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The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 5 hours ago • 181 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 6 hours ago • 368 comments

Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign. I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist. He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.

submitted 23 hours ago • 196 comments

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1004 comments

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 307 comments

Seeing some more centrist folks imply that it was solely the focus on affordability that won the race for Mamdani. Absolutely bread and butter issues are key. But it was also his moral clarity. Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Hey you’ll never believe this, but the thing that everyone who knew anything about this said over the last dozen years would happen if you bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities happened

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

it like doesn’t even occur to him that he could do something other than posting (eg threaten through back channels to cut off weapons)

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

submitted 4 days ago • 1403 comments

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

Trump is propelling the U.S. into an unjust and catastrophic war of aggression and Dem leaders are over here releasing heavily qualified, three paragraph memos that are extremely wordy ways of saying “you should have asked us first.” Like yes, but also, isn’t it more important to denounce the war?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Hakeem Jeffries says “the risk of war has now dramatically increased” How is this not already war???

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 5 days ago • 816 comments

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

submitted 5 days ago • 216 comments

i never get tired of that thing star trek does where theyre like "one day you'll be a great composer like Mozart or Beethoven or Plexmodiar, 7th of his name, first son of the Omega Realm"

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

All these years I thought the New York Times only knew how to write headlines that go like, “At a Gaza hospital, explosions appear.” Turns out they do know how to write in normal English!

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

submitted 8 days ago • 163 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 11 days ago • 1470 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 12 days ago • 1091 comments

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 12 days ago • 2179 comments

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

submitted 22 days ago • 35 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 22 days ago • 133 comments

ICE turned back in Somerville So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.

submitted 28 days ago • 283 comments

The problem with a "Joe Rogan of the left" is that the right just wants to tear stuff down, which requires no deference to experts, whereas the left wants to build working govt programs, which necessitates a deference to expertise that is antithetical to the Rogan shtick. This is a basic asymmetry.

submitted 33 days ago • 33 comments

The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.

submitted 32 days ago • 402 comments

This is the second time in one year the FBI has visited me over a document I lawfully published. If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

submitted 41 days ago • 766 comments

seeing the U.S. "could an American be the next Pope?" headlines feels a lot like having an overly proud but poorly informed parent speculate about one's future

submitted 66 days ago • 100 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 67 days ago • 194 comments

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

submitted 92 days ago • 166 comments

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

submitted 93 days ago • 170 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 93 days ago • 1689 comments