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Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

submitted 6 hours ago • 34 comments

The president having the unilateral power to just start wars and only needing Congress to raise revenues to fund said wars is the sort of dynamic that ends in civil wars (English varietal)

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

hey @nytimes.com what if instead of this you reported accurately that the president of the united states has violated the united states constitution by entering into war with a foreign power without the approval of congress, just like, what if

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 8 hours ago • 334 comments

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I can’t wait for chuck schumer to say he needs some answers about this

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

submitted 7 hours ago • 34 comments

The famously shark-less SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

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A white nationalist student at the U of Florida won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 59 comments

If you don’t have anything nice to say, just make something up instead. That’s the strategy GOP politicians have adopted in hopes of selling their regressive, unpopular budget bill to voters, as an even harsher version of the legislation now makes its way through the Senate. wapo.st/4n6QkT3

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

“Jim Jordan looked at me straight in my face and said, ‘It’s Strauss. You know what he does.’”

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Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black experience in America.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

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You will never be able to erase trans people. They will always exist. Gender-affirming care is for everyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

it should go without saying but you really cannot run a country, or really any organization, like this. you cannot lurch wildly from pole to pole every four years or every four days. you cannot rip up deals and seek deals and then blow up the people you were seeking to re-deal with. doesn't work

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

it's giving

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

I feel like I could take on a whole pizza myself

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

There is no way you can convince me otherwise that my generation (millenials) got royally fucked over on when our turn to run shit was decided.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 9 days ago • 809 comments

Mother of 2 (including 9-wk-old baby) + wife of US Marine had USCIS interview related to permanent residence status. She'd entered US from Mexico and was legally processed w/ her family about a decade ago. ICE arrested her over 2018 paperwork issue she didn't know about www.wbrz.com/news/ice-age...

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

Like IDK you got a pretty big hoard of lightning bolts up there do I need to spell it out for you, "God?"

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Now would be a real good time for karma to do some of the heavy lifting for those of us that have done legit good work. (This is me asking the universe to punish the bad people. The obviously bad people. As in all of the current administration and at least a good chunk of the previous one too.)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

[Congressman with an Israeli flag pin] it’s bad optics to fly the flag of another country

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments