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    I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

    38,547 9,635
    Feb 3, 2025
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    Farmers are going to run to Congress for another handout to deal with the retaliatory tariffs and the answer from Dems has to be "no."

    This isn't out of retribution, it's because we can't keep creating escape hatches for GOP members of Congress. For the benefit of all, keep the pressure on them.

    26,390 5,991
    Mar 4, 2025
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    Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

    24,954 9,127
    Mar 9, 2025
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    Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.

    But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.

    15,844 3,448
    Jan 5, 2025
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    Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.

    Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.

    This is what "merit" means to them.

    apnews.com/article/trum...

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    15,800 5,895
    Feb 22, 2025
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    Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

    14,271 5,467
    Jun 18, 2025
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    ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

    So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

    The answer is: you.

    14,000 6,095
    Jun 29, 2025
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    FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

    There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

    13,248 3,758
    May 26, 2025
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    The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

    Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

    11,639 3,979
    Nov 10, 2025
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    The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant.

    The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.

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    11,304 2,962
    Feb 1, 2025
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    lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)

    www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

    11,251 3,243
    Nov 26, 2024
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    Guaranteed:

    1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are.

    2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

    10,766 3,197
    Jun 30, 2026
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    "The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

    10,750 2,125
    Mar 6, 2025
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    Words/phrases Democrats should never use:

    * bipartisan
    * my Republican friends
    * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
    * yea (when voting on Republican bills)
    * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
    * woke (in derogatory sense)

    10,383 2,782
    Aug 24, 2025
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    As a cishet dude, when I see a Dem ditch trans rights, it sends a message: you ain't got no fight in you, no principles, just another empty suit.

    Think I'm some too-online outlier? Go ask your expensive consultants why people don't bother to vote. It's because they know you're all empty suits.

    9,804 1,992
    Mar 3, 2025
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    It's not "politicizing a tragedy" to point out the top levels of the federal government aren't functional—the three key leaders here are drunk rapist TV show host at DoD, reality TV star at DoT, and nobody at FAA—and they're doing squat except spreading the same dysfunction down the ladder.

    9,688 2,918
    Jan 30, 2025
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    Today's winner of the "Please STFU" Award is Kat Abughazaleh.

    She was right to hang up! Don't talk about the facts of your federal indictment on a podcast! Or anywhere except your lawyer's office!

    Sincerely,

    Every Lawyer, Literally All Of Us, Heed Our Counsel And Shut The Fuck Up

    9,650 1,730
    Oct 30, 2025
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    Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

    9,623 2,267
    May 1, 2025