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The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country. Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

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Susan Collins voted against advancing the bill due to Medicaid cuts; the cuts got larger; they got larger again; and Collins is STILL trying to help the bill pass -- in this case by parroting the GOP's preferred messaging about its prospects. However she votes, she's not "against" it. #MEpolitics

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Stephen Miller spent years planning mass deportation. Now he's doing it and showing the country the horrors of his nazi agenda He's forced a reckoning. Even Trump has shown glimpses of knowing how bad it is But Miller is in charge, causing untold harms to many - and undermining Trump's presidency

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A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

submitted 3 hours ago • 411 comments

the media chose to be backslappy with this guy rather than give scandal level coverage to him being responsible for Samoa running out of child sized coffins because he's from the same social strata that they either are or are trying to climb into

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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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We're not just trying for harm reduction anymore. There's a future now. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

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you’re telling me republicans are now going to call democrats communists since zohran won? they’ve never done that before it might be over

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If they weren’t stuck in their Nazi echo chamber on Twitter, and were in the real world like on Bluesky with normal people who have real jobs and families, they would have seen this coming. The political snd media elite must face a big reckoning and ask why they’re so out of touch with real America.

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I gotta be honest, after a dozen breathless articles, I’ve come to the conclusion that Bluesky might not be the “political bubble” that some journalists said it was.

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on top of just being purely blissfully happy there's the incredible spite bonus that every soulless little ghoul who decided to pretend they hadn't ever denounced cuomo is getting absolutely nothing in return

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FOLKS

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It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

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Public land selloff is OUT of the Big Beautiful Bill, as the parliamentarian rules it not compliant with the Byrd rule. Several other sections also killed:

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Former President Bill Clinton says that 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani doesn't have enough experience sexually assaulting women to be NYC mayor.

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🚨 New @therealnews.com: I speak w/ 3 eyewitnesses who have been covering what's happening in LA closely. "It never got violent until the police started firing munitions at protestors… It was not an insurrection. I covered Jan 6, I know exactly what that looks like” therealnews.com/three-eyewit...

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This has been a pretty constant stream over the last few days which basically blows up the memes on here that only stupid Dems obey norms like the ‘senate parliamentarian’ and that senate Dems aren’t doing anything to stop the GOP agenda. So naturally it’s been completely and totally ignored

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

The fundamental basis of fascism is a belief in a hierarchy of human value. When you start marking some humans as being without value and eliminating them doesn’t solve social problems, you move on to the next group.

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If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.

submitted 229 days ago • 22 comments

Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

submitted 4 days ago • 296 comments

Trump says we bombed Iran

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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 5 days ago • 1230 comments

Left wing rhetoric: big problem. needs to be tamped down. driving people to the right Right wing rhetoric: nice, thank you. please make yourself comfortable. will that be 5 op-eds or 6

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One of the big reasons things are so fucked up in the US right now is that so many people refuse to take a stand against bigotry and hate mongers because it might lose them status or income.

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Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option. 2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it. It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.

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At any other point in American history, the events of last weekend would be understood as a sign that the country was falling apart.

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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Again, Walz called them weird until the end of the campaign. The media just stopped covering it after two weeks.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 10 days ago • 102 comments

One of many reasons the “we need to sell federal lands to improve home affordability” gambit is failing politically is that there’s already 50% tariffs on steel and the Trump admin is prepping tariffs on lumber too—it’s clear they don’t actually care about construction costs!

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

"It's better than millions of people die than the people in those countries have a positive opinion of the United States." Also, that 90% number is bullshit.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i've been playing Date Everything, which is a game where you use magic glasses to bring to life and date all your furniture and appliances. there are over 100 characters and all their designs are hilarious and they are all fully voiced by an absolute murderer's row of voice actors going hard as fuck

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

What's driving me nuts about the Zionists for Cuomo brigade is that Andrew Cuomo has said some very anti-Semitic stuff in the past. This is a thing that happened.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

When you’re just grabbing brown people

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