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“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

submitted 1 day ago • 801 comments

When I voted yesterday, Lander was my #1 choice for mayor, and posts like this make me wish he was doing better in the polls.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Yet another elected Democratic official violently arrested and detained by Trump’s ICE Gestapo. This isn’t frog in boiling water. This fascism is happening quickly, clearly, brazenly.

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

good time to follow some of the NYC court rats (complimentary) ⬇️ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social @jayshams.bsky.social @klasfeldreports.com @jonesieman.bsky.social (there are a lot more but not sure who is on here vs. the other place, comment or DM me if I missed u!!)

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

hmm seems like a problem

submitted 20 days ago • 212 comments

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

submitted 23 days ago • 908 comments

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 50 days ago • 249 comments

so glad we escaped the grip of identity politics

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

“A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.”

submitted 63 days ago • 49 comments

Most revealing thing abt the trade front. EU trade chief left Monday's meeting in DC not just without making any progress. He couldn't get a clear idea of what the US even wanted. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 67 days ago • 114 comments

•••CONSUMER ALERT••• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell: Expect higher inflation and slower economic growth as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs — which are “significantly larger than anticipated.”

submitted 68 days ago • 67 comments

Scoop: The White House is choosing to censor some White House pool reports. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

submitted 74 days ago • 23 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 77 days ago • 379 comments

We imported $3 billion worth of goods from Russia last year ustr.gov/countries-re...

submitted 77 days ago • 85 comments

Watch this BBC Verify video on the shocking incident where the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers, buried them in a mass grave, and only admitted its version of events was false when mobile phone footage was retrieved from one of the bodies. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

submitted 76 days ago • 28 comments

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

submitted 77 days ago • 101 comments

NYC’s Hands Off march completely shuts down 42nd Street! #handsoff

submitted 79 days ago • 85 comments

I love this

submitted 81 days ago • 346 comments

Trump, and all the spineless Republicans afraid to stand up to him, just gave you the biggest tax hike in history. Get ready to pay more for EVERYTHING! Trumpflation is HERE!

submitted 81 days ago • 12 comments

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

submitted 82 days ago • 972 comments

@corybooker.com @booker.senate.gov thank you for your efforts over the last 24+ hours!!

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) broke a record Tuesday night for the longest U.S. Senate floor speech of the modern era, surpassing Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 remarks inside the chamber that lasted 24 hours.

submitted 82 days ago • 37 comments

My God. ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back. How many more? THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.

submitted 83 days ago • 441 comments

Trump agenda for April 1) Crash the world economy with tariffs 2) Wreck NATO by annexing Greenland 3) End 1st and 5th amendment rights for immigrants 4) Welcome measles to toughen the species 5) Pardon financial criminals 6) Help Putin smash Ukraine 7) More memecoins!

submitted 86 days ago • 112 comments

Donald Trump is a fascist. Americans of conscience must stand bravely against these attempts to silence speech and political dissent. Shame on Columbia’s administrators for their cowardice in a moment that demands institutional bravery.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

this is genuinely shocking. this is a very particular strain of american nazi shit - this isn’t a conspiracy theory that exists outside of that belief system. this is not something you would say if you aren’t well versed in neonazi talking points.

submitted 110 days ago • 72 comments

I'm starting to think of elite rationalizations of Trump's insanity as a kind of highbrown qanon. It's the fantasy that things can't be as fucked as they seem and that in reality there's a secret plan being carried out by competent patriots

submitted 111 days ago • 132 comments

Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

submitted 111 days ago • 34 comments

Democrats should hold 435 town halls this weekend. The ones in Republican districts hosted by local Dems or nonpartisan local officials or even ex-Republicans, with everyone, Democrats and independents and Republicans, invited.

submitted 111 days ago • 111 comments

You can tell antivaxxers don’t actually care about children because a child died and these sickos are using it as an excuse to share juice recipes and promote their supplements. There’s more aluminum in a cup of carrot juice than in the two-dose MMR series. And carrot juice doesn’t prevent measles.

submitted 113 days ago • 93 comments

😅🇺🇸 Fox News reports that protests at a ski resort in Vermont, where Vance went to relax after Friday's altercation in the Oval Office, forced him to move to an "undisclosed location".

submitted 113 days ago • 93 comments

Maybe the most gaslit I’ve ever felt in my political life is when Cuomo was mass-killing elderly New Yorkers and liberals were calling him daddy.

submitted 114 days ago • 22 comments

maga everybody!

submitted 116 days ago • 10 comments

I will not translate what this song says in German.. because I will be banned. But so you know - Germans are using TikTok to tell Musk to .. “go to Mars.”

submitted 119 days ago • 140 comments

Donald Trump fired hundreds of air safety leaders and froze hiring for air traffic controllers. Elon forced the director of the FAA out with no replacement. And a week later, 67 people are dead in the worst commercial aircraft disaster in 16 years.

submitted 143 days ago • 22 comments

To close out 2024: Vaccines save millions of lives every year. Raw milk still isn’t safe. Podcasts aren’t fact-checked. Seed oils don’t cause cancer. Everything is chemicals. The dose makes the poison. Using the word “toxic” without context is a red flag of pseudoscience. 1/

submitted 173 days ago • 12 comments

“An off-duty Suffolk County cop was drunk driving after golf and hit a 2-year-old boy. Instead of dialing 911, he called his union rep. He refused breath tests. The boy was in a coma with multiple skull fractures. Today, he’s back on the job” - Newsday

submitted 186 days ago • 96 comments

Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."

submitted 189 days ago • 80 comments

Pundits keep pretending that RFK Jr is "anti Big Pharma" but that is just what anti-vaxxers say to make their ideas seem palatable. He constantly promotes Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, both of which are produced by pharma companies.

submitted 192 days ago • 108 comments

That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.

submitted 192 days ago • 53 comments

Just another example of the city gov being dumb and hurting innovative businesses. What's better for the city, more diners supporting a restaurant or two people being able to park their cars? nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/11/b...

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Violence is never the answer...but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands." "What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."

submitted 194 days ago • 102 comments