it continuously stuns me how rightwingers don't know how anything works at all on a systematic level so they assume nothing should be done about anything ever
i dont think the us government should be legitimizing and promoting racist pogroms in foreign countries
onion person
Andrew Lawrence
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
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Behind the scenes, Trump is assuring allies that his plans for the $1.8b slush fund are moving forward.
George Carlin: "The Violence Network; VNN! And for a corporate sponsor, you get one of those companies that loves to smear its logo feces all over the landscape. Budweiser will jump at this shit in half a minute."
Aaron Rupar
They are largely content mills. Every utterance is its own post to be shoveled out onto social media for sharing. Then when it is walked back, it is another post to be promoted.
This administration beclowned the press corps responsible for reporting on it.
It’s not even true.
"We hear little of these other incidents because their white perpetrators do not fit the narrative — or the political business model — of the populist right." - terrific column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:
Nicholas Thompson
Matt Ortega
Matt Ortega
Matt Ortega
Matt Ortega
Start with a House Select Committee on DOGE.
The only picture have of their activities is from news reports.
Stephen Bush
The next Reconstruction must include democracy-saving constitutional amendments including specific restrictions on the presidential pardon power. It’s an unchecked vehicle of corruption.
Matt Ortega
Matt Ortega
Bud Light branding is up on the White House grounds ahead of Sunday's UFC fight
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Aaron Rupar
Rage on the right and a narrative of disadvantage changing sides is rewarded by social mediawww.ft.com
Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that payout plans remain on track.
Reuters found that 96% of Trump's second-term clemency grants went to recipients who did not meet longstanding Justice Department guidelines, as access to an informal network of allies and advocates increasingly shaped who received pardons or commutations. reut.rs/4v3TMBH
Q: Here in Washington DC, there's a Democratic primary for mayor. One of the two leading candidates is running a Zohran Mamdani campaign focusing on socialist policies. How would you feel if she wins?
TRUMP: Maybe we take back Washington and run it on a federal basis. We won't put up with it.
Aaron Rupar
Reuters
dave you should meet one (1) black person
Joshua Erlich
I'm honestly no longer sure that the mainstream media has obtained object permanence yet.
Mike Masnick
next dem admin needs to rip every last bit of this man’s companies out of the government. completely blacklist and investigate. this is untenable
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NEW: SpaceX’s PAC doubles down on Republicans ahead of historic IPO and midterms www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Even as Musk moved to the extreme right, the SpaceX PAC had been relatively bipartisan as recently as the 2024 election.
David Ingram
An NBC News analysis finds that SpaceX’s PAC now gives almost exclusively to Republicans, breaking from its more bipartisan past.
