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Aside from adding trillions of dollars to the national debt, Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ would slash key safety-net programs like SNAP and Medicaid that families across our country rely on. There's nothing beautiful about it.

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Good god it is embarrassing to be an American right now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Look at the way they attack Zohran, AOC, Bernie… the establishment is quaking in their boots because they know what’s coming.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Taken as a whole, the Supreme Court has decided we should live in a smaller, crueler country where neighbors should be pitted against each other more frequently.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

ICE just murdered a Canadian.

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Nadler is one of the few exceptions to the need to send the Democratic gerontocracy off to retirement. He’s one of the good ones.

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Civil servants do in fact serve the public, crazy

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, just checking in on Trump’s promise to lower the average American energy bill by 50% in his first year. How’s that g— oh.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We should interpret what's happening in New York as a signal about the broader mood in the base and act accordingly as we head for midterms 2026.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Most literature reviews miss the point.  Not because they’re sloppy.  But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

submitted 4 days ago • 252 comments

Gen z aren't children anymore, but I beg you guys to listen when millennials have hard flashbacks to 2003. We're tearing our hair out and shouting into the void.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 6 days ago • 658 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 405 comments

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

submitted 6 days ago • 608 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 6 days ago • 442 comments

Of course it’s unconstitutional, it all is.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 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 6 days ago • 1229 comments

Absolutely shameful of UF to hide behind “institutional neutrality.” The basic human rights of Black people are not something our universities should be “neutral” about! This is not a “hot button” political issue!! I feel like I’m losing my mind. FU, UF.

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Call me crazy but I think this guy’s more of a threat to his fellow students than a bunch of undergraduates peacefully calling for Palestinians to have human rights

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Americans and Iranians have a lot in common, such as that in both countries supreme power actually rests with a small group of unaccountable theocrats appointed for life.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

"My Judaism is not defined by Israel. And for the past 20+ months (and even well before then) there’s been immense pressure on Jews by fellow Jews and non-Jews alike to shape our worldview based on a country in which we do not live."

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It's Berkeley Breathed's 68th birthday, and in this upside-down world in which Donald Trump is in the White House instead of the prison where he belongs, I'll celebrate by once again sharing this February 26, 1989 comic strip, the only Bloom County I ever snipped from a newspaper.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

I unironically love the bromance between these two, and while I’m obviously hoping one of them is NYC’s next mayor, I’m just happy to see two progressives viewing each other as allies in a long-term movement and not just adversaries in this one election.

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This is one of Trump's biggest lies. He absolutely did NOT oppose invasion of Iraq when it mattered. (I would know. I opposed it, in public. I knew who was lining up where.) AFTER things went bad, he switched. Early TACO, or "weave." NO news outlet should say he opposed it, when it mattered.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Extreme heat is the deadliest extreme weather. Yet Trump’s USDA is cutting funding for tree planting programs that make our cities greener, cleaner, and cooler. Planting trees to help Americans combat the climate crisis and stay cool should be a no-brainer.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

Every step towards war with Iran is a step towards madness. While I have no love for the Iranian regime, it did not provoke this conflict. As with so many prior cases, no good will come from Israeli and/or US aggression.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

submitted 9 days ago • 118 comments

If Pritzker wants to a) immediately shoot to the front of the ‘28 pack and b) push back against the “no good billionaires” flack he’s sure to get, he should announce that he’s funding a nonprofit foundation to keep the hotline open NOW. Emergency presser. Do it today.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is an administration for people who think some lives are just worth less than others. They are barbaric and given the number of GOP pols whose kids have self-harmed, their lack of care - hell, their sadism - in regards to our kids is a fucking sin.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Shoutout to my transgender brothers and sisters. No one should ever be asked to show the amount of courage you show, and yet you are forced to display it every single day. I hope very soon it will not be asked of you in the very process of living.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

ABOLISH ICE. It's time for Democrats to get on board and mainstream this. They are a rogue agency used by Trump to terrorize Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Strikes and boycotts

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The fact is that in the United States, right-wing violence 1. Is much more common than left-wing violence 2. Furthers the interests of the Republican Party, while what little left-wing violence exists mainly causes headaches for Democrats 3. Is coddled by the Republicans

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments