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People are getting kidnapped by the secret police for arguing the position of the Financial Times opinion page.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The videos coming out of the Gestapo terror raid in Los Angeles today are absolutely horrifying and really should wake you up to the new reality of American fascism. It’s here it’s coming for us all and unless we fight for one another we will not survive.

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 12 hours ago • 296 comments

The ADL is a MAGA-aligned, anti-Muslim hate group. If you're Jewish and don't hate all Muslims, you should withdraw your support.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1462 comments

Stove! Stove!!!

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

A thing I find baffling is that anyone now old enough to have kids grew up in a time when it was considered uttterly normal and safe for kids to walk around the neighbornood alone, and yet we seem to have collectively determined the thing we all did as kids is now borderline child abuse.

submitted 19 hours ago • 61 comments

I beg to differ, NYT

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

yeah, senator, you don’t tell me how to post and i won’t come down to the consent factory to tell you how to work the machines

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

As I tell normies when they ask, my job is to keep my client OUT of court.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

Attention ILLINOIS PEEPS. Here is virtual town hall information regarding the still to be passed transit bill. It's on June 11 at 6:30p.m.

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Will military officers have to sign a “loyalty oath” to Trump? Senior officer says it’s “imminent.”

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

The thing that drives me insane about all this anti-trans rhetoric right now is that we’ve seen how this plays out before with gay people and gay rights. The community is demonized, as a result they have to organize and be more public. They then become more visible and politically active.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

I'll never cease being proud of diagnosing a memory leak while walking to the bus stop. I didn't have a computer in front of me, I just knew the codebase well enough to find the circular reference in my head.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

IO Interactive today revealed the first look at their new James Bond videogame '007 First Light.' The preview trailer reveals the face of the new James Bond and his backstory, which modernizes Ian Fleming's original creation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-fg...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

submitted 2 days ago • 305 comments

where we are currently at is that you are allowed to question whether the Holocaust happened but not whether Israel should be an apartheid state

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

American rule of law is quickly being replaced by the rule of power and people need to understand that very little outside of outright rebellion will stop these changes to the social constructs being built and reprogrammed to solidify fascist power at all levels.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's vitally important to learn the identities of these masked, nameless federal agents. Prosecuting them will be crucial to the restoration of a Republic based on law and order.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The Chinese alumni of the University of Illinois must be good at keeping a secret

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There’s six being nominated. Call the Senate. If your is on the Judiciary Committee, double prized for hammering them. ☎️ Send @resist.bot letters. These people like Divine are ‘foamers’ and nut jobs, not balanced people. resist.bot/petitions/PG...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m actually surprised people are still showing up for their immigration cases. Think if they follow the process as they have been, they’ll be ok? Is word not getting out to the general population about what’s going on?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I support this for many reasons, not the least of which is avoiding my sister getting angry at me for the hundredth time for trying to explain that the debt limit 👏DOES👏NOT👏LIMIT👏 SPENDING👏

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

He is a GA-15???? No. He has no degree. He has no expertise. He has five months experience wrecking the government. He’d be lucky to be hired as a GS-5. Fire him. Or at least investigate how he merits this grade.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Somehow seems that despite all the big success stories of politics over the last three decades, we're averse to concluding "people who appear to believe in something sincerely are popular, being the kind of person perceived as someone who would say anything to get elected is unpopular"

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

A spokesman for Organized Communities Against Deportation told press he believes 10 people have already been detained. ICE agents just brought another man out of a car and into the ISAP facilty.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Continuing the theme, our Republican President and SecDef have both valorized war crimes and pardoned soldiers who committed them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A recent FTC report found that the "Big Three" pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen for 80% of prescriptions — jacked up the price of lifesaving medications by as much as 7,736%. The result? $7.3 billion in extra revenue from 2017 through 2022.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

These consultants are literally just calling minorities and gay people "bad groups" now. If you don't understand this comes down to "let's crank up the racism dial" I simply don't know what to tell you.

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Listen, Democrats. Until you get serious about putting competent people into leadership, until your actions show us that you believe all the things you say in these endless emails asking for money, you're getting fuckall from me. Get your shit together, and then we can talk about donations.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

CBO now estimates that combination of Trump's budget bill + other parts of the GOP health agenda (e.g. allowing enhanced ACA tax credits to expire as scheduled) will increase # of uninsured people by 16 million. This is a backdoor Obamacare repeal by any other name www.cbo.gov/system/files...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

El Funky meet the leopard.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I once heckled a friend for using his GPS to drive home from somewhere 2 miles away and he was like, "Where's your car?" Yeah, because I didn't have a car and walked and took buses I knew the layout of the city I lived in, man

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is why ranked choice voting is a poor substitute for range voting. You should be able to express your preference for each candidate on a spectrum of Yes!-Meh-Oh HELL no It's also easier to tabulate!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, they are still doing it. This isn’t what I think of as “fighting.” At all. The least I expect from these people I voted for is to stand up and refuse to confirm every goddamned one of Trump’s cronies. The fucking least. Apparently that’s too much to expect.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The exonerative voice was initially reserved for cops, but now it's applied to the IDF and even random hate criminals

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 1628 comments

I regret to inform you that this is correct: the idiot techbros in power really do believe this

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

They are not picking up dangerous criminals, but the immigrants who were actually complying with the conditions of their presence in the US. And now, other immigrants have less and less reason to do so.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Ventolin, the brand name for albuterol or salbutamol, was first sold in 1968. The first generic inhaler was not approved in the US until 2020 due to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry. Because there are still so few approved “generic” alternatives it remains cost prohibitive for many people

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

what if, instead and hear me out we abolished ICE entirely because at this point thats about as likely and would actually solve the problem

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments