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If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

submitted 20 hours ago • 70 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 14 hours ago • 315 comments

they’ve gone from “clearly uniformed” to “partially uniformed” to “in no way identifiable” in like three weeks

submitted 15 hours ago • 223 comments

This is unfathomably shameful. How do we even have to debate this? Why would anyone ever again be so foolish as to trust or help the United States if this is how we treat people who risk their lives on our behalf?

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 18 hours ago • 275 comments

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James on the arrest of NYC mayoral candidate and comptroller Brad Lander. “This is profoundly unacceptable. Arresting Comptroller Lander for the simple act of standing up for immigrants and their civil rights is a shocking abuse of power.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 140 comments

L.A. police pushed down a journalist helping an injured man and broke his camera

submitted 22 hours ago • 1149 comments

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

submitted 22 hours ago • 166 comments

We could just impeach him tomorrow morning and avoid a stupid war

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Since the 1990s, Netanyahu has been the world’s most persistent prophet of doom about Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions. Yet he has never once been correct. The UN refuses to act & corporate media sits complicit. If he isn't stopped, the world risks nuclear war: www.qasimrashid.com/p/israels-at...

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

The family of Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, said her baby boy has arrived “He's expected to be OK. He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him.”

submitted 1 day ago • 353 comments

So today is release day. I Think I'm in Love with an Alien is out in the world. It feels awkward to talk about this book with... gestures at everything but if I don't talk about it, you won't know about it. It's a love letter to fandom, to science fiction fantasy conventions, to cosplay.

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

Cops are great Let this be another reminder that "abolish ICE" is the moderate position

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 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 22 hours ago • 1138 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 23 hours ago • 848 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 22 hours ago • 2232 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 22 hours ago • 683 comments

not to get all partisan or anything but i think going to war with Iran for literally no reason beyond puffing up Trump's ego would be bad

submitted 21 hours ago • 155 comments

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 1 day ago • 1286 comments

Just a thought… Buy 2 bags of pet food for a shelter instead of fireworks for the 4th of July. Make a difference, not a noise

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Dear parents: You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 1 day ago • 465 comments

The Asshole-in-Chief.

submitted 1 day ago • 1333 comments

"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I sure hope MN officials are involved in Boelter's interrogation, b/c I'm pretty sure FBI HQ isn't interested in how he was radicalized, and the country needs to know, to be prepared for more.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 1 day ago • 880 comments

cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

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A judge rules that several hundred Trump administration NIH grant cuts were illegal, saying he’s never seen such discrimination in 40 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

One of Trump's first actions was to pardon Jan 6 insurrections. He offered a “get out of jail free” card to people who committed violence on his behalf. And he continues to spew hateful rhetoric towards his political opponents. This will only fuel more violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Political violence must always be condemned.

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

I read Butcher of the Forest @premeemohamed.com and A Sorceress Comes to Call @tkingfisher.com in quick succession. Sinister and foreboding fairy tales were just what I needed!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Border Patrol detained and deported an Australian writer who reported independently on the protests at Columbia, with CBP stating plainly they flagged him for that reason. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

submitted 3 days ago • 290 comments

Nothing to see here: just cops on horseback, bicycles, foot, and vehicles harassing a small group of peaceful protesters in a Charleston, South Carolina neighborhood.

submitted 2 days ago • 1104 comments

this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be

submitted 2 days ago • 465 comments

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

submitted 2 days ago • 408 comments

www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is @neolithicsheep.bsky.social making my skyline better everyday. (Plus @tkingfisher.com , @courtneymilan.com and @rileysdtr.bsky.social , sorry about the print, it looked just too perfect)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Chicken the cat loves lying in the sun. Unfortunately, there is an abandoned cat who terrorizes Chicken if she tries to go out on the porch. This is the first day in months she has felt the sun on her. IDK why the other cat is not out there bullying as usual… may be due to hot weather.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

To every dad who’s worn the uniform—and every dad who’s raised someone who did—thank you, and Happy Father’s Day. 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Art of the Deal!

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

submitted 3 days ago • 221 comments

Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.