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Only the #WorldBollardAssociation can perform this level of sorcery…

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 11 days ago • 863 comments

Moulton: It turns out the U.S. Army is not great at doing Soviet-style or North Korean-style parades, because that’s not what people sign up to do… Imagine how much veteran housing you could build for $40 million. You could help a lot of vets with that kind of money. And this parade helped nobody.

submitted 11 days ago • 328 comments

Hi, it’s Meg again. Brad is still in ICE custody. We are grateful to the many friends, supporters, and allies who have gathered in Federal Plaza. Together we are standing up for those with no voice.

submitted 11 days ago • 361 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 11 days ago • 551 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 11 days ago • 1158 comments

you cannot just vote this kinda fascism away, folks.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

The only way to solve Boston’s traffic is to get cars off the road. Encouraging mode shift by getting some people out of their cars and onto public transit or walk/bike as able is the best way to do that. Anything else is just hollow political rhetoric.

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

I don't think I've ever seen a sequence like this one where a clump of dirt from the pitcher kicks up from their shoes and explodes mid-air due to ball in the pitching sequence give the camera operators of this game an emmy for this moment from Oregon-Ole Miss

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 28 days ago • 463 comments

U.S. goods imports fell by 19.8% in April ... that's the largest drop on record. #tariffs #EconSky

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

submitted 40 days ago • 1218 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 432 comments

Trump is taking a bribe from a country that funds Hamas. If you can’t say that, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.

submitted 47 days ago • 144 comments

I do hope the business community takes note of the fact that while Trump is wrecking their supply chain with tariffs, he thinks he’s free import a foreign jet for free. Buy American? Lolz He’s grounding Air Force One for his Qatari air palace. It’s all revolting autocratic corruption.

submitted 48 days ago • 43 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 48 days ago • 1520 comments

Yes, they will. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 170 days ago • 45 comments

Trump has closed the U.S. to all refugees except white South Africans. Haitians fleeing poverty and violence, Venezuelans fleeing starvation and oppression, people from Congo, Bhutan, Nigeria, and other countries who've built lives here -- all must leave. But white South Africans are welcome.

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

🔥 Senator @ossoff.bsky.social: “Who out there is sitting at home demanding we shut down cancer & Alzheimer’s research? We’re going to pay for this for a century. Irreversible damage has been done. It’s an outrage.” On Trump, DOGE, & the GOP’s budget cuts (to make way for tax cuts for the rich)

submitted 52 days ago • 91 comments

This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. She sits on the Committee of Homeland Security Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

submitted 56 days ago • 517 comments

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

submitted 73 days ago • 847 comments

Metro, by Joan Mitchell, 1958, 📸 via @liam_mchugh

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments

Cyber Fuc*ed. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 78 days ago • 122 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 78 days ago • 495 comments

The FBI has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.

submitted 78 days ago • 319 comments

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 78 days ago • 140 comments

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh apnews.com/article/mahm...

submitted 79 days ago • 122 comments

Never fails

submitted 80 days ago • 748 comments

Students in Salem, Massachusetts got to vote for the name of the city's newest garbage truck and the winning name was Chicken Nugget

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

This is real courage. Good for her.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

That’s a Herculean level of cowardice, obstruction and complicity. In case you thought that the GOP wasn’t also completely to blame for the global economic devastation that Trump is deliberately creating.

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

submitted 85 days ago • 1193 comments

Hershey Bears Autism Awareness jerseys. See alt text for details!

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

political cartoon circa 1908

submitted 86 days ago • 35 comments

When your defense of Trump is that Biden was a responsible shepherd of the economy and market.

submitted 85 days ago • 134 comments

nasdaq has now lost a fifth of its value since tech oligarch collaborationists paid their protection money to Trump at his inauguration

submitted 85 days ago • 9 comments

From @reuters.com: STELLANTIS SAYS WILL TEMPORARILY LAY OFF 900 U.S. WORKERS IN MICHIGAN AND INDIANA DUE TO IDLING PLANTS IN MEXICO, CANADA

submitted 86 days ago • 46 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 86 days ago • 501 comments

Your tariff rate is half your age plus seven. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 86 days ago • 21 comments

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

All you need to know about Twitter

submitted 97 days ago • 3147 comments

Tell everyone in Wisconsin

submitted 100 days ago • 434 comments

He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!

submitted 103 days ago • 1066 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 104 days ago • 1835 comments

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 103 days ago • 899 comments

While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.

submitted 104 days ago • 2201 comments

We make magic happen every single day. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 104 days ago • 33 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 105 days ago • 733 comments

Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall. I will never bow down.

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