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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 9 hours ago • 155 comments

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

submitted 11 hours ago • 110 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 13 hours ago • 472 comments

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

"We're not saying you can't get health care because you're transgender, which would be illegal. We're just saying we refuse to treat the conditions that cause you to be transgender. That's different and okay." A pathetic, indefensible logical pretzel from SCOTUS

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 2 days ago • 285 comments

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

“The rent is too damn high” guy was the first real abundance bro

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the antiwar president is on the verge of committing the nation to the most ambitious and risky military adventurism since Iraq — but in this case the enemy is far stronger and far more dangerous and the possible consequences of having no real end-game are even more apocalyptic.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

submitted 2 days ago • 363 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 2 days ago • 865 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

submitted 3 days ago • 585 comments

There are many people in this country who are ready, willing, and able to round up anyone who looks hispanic by themselves. The ICE raids will normalize the terror and effectively deputize the most depraved people alive to carry out their genocidal dreams.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Truly is easier to imagine that Americans are racist dullards than whatever conspiratorial nonsense this is

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 3 days ago • 1466 comments

ChatGPT is not AI. It is a LLM. It is very sophisticated predictive text. It’s only goal is to simulate human text. It does not and indeed can not concern itself with truth. It does not and can not trick or deceive because it has no conscious will. It does not “know”. It is a chatbot.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just received this encouraging update from Senator Hoffman's wife, Yvette, on their recovery in the hospital. Grateful for their progress and will continue to keep them in our prayers.

submitted 4 days ago • 371 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 4 days ago • 258 comments

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 5 days ago • 593 comments

AOC: "They have released chaos in LA by violently raiding & ripping apart peaceful public spaces, and now they are tackling & arresting US sitting members of Congress, while going on the record & lying about what happened.

submitted 5 days ago • 387 comments

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

submitted 7 days ago • 408 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

De Blasio having the time of his life rn

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

submitted 7 days ago • 1121 comments

there was one vote, it was for trump, and he is king of america now and you will obey

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you. The inflection point is now.

submitted 7 days ago • 372 comments

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 194 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 7 days ago • 392 comments

Everyone in this administration should be sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty bone chilling seeing DHS agents throw a sitting Senator on the ground and handcuff him. If the Obama admin did this to Mitch McConnell he would be (rightly) impeached

submitted 7 days ago • 0 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 7 days ago • 842 comments

The sole criteria I will be voting on in the 2028 primary is which candidate credibly promises to put the largest number of Trump officials in prison. I do not care about any of their other policies.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

submitted 7 days ago • 449 comments

All gas, no breaks. Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events

submitted 8 days ago • 188 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 8 days ago • 2312 comments

I don’t know who woke up at CNN and said “you know what? We’re just going to tell the truth today” but WELL DONE

submitted 8 days ago • 129 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 8 days ago • 312 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 9 days ago • 1033 comments

Man, fuck this guy. What a disappointment.

submitted 9 days ago • 1370 comments

I have so many problems with Gavin Newsom that I couldn't begin to list them all, but I do appreciate him when the cobras show up and hiss at him, and he turns into a mongoose and starts biting

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

I generally dislike federated governmental powers where states retain significant control over policy but I will admit it is very useful when the federal government is going full tinpot dictator

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but the Speaker of the House calling for the Governor of California to be tortured seems like it should be a pretty big story.

submitted 9 days ago • 252 comments

He must be protected at all costs.

submitted 9 days ago • 101 comments