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This is why we resist and fight back. We have to collectively decide that we have not fallen so low as to accept the Regime’s dangerous and cruel policies without a fight. We do have shame. We know right from wrong. We will keep fighting.

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Finance Committee text is out - this has the Medicaid cuts and the tax cuts. Will go through it in this thread. But what we can say for certain is that, like the House version, this would be BY FAR the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking many millions of people off their health insurance.

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace's standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: "What is a woman?" My answer is simple. A woman is not a what. A woman is a who. I want to expand a bit from the essay on what I think this matters. www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-wea...

submitted 16 hours ago • 19 comments

Anyway gonna shut it down for the night. Yes that man is hurting people and will continue to do so but he's deeply unpopular and is going to be more so. It's up to us to show actual solidarity with the most vulnerable and to do what we can from where we are to fight back. No throwing ppl under buses

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

ChatGPT ain’t a therapist. Use your insurance and get a mental health professional.

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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

submitted 12 hours ago • 67 comments

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

Trump Chose to Hunt Law-Abiding Migrants Rather than Right Wing Terrorists Like Vance Boelter. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/16/t...

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If prisons were actually about rehabilitation and ending recidivism rather than making sure white people get rich from slavery again, this would be common.

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 14 hours ago • 213 comments

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.

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If Mamdani wins this primary, the institutional/organizational forces trying to defeat him in a general election will be enormous, likely including the city’s billionaires, major news orgs, prominent black leaders and many Dem politicians. That’s what happened to India Walton in Buffalo in 2021.

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

This is what I wrote 10 years ago today about Donald Trump's first campaign announcement. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

submitted 13 hours ago • 23 comments

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

submitted 23 hours ago • 400 comments

Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

submitted 22 hours ago • 774 comments

It's always the ones you least respect!!! If I had a nickel for every time a book banner turned out to be the pedophile they accuse librarians and authors and educators of being...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

Are the two people who drove their cars into people yesterday and the person who shot at people in Utah all white men? The person who murdered Democratic politicians yesterday was. Are we allowed to connect the dots? Will be media write exposes asking why white men are so violent? Or no?

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97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

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I would love to see a 50-state campaign to pass free school lunch and anti-gun measures in tribute.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

This was right about the time I became an abolitionist. Many of the largest police forces are not really under civilian control and they take 30-50% of discretionary funds with budgets that only grow regardless of what harm they do or any proof that their actions increase safety.

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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the academy: sports are a culturally-insignificant object unworthy of study the literal pope:

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All because the secret sauce in meritocracy is oppressive hierarchy as the source of truth and authority. Knowledge, talent, skill, etc. upset their world so much they're willing to kill the planet and every living thing on it to preserve the illusion.

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this is a terrific LA-based mutual aid group and I have donated to them in the past.

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I hereby propose we call the migrant exception for farmers and restaurant owners the Kid Rock Privilege. It'd be a good way to convey how Trump is fucking over small business owners while helping rich people like Kid Rock. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Wild to consider the difference in coverage this would likely be getting if a Canadian was dragged off by say, Belarusian authorities, for leading a peaceful march to save, for example, Ukrainian civilians from a war crime at the hands of Russia. So fucked up.

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This is the MN shooter. One would think that Schumer would be calling for censure at the very least.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

We all should. These past few days have showed how incredibly weak they are.

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I voted early in NYC’s mayoral primary and in true Bushwick fashion there was a cafe down the street giving out free Zohran cookies for people who voted early this weekend

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Happy father's day, especially to Black dads! The US is seeing the pain of ICE's policy of arrest quotas, false imprisonment, and family separation. May that pain end quickly. And may it build empathy in all to recognize why it is so wrong that this is the every day US policing experience for you.

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This is a particularly thorough (and @emptywheel.bsky.social is always tremendously thorough, so that’s saying something) and excellent analysis of the DUI defense secretary’s and Dump’s precarious positions and lack of palatable options on a wide variety of fronts. Thx so much for writing this!

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"The Answer Is Zero:" When Fragile White Supremacists Discover ... They Aren't www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/15/t...

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I know this is controversial but I don't think we need to pay anybody to brutalize us. We could probably cut 100% of the budget for that.

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Olfat. Olfat is 51 year old the mother of five grown children who she doesn’t want to have to help take care of her and her husband so she’s made this fundraiser for herself. She suffers from chronic heart disease and needs medication.

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Spare a few thoughts for all of the organizers who pulled off yesterday's rallies.

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Yesterday, Cuomo's campaign set up tents outside the poll sites in Parkchester - a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, with an additional Hindu minority - with a BBQ giving away free hot dogs. In case you were wondering how much he understands - or cares about - his Muslim constituents.

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The most consequential Speaker in state history.

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The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

submitted 2 days ago • 395 comments

Man, these motherfuckers…the Santa Fe Springs swap meet is right down the street from where I lived in Norwalk. Swap meet is a whole thing. My gf and me went there after church sometimes. She was from Michoacán, got her citizenship under amnesty. Every vendor here is worth 100 ICE agents.

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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

@nbc.com calls it ‘strong words.’ @cnn.com calls it a ‘stern warning.’ It’s a threat of on-the-spot execution. Media is failing, whitewashing, complicit in normalizing a government that threatens and menaces people daily. They need to WAKE UP NOW.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

These injuries were not inflicted by ICE or federalized guardsmen or imaginary agitators. They were inflicted by LAPD and LASD, under the direction of a supposedly democratic mayor, against people who came out to protest peacefully against fascism and racist kidnappings of our neighbors.

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More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.

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