You get that that's a different between saying people have fascist agendas and beliefs and saying that the they've consolidated power into a totalitarian regime, no? Spare us the pathological contrarianism.

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

If it makes you feel better, she's a massive hypocrite who surely has different standards for her own children.

Imaginee that they'd done their jobs, asked a defensive Epstein to provide more evidence. He likely had pictures. There were likely other witnesses. The NYT has more resources than any newspaper. They had a story already, but could have fully investigated and uncovered so much more.

Agree. Like Clinton's emails... But of course they could have tried to confirm the info, asked the trump campaign for comment (forcing them to make specific denials that could be fact checked). It's just so dumb to say the only option is credulously publishing it as fact or burying it.

The asinine assumption seems to be that the only options were to publish the email with no additional reporting or to ignore it.

Schumer has to lay down the law, or he should be voted out. This whole thing was for nothing in the end and next time the GOP will be even bolder. The defectors need to be kicked out of the caucus and stripped of committee assignments. We're in an existential fight for democracy.

I don't think that's the reason. It's because they don't want to take responsibility for their terrible policies. The filibuster allows them to blame Dems, while not actually voting to double health insurance premiums.

It's better than simply accusing him of anti-Semitism without any evidence to the contrary. But I still fail to see a single thing he's said or done that is in any way evidence of anti-Semitism. Please correct me if I missed something.

It's what he would have wanted.

It would technically be "first cousin once-removed". Which is why normal people would just call them "aunt" to kids.

So far today we have news that private money is being used to pay the military and that the military may be used in an unauthorized war against a non-hostile nation. A madman driving us toward despotism and the death of innocent people.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

This is it... Once we cross that line, there's no turning back. Time to stop equivocating and stop this.

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How? By diverting all of the pork to Trump and his cronies?

Trump is taking advantage of the government shutdown to turn the white house into one of his tacky resorts. The national planning commission is closed BC of the shutdown, so he's rushing ahead without approval.

You got me curious. The answer is so ironic and depressing, yet totally unsurprising:

The most realistic thing in the video.

His grandfather on his father's side immigrated to the US from Germany to avoid military service. He ran a brothels in Seattle and in the Yukon for gold miners. He returned to Germany, but the was stripped of his citizenship and deported him back to the US. Talk about not "sending their best..."

This type of stenography journalism is irresponsible. Trump is overstepping his constitutional authority. He's illegally consolidating power, quickly erroding our democracy. That's an objective view. That's the story. Report it.

Makes sense: for the last couple of years we had students that spent high school at home. Now we have students whose COVID experience was early enough that they had a chance to have a normal transition to young adulthood..

Because he can either look like a jackass after she calls him a liar, or agree with her and lose his job for being "partisan". It's really the Achilles heal of American political media that allows Trump to thrive.

No doubt the majority of those condemning the Manchester attack are doing so in good faith and are well meaning, but it's naive to say some aren't motivated by Islamophobia.

So maybe let's agree to not evaluate every opinion by the very worst people who happen to agree it.

That's the disgusting logic that is employed by right-wing Israelis to insulate them from criticism. The fact that Israel is committing genocide in no way justifies hate crimes against Jewish people.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Wasn't that just Paula Dean's show?

To be honest, this is a super annoying system. I wish I had a physical residence card. It's fine within the UK, but I get hassled by airlines/immigration in other countries when flying to the UK.

I need this on a t-shirt