They are looting you blind.

they're desperate, they're mad, and they know that nobody, not even their base, likes them. they know most of their behavior is prosecutable and not even argentina will take them consider simply Not Engaging with the sadsacks being not-paid by their own boss to try to get you mad on the internet

probably marks me as old fashioned but i'm not a fan of politicians cursing like this

remember when Obama tarnished the white house with [insert here fever dream stand-in for "he's Black"], it's such a good thing the Trump people have restored the dignity of the presidency

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Again Pritzker is the sole National Democrat who seem to really understand the stakes

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Idk, my position is kinda “it’s a useful tool that’s clearly here to stay but is also over hyped and has substantial negative externalities”

When guys like Graham Platner enter the scene, the electoral gods flip a coin to see if they’ll turn out to be good populists or completely lose their minds

AOC lays bare her controversial pro PCP agenda

The govt doesn't track how often immigration agents detain Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count: -170+ citizens -including nearly 20 kids—2 with cancer -50+ held after agents questioned their citizenship—nearly all Latino By @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

... i'm sorry, trump is 20pts under water IN TEXAS? www.economist.com/interactive/...

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

After the reunification of Germany members of the Stasi were chased into obscurity. Informants were ostracized and officers were effectively blacklisted from government jobs, and many private sector ones. There's a lesson here.

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

The general expectation among US elite culture is that the broad catch all of "liberals"--urban dwellers, minorities, women, LGBTQ ppl, etc--are expected to eat unending amounts of shit from "real" Americans while a) not complaining and b) still financially supporting them but without holding power

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

Chalk up another win for everyone who assured us back in the spring that a government shutdown wouldn't affect court proceedings. Anyway, I guess it doesn't matter because no one seems to care about student loans now that Biden isn't president.

"Why aren't the Dems DOING something" "they persuaded the most popular state Dem to run for Senate" "no I meant going back to 2021 and putting Trump in a dungeon and then 6 members of SCOTUS there if they disagree."

Swear to God, after 2024 I don't want to fucking hear 'candidate OLD' ever fucking again

I hope you get all the clout you're chasing by lying.

I am once again flabbergasted at how little political hobbyists on this site actually understand politics that they seem to think that a political party has no vested interested in getting strong candidates to run for open seats and that something underhanded is going on of they try to do that

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement. At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

For various reasons I think this one will be longer standing but this is also 100% true.

"If I was the victim of a far right info op to elect fascists, why do I hate Joe Biden & every major elected Democrat?"

like, have the information ready, read it them directly and ask for their reaction, say 'why are you evading the question?' instead of moving on to the next point.

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

Hundreds of people who were once detained at "Alligator Alcatraz" have disappeared. Lawyers and family members have been unable to reach them. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀. It’s as if they never existed. What did the government do to them? youtu.be/NwPbnsZ_XqU?...

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th. If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live. And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

you know what fair

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released. DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Basically, the situation is that smart Americans rigged the entire world to prevent dumb Americans from tasting the fruits of their own incompetence, but didn’t count on the masses voting to eat the turd apple.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.