other side jeered him and cheered him getting escorted out. Just no understanding of solidarity.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

"Some people have questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove one old man with a cane. It turns out that it was for a serious reason, when security searched him, they found that he had smuggled in a spine." -Stephen Colbert

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I’m telling you Trump is going to cut Social Security Severely And claim the reduction is all “fraud, waste and abuse” While seniors wind up eating dog food because they can’t afford to buy eggs

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

Ronald Reagan was a horrible president who demonized marginalized communities, gutted the welfare state, enriched cronies, and committed a laundry list of impeachable crimes. I long for a Democratic Party that rightly understands that a comparison to him should be an insult.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

"as a cold war kid, i'm happy that Ronald Reagan was in office" - Elissa Slotkin, the official Democratic response to Trump oh hell yeah baby that's the winning message!!! my god we are cooked

submitted 1 day ago • 302 comments

seeing how poorly mainstream/neolib Dems are responding to this moment is like being tied to the trolley while an out of control train is coming and watching people who could pull levers to stop it instead choose to hold up little signs saying "please stop"

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Let's replace the fundraising organization known as the Democratic Party with an actual party.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 2 days ago • 330 comments

It is critical Polis not fold on this, because the message they want to send is that you may commit crimes with impunity—including under state law—if they're crimes in service of Donald Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

FDR says Churchill may need to resign or cut a peace deal with Hitler ceding him British territory, agrees Hitler has right to expand, halts Lend-Lease.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Peaceful protest is protected under our First Amendment: freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Trump threatening to pull federal funding from schools over Americans protesting is unconstitutional on several levels. It’s authoritarian overreach & must be repudiated.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Again, "republicans are the good-at-economy party" is the most damaging lie of the past half century.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is actually not right: what's going on is worse. If you compare what DOGE is doing w/what Project 2025 (starting with USAID), DOGE has been FAR more destructive.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

It’s been six days since Chief Justice Roberts’s “administrative” stay in the foreign aid cases. That almost certainly means (1) someone’s dissenting; (2) the Court is trying to reach a compromise; or (3) both. Hard to be sure which it is, but the continuing pause is itself producing plenty of harm.

submitted 1 day ago • 320 comments

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 269 comments

For all of recorded history, songs were only about, at most, some of the young dudes. "That's as many as you can fit in! NO MORE!" said grandparents. And then, in 1972, David Bowie, a glint in his eye. "We have the technology," he said. "All of them. Every last one of them."

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Forcing all federal employees to summarize weekly activities to be submitted to an unsecure server and ingested into some halfass LLM is such an incredible boon to hostile foreign intelligence.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Elon Musk’s problem with Social Security is that’s a hell of a lot of money just sitting there not in his bank account.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

it would be great if we had a democratic party willing to go out and say “this is an insane lie to get you to irrationally hate a minority group trying to just exist peacefully” rather than start throwing us under the bus and twiddling their thumbs

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

"We support this persecuted minority group in theory, we just can't openly defend them, they're too unpopular." I mean ... even if you share the prejudice, would you want to vote for this kind of explicit cowardice?

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

words I never imagined writing in my lifetime..... General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio: "I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

This is so out of touch you kinda have to laugh. "Move away from the dominance of small dollar donors"? Yeah, small dollar donors are the problem. Harris started on a rocket ship of small dollar enthusiasm. Her campaign fell apart when she started listening to these clowns www.politico.com/playbook

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

Everyone thinks they'd be running and gunning around the wasteland after The Jackpot Event, but in reality the most useful and applicable skill you can learn right now is basic/intermediate first aid

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 6 days ago • 105 comments

Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now sitting in a Georgia warehouse. Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1921...

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

literally every time I talk to friends

submitted 5 days ago • 164 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 5 days ago • 3219 comments

what most of you are shocked about is that Zellensky showed real pride and was willing to get up and leave because most of you create environments where the person in Zellensky's position CAN'T Yall are shamed and embarrassed because he did what most of you AND the elected officials can't

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment