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look at the replies, hooooo boy he's got 'em mad now lol

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

fuck you, Gavin Newsom

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Banned from Startpage. "Your connection has been suspended." Error page asked if using screen-scraping, TOR, proxy, VPN, etc. Using none of those, just regular manual browsing. LibreWolf browser, but a privacy-focused search engine should allow a privacy-focused browser. Why @startpage.com ?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer. The US is now undeniably a rogue state. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

People are being disappeared regularly now and the likely truth is that far more people are being disappeared than we realize, with only a few cases being "lucky" enough to get any attention or noticed.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

in retrospect it totally tracks that a racist country would have the immigration cops become its secret police

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

There's literally MIT rocket scientists and Pulitzer prize winners who get drawn into this shit, so don't think education level is some prophylactic against the hell the platforms have created.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Someday in the future the government of El Salvador is gonna have to answer for these kinds of actions, and it'll be good to have this on record. And the only way that happens is with more reps making the trip and being told no.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Hell, if it were to become clear that stopping fascism and protecting government against its return was a goal that the left could achieve through the Democrats, I imagine that American politics would suddenly look very different.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Chinese HSR does Beijing-Shanghai – which is about the distance as NYC-Atlanta – in just over four hours, and gets six times the ridership of airlines. $1.8 billion in net profit last year. scmp.com/economy/chin...

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 2 days ago • 762 comments

One Weird Trick(tm) to find out if someone is a leftist on housing policy in California: Ask them if they support repealing Prop 13. It's amazing how many "progressives" will suddenly start defending a regressive tax policy when faced with the idea of paying their fair share.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I know I’ve been harping a bit on this, but a journalistic institution that would defend a patently absurd and racist claim such as “Chinese women have small fingers” rather than simply admit error and correct is fundamentally unwell.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

this really underlines the extent to which the basic ethos of the NYT is the same as Fox News—own the libs. 1

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

submitted 4 days ago • 324 comments

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

if you liked Nancy Pelosi taking a knee in kente cloth before voting to give the police even more money you’ll love Chuck Schumer in cargo shorts and Under Armour tossing out a sick 🤙right before he vetoes a price cap on prostate exams

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

submitted 4 days ago • 521 comments

Cave Wall CEO: The next generation of shadows will accurately depict real life

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Democratic voters issued a massive rebuke of their own party last year by just refusing to show up on election day & instead of a major shakeup its leaders are spending big on consultants to find a Youtube salesman that can help a small group of septuagenarians no one likes cling to power.

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near transit stops like train stations and rapid bus stops, has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee! It now heads to the Senate floor. Learn more:

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

People are going to find out far far to late the plan was always to keep them in as much as keep people out. Fortress America is a fascist police state and the pieces are being built out in the open.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

One thing people aren’t grasping about ICE waiting in immigration court to kidnap people at their hearings: DOJ lawyers are intentionally dismissing cases to avoid having to do any work & due process by just handing them to ICE. Pathetic & illegal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

submitted 6 days ago • 666 comments

for future democratic president i have very specific knowledge of an american business operating in new york city within close proximity to sensitive business and government operations that has well documented ties to terrorist groups. i would like the fbi and dhs to conduct a serious investigation.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 6 days ago • 313 comments

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

submitted 6 days ago • 434 comments

really full force struck by how dystopian America is now, where the government and corporations can ignore the law at will but if a regular person fails to conform at any juncture the powers of the state are basically authorized to kill you and your kids

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

we could have had so much good legislation if dems had the balls to do this at multiple points in the last 15 years and the GOP is going to blow it up to stick it to California.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Just this one line item alone in the Republican Party's national budget bill would steal $750 from each and every Californian.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Stealing billions of our own tax dollars from blue states like we're conquered territory and redistributing them to the ultra wealthy. Intolerable.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

submitted 6 days ago • 635 comments

in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

Interesting that AI is never an opt-in feature. It’s always just turned on whether you want it or not, and you have to search for a way to turn it off, if there even is one. Almost as if they know they have to cram it down our throats because most people won’t opt in.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments