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As they’re trying to do the right thing

submitted 14 hours ago • 361 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 14 hours ago • 188 comments

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

submitted 7 hours ago • 1481 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 5 hours ago • 460 comments

As Senate Republicans rewrite the reconciliation bill that would gut Medicaid and SNAP, we’re making sure key GOP senators hear from their angry constituents. Help us disrupt Trump’s Tax Scam by calling voters in target states and connecting them with their senators: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

submitted 19 hours ago • 26 comments

California brings forth bill that takes the masks off ICE agents.

submitted 12 hours ago • 706 comments

#booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 17 hours ago • 113 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 7 hours ago • 432 comments

Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

submitted 14 hours ago • 373 comments

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

submitted 14 hours ago • 593 comments

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 15 hours ago • 2184 comments

“Republicans seem to think they can win by changing the rules after an election or making it harder to vote. And Trump’s DOJ wants to help them do it,.” @billycorriher.bsky.social‬ writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/doj-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 16 hours ago • 831 comments

🚨🚨BREAKING TRUMP SAYS THE UNITED STATES IS NOW INVOLVED IN ISRAEL-IRAN WAR. "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran...Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA."

submitted 16 hours ago • 414 comments

Would love to have reporters dig into this incident, which is reminiscent of the Portland arrests of protesters in black vans. My additional question: did these black vans even have government plates?

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

Senate Republicans released their tax and health plans for Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. This new Senate bill means MORE people lose health care to fund even BIGGER corporate tax breaks.

submitted 19 hours ago • 58 comments

Just so I’m clear… Terry Moran got fired, but Mike Lee is still a sitting US senator?

submitted 1 day ago • 372 comments

The White House is considering pocket rescissions to cancel Congressionally authorized spending without a vote, the Times reports. The GAO found the tactic to be illegal in 2018.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Sen Mike Lee & the silence from Republicans made it clear: decency is in the rearview mirror. After he mocked a political assassination, Ed Shelleby, a senior staffer to Sen Tina Smith, wrote to Lee’s top staffers. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com read it on-air, and honestly everyone should hear it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 186 comments

Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who cover their faces while conducting official business could face a misdemeanor charge in California under a new proposal. cnn.it/443mdTX

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

Causes cancers of lung, pleura, and peritoneum... But, it's natural

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Donald Trump arrived in Canada and demanded that Russia be admitted into the G7. He falsely claimed Canada had Russia kicked out. He refused to work out a deal with allies on the Middle East crisis and he left town before President Zelensky showed up. Surprised?

submitted 1 day ago • 304 comments

What the holy he🏒🏒. (The Guardian is a reputable source.) Call your MoCs! A few details: 🔹️Doctors at all US VA hospitals "could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by [Trump]." 1/5 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

“I asked Grok” “I asked ChatGPT” Well I asked the non-partisan CBO and they confirmed the GOP tax scam would hurt the finances of low-income Americans the most while giving benefits to the wealthiest among us.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Weird how the “we’re broke” crowd goes quiet whenever war is on the table But we have to throw 11 million off health care, cut food stamps, etc right?

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Censure now

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 1 day ago • 839 comments

This man aided the U.S. military in #Afghanistan and would have been in danger from his own government if he had stayed when the U.S. pulled out. He showed up for his immigration hearing and... #ICE snatched him. --------------- Backstory link about translators: www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

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The Senate bill would cut Medicaid "far more aggressively" than the House bill: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This is perfect

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

www.axios.com/2025/06/15/a... Padilla says FBI and National Guard escorted him into Noem's press conference

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone. He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

“Perhaps they should change the name of the agency if they are no longer about protecting the health of Americans.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

submitted 1 day ago • 765 comments

I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be. The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

This fundraising campaign for the Hoffman family is verified - through Yvette's school, where she works as a para for in a kindergarten special ed classroom. We've donated. www.gofundme.com/f/support-yv...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments