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No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences | Simon Tisdall

submitted 5 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

the era of postmaterialist voting is profoundly stupid

submitted 6 days ago • 95 comments

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

In which there are actual people involved. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

In upholding Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for minors, the Supreme Court has added to its long, shameful history of siding with bigotry and affirming hatred. It's what any historian of the court would expect, I guess.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community. Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

theonion.com/kristi-noem-...

submitted 14 days ago • 141 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 16 days ago • 596 comments

This just in: mild protests and a couple of fires don't have the destructive capacity to level Los Angeles

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 16 days ago • 1458 comments

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 19 days ago • 884 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 20 days ago • 87 comments

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.” (@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

submitted 20 days ago • 206 comments

Eagle screech 🦅🏳️‍🌈

submitted 26 days ago • 212 comments

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 29 days ago • 78 comments

I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

submitted 41 days ago • 766 comments

A high school freshman takes transphobic Maine politicians to task for bullying the trans girl who beat her in a race. Kudos to you, Anelise Feldman.

submitted 42 days ago • 27 comments

there is no conspiracy these people won’t slop up and embrace. they have completely abdicated their duty to exercise judgment and discretion

submitted 43 days ago • 42 comments

Guys I’m going to say something difficult… fail them

submitted 44 days ago • 70 comments

Our long national nightmare of making national healthcare decisions based on germ theory is finally coming to an end, but at least now christians will get to force children in public schools to learn about Noah's ark in science class. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

submitted 56 days ago • 48 comments

Scotland!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

submitted 72 days ago • 69 comments

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

submitted 74 days ago • 353 comments

April 13, 2025

submitted 74 days ago • 76 comments

Fascists speak in emotion, not facts. I see people disputing this utter nonsense as if it’s a fact claim, and correction will counter it. But it’s communicating “don’t you love cruelty to brown people? Isn’t hurting this innocent man thrilling? You’re a victim, so you’re entitled to feel that way.”

submitted 74 days ago • 68 comments

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

submitted 77 days ago • 801 comments