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Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?

submitted 17 hours ago • 335 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1958 comments

California, btw, is a donor state - it pays almost 90 billion dollars more in federal taxes than it gets back

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 1 day ago • 953 comments

Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

This hideous bill Republicans are trying to push through isn’t just about healthcare and food access. It has tons of hidden life altering changes for all of us…

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

I will never recover from seeing this image

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Because he cant actually fire her

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Phang: There’s a Texas Tribune article that reveals that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to CECOT in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.—even though the administration wanted to label them as terrorists before deporting them.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

The CBO estimates that Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which is stuffed with tax cuts skewed to the wealthy, will explode the deficit by $2.4T and kick 10.9M people off their health insurance. This has always been the GOP strategy: socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Republicans’ new slogan is “We are all going to die”. Their new MAGA Murder Budget will make sure it happens quickly.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 173 comments

Reminder to ICE: Do not lay hands on American citizens. Video, photos, and personal information have been recorded. Actions have consequences. If you have information to share, email [email protected]. Your safety is our top priority, never forget that.

submitted 3 days ago • 283 comments

your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 1432 comments

Oklahoma Republicans installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. So a group of parents is using a law passed by Oklahoma Republicans in 2024 to opt their kids out.

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

Trump Republicanism targets firefighters, first responders, miners, people who work in manufacturing: "We’re really losing 40 years worth of work. Even if they restart them, we’re going to have lost so many people to follow up...” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 89 comments

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social. #TACOTrump

submitted 7 days ago • 170 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 7 days ago • 603 comments

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

submitted 7 days ago • 75 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 7 days ago • 241 comments

New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.

submitted 8 days ago • 221 comments

New state fact sheets show how the House Republicans’ extreme budget plan would cut food and health care for millions while delivering bigger tax breaks to the wealthy — forcing families, veterans, seniors, and others in every state to bear higher costs and more red tape.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Watching Mike Johnson champion a bill that will cut $715 billion from Medicaid, $300 billion from SNAP and perhaps $500 billion from Medicare Lie about it-claiming the programs WOULDN'T be cut And argue the legislation is "moral" Is maybe the most perverse thing I've ever seen a politician do

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

submitted 9 days ago • 421 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 11 days ago • 229 comments

The DOJ charged Representative LaMonica McIver with assault after she visited an immigrant-detention facility. “Interpreting this as anything other than an attempt to punish criticism and intimidate Democrats is difficult,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Remember when WH press corpse circled the wagons when the successful Black president said Fox was not news? www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 10 days ago • 58 comments

You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech.

submitted 10 days ago • 341 comments

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

We must heed the lessons from cautionary examples of authoritarian regimes in Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Israel. It’s not too late…yet.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

New grads from across the country reveal how DOGE cuts have led to rescinded job offers, confusion, and dashed hopes for careers in public service.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

This is completely false and not From Liz or me.

submitted 12 days ago • 600 comments

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

submitted 12 days ago • 290 comments

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

submitted 13 days ago • 684 comments

Democrats don’t canvass in my rural community, but neither do Republicans. The difference is that churches often do the work of the Republican Party three times a week…

submitted 13 days ago • 134 comments

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 13 days ago • 114 comments

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

submitted 14 days ago • 519 comments

14 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones were aimed at Kyiv last night. This is Putin's follow up to his two hour chat with Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments