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FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

submitted 10 hours ago • 183 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 9 hours ago • 223 comments

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

submitted 8 hours ago • 377 comments

What owl?

submitted 11 hours ago • 362 comments

In February alone, the national suicide hotline's program for LGBTQ youth—who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers—received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. Now the Trump administration is shuttering this critical resource.

submitted 13 hours ago • 51 comments

House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer. Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.

submitted 13 hours ago • 111 comments

one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?

submitted 16 hours ago • 77 comments

Less than two weeks ago, the richest man in the world claimed the president of the United States was directly involved with Jeffrey Epstein and that seems like five years and 15 scandals ago. This is all quite unsustainable.

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

submitted 15 hours ago • 848 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 16 hours ago • 129 comments

If Republicans pass the Big Ugly Bill ⬇️ 16 MILLION Americans lose their health care ⬇️ Ppl still get sick ⬇️ More ppl go to emergency room ⬇️ Ppl can’t pay their medical bills ⬇️ Hospitals foot the bill ⬇️ Hospitals are forced to reduce services or CLOSE ⬇️ EVERYONE is impacted

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

Manhandling a Senator. Using unnecessary force. Separating families. Defying court orders. Secretary Noem must come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and answer to this under oath.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' More of this, please"

submitted 19 hours ago • 823 comments

REPUBLICANS & SKEPTICS: What did the No Kings protests accomplish? ANSWER: The anti-Trump movement is being noticed. Politicians are paying attention and will feel safer speaking out. The White House sees that Trump overreached. Watch this stitch…

submitted 2 days ago • 148 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 1 day ago • 1317 comments

@bradlander.bsky.social: Trump "is trying to destroy our empathy. That's what authoritarians do... We've got that Statue of Liberty out in the harbor saying, send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.... That's what New York City is built on. That's why I love it. And he hates it."

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

@bradlander.bsky.social: "Donald Trump is coming to strike fear into immigrant families and just fear into cities. He's coming for LA, he's coming for New York, he's coming for other cities. And he's trying to both stoke fear and provoke conflict."

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Melissa Hortman was only 55 years old. She had a lot more to do. It is so bitter and so sad that her life was taken - assassinated for fighting for what she believed in. It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

Schatz: People are seeing what chaos really looks like. We are on the brink of some very dangerous developments in the Middle East, and we have chaos inside the US—not chaos the federal government can’t control, but chaos the federal government is, in some instances, precipitating or making worse.

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Sen. Alex Padilla, and now Brad Lander. The Trump administration keeps detaining and prosecuting elected officials who get in its way. This is the timeline of authoritarianism.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Per NPR: Jeremy Greenberg, who led the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA since 2020, resigned his post last week, as Trump moves to eliminate the agency. Greenberg is the latest high-level official to resign from FEMA.

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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 1 day ago • 2260 comments

Padilla: The President, VP, and their allies have continued to call all the protesters out there insurrectionists. Yes, this is the same man who provoked an actual insurrection at our capitol on January 6.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

submitted 1 day ago • 500 comments

JUST IN - The U.S. will join the war against Iran, Israeli officials assess — Channel 12 JFC

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Claiming he "assaulted law enforcement" is so obviously belied by the video, which shows no such thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

Brad Lander's wife, Meg Barnette: "This is not the way we deal with rule of law, this is not the way people are treated in the United States." "I feel really rattled and scared, and my husband is a candidate for mayor, is an elected citywide official, is U.S. citizen."

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Lander just got detained by federal agents as he tried to escort a man out of the courtroom. Lander was taken in an elevator with masked agents, along with one member of his NYPD security detail.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Padilla said Trump is on a "tour of retribution" in his first floor speech since he was handcuffed at Noem's press briefing last week.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

ICE's arrest of Brad Lander (New York City Comptroller and current mayoral candidate) is illegal. It's the latest in a long string of acts – Trump's blatant intimidation strategy to make us all feel frightened.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

“As agents pull Lander away from the hallway, he shouted out “show me your warrant, show me your badge… I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway,” he said. “You don’t have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant.” www.aol.com/nyc-mayoral-...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!

submitted 2 days ago • 592 comments

This sums it up perfectly

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

When does the “great” part start?

submitted 2 days ago • 559 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 3 days ago • 326 comments

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

submitted 4 days ago • 550 comments

Didn’t think I’d raise a child with three separate Gravedigger shirts but here we are

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

submitted 3 days ago • 805 comments

What a legacy and what a tragedy 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments

We may make the squeaking our ringtone

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Our able men and women in uniform swear an Oath to support the Constitution—they didn’t sign up to spend the weekend in a military parade to feed the insatiable narcissism of an incorrigible insurrectionist/dictator.

submitted 4 days ago • 564 comments

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

submitted 4 days ago • 259 comments

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

submitted 4 days ago • 973 comments

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

submitted 4 days ago • 140 comments

Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today