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🧵 Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore. We are watching a police state take root in real time. #OnYourSide @mashagessen.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me to offer support about my appearance on 60 Minutes.🙏 I will never back down or go silent. I hope that what I write might help others, especially lawyers, speak out as well. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

submitted 8 days ago • 498 comments

This is so darkly accurate

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Misogyny is terrorism & should be globally classified as such & misogynists should be classified as terrorists.

submitted 10 days ago • 151 comments

Bingo—the attention paid to gender-based violence by public figures was a way to unlock a broader movement at all levels of society. And the way to reverse that was, in part, to attack celebrity women who came forward. Cue Amber Heard

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submitted 12 days ago • 596 comments

“xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right” says so much about the current moment we live in

submitted 13 days ago • 214 comments

<stares directly into the camera>

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.

submitted 15 days ago • 206 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 18 days ago • 399 comments

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 18 days ago • 626 comments

Hear me out…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

submitted 18 days ago • 562 comments

The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy" I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below

submitted 19 days ago • 362 comments

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 19 days ago • 331 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 22 days ago • 1650 comments

there is no plan(et) b.

submitted 22 days ago • 302 comments

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 22 days ago • 1333 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 23 days ago • 1245 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.