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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 3 hours ago • 151 comments

Most of us really don’t understand the trajectory we are on. The government is policing speech. Certain opinions are going to seemed illegal. That’s the glide path toward policing virtually anything.

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

It was always a crystal clear 100% certainty that if the orange convicted felon was sent back into the White House instead of being sent to prison that he would bring the United States into war, economic collapse and total chaos. This is on everyone who voted for him.

submitted 3 hours ago • 309 comments

You lose healthcare. They gain yachts. Keep spreading the word.

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submitted 6 hours ago • 94 comments

The American gestapo.

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What's happening to libraries in Florida should frighten everyone. Spurred on by Moms For Liberty, the AG is threatening librarians with felonies for stocking LGBTQ+ books and overruling established processes for removing "harmful" material. It's a full on censorship campaign by the government.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Powell: Increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity

submitted 6 hours ago • 351 comments

No. Don't let them deny you entry, just enter. Obviously they're hiding something. Go to a judge and get an order!

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It's quickly becoming a normal occurrence for Democratic elected officials to be physically assaulted, threatened with arrest, or prosecuted on bogus charges. If you'd recited the litany from just the past month a year ago, it would have been dismissed as hysterical.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

It is time for state and local governments to arrest masked officers who won’t produce warrants and who have no proof someone is undocumented. Kidnappers should be arrested and indicted and tried for kidnapping and serve the many years such sentences carry.

submitted 10 hours ago • 113 comments

That @washingtonpost.com opinion writer who blocked me for calling out his soft take on Coney Barrett can eat a bag of dicks today.

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

A judge ruled EPA termination of environmental justice grants was unlawful. EPA cannot “thumb its nose at Congress” by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.

submitted 7 hours ago • 72 comments

It appears that the national news media learned nothing two decades ago when they were duped by the U.S. government to justify a trumped-up Middle East war that killed more than 100,000 human beings.

submitted 10 hours ago • 57 comments

Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago. Taco

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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

submitted 19 hours ago • 164 comments

Three things @rasjbaraka.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social have in common: 1) Both are suing Kristi Noem 2) Her goons conducted premeditated arrest of them 3) Before an election www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/r...

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

As a former Republican who still speaks with Republicans daily, I wholeheartedly endorse asking every Republican you know this question.👇

submitted 8 hours ago • 80 comments

I.C.E. is unwarranted.

submitted 23 hours ago • 85 comments

Just asked SDNY if they were opening an election interference investigation against the people who arrested @bradlander.bsky.social yesterday, given Emil Bove's representation that such a thing would be election interference. Nicholas Biase declined to comment.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

The new law makes it illegal to investigate, arrest, prosecute or imprison any woman in England or Wales for terminating her own pregnancy — no matter what term or trimester she's in.

submitted 11 hours ago • 76 comments

Can someone in immigration law explain to me how this is legal?

submitted 8 hours ago • 1077 comments

NEW: ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.

submitted 12 hours ago • 76 comments

"Detained" is an interesting word choice. It sounds official but it just means they grabbed him. They couldn't say "arrested" because that would open up questions like "on what authority" and "for what charge." If you or I "detained" someone we could be charged with unlawful imprisonment

submitted 1 day ago • 19 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 21 hours ago • 255 comments

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1481 comments

They are taking money from the poor to hand to the rich. Reverse Robin Hood politics. We must reject the “Big Beautiful” Bullshit.

submitted 8 hours ago • 491 comments

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 9 hours ago • 243 comments

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1270 comments

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

submitted 11 hours ago • 158 comments

The active duty soldier who was placed in on an involuntary mental health hold after speaking out about ICE abuses has been released. He was given no treatment nor diagnosis and no reason for the hold.

submitted 11 hours ago • 364 comments

I don’t care what city or town you live in. If these guys jumped out of an unmarked van and grabbed you on the street, would you just assume they’re ICE or FBI? Would you willingly comply with their orders and get inside the van? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. THIS IS NOT AMERICA.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2068 comments

They’re cranking up the propaganda machine again: claiming Brad Lander “unlawfully interfered” and that ICE is just “enforcing Trump’s policy.” Reality: Lander stood up for civil rights. ICE’s conduct reflects a deeply troubling use of federal power.

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

Terry Moran gets fired for telling the truth – yet Mike Lee does not get censored for spreading dangerous (stochastic terrorism) and inflammatory lies. This is America we live in – and it's the America we must never accept.

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The anti-abortion movement and what it has wrought is more horrifying than any horror movie. It is a rejection of the dignity of life and a mockery of human wellbeing

submitted 1 day ago • 169 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

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) Judge Hannah Dugan (WI) Controller Brad Lander (D-NYC) This is not normal. This is not okay. We cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay.

submitted 23 hours ago • 155 comments

It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments