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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Here's the link to a live on YouTube. Paramount CA. Gestapo trying to disappear people. The community is standing on business for their immigrant friends, neighbors and family. Keep up the good trouble💯 #SheShed www.youtube.com/live/0a0EIr9...

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Elon, Big Balls and the rest of the DOGE bro incels never wanted to dismantle the “administrative state”. They wanted to own our data, invade our privacy, and destroy our fundamental freedoms in a dug-addled power grab made possible by simply kissing the ass of the Useful Idiot in Chief. It worked.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

They’re not behaving as if they’re in a four-year term. They’re behaving as if they’re in an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 21 days ago • 587 comments

ICE isn’t rounding up migrants at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ meatpacking plants. They're provoking riots in Los Angeles. I wonder, is this provocation laying the groundwork for a pretext to declare martial law? And then I remember all those many tanks shipped to DC, the home of so many protests.

submitted 21 days ago • 484 comments

Reminder: Trump wants to invoke martial law. I’m not saying don’t fight back, we all should in large numbers. Because when we push back in large numbers, TACO Trump always backs down. Read the article on 3 areas we need to watch right now #Voices4Victory www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

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NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

submitted 24 days ago • 410 comments

🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

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The nonpartisan CBO has made clear: the GOP tax bill disproportionately benefits the ultra-rich. Under their "big, beautiful bill," the bottom 10% of earners will see their annual income fall by 2% in 2027 — while the top 10% will see theirs grow by 4%. That is backwards.

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Another day, another scandal under Hegseth. This is not silly stuff like Hegseth using taxpayer funds for a Pentagon makeup studio. The allegation here is an illegal wiretap. If they used an illegal wiretap on a senior official, you think they wouldn’t hesitate to use it on you?

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

Fact: The House Republican bill takes health care away from millions of Americans. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

submitted 32 days ago • 43 comments

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

submitted 67 days ago • 652 comments

Trump’s reckless tariffs are the largest tax increase on the middle class in at least 50 years. GOP in Congress are making it worse by cutting Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid to give huge new tax breaks to billionaires like Musk. Stop him. Stop them. NOW. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

submitted 80 days ago • 6 comments

Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.

submitted 80 days ago • 2090 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 80 days ago • 1459 comments

Expect less and pricier salmon www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

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No president has ever defunded more police, prosecutors, fire fighters, intel agents & all kinds of law enforcement than Trump—let alone so rapidly, chaotically & lawlessly. How wild it is that this is not even a data point, let alone a talking point?!

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When you are trying to enact a coup Aside from cowing the legislature, installing loyalists at every facet of government and controlling the military You also need to silence dissent in the media, neutralize the legal system, control what’s being taught in the schools And conjure up enemies

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UPDATED REPORT: Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act hours after court blocks some deportations. The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed suit in advance of Trump's expected action. DOJ is appealing the TRO, as the plaintiffs seek to expand who is protected. Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...

submitted 105 days ago • 12 comments

Oh shit wait people are still allowed to write good columns?

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The documentary I actually would watch would be about a woman who comes to the U.S. illegally to model, finds a rich sexual predator & money launderer who gets her a fake visa, they marry, he becomes a game show host, then runs for president and boom! She’s First Lady! But she says that’s not true💩

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"Profiles in courage, it’s not. Of course, it’s hardly a secret that Senate Republicans have misgivings about Gabbard: one aide to a senior lawmaker told me that, in a secret ballot, she’d lose at least 15 Republicans (and that may be a conservative estimate)." via Jonathan Martin

submitted 164 days ago • 13 comments

Education is government waste as well according to republicans—and looks like they’re proud of it. search.app/LtQ9C4AQQzfr...

submitted 165 days ago • 9 comments

As simple as that.

submitted 165 days ago • 55 comments

cc: 1979 Reagan/Carter/Iran hostages

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SCOOP: President-elect Trump is encouraging Vivek Ramaswamy to take the Ohio Senate seat vacated by JD Vance's departure, per sources Unclear what this would mean for DOGE, which Trump picked Ramaswamy & Musk to lead in November decision up to Ohio governor www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 164 days ago • 46 comments

The Bribing of Pam Bondi In 2013, Pam Bondi was running for re-election as Florida attorney general. She needed money for her campaign. Bondi went directly to Donald Trump and personally solicited a donation to meet her needs. Timing is everything. Trump sent Bondi’s political action…

submitted 166 days ago • 67 comments

Convicted drug trafficker and Amish impersonator.

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17 years after the Great Recession, we're poised to inflate a massive bubble of speculation based on absolutely nothing www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 171 days ago • 29 comments

Why are Trump & Musk so fixated on Greenland? It’s not just about its strategic location—it’s the minerals. As Greenland’s ice melts (climate change) it’s exposing cobalt, lithium & copper (key for EV batteries).Their interest looks less like America first & more like exploiting crisis for profit.

submitted 171 days ago • 241 comments

1/ DOJ has just filed with the 11th Circuit, asking them to set aside Judge Cannon's injunction on releasing the Special Counsel's report on the Trump prosecution and permitting them to go ahead and release it.

submitted 171 days ago • 238 comments

Yesterday, President Biden finalized a rule to remove medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans. The number of Americans with medical debt on their credit reports will be zero — down from 46 million right before he took office. Why isn’t anybody talking about this?

submitted 171 days ago • 419 comments

Thank goodness #ReleasetheReport #Demcast

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It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

submitted 172 days ago • 586 comments

The four most prominent Jan. 6 insurrectionists likely to be pardoned by Donald Trump are all leading figures in the seditionist “Patriot” and street-brawling outfits that invaded the Capitol that day: Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keepers), and Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Enrique Tarrio (Proud Boys). 1/29

submitted 171 days ago • 19 comments

Good News Democrats won two special elections tonight and defended control of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.

submitted 172 days ago • 26 comments

😡😡😡

submitted 173 days ago • 20 comments

What specifically is Donold distracting everyone from by calling for war on Canada and Greenland

submitted 172 days ago • 2649 comments

Governor Gavin Newsom at the Pacific Palisades Fire on President Biden: "It didn't take more than a text message...no politics, no hand-wringing, no kissing of the feet. President of the United States said 'yes, what else do you need? The emergency proclamation is being drafted as we speak.'" 👏

submitted 172 days ago • 262 comments

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook to rate/shame girls who weren’t into him. #NeverForget

submitted 172 days ago • 435 comments

Still super pissed we stole 2020 - but only the White House - and then we stole nothing in 2024.

submitted 173 days ago • 13 comments

Once again, CNBC offers a clearly picture of what tech titans are doing than those covering politics.

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