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Assassinations of opposition leaders, likely carried out by supporters of the regime, as the embattled strongman leader deploys the military to head off protests against his mass ethnic cleansing operation.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

My sis just shared this pic of her new kitten and very, very old shih-tzu snuggling, and y'all probably need this today

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

This is insane

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Getting punched in the face for a living is pretty much the only excuse for not seeing this coming

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The pastor “said at least five men dressed in plain clothes with faces covered and bullet-proof vests swarmed a man in the parking lot. The pastor said he came out of his office and tried to find out what was happening when one agent drew a weapon and refused to identify themselves.”

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 8 days ago • 841 comments

You can't do a "mass deportation of criminals" there aren't that many. And doing "mass deportation" means you're redirecting resources that WOULD be used to catch people who have committed crimes to deport families and workers. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

This guy was a clock in Beauty and the Beast.

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends. In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five. In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President. You're being manipulated. Please stop.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

submitted 10 days ago • 326 comments

Womanist Midrash volumes 1 and 2 are on sale, 50% off. Get yours. And faculty friends, even if you're a syllabus isn't ready, put it on there and give your students a heads up about the sale. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

🚨The safety limit for ocean acidification may have already been breached 5 yrs ago, says NOAA & @plymouthmarine.bsky.social in major new study. This would be catastrophic for marine wildlife & must be urgently addressed. More from Oceanographic 🔽 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ocean-a...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 10 days ago • 258 comments

As we look back on World Oceans Day, remember: our fossil fuel combustion adds about 14 zettajoules of extra heat to the oceans every year. Mankind’s entire energy production is only half a zettajoule.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests the Los Angeles Police Department has described as peaceful

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Just to recap, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of federalizing 2000 member of the California National Guard — over the objections of the state’s governor — in response to a protest that currently involves A FEW DOZEN PEOPLE AT A HOME DEPOT

submitted 13 days ago • 201 comments

read the whole thread

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Coco giving the ballkids the trophy to raise.

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 14 days ago • 972 comments

LISTEN: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's message to Allied forces taking part in D-Day on June 6, 1944: "The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

woah: “Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen…”

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

it's the unmoisturized elbows for me.

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history? They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 16 days ago • 107 comments

not that this essay i wrote in 2023 actually convinced many new people, but one reframing effort would be to just show people clay travis tweets when he is 1) denigrating the WNBA and 2) pretending to care about girls' middle school track meets slate.com/culture/2023...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Outrageous ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

👀 🚨 Trump’s big brutal bill will “kill more than 51,000 Americans annually.” @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

Crazy to think how easily the internal conflicts within the right-wing MAGA coalition could be exploited by a minimally competent opposition party. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump administration cannot legally purge gay people from the military under federal law. But it can create a hostile environment that makes gay service members feel unwelcome, and that’s exactly what’s happening here. Pure homophobia.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Honestly terrifying. Meteorologist on the "multigenerational impact" of cuts to American science & specifically the National Weather Service & NOAA. "What you need to do is call your representatives & make sure these cuts are stopped." Find your Senators: senate.gov Reps: house.gov 202-224-3121

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.

submitted 19 days ago • 74 comments

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

Ms Rachel got hands

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

DHS officers entered Rep. Nadler’s district office and accused staff members of “harboring rioters.” A Nadler staffer is seen crying and being handcuffed. Another officer is at a door trying to enter a private area of the office while a staffer asks for a warrant. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson

submitted 21 days ago • 63 comments

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

submitted 21 days ago • 110 comments

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 21 days ago • 54 comments

This is much more likely to me than the idea he’s not aware we had former Nazis help build rockets. I’d say in general a lot of pretty horrific rhetoric conservatives put out gets excused under “lol they’re not smart.”

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

submitted 22 days ago • 156 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 22 days ago • 436 comments