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A reminder

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

This guy was shooting rubber bullets at peaceful protesters in LA this past weekend. Someone with more internet skills than I should make him famous.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

submitted 9 days ago • 205 comments

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. ☎️ 1-877-447-4487 From #veterans to #activeduty personnel.

submitted 9 days ago • 177 comments

So Miller incited these protests by ordering officials he’d no authority over to ditch the administration’s stated policy of only seeking undocumented persons with criminal records and instead demanding they raid—yes, he specifically ordered this—Home Depots to get the max number of nonviolent folks

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

I’ve seen this image for years but one thing it misses is white people don’t empathize with Black people either. To empathize you need to do perspective taking and see things from an angle that is not yours but that of the other regardless of if you agree with them and acknowledge them to 1/

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

“I never thought the leopards would eat MY judiciary.”

submitted 41 days ago • 956 comments

This viral tiktok made me think of a fantastic article by my friend @melaniehamlett.bsky.social “men have no friends & women bear the burden”

submitted 42 days ago • 139 comments

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

submitted 42 days ago • 70 comments

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

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submitted 54 days ago • 26 comments

NEW: The VA is establishing an "anti-Christian bias" task force and asking VA employees to submit any instances they witness of anti-Christian bias in the Dept to Christianbiasreporting at va dot gov. They are seeking the following examples.

submitted 56 days ago • 464 comments

Hegseth needs to be fired. The intel he shared via Signal, including to his wife, was sent to him on a secure channel. He knowingly exposed our pilots to unnecessary danger with his show boat antics.

submitted 57 days ago • 399 comments

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

submitted 57 days ago • 653 comments

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism "The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

submitted 58 days ago • 211 comments

Just heard someone say, “It’s time to end the Fox News experiment at the Pentagon.” And I’m ☠️

submitted 57 days ago • 340 comments

WATCH: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social reacts after Lamberth called him “racist” for speaking out against White Nationalism and pointing out what the media won’t — that the TN GOP supermajority’s policies & rhetoric invite hate to our state. Post: www.instagram.com/p/DIuLqwDyFP...

submitted 57 days ago • 61 comments

BREAKING via WSJ Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

Tuition-free college would help make America great. Those who need loans to attend college come from working class families, the elites don’t need loans. 40% of student debt holders don’t hold a degree. This will hurt the working class.

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: MORE BOMBSHELLS The Pentagon’s former chief spokesman is warning that more “bombshell stories” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are coming — set to leak within days, and that members of Hegseth’s own inner circle will applaud his inevitable ouster. Meanwhile… The White House is…

submitted 58 days ago • 256 comments

Pete Hegseth twice breached our national security.

submitted 58 days ago • 119 comments

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

submitted 58 days ago • 446 comments

They're redefining human rights to EXCLUDE: • LGBTQ+, gender-based, & disabled discimination & violence • peaceful assembly • prisoners' due process • restrictions to free & fair elections • poor prison conditions • torture or persecution • government corruption/repression Gearing up for what?

submitted 58 days ago • 78 comments

All facts

submitted 58 days ago • 352 comments

This

submitted 58 days ago • 907 comments

They hate America, the constitution, and our democracy, and want a dictatorship instead. They’re not hiding it.

submitted 58 days ago • 767 comments

I knew I made this for a reason

submitted 58 days ago • 92 comments

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submitted 60 days ago • 459 comments

Now it's your fault if you get sick? Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'

submitted 60 days ago • 817 comments

When a man convicted of 34 felonies can send an innocent man to a Forgein Gulag, we have a fuking problem.

submitted 60 days ago • 13 comments

WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”

submitted 60 days ago • 225 comments

Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 60 days ago • 335 comments

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submitted 61 days ago • 178 comments

wrote about gavin newsom claiming Abrego Garcia is a distraction, because gavin newsom is a piece of shit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gavin-news...

submitted 61 days ago • 126 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 63 days ago • 584 comments

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

The record is in, and it now reveals that those ammosexual gun fetishizers who sworn they needed an arsenal to stave off government “tyranny,” not only fully supported that tyranny, but bent all the way over when government obliterated the very Constitution they claimed to want to defend.

submitted 64 days ago • 80 comments

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that you are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

submitted 63 days ago • 268 comments

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

submitted 63 days ago • 367 comments