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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 7 hours ago • 103 comments

Sounds like Nazis: "Part of a broader wave of immigration enforcement actions nationwide. Advocacy groups and immigration attorneys have criticized these actions, labeling them a 'dragnet' operation targeting immigrants complying with the law." kfiam640.iheart.com/featured/la-...

submitted 7 hours ago • 68 comments

With the Supreme Court now handing DOGE access to Social Security data, it’s becoming undeniable, the Trump administration is building the “deep state” themselves. Don’t get distracted by the noise.

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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1405 comments

Two Democratic members of an independent privacy board were unlawfully removed from their positions by President Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/intel-oversi...

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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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MEMPHIS — YESTERDAY: “He’s not a criminal!!” ICE agent clumsily PULLS A GUN on the daughter of a man they grabbed. Original post: www.facebook.com/share/v/12LM...

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So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

submitted 1 day ago • 603 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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💯 this

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ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

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California, btw, is a donor state - it pays almost 90 billion dollars more in federal taxes than it gets back

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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 1 day ago • 969 comments

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

submitted 2 days ago • 437 comments

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 2 days ago • 3019 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 2 days ago • 1699 comments

Mission Accomplished? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

Musk calls for Trump's impeachment Who saw that coming www.axios.com/2025/06/05/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 2 days ago • 280 comments

"If it involves handcuffs on wrists, it’s probably worth pursuing," [senior longtime Ice official, Francisco] Madrigal added. The point is not, and has never been, to protect U.S. citizens from 'dangerous illegal criminals.' The point has always been to fuel the fascist rage machine.

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Repost if YOU are going to a No Kings Day rally on Trump’s birthday, June 14th. This is a great summary of what the events are for and why it’s important to TURN OUT! Please watch and share.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

open.substack.com/pub/monicaph... On a different topic than usual. This is worth sharing, and saving!

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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 4 days ago • 1567 comments

If I said every hour of every day for the next year that Joni Ernst can go fuck herself, it wouldn’t be often enough.

submitted 5 days ago • 484 comments

You don't get a job in the Taco Administration unless you know jack-shit about fuck-all for the position you were given.

submitted 5 days ago • 512 comments

Possibility of Northern Lights tonight

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New Founding (NF)—a Claremont spinoff funded by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen—is disturbingly cozy with The Harvard Republican Club led by Leo Koerner. The anti-DEI crusade against Harvard echoes the anti-CRT crusade led by NF partner Josh Abbottoy against Grove City Christian College in 2021. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I still want to know why Biden's age was a detriment but not Trump's. Nobody has ever offered anything approaching a decent explanation why this would be the case

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 5 days ago • 1185 comments

"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 5 days ago • 154 comments

The temptation to always frame things as merely approaching but never actually crossing a red line has inured us to the reality that they are already defying court orders on a scale and as official policy to a degree unprecedented in American history.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Something I really miss about traveling abroad is actually the difficulty of communicating I can speak basic Spanish, but because I only have basic Spanish, it creates a fun challenge to connect with another person using basic vocabulary Colombia was a dream… a dream full of tanagers 🪶

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

This part

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Never has any leader had so many people wanting to make the argument that “not wearing any clothes actually makes the emperor better dressed if you think about it.”

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 8 days ago • 1127 comments

WATCH - @jessicatarlov.bsky.social on Fox: “If that was a Democratic dogemaster who showed up with a shiner and there was a report he did so much Ketamine he couldn’t pee straight… you would be leading your show with it.”

submitted 7 days ago • 463 comments

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 1082 comments

This is strange on fox, but good.

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

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