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Wonder if there's a lesson in this. Oh well, probably not

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

They truly, genuinely hate women and dark-skinned people.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

man

submitted 18 hours ago • 166 comments

Congrats to @kateshaw.bsky.social on not letting this barely sentient haircut bullshit his way past her.

submitted 17 hours ago • 52 comments

This is the same kind of flippant giddiness about wanton death and destruction that you see on Russian TV programs about Ukraine.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

In the ACA fight, Pelosi noted there were so many rumors that "we have to pass the bill, so that you can find out what is in it." Republicans lied and pretended she'd said "so WE can find out what's in it" and then acted outraged. And yet now they're doing the thing they falsely accused her of.

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

This post & thread are really bringing them out of the woodwork. Fortunately, blocking bigoted, biologically subliterate trash is a pastime of mine.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens" translation: you're on your own, bitch

submitted 19 hours ago • 77 comments

This kind of politics is just SO ugly. Tarrant County Republican Chair mocks the wholesome family photos on the Texas House floor at the end of the legislature's session by calling for the deportation of Texas State Representative Gene Wu's family (they are all US citizens).

submitted 21 hours ago • 65 comments

ICE consists of people who are too unprofessional to be in the military and somehow too racist for the cops. They dress up like they’re fighting the Taliban in Korengal to brutalize Guatemalan-American teens, so they can defend the master volk (oh, I’m sorry: “real Americans”).

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

30 seconds of searching reveals that the only donation made by the current CBO Director — a George W. Bush political appointee appointed to run the CBO by bipartisan congressional leadership — was to a Republican.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

Bridge Types xkcd.com/3097/

submitted 19 hours ago • 79 comments

Dude looks like a drug-smuggler from the ’70s

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional." I've seen enough. We can confidently declare the Trump administration to be the biggest collection of assholes in American history.

submitted 20 hours ago • 90 comments

Nick Offerman slams some ‘dumb fuck’ who used a homophobic ‘Parks and Rec’ meme “Ron Swanson was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck”

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

submitted 16 hours ago • 89 comments

She literally lost both her legs in Gaza. Does she also need to wear an eyepatch? And “clean”? Do they think kids from war zones can’t take baths or something? They’re not just ghouls, they’re also really fucking dumb.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Weird that so many government employees and contractors feel compelled to hide their names, faces, and corporate logos when carrying out a policy they insist is just and right and moral.

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

Psst! Avelo repainted its ICE Air jets white so you don't know it's them endangering the lives of shackled detainees being renditioned to other countries. Pass it on!

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: A judge has ruled federal prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to transgender inmates.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

HSI needs more attention. Shadowy agency with ambiguous jurisdiction and 10K+ officers. They pop up in lots of dubious "DHS" cases -- massage parlor busts, anti-gang stuff, low-level drug policing, etc. Defense/civil rights attorneys have also told me it's really difficult to get info out of them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

This story is free to read, like all WIRED stories based on FOIA.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

Backing candidates in gerrymandered red districts: $0 Backing young primary candidates: $0 James Carville: $100,000 Free Tacos for Republicans: $360,000 Backing progressive candidates at all anywhere: $0 someone who is good at electoralism please send me $5 my party is dying

submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

The Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee just posted this. Guessing this is a meme format that will be around for a while

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

On the other hand, it might encourage more writers to use the prettier en-dash – like so – which I’d consider a silver lining

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

You can tell they’re serious because they wear all the tacticool gear they can find to arrest nonviolent migrants in public the middle of the day

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

It's the standard conservative playbook. Trans people, porn, the LGB part will be next, until the only displays of femininity, sexuality, and love are those approved of by her.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trump’s budget request cuts all funding for a program that keeps poor people from freezing to death in their homes. Because DEI. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

submitted 1 day ago • 337 comments

This guy is terrible, he did a terrible thing, I'm Jewish and there's no question in my mind that it was a hate crime. ICE is not the right agency to be involved and normalizing the use of ICE for this type of law enforcement task is terrifying. ICE is terrible and we should get rid of it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Hey @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov... any concerns that the bill you eagerly pushed is now being talked about by the folks who have been kidnapping people off the street for opeds and the guy who begged for his FTC job by saying he was going to "fight the trans agenda"? No?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Yep. I’m no academic, but the same applies to me – I’m just here for the peeps I follow. If they all went somewhere else, that’s where I’d go.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 1 day ago • 823 comments

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach..." A pregnant TN woman was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in March. While in custody, she lost her baby mid-pregnancy –– and received delayed medical care after the fact.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 235 comments

See, I always love it when a film throws a bunch of money at a couple of academics like this. Fuck yeah Professor Adler, go hog wild in the set shop being uptight about the color of the stone walls

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Jonathan Greenblat, a sycophant to tyrants and bigots (including the venomously anti-Semitic Elon Musk) wants his pals in the Trump administration to punish people for criticizing Israel. THat’s about as anti-American as you can get.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti Defamation League, seems to be calling for the Trump admin to disappear Hasan Piker and "these speakers at these graduations, it just happened the other day at MIT, spreading blood libels…" "we got to stop it once and for all."

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments