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This is a helluva letter

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

During his time at the Legislature, Hoffman has championed bills designed to expand employment opportunities for people with disabilities, including vocational training and equal pay.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I hate this wording: “L.A. Ignited a New War Over Immigration” and “Los Angeles struck the match that led thousands of Americans to take to the street.” LA was going about its business until Trump sent in ICE and the military to terrorize people. Trump struck the match.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

submitted 4 days ago • 172 comments

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

submitted 5 days ago • 577 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 5 days ago • 1920 comments

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

submitted 6 days ago • 2073 comments

Only 23% of Americans who say they pay for online news report paying for a local or regional newspaper. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/amer...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The administration's goons are now manhandling United States senators for asking questions at a press conference.

submitted 6 days ago • 101 comments

250 years ago, Americans rejected the rule of a mad king. In two days, we’re taking to the streets again to say NO KINGS. 2,000 peaceful protests are planned in small towns and major cities across the country. Join your community on Saturday for #NoKings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

a fairly deeply held belief of mine is that Americans want immigration to work the way they think it already does: you can get in legally if you’re patient on a reasonable timescale, and if you’re here long enough to put down community roots you shouldn’t get kicked out regardless

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

Going on the record on this: the Clean Air Act is good.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Incredibly sinister and authoritarian

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

WA state grows 75% of the nation's hops. SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT! And migrant workers are absolutely essential both before and during harvest. Fastest way to collapse the Trump regime would be for ICE to devastate the hops harvest, leaving millions of voters to cry in their nonexistent beer.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Stephen Miller Demanded ICE Target Home Depots talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 9 days ago • 466 comments

If your boss tells you to lie to teachers, hide your identity, and steal 1st graders from their schools you have a bad job and an evil boss and you should say no

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Today is the Last Day to Submit a Public Comment on Schedule F

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 12 days ago • 121 comments

- mexican man arrested for writing letters for threatening trump - letters were actually written by a wisconsin man whom the mexican guy was going to testify against for robbing him & slashing him with a box cutter - mexican guy still detained & facing deportation

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

The fundamental flaw of broken authoritarian narcissists (the core of the right-wing coalition) is that they view empathy as a finite resource, such that, if you extend it to one group, you can't extend it to another. They see all of life through a lens of scarcity, competition, & selfishness.

submitted 19 days ago • 112 comments

US doctor, Feroze Sidhwa, with horrific testimony at the UN on the children of Gaza: “I wonder if any member of this Council has met a 5 year old who no longer wants to live. What astonishes me is not that some children in Gaza have lost the will to live, but that any still cling to hope.”

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

submitted 20 days ago • 434 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 91 comments

Trump is going to kill a 4-year-old girl. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

You'll notice that each of the major dailies has now run a "Musk is pulling back" ... "Musk won't be spending more on campaigns" article in just the last few days. But look closer and US diplos keep working to rack up Starlink contracts for him overseas and more USG contracts keep piling up.

submitted 28 days ago • 69 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 29 days ago • 305 comments

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

submitted 29 days ago • 2543 comments

"Trump has accepted this gift with nothing but the utmost openness and transparency. It’s not corruption if it’s done shamelessly in full view of the public eye. We haven’t read The Federalist Papers, but we’re pretty sure that’s in there somewhere."

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

"Make no little plans..." Part of Daniel Burnham's 1909 "Plan of Chicago", at the cost of $75M ($1.3B today) and taking 12 years to complete, Chicago's grand Union Station turns 100 this week. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/11/1...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is obviously thinly-veiled racism. But it’s also a bullshit premise. Haitian refugees were thriving in Springfield. Bhutanese, Congolese, other refugees from Africa & Asia have reinvigorated Rust Belt towns and cities. Trump wants to send them all back.

submitted 37 days ago • 226 comments

They hate all the good things about America.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: During President Trump's trip to the Middle East next week, he will visit three countries—which all have Trump properties or developments. Trump will meet foreign officials with influence over these developments, posing huge conflicts of interest.

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

WTF? Madness. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 42 days ago • 98 comments

Your periodic reminder that every Supreme Court oral argument should be televised and streamed as video live. Opinion announcements should be too

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 WaPo Exclusive 🚨 The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sources. USPS takes photos of the front and back of mail and packages. DHS really wants that info, me and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report.

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

Make disease great again! Emotionally, I don't understand why Trump and Musk want to destroy the world-leading capabilities the US has in the science of disease. Intellectually, I can see several possibilities: 1. RFK Jr's belief that the kind of disease these programs address does not exist.

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

A very worthwhile Fahrenthold story on what Trump’s cuts are doing to food banks and the communities that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

No one will believe this, but: When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%. Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now. That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

submitted 54 days ago • 33 comments

this much personal, family, social, community, and economic upheaval is bad for a city #trafficviolence

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Chicagoans: Never engage in the pizza discourse. Every post trying to start shit about Chicago Pizza is written by someone in Southern California trying to distract us so they can steal our water.

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

1/Just back from 2 weeks in Asia. US engaged in the most far reaching attempt to restructure the global economy in a century and we have hit the omnishambles portion of the program: undermining US economic security and weaken US credibility in the world. fortune.com/article/trum...

submitted 55 days ago • 69 comments

"This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off." - Pete Buttigieg www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment