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I was at a car wash in Culver City today that was raided twice last weekend by ICE. 25 car wash workers and 1 customer have been kidnapped over the past several days, and the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. I spoke to families of the kidnap victims: prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

submitted 8 hours ago • 79 comments

One-third of the 3,600 western soldiers who died in Afghanistan were from non-US ISAF contingents. Some countries whose militaries bore especially heavy burdens relative to their size and fought in difficult provinces include the UK, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Georgia, and Romania

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 2 days ago • 924 comments

The right in this country always fantasizes about being the victim of the violence they repeatedly inflict on marginalized groups and the left.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

I just don't see how the Army celebrates 250 years on from the resistance to tyranny this week by sending the militia that assembled in Boston in 1775 to occupy LA in 2025.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing

submitted 3 days ago • 388 comments

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

submitted 6 days ago • 1461 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 6 days ago • 3024 comments

In retrospect, maybe the excitement in mainstream news media over the supposed ascendancy of Curtis Yarvin was a sign that the Silicon Valley Führerkult bubble was about to burst Yarvin as the pets.com of the techfash boom

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Audacious Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bomber bases. Several Tu-95 strategic and Tu-22 regional bombers destroyed or damaged. Both types are dual-capable and have been used to bomb Ukraine for years. Illustrates extraordinary vulnerability of bombers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans said, “We want immigrants to come, we just want them to do it the right way.”

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 352 comments

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 13 days ago • 235 comments

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options. I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

submitted 19 days ago • 92 comments

25 May 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Edit Spitzer, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

Literally thousands of people died in the Soviet Gulags sincerely believing that if only Comrade Stalin knew of the “mistakes”, they’d be let out

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working, investigators said.

submitted 18 days ago • 179 comments

Insane. Slight young woman traveling with mom to see U.S soldier husband. Strip-searched twice. Disappeared in the afternoon into the next day. No calls. Given no food. Finally, before being put on a plane, had 3 min. call w/husband who cried inconsolably. Husband has decided to leave the Army.

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 20 days ago • 315 comments

Again, in any sane country with minimally functioning political institutions, this immediately ends the chief executive's tenure. And again, this shameful nonsense didn't happen when the supposedly incapacitated old Democrat was in office. I'm sure Tapper & Klein will cover this in detail tomorrow.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

submitted 21 days ago • 747 comments

McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

submitted 21 days ago • 59 comments

People don't want a liberal Joe Rogan, they want a liberal Democratic leadership.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Missile defense doesn't work, but at least it's stupidly expensive, has no appreciable spillover into other research, and in fact the pursuit of it actively makes nuclear war more likely.

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments