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*Were* there some justification to suspend #Schengen for security reasons, maybe there's a case for it But, for Germany especially, you simply cannot close all land borders. There are too many tiny lanes crossing So they control only big crossings, buggering up people's lives for no security gain

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 6 hours ago • 70 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 3 hours ago • 167 comments

this statement was made just yesterday

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

I don't see how representative democracy can work if representatives live in permanent fear of violence against themselves and their families.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 4 hours ago • 1956 comments

Grok is straight up fascist propaganda. #NoKings

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

To mobilize the National Guard, Trump cited 10 U.S.C. 12406, which authorizes the president to do so when the U.S. faces foreign invasion or rebellion or when he cannot otherwise execute the laws. This is NOT such an occasion. So today’s coup is manifestly illegal and must be stopped judicially.

submitted 8 hours ago • 63 comments

This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

For the first time in ages, I went on "X" to see how the assault on a US senator was going down. I scrolled past 65 posts before it appeared. It came up twice in 150 posts. (Then I stopped counting). If X was my source of news - as it is for millions of people - I'd barely know it had happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

“The road to authoritarianism is filled with people telling you you are overreacting.” @governorwalz.mn.gov speaking at @americanprogress.bsky.social right now

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 2 days ago • 1588 comments

This letter appeared in the Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette-Times yesterday. He makes a good point!

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Not that it matters but: the Iran deal did not fail, Trump pulled out; diplomacy did not fail, it was never seriously tried; Israel's strike was not pre-emptive; the killing of Iranian high-command and nuclear scientists is assassination not a "remarkable coup of intelligence".

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 57 aid seekers have been killed by Israeli soldiers since yesterday morning.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

France right now after some Australian “experts” continue to tell us we’re past it and deserved being stabbed in the back

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support insidecroydon.com/2025/06/11/l... #Lambeth #Croydon #Gaza #Genocide #Labour @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @britainelects.com

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🔴 The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Seth gets it

submitted 3 days ago • 254 comments