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submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

In the 1990s, my mother and I took my grandmother to Birmingham, Alabama for the first time since the 1920s, when her father had briefly pastored a church there. She literally became physically ill from grief and trauma. I tried the best I could to glean information, but it was so hard. So hard.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.

submitted 7 hours ago • 33 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 6 hours ago • 150 comments

Q: Could your recent dustups with Newsom impact wildfire relief? TRUMP: Sure, maybe. He shouldn't have fires like that. You clean the floor of your forest and you won't have any forest fires.

submitted 9 hours ago • 492 comments

Buncha 19 year old girls are gonna learn the hard way that financial independence is important when they're stuck in shitty marriages and have no ability to enter the labor market and support themselves.

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

💰 Trump signs an ICE deal with @CoreCivic — the private prison company with high death rates that fails every audit here in Tennessee. A reminder what they’re doing to immigrants isn’t just cruel, it’s also big business. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

submitted 10 hours ago • 41 comments

"The bill would prohibit officers at all levels from hiding their faces while on the job in CA, with some exceptions ... Officers also would have to display an ID with their name and badge number. It would apply to people contracted by law enforcement." www.courthousenews.com/california-l...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

They are really going after criminals and breaking up the diabolicalTchotchke Cartel. Deplorable. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 46 comments

This is an absolutely disgraceful act of corruption by both major parties. It will lead to an incredibly foreseeable set of disasters: best case, unlimited corruption and scamming, worst case a global financial crisis and inevitable federal bailout. Horrifying that 18 Democrats voted for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

AFR calls the GENIUS act “a huge giveaway to the crypto industry, Big Tech, and the Trump family.” Details here:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

they can shoot us arrest us and the democrats? they help them. they. help. them.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

In case you still had any doubts about those claims of racism.

submitted 1 day ago • 628 comments

I see the playbook for AI profits is becoming simply to force AI tools on everyone then make them pay for the privilege they never asked for.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A failure of journalism. Neither the push nor the NBC News article notes that THIS IS ILLEGAL. The law allows a one-time delay. That’s it! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 1 day ago • 284 comments

They arrest Democrats. They murder Democrats. They laugh at their deadly violence against Democrats. When is enough enough?

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

"How did Republicans go from condemning leaders who threaten their own citizens to becoming sycophants for one? Here, too, we find a holdover of Cold War rhetoric: the use of Third World to describe multicultural communities such as Los Angeles." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

While Trump keeps us distracted and entertained with circus sideshows and parades, his cabinet of clowns are systematically looting our country for everything they can get. Over a dozen billionaires and multimillionaires all with their greedy fingers in the pie.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Brad Lander, NYC's comptroller (and mayoral candidate), detained by federal agents at immigration court today:

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Headline should read. “Miller reverses decision of Trump on Raids” …Trump officials reverse guidance exempting farms, hotels from immigration raids - The Washington Post

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

submitted 2 days ago • 272 comments

“What we have in this generation of ... AI is essentially a business where there's 10,000 mostly white men who are benefiting and 8 billion people around the world who are being either exploited at a minimum or directly harmed...” — Roger McNamee ( @moonalice.com ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dd...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t know what hospital I was born in, & I am a former Senior Patrol Agent with the US Border Patrol. I know what city & town, but we lived there for like the 1st 6 months of my life.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

EXACTLY!!! I cannot tell you how many otherwise intelligent, everyday Dems tell me this. My God, these people won’t see it until it’s them dragged away.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Senate Majority leader is lying

submitted 2 days ago • 419 comments

An update from @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social : The Los Angeles Press Club says police officers repeatedly used "less-lethal" bullets and violated the constitutional rights of reporters covering anti-ICE protests.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

We repeat: Assault weapons have no place in our communities. Bulletproof vests, badges that mimic law enforcement, and arsenals stockpiled in secret are not signs of freedom—they are warnings of violence yet to come.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

There's seriously no way he won 7 swing states...

submitted 4 days ago • 907 comments

Bad Company Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream OUT NOW bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Freedom of the Press y’all

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In “could this story get any worse” news

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

If this were true he’d leave LA alone

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Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

submitted 2 days ago • 223 comments

Gov. Dr. Josh Green breaks down what would happen if Republicans get their way with the “big, beautiful bill.”

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I scrolled the length of the NYT app just now and unless I missed it there wasn’t a single story or opinion piece on the No Kings protests. But there was this—

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

NEW: A court-appointed federal monitor has found that an NYPD unit championed by Mayor Eric Adams has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation. By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

More than 200 people remain locked in prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, without any right to trial.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

true, I have noticed this downsizing of protests on the left for decades. It just seems especially egregious today.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Just thought I’d note that the front page of the New York Times does not have a single article about the gigantic protests yesterday. Millions of people in the streets, and not a single word. It’s been disappeared.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...

submitted 3 days ago • 529 comments

Great reporting from the New York Times.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Melissa Hortman was more than just a Minnesota lawmaker. She was a kind and decent woman who trained service dogs for American veterans.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments