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The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

This day is a vivid reminder that we don't know how the future will unfold. An assassination, a fascist parade, escalating war, detentions. And so many people protesting for democracy for the first time. To quote a sign I saw, "I didn't come out because I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful because we're here."

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This is, in a nutshell, the righteous anger behind the Twitter Files

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

low key most evil part of the budget bill you may not have heard of is a new tax on remittances. which will raise like literally functionally no money for the states but will somehow at the same time manage to help starve several hundred thousand kids to death

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 9 days ago • 580 comments

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

this picture exactly represents the correct opinion on transit

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

submitted 10 days ago • 115 comments

wait is martial law a distraction from the vaccine stuff or is the vaccine stuff a distraction from martial law, can some insufferable would-be hall monitor let me know

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as their failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

The random people at the spontaneous protest that popped off because they saw the busboy at their neighborhood restaurant being kidnapped by ICE should have planned the optics better

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

the idea of fingerwagging your way into protest discipline is deeply delusional for a number of reasons, chief among which is that the cops' decisions are among the biggest determinants of how protests ago. it's like being perplexed at people for using umbrellas while ignoring the weather

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Waving a Mexican flag in the US prompts questions about your loyalty. Also if you criticize Israel you're not allowed to go to college.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

It's worthwhile to pause for a moment and think about what a military operation to establish control over a major American city - let's say Los Angeles - would actually look like. The city of LA, which excludes most of the metro area, has nearly 4 million inhabitants. LA county has 10 million.

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

Five years ago today Asheville police responded to an unruly march with violence sparking multiple nights of rioting in a city where people are normally hesitant to even take the streets. The George Floyd Rebellion was so recent but the work of its cooption and erasure has been extraordinary. 1/6

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Man. I just got an email saying that Gaza is biggest spiritual crisis for Jews since the Holocaust and like ... the problem in Gaza isn't a Jewish spiritual crisis you guys, it's a fucking colonial genocide.

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

submitted 31 days ago • 115 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 35 days ago • 80 comments

Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes

submitted 36 days ago • 51 comments

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

submitted 38 days ago • 161 comments

I know UK politics can be hard to understand for people who aren’t familiar with it, if you find it confusing the key thing to understand is that the UK operates under a political system known as “loserocracy” where the country must always be run by some loser

submitted 38 days ago • 38 comments

Imagine wanting to not just lose, but lose while you are bored out of your mind

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

rolling coal is gender affirming care for trucks

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

It's cool, and feels amazing, to realize that we're going to have a recession because the president thinks that kids have too many dolls now. It's obviously very stupid, but feeling like you should/do have the right to discipline other people's kids is also a core conservative value.

submitted 46 days ago • 39 comments

We should have branded people's foreheads for supporting the invasion of Iraq.

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submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

Stephen Miller wrote this piece for the Duke student newspaper TWENTY YEARS AGO. You won't find a single talking point in here that a) wasn't already a stale Limbaugh-esque talking point in 2005 and b) isn't also the cutting edge of GOP messaging about universities today.

submitted 54 days ago • 42 comments

Different countries have different ways of saying “papers please” and that’s okay

submitted 57 days ago • 318 comments

you're already doing a bang up job showing our neighbors who we are as jews: people who support genocide while denying it's happening and who accuse anyone who says otherwise of bigotry so that they can lose their livelihoods and/or be deported. it's a solid plan and it's going great for us!

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

If you can't say, unambigiously and without caveats and without the kind of language an oil company uses at a press conf after it oopsies a million gallons into a fish hatchery, that disappearing people is bad, you do not have a broken moral compass. You pawned it years ago for career advancement.

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments