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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

submitted 14 hours ago • 834 comments

No war with Iran, full stop. Absolutely psychotic seeing them run the exact same playbook from 20 years ago despite the fact that we are explicitly the aggressor here

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday

submitted 8 hours ago • 69 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 8 hours ago • 1059 comments

submitted 13 hours ago • 32 comments

“My commitment is about delivering a city that is not only affordable to each and every New Yorker, but is one that each and every New Yorker feels proud of living in.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

Cuomo’s biggest donors are cheering Trump on. These are the MAGA warmongers who would have his ear in City Hall.

submitted 9 hours ago • 71 comments

I've been making a similar point which is that this Mayoral primary is going to have lots of unforeseen and foreseen ripples. One is that if there's no room in their party for someone like Zohran then they will continue to lose for a long time into the future.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

submitted 17 hours ago • 507 comments

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son. Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice. From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

While we wait for the Supreme Court to rule in a critical redistricting case from Louisiana, this is what the GOP is up to in Texas and Ohio. Remember the GOP's plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

submitted 2 days ago • 887 comments

when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Good evening from Inwood Hill Park, the very top of Manhattan. For the first time in a long time, I’m wearing my sneakers because tonight we’re walking the whole island. See you in the streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Actual interview: I'm pansexual and didn't want the label of only being a lesbian. The LGBTQ+ community helped me realize who I was despite the pressure you feel to fit into one category or another. Daily Mail: PRESSURED INTO BEING GAY?! THE TRUTH REVEALED AS JOJOSIWA ADMITS LGBTQ+ INDOCTRINATION!

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

This is just an administration full of gutter racists but if this is covered at all he's going yo run the smol bean defense of it being an honest mistake

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Today's trans protest at the Supreme Court. The protesters were arrested for peacefully protesting. Photos by @alexabwilkinson.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The "pro-worker president" thinks workers should have fewer days off. Hello?

submitted 2 days ago • 663 comments

"It absolves the reader of the responsibility of solidarity and recasts a human rights crisis as a self-inflicted wound. It allows powerful institutions and individuals to maintain a veneer of intellectual seriousness while abandoning a vulnerable minority to a campaign of eliminationist politics."

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Rich woman who has never had a real job or created anything of value: "all these spoiled brats are betraying the two things only capitalism can provide: blue jeans and gin & tonics"

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

It's fascinating seeing the same rhetoric being employed here (teaching the controversy over "self-ID", etc.) that the New Statesman and Guardian were using 10 years ago for the UK. We know how that ended up - the NYT want to turn USian liberals into rabid transphobes like Brit liberals.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Not a surprise that a US administration run by rapists and Epstein associates poses a direct danger to children. Donald Trump's decision to close down the LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotlines is as blatant a statement as you can make: they want queer kids to die.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

i was out as trans at 15 but was not able to medically transition until i was an adult. for years after i struggled to stay on hrt bc i was too depressed to take care of myself. i try not to wonder what i could've done with better access to care and support. you lose time that you can't get back.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

"Our future will not be different until we make a different a choice." New ad feat. @aoc.bsky.social now airing across New York City.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

I was in LA for #NoKings yesterday, as I'm sure many of you were. I gathered some thoughts about what I saw, but more importantly what happened after the protest ended.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

I need y'all to understand what the NYT, Dem donors, and centrists are doing here. They're pushing the narrative that trans people went too far and we deserve what is happening to us. It's pure victim blaming and it's not done yet, there's a Confessore piece in the works with the same framing.

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

L.A. police pushed down a journalist helping an injured man and broke his camera

submitted 5 days ago • 1198 comments

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

Yet another elected Democratic official violently arrested and detained by Trump’s ICE Gestapo. This isn’t frog in boiling water. This fascism is happening quickly, clearly, brazenly.

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/ A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN. And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Think we're gonna see ever more democrats get arrested by DHS, more or less intentionally, because they were doing innocuous things

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list. I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants. Inaction is complicity.

submitted 6 days ago • 596 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 7 days ago • 257 comments

Oh lol so he's definitely gonna win huh?

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

mandate of heaven baby

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

People are being arrested for wearing a medical mask in Savannah, Georgia #NoKings

submitted 8 days ago • 481 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 8 days ago • 1092 comments

I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

@ynot1989.bsky.social Saw one of your designs at a protest!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 8 days ago • 685 comments

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

submitted 8 days ago • 225 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 8 days ago • 2248 comments