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Interviews with local business guys are like, "I voted for the dictator on day one but I didn't think that meant a secret police would take my best workers to a black site."

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

🥹 Millions of Americans are coming together on this #NoKings Day to reject authoritarian overreach, defend democracy, and stand up for their communities.

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We’ve truly lost our way in this country. An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs.

submitted 5 days ago • 604 comments

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 5 days ago • 477 comments

Marines in LA. Army tanks and howitzers in the streets of DC. Donald Trump’s America. And he’s just getting started.

submitted 10 days ago • 178 comments

So Harvard must follow Trump’s DEI ban—but they also must admit more conservative students. That’s laughable. Students from red states won’t be able to compete with students from the real world when they’re being taught the Bible is a history book and enslaved people were “happy workers”.

submitted 13 days ago • 237 comments

💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks. “You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”

submitted 13 days ago • 190 comments

🚨NEW: 6 Nobel laureate economists signed an open letter opposing the House budget bill 🚨 The bill adds significantly to the national debt while reducing incomes for the bottom 40%, they say. The most acute & immediate damage? Millions losing Medicaid & SNAP benefits: www.epi.org/publication/...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, and to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

submitted 30 days ago • 440 comments

Republicans want to kick 7.6M people off Medicaid to save $625B over 10 years. Universal healthcare with Medicare for All would guarantee everyone healthcare and save $650B every year. Republicans don’t care about healthcare or saving money — they want to harm people.

submitted 30 days ago • 40 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 35 days ago • 202 comments

Qatari donations to U.S. institutions are “a subtle and pernicious form of influence peddling designed to launder Qatar’s reputation—a form of soft corruption that Trump has now characteristically taken to cartoonish excess,” writes @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social:

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

“The costs of opposition are surmountable. And importantly, the descent into authoritarianism is reversible. Pro-democracy forces have successfully resisted or reversed backsliding in recent years in Brazil, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea and elsewhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

submitted 37 days ago • 121 comments

#ProudBlue ‼️ ‼️ ‼️

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 37 days ago • 1295 comments

trump has thoroughly destroyed the prestige and honor of the office of the President of the United States. By selling himself and openly accepting bribes, he is officially the Prostitute of the United States.

submitted 38 days ago • 173 comments

"Competent officials need to be willing to tell the president when he’s wrong, but Trump doesn’t want to hear anything beyond praise and flattery. That leaves him surrounding himself with fools, grifters, conspiracy theorists, and whatever you call the spineless sack of gelatin that is Marco Rubio."

submitted 45 days ago • 92 comments

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 50 days ago • 642 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 54 days ago • 869 comments

Tea Pain just got back from Europe. Everyone we met , as soon as they heard we were from America, the next thing outta their mouth was about what an embarrassment Trump must be for us. We did not disagree.

submitted 54 days ago • 71 comments

Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

submitted 73 days ago • 316 comments

Request is for 13x the current annual custody budget. Not sure people are preparing for the scale of the domestic gulags this administration wants to build and how many more people will be snatched if this operation gets up and running.

submitted 72 days ago • 54 comments

The "sleepy old guy": 🔵Nine straight quarters of GDP, stock market and job growth. 🔵An economy that was the "envy of the world" The "businessman": 🔴Lost $10 trillion in stock market value 🔴Wiped out 15% in gains from the retirement accounts of Americans. 🔴The world hates us.

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 78 days ago • 81 comments

We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

submitted 83 days ago • 1660 comments

This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance. Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.

submitted 86 days ago • 816 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 86 days ago • 1062 comments

"The American people are saying loud and clear, we will not accept an oligarchic form of society.” Bernie Sanders

submitted 89 days ago • 29 comments

It’s almost like Trump should’ve been held accountable for his crimes.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Trump and Musk are a living monument to the worst excesses of human nature—an exhausting blend of arrogance, ignorance, greed, selfishness, narcissism, and the kind of misplaced confidence that has already fueled a thousand horrible decisions that will ultimately hurt millions of everyday Americans.

submitted 117 days ago • 145 comments

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

submitted 122 days ago • 562 comments

I’m sorry. You can’t conduct “peace talks” with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine without Ukraine at the table.

submitted 121 days ago • 420 comments

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

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Gotta love the British press.

submitted 149 days ago • 1713 comments

Ah, the faces of cowardice.

submitted 196 days ago • 856 comments

“Trump appears determined to test if he can squander the goodwill he has, and when he does, it will only serve to reinforce what many already know: his leadership is a clear and present danger to the principles that hold this nation together.” My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-honeym...

submitted 196 days ago • 754 comments

Millions of people voted for Trump to fix an economy that isn't broken, and in doing so are going to tank it. Super work, kids...

submitted 197 days ago • 63 comments

“Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration.” Welcome to the nightmare.

submitted 197 days ago • 632 comments

Can we please get back to holding the INCOMING president’s feet to the fire —someone who will take the oath of office in two months but clearly doesn’t give a shit about upholding the oath of office?!

submitted 198 days ago • 97 comments

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submitted 198 days ago • 99 comments

To be fair to Pete Hegseth, I too at previous and current jobs have showed up to them in the morning still smelling of alcohol and looking in rooouuuuugggh shape. I am also not in the running to be Secretary of Defense

submitted 198 days ago • 21 comments