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MAGA gets all misty-eyed with nostalgia for the 1950s. And it’s not just the White Supremacy. They think of it as a time of great prosperity. But they don't realize that government programs like the GI Bill were driving much of that prosperity. You know, socialism.

submitted 16 hours ago • 301 comments

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. https://trib.al/VQXR96o

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Touché.

submitted 3 days ago • 850 comments

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

submitted 3 days ago • 1267 comments

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 2 days ago • 217 comments

“You’re a pretty contrarian guy.” “I’m not a contrarian guy!” In some ways, talking to a toddler is a bit like talking to a libertarian edgelord. Or, more accurately, talking to a libertarian edgelord is like talking to a toddler.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

In 2018 Trump tore up the nuclear containment deal with Iran that President Obama negotiated . Trump said he would engage all nations in a new deal. Wrong. He didn’t. So here we are.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 5 days ago • 1864 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 5 days ago • 2089 comments

Urging AND imploring? Wow.

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

Now Trump & RFK plan on removing the bans on asbestos! As a surgeon who has spent decades seeing patients with mesothelioma & other forms of asbestosis, I'm gobsmacked that anyone could be so blindingly STUPID..! Let's opt to bring back polio, smallpox, measles, ... oh, hang on - they already are!

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

www.yahoo.com/news/obama-u...

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

Temperatures may exceed 90 degrees for around 220 million people across the country soon during the first heat wave of the summer.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

“Ask your Supreme Court Justice which medical procedure is right for you.”

submitted 8 days ago • 293 comments

Remember all the assholes in 2003 who insisted that we’d be greeted as liberators and called you anti-American for opposing the war and then changed their minds many years later to pretend like they always opposed the war? They’re doing the same schtick again.

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, a law enforcement official said

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly. https://trib.al/FfWFrJL

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

apnews.com/article/minn... tell the AP they are searching for a 57-year-old man in shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 2178 comments

Trump just announced new 50% tariffs on household appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators. Hope no one out there was in the middle of a remodel, or had a stove recently conk out www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

“Systems break and it takes days to fix them because no one is left who knows how,” they said. It’s making modernization projects take longer because of time dedicated to “putting out fires” where “the guy who knows how to fix it is gone.” www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...

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Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

submitted 14 days ago • 2068 comments

It’s disgusting that the Pentagon went from being run by a highly decorated 4-star General to a trashy tacky rapist drunkard buffoon from Fox Propaganda. That goes for everything Dept in the US Govt now. American democracy is in mortal danger and it’ll take decades to repair the damage.

submitted 15 days ago • 431 comments

The riot police threw a police riot

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

“They’re actively harming regular, hard-working Americans so that their billionaire buddies can profit,” Wu said of administration officials. “There’s really no other way to look at it.” www.nbcnews.com/business/per...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely ridiculous. Moran stated verifiable facts that anyone paying attention knows.

submitted 16 days ago • 646 comments

@jreinermd.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

We're walking right into it. No one appears to have any idea how to stop it. We know where it's headed. Martial law. The end of democracy. No more elections. A waking nightmare. I promise to amplify anyone offering legal, workable solutions. I haven't found any yet. And the left is leaderless.

submitted 17 days ago • 691 comments

The richest man in the world, whose elimination of aid programs killed the poorest children in the world, is fighting with a lesser billionaire over whether Republicans are doing enough to eliminate programs that feed the poorest children in the United States.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments