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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
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“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states
The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted.
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
*DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr: "There's actions we can take on licensed broadcasters. It's long past the time that...Comcast and Disney say 'We're not gonna run Kimmel anymore...because we licensed broadcasters are running the possibly of fines or licensed revocation from the FCC.'"
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states
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He died doing what he loved: blaming America’s gun violence problem on minorities.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
He died doing what he loved: blaming America’s gun violence problem on minorities.
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When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat:
✅ they had no idea where it was going
✅ they had no idea who was on it
✅ they had no established authority to act
✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it
Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
✅ they had no idea where it was going
✅ they had no idea who was on it
✅ they had no established authority to act
✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it
Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
September 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat:
✅ they had no idea where it was going
✅ they had no idea who was on it
✅ they had no established authority to act
✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it
Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
✅ they had no idea where it was going
✅ they had no idea who was on it
✅ they had no established authority to act
✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it
Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
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Dems should literally create a collaborator's list and put names of institutions and people on it. "Here are people who helped undermine the US Constitution in order to help themselves." Anyone who goes on the list should know they're never coming off it.
100% correct. We started to see Jamie Raskin do this with big law. It needs to keep happening. Make it clear there will be a massive, everlasting cost to folding to this administration.
Democrats need to directly attack and pressure institutions for caving to Trump. As in, they need to give speeches and call out - by name - companies, universities, and law firms that have acceded to his illegal demands. If they don't, the path of least resistance will always be acquiescence.
August 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Dems should literally create a collaborator's list and put names of institutions and people on it. "Here are people who helped undermine the US Constitution in order to help themselves." Anyone who goes on the list should know they're never coming off it.
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We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.
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Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully toured the hastily constructed concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, obnoxiously referred to as Alligator Alcatraz, in reference to (1) the infamous island prison in San Francisco that Trump is obsessed with and (2) the number of alligators (and crocodiles — the one place in the world that has both) that live in and around the Everglades.
www.techdirt.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully…
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The Supreme Court decided to let Trump violate an international human rights treaty and send immigrants to places where they are likely to be tortured.
If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys.
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys.
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court Just Cosigned One of Trump’s Most Lawless Immigration Moves
Deporting people to countries where they might be tortured or killed? All good, according to the six GOP justices.
www.thenation.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Supreme Court decided to let Trump violate an international human rights treaty and send immigrants to places where they are likely to be tortured.
If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys.
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys.
My latest in @thenation
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible.
I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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calling him a “terrorist” is insane. this is authoritarian. this is what chuck schumer is okay with
March 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
calling him a “terrorist” is insane. this is authoritarian. this is what chuck schumer is okay with
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I also want to reiterate that it took every single Democratic Senator to agree to this deal. A single Democratic Senator could have denied unanimous consent, pushed this into Monday, allowed more time for the discontent to fester. Every Senate Democrat is complicit.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Senate moves ahead on shutdown votes
Democrats agreed to speed up consideration of the bill to allow a vote on Friday in exchange for votes on four amendments.
www.politico.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I also want to reiterate that it took every single Democratic Senator to agree to this deal. A single Democratic Senator could have denied unanimous consent, pushed this into Monday, allowed more time for the discontent to fester. Every Senate Democrat is complicit.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.
March 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.
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Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
March 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.
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Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit
February 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Legitimately the stupidest man alive I cannot fucking STAND this shit
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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It's insane how we've had at least 5 things worse than Watergate in 4 days and there's not even motivation among democrats to make noise about it.
New via WashPost — The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists
January 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
It's insane how we've had at least 5 things worse than Watergate in 4 days and there's not even motivation among democrats to make noise about it.
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The last real existential threat to the republic, from about 160 years ago, also came from inside the house and you can draw a direct line from one to the other
No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
January 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The last real existential threat to the republic, from about 160 years ago, also came from inside the house and you can draw a direct line from one to the other
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In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.