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You take the lies out of him, and he’ll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he’ll disappear. - Mark Twain A historian who is very proud of my Canadian heritage. 🇨🇦
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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

submitted 1 day ago • 1454 comments

Donald is deploying 700 marines to LA because he desperately wants something awful to happen so he can declare martial law in time for his birthday military parade which cost taxpayers $45 million.

submitted 9 hours ago • 185 comments

#ProudBlue The chaos, confusion and conflict taking place in #LosAngeles is all the #convictedfelon’s doing. This country will continue to see this happening while he is office. I hope @governor.ca.gov sues the shit out of him 😡 apple.news/AG6sh6jmhR0K...

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

I’m thinking t Rump embraced this ideology to ensure he’d be a king. He doesn’t care one bit about what it all actually means.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Abigail Adams of Weymouth, Massachusetts collaborated with @silencedogoodbos.bsky.social this week.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 40 days ago • 642 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 56 days ago • 1656 comments

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 120 days ago • 3162 comments

When this is over, no forgiveness for those involved. There will be trials. There will be consequences. 😡😡😡

submitted 64 days ago • 350 comments

We’re shipping off to #Boston!! 🤘Don’t miss the acoustic set by #DropkickMurphys at our April 5th event in Boston, MA. FIND a local April 5 event: FiftyFifty.one Washington D.C.: SeeYouInTheStreets.com #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #April5 #massachusetts @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 69 days ago • 36 comments

Friends! Find your local united resistance gathering and be there! #handsoff h/t @ashmont.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, this is a scam. The GOP is helping Elon Musk and his friends loot the federal government and give themselves billions in federal contracts—and then wants to give them permanent tax breaks on the back end by cutting critical programs. Let's call it what it is: a scam on the American people.

submitted 74 days ago • 155 comments

This is the 9th post in a multi-part series. (1/8) Margaret Thomas was a free Black woman living in Charlestown at the time of the Battle of Bunker Hill. In 1773, Margaret purchased a small house and lot from future Massachusetts Governor, Increase Sumner.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 House GOP issued 70+ subpoenas on HRC's penny-ante email "scandal." J Comey changed fate of the country (and world) w his last-minute decision to "re-open" the case. Ten days before election NYT gave nearly all of its front page to Comey's preening move. Reminder:

submitted 77 days ago • 34 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 79 days ago • 4446 comments

Wrote a thing looking at yesterday's dissent from Alito, comparing it to SCOTUS rulings he joined in the past two years, and highlighting how there's only one principal for Alito about exec power: GOP Presidents have absolute power. Dem Presidents have none. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/a...

submitted 95 days ago • 24 comments

"In short, no one in power needs to worry: The university’s subversive mission to empower the public with knowledge and to encourage our students to think for themselves has been suspended indefinitely."

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 96 days ago • 1733 comments