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Keep this kind of detail in mind as you listen to those in US calling for war on Iran.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 9 hours ago • 448 comments

Collins: "What did [Mike Lee] have to say?" Sen. Tina Smith: "Honestly, I don't think this is a person who is used to being confronted. I don't think he's someone who is used to being challenged and I think he didn't quite know what to do."

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

Trump raked in $57M from his family's crypto company in 2024. And this doesn't even account for his memecoin, which launched this year. Now he's lending his name to "Trump Mobile," a new wireless phone service launched by the Trump Organization. The grift never ends.

submitted 12 hours ago • 164 comments

The Senate Majority leader is lying

submitted 12 hours ago • 387 comments

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

submitted 14 hours ago • 142 comments

Raskin on Trump's corruption: "Whatever kind of varnish they had from the first administration is completely off now. They're not even pretending to do anything else ... it's a gangster state."

submitted 12 hours ago • 81 comments

This one is so completely plausible that it’s not really satire.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

Trump realizes people are turning on him, which means he will get more desperate, aggressive, extreme, and violent. These are all actions of a weak regime and weak man.

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

Remember this? Does the @nytimes.com remember this?

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 20 hours ago • 59 comments

One of the many reasons I think it's important to refer to Trump's movement as fascist is that it allows us to connect incidents like the assassinations in Minnesota with things like January 6th. Trump and his networked brown-shirts are both part of the fascist plot to destroy democracy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Boelter's "POLICE" license looked janky, as you can see in this slide. And yet even after a cop encountered him in his car, he was able to drive away, head to Melissa Hortman's house, and murder her and her husband

submitted 16 hours ago • 201 comments

“.. ‘I was thinking about our country, and what’s happening, and just turning it over in my mind.’ .. And then: ‘I wrote it, and I said, ‘That’s true.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

submitted 18 hours ago • 209 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 16 hours ago • 839 comments

Republicans - Democrats are vile subhuman demons and good Christian citizens should fear them and be prepared to take up arms against this menance Democrats - well you're entitled to your point of view but can we perhaps work on this bipartisan legislation to deregulate crypto banking scams?

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Meet The Black Lawmakers Whose Careers Were Ignited By The Charleston Mother Emanuel Church Mass Shooting ten years ago tomorrow talkingpointsmemo.com/news/generat...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

So Trump family says they're going to stand up a new mobile phone factory and have a new phone in production in three months and basically all the mainstream press is saying, yep, sounds legit. Can't wait to see it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/just-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 79 comments

The VA can now deny service to veterans if they are unmarried or registered as Democrats, the British newspaper The Guardian reports, citing a memo it obtained. It will be interesting to see how much, if any, coverage this gets in major American news outlets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

If you want an example of the failings of Community Notes, look no further than Musk spreading misinfo in the hours after the Minnesota shooting. The shooter has now been IDed as a Trump supporter. There is no community note on Musk or the original post he quotes.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

Bill Ackman just donated another $250,000 to the pro-Cuomo super PAC. He's now the third-biggest donor to Fix the City. 1. Mike Bloomberg: $5,000,000 2. Doordash: $1,000,000 3. Ackman: $500,000 4. Daniel Loeb: $350,000 5. Matthew Hulsizer: $300,000 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

Calls for civility are meaningless when her colleagues Mike Lee and Bernie Moreno are lying that the assassin was a leftist. They’re fueling hatred on the right while she’s taking the high ground.

submitted 14 hours ago • 191 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

submitted 14 hours ago • 101 comments

P.S. State and federal charges are not mutually exclusive under the dual sovereignty doctrine (and it looks like MN is seeking charges). Personally I think state has greater interest here and should go first

submitted 14 hours ago • 66 comments

Good point below:

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

submitted 1 day ago • 3971 comments

My 12-year-old takes the subway to school every day. The Times editorial board is living in a different reality than nearly everyone else.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1358 comments

Eric Trump: "Eventually all the phones can be built in the USA." (so Trump phones are not actually being built in the USA lol ... )

submitted 17 hours ago • 313 comments

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

I know most folks on Bsky have left Facebook & for good reason, but I think it's important to note how that platform is distorting our information environment & breaking the brains of our fellow citizens. See, for example, the case of former local TV news anchor & shameless propagandist, Rick Dancer

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

Glad that @gregsargent.bsky.social isn't letting the "remigration" issue slip through the cracks. Pay attention, y'all.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

IF you're working in disinformation, or watch GOP politics, you should read Albert Bandura on moral disengagement. Not only was he a pioneer in social cognitive theory, he won the Order of Canada...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: Every claim made by Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) to ridicule the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office turns out to be false.

submitted 20 hours ago • 107 comments

So as the backlash to Trump's mass deportation grows, he appears to be de-prioritizing red states and red areas. It's to to spare his own supporters pain and put as much as he can on Dems. TX, FL have very large undocumented populations, far great greater than NY, IL. FL will be #1 soon.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

The guy was a registered Republican evangelical and his best friend has said he was a Trump supporter who watched InfoWars. He was traveling around with a list of MORE Democrats he wanted to kill. MAGA: “See, we told you he was a Walz-loving Lib.” Are you fucking kidding me?