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Homeland Security has gone full fascism. This is why also we are seeing them show up with ICE. DHS raided @nadler.house.gov office and arrested one of the aides.

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peter theils palantir becoming the worlds most powerful military system and data harvester is going to usher in a new, worse age of humanity. i hate to say it but this is complete libertarian cultural victory

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JONI ERNST: When you are arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, they are not eligible CROWD: People will die! ERNST: Well, we all are going to die

submitted 2 days ago • 775 comments

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

NEW: Gov Jared Polis (D) has vetoed a bill banning surprise billing by ambulance companies. The bill passed the Colorado legislature by unanimous votes in both chambers. #copolitics

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

This is creepy. An TX officer used a nationwide database to search for a woman who gave herself an abortion. The officer conducted the search using a database of license plate readers created by a company, Flock. The search included states where abortion was legal. www.rawstory.com/texas-aborti...

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Good morning — It has been 12 hours since investigators said this man was set up, and @MarshaBlackburn @KristiNoem @DHSgov all still have not deleted their tweets.

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The button to scroll back to the top of the feed is ENTIRELY too close to the comment button. Seems like an easy fix @bsky.app

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1079 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 3 days ago • 936 comments

The “man up and get to work” guys sure are crying a lot about having to get up and do work. If you put most of these type of guys in a field or at a construction site for a day of work they would drop dead.

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Wow — John Fetterman has missed a remarkable 30 votes this year, has cancelled town halls, and avoids engaging with voters. But he did make time to go on a first-class, five-star hotel, all-expenses paid $36,000 trip to Israel to barbecue & hang out with Israeli military and government officials.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

They are purging all the transcripts.

submitted 5 days ago • 1037 comments

It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure Moses wasn’t allowed to enter the promised land because he disobeyed God’s commands.

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The president of the United States of America is picking on a 16-year-old California high schooler. Literally the most powerful person in the world singling out a kid. I can think of nothing weaker, more pathetic or more loathsome.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

We can keep discussing these societal issues year after year, but nothing is likely to change. Instead, it’s up to you to take proactive steps to protect yourself and your family and live with the reassurance that you can protect your life if the threat arises—plain and simple.

submitted 5 days ago • 800 comments

Read this short description, and then go listen to the speech. Ask yourself: why would someone write this description of that speech?

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

Trump is refusing to release the guest list of his pay-to-pay crypto dinner, as his press secretary Karoline Leavitt argues that the dinner is in his “personal time." Personal time that brought in $147,586,796.41. https://trib.al/6v14y1y

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

submitted 6 days ago • 291 comments

WATCH: Republicans who said they wouldn’t cut Medicaid just voted to cut $1 Trillion from Medicaid. @RepHarshbarger @RepTimBurchett @RepMarkGreen @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepChuck @AndyOgles

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Crockett: It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity, and whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally. We know when it comes down to his criminality, he is not qualified to serve, but this is just absolutely deplorable.

submitted 7 days ago • 256 comments

Beyond parody

submitted 7 days ago • 783 comments

More than two years ago, Utah Republicans commissioned a study on gender-affirming care for youth. It just came back, and the conclusion is unambiguous: full recommendation in support of gender-affirming care. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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MUST WATCH: She came out with her girlfriend. They took her high school diploma. This is bigger than one school—it’s a system built to silence. F*ck Around & Find Out is the playbook for fighting back. Read it. Share it. Use it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

BREAKING: The Texas House passed S.B. 37, which dramatically increases state control of public universities. Allowing politically appointed bureaucrats to police curricula and override faculty expertise is a direct threat to academic freedom in Texas.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

MIKE JOHNSON: We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. TAPPER: 1.4m people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. Is it your contention that if any of them lose benefits, it's bc they shouldn't have been receiving them? J: Yeah. Every district in America has people who are on the program who shouldn't.

submitted 7 days ago • 1192 comments

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

SV DATE: “There was an implicit understanding that access to the Republican nominee meant you would not portray him as a fundamental, proven threat to American democracy. Which, of course, he was — and continues to prove himself to be…” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

“Sometimes I have sex with my Samsung dishwasher while my smart oven watches. That’s pretty normal right?”

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Rachel Cohen on resigning from Skadden: I would say to people: We’re going to end up staffed on financings to help prison corporations expand the Guantánamo Bay camp. Every single person I said that to responded, “Oh, don’t say that.” Not one person said, “No, we won’t.” A few even said, “Yes.”

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

submitted 9 days ago • 935 comments

From the ambush of South Africa’s president, to his ugly assault on a WH reporter, to a kowtowing GOP making the rich richer and the poor poorer and sicker, to the escalating war against Harvard & higher ed: We must not be numbed by the flood of outrages. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-much-m...

submitted 9 days ago • 254 comments

The point is a simple one. When the foundations of civic democratic America are being systematically gutted by the most reactionary administration at least in modern American history we shld be even less patient than usual with clout chasing lefty pablum making a perverse common cause with reaction.

submitted 9 days ago • 101 comments

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

submitted 9 days ago • 836 comments

RFK Jr is already walking back his claims about figuring out the cause of autism by September

submitted 9 days ago • 790 comments

“Another is simply the N-word.” Right this way to dinner with the president, sir!

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Posted this afternoon. Masked ICE agents arresting immigrants at their court hearings in Dallas.

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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

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