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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

submitted 20 hours ago • 568 comments

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

submitted 19 hours ago • 280 comments

An amazing time for Congress to slash policies that have driven a massive private-sector boom of investing in clean energy and transportation technologies that can help break dependence on foreign oil / global oil prices. No notes.

submitted 20 hours ago • 25 comments

I’ll bet you anything you’ll never see the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and these masked ICE agents with no identification in separate places.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

In this house we believe The state enjoys a monopoly on legitimate violence Violence can only be legitimate when constrained by the rule of law Agents of state violence should be uniformed and accountable to the people

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

submitted 18 hours ago • 517 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

submitted 15 hours ago • 738 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 16 hours ago • 968 comments

i will never understand anyone who believes that the systems we live under are necessary and that anyone who wants radical change is insane, unrealistic and unreasonable. in my lifetime, it has never been so glaringly obvious that the opposite is true

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

submitted 18 hours ago • 178 comments

Once more with feeling

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 901 comments

A Trump/GWB comparison "making the rounds is arguably unfair—to George W. Bush. The 43rd president made similar claims about unilateral power, but he ultimately got congressional authorization for his disastrous war of choice." Trump simply ignores the Constitution [Gene Healy, @cato.org]

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I had to look up number 8 WHATTT nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 564 comments

Billionaires pay less in taxes as a percent of their total wealth and income than average Americans. That's the important part.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

submitted 3 days ago • 163 comments

Two things: 1. The purpose of these visa checks is to reduce any sort of dissent against the Trump administration globally. 2. Social media posts that reflect "hostile attitudes our citizens, culture, government or institutions" would disqualify the majority of Trump admin officials.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 4 days ago • 441 comments

This is beyond the military industrial complex - basically a pure merger of public military power and private interests breakingdefense.com/2025/06/andu...

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. Two points: This is a very large caseload for this point in the election cycle. It is more evenly spread across states than usual which reflects the creep of voter suppression laws into even safe GOP states.

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

felt compelled to look up ICE authority for warrantless arrests if I'm reading this correctly, the circumstances under which ICE can arrest a citizen are basically limited to 'I literally saw you commit a felony and you're about to escape and no one's gonna be able to get a warrant' this aint that

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 5 days ago • 739 comments

Yet another elected Democratic official violently arrested and detained by Trump’s ICE Gestapo. This isn’t frog in boiling water. This fascism is happening quickly, clearly, brazenly.

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

submitted 5 days ago • 122 comments

Employee confidence levels hit a low of 44.1% in May, according to a new report by Glassdoor, which measures the share of workers with a positive six-month business outlook.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

E.P.A. Clarifies It Only Banned Asbestos Because It Was Uncool in the ‘90s

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 5 days ago • 1168 comments

Ugh, a lot of USAF mid-air refueling tankers are flying to the Middle East now...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

citizens of new york city: do not heed the word of the failing new york times. listen instead to beloved ugly house blog mcmansion hell and rank Zohran Mamdani #1 on your ballot. DO NOT RANK SUBURBANITE AND BIKE-LANE PARKER ANDREW CUOMO mcmansionhell.com/post/7865401...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It's almost as if renewables+storage have the underrated benefit of giving us a risk hedge against natural gas volatility.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

the Times going back on their own policy to endorse Cuomo is a good reminder that if Mamdani wins the press will go out of their way to try to discredit and destroy his administration before it even gets off the ground and the work doesn't end with the election

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Stephen Miller’s uncle has something to say: “I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

One of the most common mistakes in casting TV shows is to go with an actor who isn’t right for the role, simply because (s)he is a “known quantity,” while ignoring a much better option who is not. In unrelated news, Andrew Cuomo is running for mayor of NY, and he sucks.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Nearly half of 140 senior SSA administrators have been forced out or left the agency. A decimation of hundreds of years of administrative expertise at the insitence of the ignorant. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival. Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

submitted 7 days ago • 1893 comments

“I find it unconscionable that someone could step up to serve, voluntarily, in our military and be willing to sacrifice their life for our country only to have their families torn apart.” This article first appeared @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 340 comments

I love all the handwringing about Zohran’s lack of experience when a 19 year-old called Big Balls has recently been made a permanent federal employee with the title Senior Advisor at the GS-15 pay grade in the General Services Administration.

submitted 7 days ago • 187 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

Trump's assault on rural hospitals hits the Senate MAGA wants to invade the cities, but they might as well be bombing 338 rural hospitals.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 10 days ago • 1920 comments