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it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 777 comments

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

submitted 12 hours ago • 154 comments

If this is true, the ICE guards should be arrested and prosecuted. Whoever promises to hold ICE accountable for thier abuses is going to sweep the Dem primaries, and the mainline Dems will never see it coming.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Houston police called ICE on a woman who called 911 to report domestic abuse by her ex-husband. The only reason she didn't get deported is because ICE said there was no one to take custody of her kids, according to the police report. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 23 hours ago • 60 comments

Pedro Pascal defended calling out JK Rowling as a "heinous loser" and said that "bullies make me fucking sick" and that he wants to "protect the people I love." variety.com/2025/tv/news...

submitted 18 hours ago • 120 comments

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submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

"I worry that the powers that be might take one look at my salt-and-pepper hair, only slightly elevated blood pressure, and spry body with both its original hips, and laugh me right out of the Capitol."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

submitted 1 day ago • 1248 comments

Veteran marine son says no food or water for his detained father. Has a dislocated shoulder, no medical attention. #NarcisoBarranco, 48-yr-old landscaper who was seized at IHOP while gardening, has 3 sons who are US Marines, including 2 on active duty, Pendleton www.foxla.com/news/narciso...

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submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

"Alleged federal agents" should be the de facto term until these fascists take off their masks and show ID.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is a kiddish hashem and honestly it feels nice to be able say that about a public performance of Judaism

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

What's a poster you had in your room growing up?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 3 days ago • 1646 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 3 days ago • 1230 comments

Literally lighting billions of dollars of public investment on fire

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

This is what happened at the Whittier public library. They had to cancel a LEGO event for kids and a “history of signs” program for seniors due to ICE raids. And let’s not forget that when librarians would not let ICE in the agents peed all over the property in broad daylight.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago. What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored. Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

submitted 4 days ago • 1221 comments

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 461 comments

an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks

submitted 4 days ago • 1287 comments

It's almost like our law enforcement should identify themselves for a reason? (well, multiple reasons, but this sure as shit is one of them)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 5 days ago • 3208 comments

This is shocking. Pure totalitarianism from DHS, and also blatantly unconstitutional. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 6 days ago • 142 comments

I don't know how to explain to you that you should not kill hundreds of thousands of people.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 6 days ago • 441 comments

Why the Right Hates Juneteenth Wrote this two years ago - but worth reiterating, as America is ruled by a regime seeking to restore complete white male dominance in all spheres of life: Today’s MAGA GOP stands in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

smells like the collapse of civilization

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

Some freak claimed that not having access to people’s out-of-state abortion records meant she couldn’t report them for “child” abuse because she believes a fetus is a person, and the same judge who tried to ban mifepristone agreed. They’re also making the same claim for trans medical care for minors

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 6 days ago • 260 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 6 days ago • 876 comments

Incredibly important read. This is exactly what LAPD did to me and two other legal observers standing on a quiet street corner this past weekend—except with rubber bullets, not pepperballs, and aimed at our heads, not our feet. …oh, and the officer waved tauntingly right before shooting at us.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

You are loved. I've got your back. 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE. The Trump administration shipped a guy to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial, in conditions worse than we treat even convicted serial killers, because he was in a picture standing next to someone with tattoos. LITERALLY NO OTHER EVIDENCE.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

submitted 7 days ago • 260 comments

BREAKING The Trevor Project confirms that the Trump administration is eliminating the LGBTQ+ option on the 988 suicide hotline. Right now, LGBTQ+ people who dial 988 can access specialized services.

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

submitted 9 days ago • 231 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 7 days ago • 553 comments

When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments