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Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

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Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

submitted 17 hours ago • 151 comments

Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 1 day ago • 371 comments

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 1 day ago • 711 comments

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

submitted 1 day ago • 339 comments

This is an ominous step toward martial law. The time for mobilizing peacefully but massively against this dangerous progression is NOW. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

Just want to speak to folks in climate and clean energy here. It's not too late to change the culture of fear and punishment in our corner of the world for speaking up about defunding the police and moving into the aligned movements against fascism. But it will take serious, sustained work.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Watch this video. RFK Jr says, of Makary, Bhattacharya & Prasad, "we're friends, we talk to each other every day, we go to dinner with each other, we go on vacations with each other, & we genuinely enjoy each other's company." I can NEVER forgive Makary, Bhattacharya, & Prasad for boosting RFK Jr 😡

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If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities. Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

“Jordan Peterson is a bad and lazy thinker, and an even worse writer,” writes Luke Savage. “But he is also symptomatic of a more generalized decline in the quality of public intellectuals.” thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe... thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe...

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

submitted 4 days ago • 894 comments

Devastated for my friends and colleagues in Poland, where once again the tack right to defeat the right strategy failed (as it reliably does) and has brought authoritarianism back when they fought so valiantly in 2022 to defeat it. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Team Biden's complicity with war crimes.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The far right are piloting a methodology to dehumanise a minority group. They won't stop with trans folx.

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What's behind the attacks on trans women and girls in sports? Today on Assigned, @billiejsweeney.bsky.social teases out the threaded political, legal, business, and media arms of the coordinated conservative assault on trans inclusion in athletic events.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

As the Israeli military tears through the occupied West Bank, the government follows in lockstep—greenlighting 22 new illegal settlements to cement their land theft.

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Israeli soldiers have opened fire on people near a US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, killing at least 22 and wounding more than 120, according to the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency. http://jrnl.ie/6721065

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

In the 50s, ‘coming out’ meant announcing one’s sexual orientation. Today, the term has entered an array of social movements, including encouraging immigrants to ‘come out’ as undocumented. buff.ly/u5brxbJ #PrideMonth #Pride #History

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

People apparently think they’re being clever when they tell abuse victims to leave once a relationship turns abusive. In reality they’re demonstrating they know nothing about how abuse works at either a psychological or practical level

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

I spent all day yesterday with younger organizers. I listened to them share the grief of their recent anti-genocide organizing efforts. The current state of organizing makes so much sense when you pay attention to these young people who were abandoned, attacked by every major US institution &+

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 147 comments

Very glad to be quoted in this @us.theguardian.com article about how "Jewish organizers are increasingly confronting Trump" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 84 days ago • 481 comments

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

The German state not only doesn’t want you go make parallels to the Holocaust, it doesn’t want you to make parallels to the German genocide against the Herero and Nama bcs that genocide was also done in the name of ‘self-defense’, just like Israel’s genocide in Gaza - which Germany supports - is.🧵

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan has always hoped to raise a new generation of pious youth. But Turkey’s Gen Z is not only less religious than the strongman expected. It may also pose the greatest threat to his rule https://econ.trib.al/nb88sE3

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis. @blbalthaser.bsky.social reviews recent books by Peter Beinart, Marjorie N. Feld, Naomi Klein, Oren Kroll-Zeldin, and Geoffrey Levin:

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Big Tech billionaires dominate our media landscape — and now they want to take over our financial system. Thanks to Senate Republicans' crypto bill, these billionaires may be allowed to issue their own private currencies that wouldn't be subject to government oversight. This is oligarchy.

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

submitted 13 days ago • 78 comments

The USA is a corrupt country.

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