I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

it's often very hard for extremely successful and powerful people to understand that mild criticism from those they have power over is not equivalent to actually being oppressed.

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism." Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.

"Why does no one trust media anymore?" I dont know. Maybe because you're publishing stories framed as "why are these underage girls having sex with and ruining the lives of all of these powerful men?"

I just called the Center for American Progress and told them I will have nothing to do with their org until they get rid of Larry Summers. A VERY NICE person answered the phone - if you call, BE NICE TO WHOEVER ANSWERS THEY PERSONALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. (202) 682-1611

who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club

America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative. Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?

They’re all just looting the treasury now

what the actual fuck

Along with uh whatever this is, they're talking about a guy currently murdering hundreds of thousands of children at minimum

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Right-wing pollsters that use “Democrat Party” in their questions are showing Trump and Republicans cratering and yet American civil society is still bending the knee to Trump like he’s serving his 6th term

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

youngkin serving the commonwealth by conspiring with the white house to destroy one of its flagship educational institutions

Pretend there’s a war on (there isn’t). Pretend drug traffickers are terrorists (they’re not). Pretend overdoses are armed foreign attacks (they’re not). Pretend “the president says so” means Congress has no role (it doesn’t). Voila, legal. When factual reality is irrelevant, any law can apply.

REP. MASSIE (a Republican): “Trump will protect you if you vote the wrong way… if you vote to cover up for pedophiles — but I would remind my Republican colleagues this vote is going to be on your record longer than Trump is going to be president.”

"The reason why this is of concern, is—he's the president of the United States, he's been found in another case by a civil jury to have been liable for sexually abusing a woman in a department store, he's a convicted felon, and he's had dozens of women accuse him of sexual abuse."

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

petro is so beast

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

Fact-check: true 😕

Imagine thinking that moral clarity is a bad thing to have in the face of fascism.

Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”

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Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety. apnews.com/article/fann...

This makes Texas A&M less of an actual university and more of an indoctrination camp. Can't imagine teaching there or sending my kid there.

Contempt. Of. Court.

I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

It is past time to draw negative inferences from the destruction of evidence.

Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Starting today, don't cross the picket line.

This judge should hold the DHS press office in contempt of court.

What a load of crap. In the history of US job reports, there have only been three reports delayed by shutdowns. NEVER has one been completely skipped. Don't buy their spin. Trump is killing jobs and trying to cover it up.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.