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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 13 hours ago • 999 comments

Sean Hannity, and many others, are posting this video claiming it is the explosion at Fordow after the US military bombed it. Its not. This is from Syria in December 2024.

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

Congress? You awake?

submitted 12 hours ago • 898 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2351 comments

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

submitted 10 hours ago • 1001 comments

There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

submitted 12 hours ago • 267 comments

My response to President Trump’s use of American military force in Iran:

submitted 11 hours ago • 32 comments

Remember when we had that other building in DC along with the White House? It was full of politicians? Con-something? Anyway.

submitted 12 hours ago • 109 comments

Donald Trump illegally took military action against Iran—without congressional authorization—risking dragging us into another endless war. I am calling for an immediate emergency session of Congress to vote on the War Powers Resolution.

submitted 12 hours ago • 260 comments

And there it is…the new fave #techbro fanboy of #POTUS. Gotta read @karenhao.bsky.social “Empire of AI” to understand WHO #SamAltman is & how he works.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Something I’d note is that while there is criminal immunity for “official acts” for the president, no such immunity exists for the deputy chief of staff.

submitted 20 hours ago • 356 comments

The xenophobic fever dream Rep Andy Ogles exists in is entirely detached from reality — and the proof that he knows it is he doesn’t have the courage to show his face in NASHVILLE, which he represents, at a town hall.

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

1/2 Marker of our times: Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, w no restraint or involvement from anyone else, plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran) And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

Tolkien’s palantir fell under the control of Sauron. Peter Thiel’s Palantir is falling under the control of Trump. How this story ends is up to all of us. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate

submitted 16 hours ago • 40 comments

This is outrageous. Marco Rubio takes care of his own people, leaves regular Americans behind. apnews.com/article/iran...

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

KTLA: “I have no doubt it’s racially motivated.” A US citizen in the parking lot of a Home Depot was tackled to the ground, detained, locked up for 24 hours for filming ICE smashing a man’s window. He plans to sue. (From @keithboykin)

submitted 19 hours ago • 256 comments

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 133 comments

BTW, ICE has a long history of sweeping up citizens. The first Trump admin actually deported 70 likely citizens. www.propublica.org/article/more...

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

submitted 20 hours ago • 838 comments

President Trump ordered ICE to target large, Democratic-led cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, based on false claims of illegal noncitizen voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 20 hours ago • 54 comments

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

submitted 20 hours ago • 32 comments

What's the biggest single economic challenge facing working and middle-class Americans?

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

Voices: "I urge you to call for Lee’s resignation. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, call for an end to Lee’s hypocrisy and heartlessness."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

"Jenkins’s pardon was another move by the Trump administration to reward political loyalty and give his blessing to elected officials who profit at the expense of public trust." - Jessica Pishko

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

We don’t know what the real name of the Director of White House Personnel is, we don’t know what country he came from, he refuses to turn in background check forms, and nobody will ask the president or press secretary about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 944 comments

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

I assume Trump's political appointees including those in the Cabinet would be interested in knowing whether all of their private, vetting info turned over to the White House has gone directly into Russian, Chinese and Iranian spy agencies for future exploitation and blackmail.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

submitted 2 days ago • 274 comments

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

submitted 2 days ago • 1128 comments

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

[🚨 Exclusive] Our latest investigation finds that Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. may have violated EU sanctions and channeled money to RT, Sputnik and other EU-sanctioned entities. You read that right: Facebook pays some content publishers. Read full report → www.whattofix.tech/publications... /🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been in politics for over a half-century. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. https://youtu.be/sP0pRIBRcDk?si=o8uynfvuoVhcX7p8

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

I think you are lying

submitted 3 days ago • 548 comments

You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it does have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence. www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 563 comments

What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump over the courts -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage It's a big, ugly nightmare.

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

They’re all there, From Bezos to Musk to Zoley.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 2 days ago • 167 comments

🚨New: “Trump Company Reduces Stake In Crypto Venture” “As the MAGA faithful continue to throw money at Trump’s crypto projects, the first family appears to be walking off with some of its profits” @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com (with a little reporting from me)

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 3 days ago • 558 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

Is there brilliance in the crazy Trump show distracting the media from reporting the damage to be inflicted on all of us by Senate & House #GOP budget proposal? Always, ALWAYS, #CuiBono & it ain’t us hardworking Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Peace be upon us.

submitted 3 days ago • 426 comments

I said what I said.

submitted 3 days ago • 406 comments

“Nobody is talking to Hegseth.” So, as we teeter on the edge of war with Iran, we learn that the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the commander of U.S. Central Command, are brushing aside …. our Secretary of Defense. Free link wapo.st/4n6OyBh

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

Who could have predicted that appointing a Fox News anchor with no relevant experience as Secretary of Defense could create problems?!?

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Trump has gutted FEMA grants to build storm-resistant infrastructure in flood and hurricane-prone communities. Two-thirds of counties that have lost funding voted for him in 2024. Trump is even telling his own voters they're on their own. https://www.cbsnews.com/femagrantcuts/

submitted 3 days ago • 189 comments