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Next: Trump’s gonna rename the country to something else.
Seems crazy. And evil. But lots of $$$ for private incarcerators.
This looks like a massive clusterfuck www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
It seems the disappointing missile accuracy has to be due to one of two factors: inaccuracy in the positioning system (due to GPS jamming) or ineffectiveness in the guidance avionics (resulting from rushed engineering, insufficient testing).
It seems the disappointing missile accuracy has to be due to one of two factors: inaccuracy in the positioning system (due to GPS jamming) or ineffectiveness in the guidance avionics (resulting from rushed engineering, insufficient testing).
Why don’t all the blue states including Illinois band together into one single alliance?
This is the most incompetent, unprofessional, embarrassing thing I have ever seen from an administration official in my entire life— worse, dare I say it, than Hegseth’s signal chat fiasco. Posting a notes apology on the official DOJ account? Are you joking?
In another nod to Putin, Trump administration officials inform European diplomats that the US will no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. www.ft.com/content/0157...
Do the Democrats WANT to lose?
It’s always amazing how comfortable Republicans are with lying.
Basically, the 2nd Amendment applies to Republicans, not Democrats.
He doesn’t have it on paper, but he’s doing it in practice.
Cutting to the chase, the 2nd Amendment applies to Republicans, not Democrats.
They’re idiots, right?
Just your garden variety sociopath. No wonder Trump’s really bonded with him.
I sincerely pity any sane Floridians and their children—and the rest of us since Florida is a major travel hub.
Ironic is too weak a word here.
CA, IL and NY need to counter this by automatically imposing countervailing treble damages on the TX-based plaintiffs: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
This is reason to hope a little: Putin and Xi sound just as dumb as our run-of-the-mill bro billionaires.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
bari will inspire a whole new generation of women who strive to be pieces of shit and i think that’s beautiful
KONSYSE: Does raising taxes on the wealthy cause them to leave? Fresh evidence offers a surprising perspective.
Is there a word for killing people in order to send a political message?
Fight the urge, brother.
On current course, he’s realizing this vision.
Looks like just a big Boston Whaler type vessel. Pathetic to resort to an antiship missile for that puny a target.
Jeffries seems to have an unfixable urge to find common ground on which to capitulate to Trump.
Grotesque if true.
The Israel government, in concert with the American government, SAYS it wants to clear every last Palestinian out of Gaza. Why is it so hard to call this ethnic cleansing?
The explicit purpose of the bombing and the starving is to get the people of Gaza to leave. It is the enshrined official and proudly stated policy of the Israeli and America governments. Why is it so hard to call this ethnic cleansing?
Very sad
And Europe has to retaliate for Russian acts of asymmetric warfare, like GPS jamming of airliners.
Europe should retaliate 10x.
Israelis at all levels of government and the IDF are saying any Palestinians that stay will be killed. When all members of an ethnic group are expelled from an area, that’s ethnic cleansing.
What is the forced displacement, under threat of extermination, of an ethnic group from a geography where it’s lived for generations? What’s the word for that? The word that comes after “ethnic”: CL**NS*NG.
What is the forced displacement, under threat of extermination, of an ethnic group from a geography where it’s lived for generations? What’s the word for that?
And Big Tech is happy to comply with government censorship requests.
But if most experts back a particular point of view, isn’t it no longer cherry picking but just the consensus expert view?
Without tariffs, the sun would cease to shine, and all life in our galaxy would end.
It matters for justice if we call it a tragic accident of war or deliberate ethnic cleansing.
Trump will do what you’d expect Putin to want him to do: sell out Taiwan, and also leave NATO.
It’s obvious ethnic cleansing. Why not accept that?
Not pissing away. Deliberately helping Putin by pushing India back into Russia’s arms.
Trump is doing what Putin wants.
Nobody in Gaza, or anywhere else, believes they’re being sent anywhere nice, brother. If they leave, it’s to escape death.
Also, the definition of ethnic cleansing does not require the intended death of the people being displaced. That would be straightforward genocide. Simply means that a particular ethnic group is being expelled from a long-standing area of habitation.
In Gaza, it’s “we will kill every last one of you who doesn’t leave, and give a small check to those who do”. It’s ethnic cleansing all right.
“We will kill every single last person who doesn’t leave” sounds genocide-ish, though.
Ethnic cleansing. The check is for PR purposes.
Look for the Supreme Court to validate a new law-making process: the president issues an executive order, then the Supreme Court says effectively it has the power of law. This applies to Republican presidents only obviously.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
Look for the Supreme Court to validate a new law-making process: the president issues an executive order, then the Supreme Court says effectively it has the power of law. This applies to Republican presidents only obviously.
The law doesn’t matter. What matters is that the security apparatus of America will back Trump.
That’s been Trump’s objective: he works to help Putin.
"The Trump administration has provided no evidence for its allegations of “mortgage fraud” against Lisa Cook and an individual can have multiple 'principal residences', as President Trump himself has."
And when have we heard MAGA types express gratitude towards America? All we hear from them is anger and attacks.
Jeffrey Dahmer pushed the boundaries of cuisine.
Jeffrey Dahmer pushed the boundaries of hospitality.
Trump did this because he’s trying to boost Russia’s influence: he is deliberately pushing India back into Russia’s arms.
You have to consider that Trump drove India into Russia’s arms because he fundamentally wants to help Russia.
Trousers?
Why not shoot them down?
Promoting a hypothetical “rebuilding of the traditional Republican Party” is just blowing smoke to obscure the complete and unchanging fanaticism of the real Republican Party we have in America.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
The sit in by veterans in Washington D.C. protesting Trump’s military take over is growing!! Jay Carrey, the army veteran who was arrested for burning the flag has been released and is there! These veterans will continue their sit in until the National Guard leaves DC!! 💪
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
Denmark needs to screen all Americans before letting them enter Greenland.
Grotesque self-abatement.
It’s like Trump wants to push India into the arms of Russia and China. This is helping Putin.
But, incidentally, this is another example of a Republican accusation which is really a confession.
I wouldn’t put it past the Trumpy DOJ to try for a change in venue, to Alabama.
No
And bleeding helps you fight bullet wounds?
He calls her the crook? He makes a total mockery of fact-based governance.
Garland, Schumer, Jeffries, …. So many quasi-Quislings.
We are well past the “concerning” stage, Max.
Jefferies and Schumer are quasi-quislings at this point.
Our very own home growth, Special Action Units! There was a German word for those.
For the first time they can go outside and see the sun! Hallelujah!
Maybe he means the confederate flag? Or the Russian flag?
Unless Trump means the confederate flag?
Also, the President does not make laws?
Maybe it applies to the confederate flag?
Does that apply as well to burning the confederate flag?
awful story, but getting to be standard practice in Donald Trump's America theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...
Hideki Tojo was hung.
Washington Post or New York Post?
Ha ha
Some targets for sure, but not realtime moving ones.
Yeah, that’s exactly what we did in World War II: we negotiated Hitler into blowing his brains out, and Toto into hanging from a short rope.
Yeah, we negotiated Hitler into killing himself, and Tojo to hang from a rope.
You have to hand it to Trump: he’s been consistently successful in helping Russia maintain and spread its influence, whether in Ukraine, India or China.
Another thing: Ukraine depends on US targeting help. What’s to stop pro-Putin Trump from threatening to stop intelligence-sharing with Ukraine if Ukraine uses the Flamingo deep into Russia? That’s what the US has done with ATACMs. And Europe cannot provide this kind of targeting help to Ukraine.
The situation is not sliding of its own independent volition.
Remarkable precocity and wisdom?
It just seems self-defeating, that’s all. Sure, the MAGA fanatics will view it as a sign of strength. But for many in the middle, it will be a turn off.
Sickening
Why would ICE arrest an American citizen?
If Ukraine can produce 200 a month, why can’t France, Germany, and the UK combined produce another thousand per month?