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McGovern: "One of the previous Republican speakers got up and said Rome is burning but I hate to tell him but Republicans are in charge and Trump is your Caesar." #3E #StopTheBillionaireBailout

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they ban us from sports as precedent they ban us from bathrooms so we can’t be in public they classify our existence as porn and then make porn a crime they allow employers to discriminate against us they make our healthcare illegal to force destransition us WHEN WILL YOU FIGHT TO HELP US?

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An excerpt from my video script that is deeply relevant today…

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Dem leadership when told they need to move to the left, not the right:

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Israeli soldiers intentionally fired at a delegation of about 30 Arab & EU diplomats, ambassadors and consuls, visiting Jenin refugee camp, in the West Bank. Israel claims "it was an accident" and that they fired "warning shots" because they "felt in danger". Israel was trying to intimidate them.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Israel's attack on the UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Italy and Canada should not be overlooked, immediate sanctions and Israeli ambassador recalls need to happen in each country. Serious consequences are needed.

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Tax documents show Liberty University quietly paid Jerry Falwell, Jr. $15 MILLION to settle their dueling lawsuits and make him go away. Turns out "sinning" pays pretty well. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/liberty-un...

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"'Picard'" proves Star Trek respects legacy characters more."

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It appears Sec. Kennedy is getting ready to over-ride vaccine policy experts & scrub Covid shot recommendations for children, teens & pregnant people. Having a HHS secretary reset vaccine policy without hearings or expert advice is unprecedented, experts tell STAT. www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

This is horrendous. And also purposeful. RFK Jr. wasn't put in charge of HHS to Make America Healthy Again. He was put in it to control our bodies, spread misinformation, and make our health system even worse than it is. The cruelty is the point. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"Everything bad that happened during Biden's presidency was actually Trump" is every bit as disingenuous as "all the bad stuff under Trump is Biden's fault."

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Talked to a conservative Missouri voter who supported the right to abortion AND the paid vacation leave. They are mad at Republicans. But they don't see how they could EVER vote for a pro-choice candidate, so they'll keep hoping Republicans won't do the same thing NEXT time. Again.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." are not "inevitable" or "here to stay" and anyone who says that is selling you something -- and that something is garbage.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

submitted 9 days ago • 196 comments

This is an example of how conservative cultural & political panics about porn are increasingly being weaponized by the right to prime us to accept an ever-widening range of state policing over our day-to-day lives

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's first FCC created this dumb Dish 5G network as a "fix" for the competition problems created by their rubber stamping of the Sprint-T-Mobile merger. Now Trump's second FCC is "investigating" the problem they created because...Elon Musk wants the spectrum that Dish is using. Incoherence.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

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When I see a recipe that says "stuffed with crab meat" I expect it to be filled with CRAB MEAT. Not Stuffed Crab Stuffing. But for the record, it was still tasty.

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The murder of George Floyd led to #EndQualifiedImmunity protest signs around the country. Now, just shy of the fifth anniversary of that generational event, we 've gone from demands for accountabily to state-sponsored impunity. It's stunning.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

You are filming people IN THE FUCKING PUBLIC RESTROOM. YOU are the only weird person present. And that's not even considering YOUR BEHAVIOR IS ILLEGAL IN MOST PLACES.

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Congressional Dems: sponsor a bill banning officers from covering their faces during an arrest. Go on a media tour promoting it with clip packages pulling the scariest moments from these gestapo ambushes. Make people confront the Trump/Vance Police State.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Abolish ICE? No, that lets them off too easy. Prosecute every single person who has been "just following orders" and send them to the prisons they're putting everyone else in.

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The most formative experience in many American Republicans' lives was when the first non-white family moved into their neighborhood. They were outraged and convinced the world was coming to an end.

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Carla Hayden was president of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social when ours was one of few organized voices opposed to the USA PATRIOT Act. Librarians have been fired all across the federal government, gutting not just ours but the world’s intellectual infrastructure. Devastating.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

I know I keep harping on this, but: Over 60% disapprove of Trump's job the last three months. Over 70% say no way in hell should he run for a third term (nevermind that is actually illegal). 52% would vote for him tomorrow against any "mainstream" Dem such as Harris, Biden, Newsom, or Whitmer.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING NEWS PAY ATTENTION M'FUKR!!!! absolutely nothing happened today Jesus Christ, MSNBC

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"Conservatives" being mad at Trump is all fine and good. But as I have repeatedly pointed out, unless they are willing to vote for "not the Republican" it doesn't mean anything. And a recent survey of voters indicated that if America re-did last November's election Trump would still win over Harris.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I really don't have any words about this story. It's just so deeply upsetting. Fuck the women who decided to police the bathroom and fuck the guard for doing this.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Rand Paul out there literally doing the least he could do... ...which is 10 times what almost every other Republican is doing. And only slightly more than many Democrats.

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Remember when those of us who said Israel should not bomb hospitals. ( right after Israel bombed hospitals and had bombed hospitals in the past ) were called hamas loving anti semites - not only by arch zionists but by liberal human rights loving intellectuals ? Funny they are so quiet now

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

Like a lot of things I think the "masculinity crisis" is just a result of people having their role in violence pointed out to them and then deciding to change nothing about themselves and instead blame the people pointing it out. They don't want purpose or validation; they yearn for ignorance.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

The Trump regime is America's problem. It is America's to deal with. No one is coming to save you from the citizens empowering Trump. And most of them choose to believe; it's not a reasonable interpretation of facts. A recent poll found that most Christians believe Trump is 'ethical' and 'moral'.

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My primary professional organization, which alternates annual meeting locations each year, has moved its 2027 conference out of the U.S. - where it was already booked - saying it will hold no more meetings during the current admin after this year in the U.S. This is unprecedented to my knowledge.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

submitted 21 days ago • 36 comments

"[A]n unaccountable force with already-existing fascistic tendencies ... could relatively easily transition from its current state of rampant rights violations and overreach to full-fledged secret police."

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Right-wingers cannot stop making campaign ads for me.

submitted 19 days ago • 433 comments

The reason the Republican Party in America is so fucked up is because the majority of rightward voters have bought into the idea that "the brand must be protected over any other interest." So if Trump says it, he's the leader of the Party, therefore it MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED AT TRUE.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Trump’s “America first” governor of Texas Greg Abbott is threatening to defund the city of San Marcos for attempting to reallocate locally collected funds towards essential domestic priorities instead of sending them to Israel for weapons. Abbott: “anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies” 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 44 comments

Poilievre to run for by-election in safe rural Alberta riding, after rural Texas riding not available #cdnpoli

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

YouTube; "fewer ads for this long video" is a lie, and everyone knows it. Please stop saying this.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Racist or bigoted views are not "an alternative perspective" or "the other side." You're a shit bag who shouldn't be allowed to influence anything.

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