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Do you want lower rates of "crime"? Do you want increased childhood development and well-being? Do you want lower rates of homelessness? Do you want to reduce overdose deaths? Do you want these things cheaper than ever? Then give people housing, food, schooling, medicine, and support, for free.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

What's the difference between ICE and the Gestapo? The Gestapo actually checked your papers.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 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 6 days ago • 597 comments

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 10 days ago • 354 comments

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

submitted 13 days ago • 65 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 12 days ago • 284 comments

Turns out the US policies for eliminating terrorism around the world weren’t about making things safer, but instead about eliminating the Christofascist’s competition.

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submitted 17 days ago • 406 comments

Oh look, The Death Cult doin’ more death cult shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In a Friday essay for Slate, Grinnell College French professor David Harrison — who also leads an organization focused on studying France — observed how Trump is resembling Louis XIV (also known as "the Sun King") in his approach to the Oval Office and the White House.

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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 19 days ago • 214 comments

i have begun to use “wicked” to describe these people. it is old fashioned but captures the active nature of their malevolence. they are agents of evil

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25% tax on Apple products while singling out the CEO by name for retribution, 50% tax on European goods, expulsion of foreign students, bill passed with most debt in history, while hosting a dinner for people who gave you $300+ million. All in the last 24 hours. The Golden Age.

submitted 25 days ago • 416 comments

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. Carl Sagan

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

Massachusetts decided to tax the rich, and collected $2.6 billion over the last 10 months. That’s $2.6 billion more to spend on transportation and education.

submitted 26 days ago • 200 comments

The 👏 GOP 👏 is 👏 a 👏 death 👏 cult

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

There's an entire political platform to be founded based on just this headline

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Some days I can't get help but get lost in the gap between the world that's possible for us and the world that we have

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

People who are immigrants deserve to be treated with compassion and humanity.

submitted 31 days ago • 97 comments

High-school runner rips GOP state rep. for anti-trans comments. “I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.” [kottke.org]

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

It’s strange to hear our government cite the English Court of Chancery as a reason why one judge shouldn’t be able to issue a nationwide injunction. America has no king, we fixed that a long time ago.

submitted 33 days ago • 272 comments

Imagine how liberating a life one must be able to live in the absolute absence of any scruples whatsoever.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Has a single journalist asked RFK Jr or Dr Oz how people are supposed to eat their way to better health when food deserts, income inequality and extreme poverty make fruits & vegetables inaccessible for a huge portion of Americans?

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

submitted 41 days ago • 406 comments

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

submitted 40 days ago • 220 comments