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BREAKING: Iran retaliates, fires missiles at US bases in Qatar www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

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AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

Keir Starmer endorses an attack which his own Attorney General has advised may be illegal

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

Look, Britain is always going to support the US but this is an absolutely nonsense statement. Iran didn't leave the negotiation table. Israel launched an unprovoked attack which America has now joined.

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

The racism is off the charts with this regime.

submitted 2 days ago • 582 comments

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

submitted 2 days ago • 1297 comments

🗣️9 YEAR OLD: “What Trump is doing is frightening — unlike some people we know the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.”

submitted 4 days ago • 68 comments

New vlog👇We’re in Parliament. Over 700 people talking to their MPs about the hardship they’re seeing in their communities & asking them to support reforming Universal Credit & stop massive cuts to disability support. @TrussellUK @jrf_uk

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."

submitted 6 days ago • 1312 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? American democracy, even when it worked, was far from the best kind. Great stuff by 1788 standards but it’s 2025. Other countries have found better ways of structuring political institutions, allocating power, and funding elections.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Trump slams Macron on Truth Social for saying he was leaving G7 to work on a ceasefire deal: “Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that”

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Saudi Arabia has executed another journalist, Turki Al-Jasser, after 7 years of detention for reporting on corruption. The failure to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi only encourages further acts of deadly violence against journalists in the Persian Gulf & elsewhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 151 comments

@therestpolitics.bsky.social can’t continue listening to your leading interview this week. What a horrible person he is.

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Oh 😑

submitted 9 days ago • 148 comments

Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

submitted 9 days ago • 743 comments

Compilation of massive 'NO KINGS!' protests today ✊ #NoKings

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

@maddow.msnbc.com Hey Rachel, I hope you can give some love to San Diego on Monday night. Biggest crowd size ever, 60,000+, two marches became one quite spectacularly at the Waterfront 💙🇺🇸

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Are FIFA and the IOC having any discussions about the feasibility of the U.S. hosting the Olympics and World Cup matches?

submitted 9 days ago • 253 comments

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

submitted 9 days ago • 156 comments

Thousands of protesters turned out in downtown Dallas.

submitted 9 days ago • 145 comments

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

submitted 9 days ago • 494 comments

"You're suffering a bit like Trump might say you're suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome" is definitely one way to begin an interview.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

Enabled by your government.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

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I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

submitted 10 days ago • 324 comments

This is hilarious.

submitted 10 days ago • 211 comments

"I cannot say this strongly enough: until 2026, only two things stand between the authoritarian project and its objectives: the judiciary and a popular protest movement. We have no control over the former. We must not surrender, or abandon, the latter."

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“We want to create contrast, not conflict...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 393 comments

😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

submitted 10 days ago • 1302 comments

I'm in the minority, and maybe a small one, but I think these administrative stays are genuinely harmful and should not be treated as routine. A federal court has ruled that a dramatic step of national significance was illegal and unconstitutional. It ruled. 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

June 13, 2023: Donald Trump and Walt Nauta are arraigned on 38 felony charges in Miami for illegal retention of classified documents.

submitted 11 days ago • 141 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

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America’s Generals are terrified. They are cowed. They seem unlikely to hold the line and live up to their oaths to serve the U.S. Constitution. Trump violated the law (the Hatch Act) conducting a political rally at Fort Bragg, rousing the troops to cheer his slogans but the Generals stay silent.

submitted 12 days ago • 156 comments

Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

submitted 13 days ago • 675 comments

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

submitted 14 days ago • 204 comments

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 14 days ago • 1469 comments

Rachel Maddow's excellent & inspiring analysis tonight made me think of this prescient poem by Carl Sandburg: @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.

submitted 14 days ago • 247 comments