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Good essay that persuasively connects (thru specific personnel) what the trumpists are doing in california with iraq/ guantanamo

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

It's kinda crazy to remember that the mass protests today got their start (and name) from a tweet about congestion pricing

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

My husband became a US citizen yesterday and he took the little flag they gave him to the No Kings protest in Lansing today 😍

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the No Kings rallies were planned specifically as counterprogramming to Trump’s parade. Imagine if you were planning a birthday party and bars nationwide announced they’d hold Fuck That Guy’s Birthday Night and like 15 times as many people showed up to those

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A practical and chilling thread from a journalist who was just deported from the US for reporting on student protest.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Vote blue, no matter-NOT THAT GUY NEVER THAT GUY

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Based on how the soldiers in the tanks were all but throwing candy to the crowd, I'm leaning into this flustercuck being intentional on the part of the Army. "He wants a parade? This dude with a notoriously short attention span? Sure. Okay. Let's give him exactly what he's asked for."

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

What people mocking flag discourse refused to get through their head because it was too wine mom-coded is that those arguing that protestors should bring flags were very much aware the flag isn't a shield from police brutality, and understood the optics of exactly what's happening in this photo.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Ok, this is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

As a 42-year-old, I grew up with domestic right-wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, kicking down doors, and killing people periodically throughout my whole political life: it was the police.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

In the US, transit ridership recovery from the pandemic has closely tracked service recovery. More service = more riders. Of 285 US urban areas, just 35% had as much service in 2024 as they had in 2019. And these have had much higher ridership recovery than those with less service (91% vs 74%).

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

This, and "Preamble," and "The Great American Melting Pot"...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Love this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"the widely accepted 'germ theory'" come on, do better, you don't have to hint that there might sorta be two sides here Like this: RFK embraces an entirely discredited theory of disease, completely disregarding centuries of medical knowledge

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

I know NPR is terrified of losing funding, but qualifying germ theory as ‘widely accepted’ - as if there’s some level of doubt - is malpractice. If you’re this captured you’re no longer a trustworthy news source.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

What’s wild about the current political use of “antisemitism” (as opposed to its actual instances) is it has nothing to do with Jewish people at all. So much so that an Italian sexual harasser can wield it against a Muslim who is endorsed by a Jewish candidate. It’s just all nonsense.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Hi, hello, howyadoin? Author of two peer reviewed studies on divisive primaries here. Noah is right: the evidence is kinda murky, but intra-party infighting probably hurts - definitely doesn’t help - when your candidate makes it to the primary election. Best avoid it if at all possible.

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Excellent piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on what this moment requires of us. "Only direct, sustained protest will protect us...the greatest informal mechanism for democratic enforcement: not kings, not former presidents, but the power of the people." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

in the rules-based international order, sensibility is represented by two separate but equally important groups: the police, who get to commit crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the victims

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Rank Mamdani, don't rank Cuomo, make Bloomberg cry and waste $$$. What's not to like?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I see this is still going around. Don't do this. This is literally, exactly the opposite of what you should do. If things are escalating, and you are uncomfortable, leave.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Worth noting: There are two prominent Jewish candidates in the NYC mayoral election, Brad Lander and Scott Stringer. Neither of them are the ones leaning hard into "Mamdani is a scary Muslim dude." In fact, one of them went so far as to endorse Mamdani as #2.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

as I talked about here, one reason is that a lot of those migrants are Catholics. The Pope is literally trying to protect his own people, who are under siege. therevealer.org/authoritaria...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Cuomo's fuckery is so kaleidoscopic that you sometimes need to remind yourself of it

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 3 days ago • 709 comments

I saved this to my phone years ago, but it still feels relevant as we're dealing with all the damage he's done

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Cannot stress how much every surviving German and Italian and Spaniard who opposed the rise of fascism and survived until the fall of their respective regimes said the same thing: "We didn't fight them hard enough on the streets"

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Whole lot of people saying “she must resign” who should be saying “I am introducing articles of impeachment.”

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

No. It’s about people being yanked iut of homes Trumps response is less important than people being disappeared He may want a distraction. We want our neighbors free

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

They are crossing the Rubicon in the best possible place for us and the absolute worst place for them. Do not waste this crisis

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

New on MusicRadar: I honor Sly Stone with a close look at "Thank You (Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)" www.musicradar.com/artists/ther...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

the word "constitution" does not appear in this article nor does any indication that the Trump regime's actions might be illegal it does however note "White House officials maintain that the president is ... standing up for 'law and order' as Democrats go soft on violent agitators."

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

lol this is freakin perfect Share among your gym bros

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

So another one of these came today and I took a closer look. Some of its claims seem pretty wild. But they include citations in tiny print at the bottom, after an invitation to "check the facts." So I did. You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 6 days ago • 142 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 6 days ago • 206 comments

Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as their failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful. They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.” The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

it isn’t and they know it which is why 1) they are rushing to do 4+ years worth of harm before the midterms, fully expecting to lose Congress but just hoping the damage is irreversible by then; 2) they are doing mostly small-scale symbolic horrors to intimidate the public, due to limited capacity

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments