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I couldn’t have said it better, myself.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

submitted 2 hours ago • 33 comments

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

NEW: Oklahoma Republicans have been frustrated at a bunch of citizen initiatives—to expand Medicaid, hike the minimum wage, & more. And they just passed a wide-ranging law that cracks down on direct democracy, and will make it a lot tougher to qualify measures going forward. I wrote about it all:

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Fun fact: If either Governor Pritzker or Walz were to be elected President of the United States, they would be the first President with a Z in their last name.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 4 hours ago • 118 comments

All the Republican examples of "violent" rhetoric from Democrats is someone like Tim Walz saying "these people are assholes, you should be rude to them" and all the Republican equivalents are a guy with a top-secret security clearance tweeting "I will personally kill Ilhan Omar with a gun"

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

Most of them just pass around the ones that Felix makes.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the second time I've seen this "413% increase" stat thrown out. Never seen a citation for it or the methodology by which it was calculated. Alse never seen ANY report of an I.C.E. security guard being assaulted...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

submitted 6 hours ago • 144 comments

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 6 hours ago • 788 comments

the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

Holy shit. DHS just detained New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a candidate for NYC mayor, as he was observing ICE arrests in court.

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

My Best Friend's Hot Sister Sam #NaughtyASitcom

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Conservatives used to say that character mattered. Bragging about grabbing women by the “pussy” used to matter. So did sedition, fraud, graft, and chronic lying. Ten years on, they are our daily companions, and we almost numb to it. Ten years on, nothing matters. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

submitted 7 hours ago • 49 comments

🧵 I filed adverse public comments today on 13 individual rules from the Dept of Energy. 😮‍💨 The bee in my bonnet was the agency's improper use of a very specific procedure called "direct final rule." Buckle up for some in-the-weeds admin law!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Hey, Dodgers, this would be a good time to break your cowardly silence as your community is attacked. Or you could just ban people who sing the national anthem in Spanish. That’s another thing you could do.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

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submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Turtle Mutual Aid:

submitted 2 days ago • 581 comments

Before parroting Israel’s talking points on Iran, know this: 🚨 Israel bombed Iran first 🚨 Iran hasn’t invaded another country in over 200 years 🚨 It signed the nuclear deal—Israel opposed it 🚨 U.S./Israel backed Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war 🚨 Israel has nukes, Iran doesn’t

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

call for a vote to censure or call for a vote to expel. protract the story and explain why it matters.

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 22 hours ago • 40 comments

If you’re getting your hotel reviews removed for literally saying “they host ice” try it with details of your “stay” but emphasizing that the excessive air conditioning kept the entire hotel ice cold and there was a very rude group staying there for work, engaging in illegal activity in common areas

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

This is tough. There are no GOOD Michael Jackson songs. Some of the stuff he did with his brothers was OK at best. I suppose I'd go with "Somebody's Watching Me"...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

There's an episode of "Dragnet" from 1967 that starts out with narration about visitors to Los Angeles. Joe Friday concludes that the one thing they all have in common is that they don't like to be swindled. I had some thoughts about that. www.spreaker.com/episode/epis...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

FDR made sure Black Americans were excluded from most elements of The New Deal. Partly why it was a success. In countries where there is a robust social safety net, there are still anti-immigrant, racist, extremist movements. Maybe there is another foundational issue we aren't addressing?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The LAPD says they need more $$$ in order to cover overtime to respond to the protests, according to this city report. LA city's response has so far cost $19.7 million. The LAPD costs make up nearly $17M, of which $11.7M is police OT, which the LAPD says it needs more funds to cover.

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

A madman lost his damn mind in the west. Loveless.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks others? Most university instructors are part-timers who cobble together "full time" work by adjuncting at several universities simultaneously. They usually make about $20-30k per year, with no benefits.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

So, I think it's fair to say that Weird Al Yankovic is the most-famous LIVING accordion player. Who's second-most? John Linnell?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Anyhooooo youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 21 hours ago • 437 comments

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 225 comments

UNFORGIVABLE: ICE snatched up Ernesto Manuel-Andres — a Kentucky teenager with a legal right to be here — while he was just trying to eat his lunch. They didn’t care. They raided his home without a warrant & tossed him into detention — ignoring his paperwork.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

"If you have more than two thousand dollars in assets, you certainly don't need the assistance of Medi-Cal." Uh.... This new budget sucks. I wonder whose idea that was.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Maybe the real Social Security fraud was the Social Security fraud we committed along the way. A devastating investigation of the lies Trump and Musk told — and demanded that career officials echo — about the retirement program on which so many Americans depend. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"The Senate will be MORE aggressive seeking savings from Medicare" is at "the vampires will be MORE aggressive seeking iron for their diets" levels of language obfuscation.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments