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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Seriously, aren’t people tired of rich white dick head men? Both sides of the aisle. I am so tired. Cuomo, Clinton—for real. Just fucking go away.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

What a f'in child. Damn clown

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

This is the tragic truth of the US.

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Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

submitted 7 days ago • 1046 comments

Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for pointing out that we make money on our public lands every single year. Why would we sell them when they are a reliable form of income? www.blm.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

For the younger people out there, "mongoloid" is the slur which used to be used for individuals living with Down Syndrome. By the 1970s, this wildly offensive term was being phased out of our culture. And yet, here we are.

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

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“Did you really mean to say Gaza should be nuked because there’s something wrong with their ‘culture’?” Rep. Andy Fine (R) : “No — the fallout would drift to Israel and it would kill the hostages.” “…and what about innocent women & children in Gaza?” FINE: “War is messy.”😳

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“God is reaching out to you [to] find[] the ways that we may be able to do something with our own lives to serve others. “And in that service to others we may find that coming together in friendship, building up community, we too can find true meaning in our lives.” www.osvnews.com/full-text-ad...

submitted 11 days ago • 159 comments

The Nazis targeted disabled people first & pioneered the term “useless eater” They convinced the masses that we were less than”. People taking up resources & not contributing in any way. When Dr Oz says we must “prove our worth” to get Medicaid, he’s just resurrecting the concept. Don’t let him

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“There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” says Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth – a phenomenon she has called the “3.5% rule”. Numbers + Momentum = Regime Change #NoKingsDay

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Pathetic: ABC’s GMA, World News Tonight, This Week, CBS’ Mornings, Evening News, Face the Nation, NBC’s Today, Nightly News, Meet the Press, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal all failed to cover Trump's new office for ethnic cleansing.

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This is a great 👏video 👏. Have a watch to get the straight dope on RFK Jr.’s ACIP nominees.

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WTF?!

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We spent nearly 8 minutes this morning trying to set the record straight on a number of health matters. I’d expect the Surgeon General or NIH Director to do this, but since they’re not, here it is in 4 clips. #medsky

submitted 112 days ago • 206 comments

When you’re afraid to say something because it might get you censored (or worse), well, I’ve lived in places like that and they aren’t democracies no matter what they might look like on the surface.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Asheville city council is set to pass this tonight, worsening the post-Helene crisis, further increasing the police state and, once again, badly underpaying firefighters (against whom officials seem to have a bizarre hatred, given their policy record). This is where we are. #avlnews

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

All we want is healthcare.

submitted 18 days ago • 731 comments

And so it begins as predicted.

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I guess Democrats want to keep losing. Suggesting that we embrace Elon Musk is a sign of a loss of any core principles whatsoever. The very idea that the left should have courted RFK Jr. is vile and out of touch with the destruction he is causing. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

“It’s been needed in this community and for Black people especially, but for Black women more. Most of the time we are misdiagnosed, we are mistreated, underdiagnosed and just put off,” Hall Health patient Ariel Davis says. The new clinic opened in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on May 8.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“Convicted criminals sprawl on feather beds while an innocent teen is curled up on a cement floor. The idea of justice eludes even the people who are following the letter of the law and want nothing more than to live peacefully in this country”

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RESULT: Democrats easily defend a state House seat in South Carolina in a special election tonight. Keishan Scott, the 24-year old Dem nominee, won 71% to 29%, so by 42. (Harris had carried the district by 5% last fall; Biden won it by 15% in 2020.)

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I am beyond excited that KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER is on Peacock. This is the ultimate one-season show for me. It could easily have gone on for a decade, but instead its destiny was to last for no time at all, and inspire every horror show that went on for a decade that came after it.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

submitted 24 days ago • 524 comments

When viral epidemics are ignored they hardly magically disappear, they spread. Excellent reporting on the large outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone. A country with a fragile health system and limited resources to effectively respond to this threat. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments