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So ICE is officially operating completely above the law now, have more power than congress, and they're absolutely the equivalent of the gestapo for real. Got it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Doug Ford is now into his 3rd term. Our healthcare mess is all on his government.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump’s Tax Scam would mean tax giveaways for billionaires and a huge increase to ICE’s budget. Keep up the pressure on your Republican senators: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt... Or you can help us connect voters in key states with their GOP senators: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

Surely it means something substantive, though. You can’t just write “through the governor” on a scrap of paper and have cleared the hurdle.

submitted 10 hours ago • 70 comments

Demand that your Members of Congress support the War Powers Resolution and oppose war with Iran. SENATE Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran... HOUSE Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

"ICE recently announced that federal agents arrested nearly 1,500 people across Massachusetts as part of an enforcement surge in May dubbed Operation Patriot." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

It’s a failure of journalism to do shit like this. Donald Trump has said that something will happen “within two weeks” at least 5,000 times in the past decade with easily over 4,900 of those “deadlines” passing with no action.

submitted 19 hours ago • 263 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 1 day ago • 173 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 21 hours ago • 179 comments

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 1 day ago • 142 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 1 day ago • 415 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 1 day ago • 845 comments

Reactions from the ACLU on Skrmetti, line with my thinking: The decision is a little more limited and leaves many rulings against anti-transgender laws in tact. However, it also creates huge loopholes to target transgender people, and the medical care ban will cause horror.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

My very, very first impression of Skrmetti is that it is as horrible as people are saying, and yet, it is a more limited horror: It does not overturn bostock, it doesn't overturn rulings saying trans discrimination = sex discrimination. Bathroom, sports, passport ruling are good under this.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The Supreme Court is nearing the end of its term and will soon release decisions in major cases (potentially as early as tomorrow). We wrote about the rulings to watch for that could further roll back our fundamental freedoms, dismantle our democracy, and restrict access to healthcare. 👇

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

This is correct. Police lie all the time, about anything and everything. All the time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A dangerous provision is being considered by the Senate that would prevent states from regulating AI for ten years with no federal alternative. We must tell Congress to oppose this ten year ban on AI regulation immediately.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

“No Kings” protests by the numbers… Y’all showed up in record numbers and sent the message loud and clear. Now let’s keep that same energy and civic fire through 2026. 🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

The Senate reconciliation bill retains the trans healthcare Medicaid/CHIP ban. Call your Senators, we still have a good shot at killing this provision. Hundreds of thousands of people rely on this care.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Corrupt politician. Sexual predator. Bought by MAGA billionaires. We’re not even talking about Trump. NYC, don’t rank Cuomo.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Right now the LAPD is holding a meeting trying to justify the police brutalizing the Los Angeles community for standing up against ICE. Join here lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944 to demand the LAPD be held accountable for their excessive use of force and for their assault on the people of Los Angeles

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Can everyone try to remember before whining about protests inconveniencing you or being on holidays that people died for you Saturday fighting for your country. People are in the hospital because they protested a man that’s trying to erase everything the 4th of July is about. /

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

submitted 2 days ago • 765 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 2 days ago • 2261 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 3 days ago • 388 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 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 2 days ago • 1168 comments

This is much better than Speaker Jeffries references to a vague violence, but it could be even more specific. Name actual individuals who need to be held to account. It will make the general charges stick and spark an actual news cycle as reporters ask them for comments and replies. Call them out.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The Atlantic piece on Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo is full of holes. Mamdani's proposals are picked apart and labeled unrealistic while Cuomo's supposed goals aren't even elaborated on. Cuomo is "an asshole, but he's our asshole"—the New Yorkers who he has sexually harassed might think otherwise

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

All snark aside about the terrible Atlantic piece in favor of the fascist parade or the general downplaying of #NoKings, if you're going to take action, it's helpful to know that MSM orgs rarely support acts of protest. As a rule, they dismiss protestors or paint them as violent thugs. Be prepared.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

This part. 3.5% is a lagging indicator of ongoing change, not the be-all-end-all change mechanism itself.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Tue, June 17 @ 5pm, join our vigil & silent protest against violence. We will WALK to 1st St. as we stand stronger & more unified in our grief. Bring messages of peace, American flags, candles, & dedication in this fight for the soul of our country. Political violence is UNAMERICAN!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

A conversation well worth reviewing between @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on what the power of protest actually is and what the 3.5% rule people keep citing actually means

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

submitted 4 days ago • 171 comments

If passed, the SAVE Act would limit access to our democracy for millions of eligible voters. The House has already passed it, but the Senate can still stop it in its tracks. Tell your Senator to REJECT this bill in defense of our voting rights.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

NEW: The suspect in the Minnesota lawmaker shootings has been caught, per KSTP / ABC News.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment. It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

It's extremely clear that Stephen Miller wrote this. He didn't bother changing his voice at all.

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

This op-ed explains who is being swept up in Trump's immigration dragnet, and what we can all do to push back and keep one another safe.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Amid this day of horrific political violence, we are grateful that 80,000 Minnesotans chose to come to our State Capitol, gathering together in peace. 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I was thinking this morning about small-town No Kings protests. In April, I door knocked for the WI Supreme Court race in a rural area. Most of the people I talked to thought they were the only non-Trumper in their neighborhood, and many were wrong. I hope some of them found that out yesterday.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

If Cuomo wins the mayorship, he will run for president - we have to stop him in his tracks. (And phew, @aoc.bsky.social connecting stopping Cuomo to ending the gerontocracy is extremely my shit.)

submitted 5 days ago • 106 comments