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America has effectively legalized The Purge. That’s how this feels because that’s all this is. If anyone can put on a vest and a mask and abduct you, you just have The Purge.

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

I'll just say this before heading out. If you're a young person in NYC, THIS IS YOUR TIME. The next couple of decades in this city are going to be shaped by what happens on Tuesday. Be part of the team that is turning the page on politicians like Cuomo. There are better choices.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

📢 A US Army combat veteran has a few words to express his thoughts on the oath he took. 🔥

submitted 14 hours ago • 297 comments

Five things to remember about war:

submitted 7 hours ago • 102 comments

This is not America. It's not Christianity either.

submitted 17 hours ago • 88 comments

Everybody needs to take a breath. Especially people forgetting we came out on the wrong side of a coup and therefore old paradigms will not serve us now.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

In a similar vein, I’d like to urge Van Jones to go fuck himself.

submitted 8 hours ago • 145 comments

Thinking about this tonight for some reason.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

Sen Kirsten Gilibrand led charge to get Al Franken to resign. Pushed for Andrew cuomo to resign in 2021 for harassing women. But in 2025 she says, “I’ve known Andrew Cuomo for decades. He has a lot of talent as an executive, he’s been a very strong governor and done very good things for New York.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 99 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 11 hours ago • 101 comments

Reminder that disinformation from all sides will, historically, be rampant in a moment like this. Be careful what you repost.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

submitted 13 hours ago • 650 comments

Greg, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Someday we should have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for certain op-eds. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/o...

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1003 comments

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

submitted 18 hours ago • 810 comments

This is what happens when the white people don’t understand their shared responsibility for slavery and the generational trauma that we are still dealing with. I take responsibility. Therefore why would I feel the shame that makes me hide things. Instead I want the sunlight to heal the wounds.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

"It's deeper than a critique of journalists. You can say, 'Fine. 'Both sides.' The left is unhappy w/ how the media covers things.' But it’s a systemic problem. Our political institutions are uniquely unable to deal w/ the rise of what is now a far-right authoritarian party" — @mcopelov.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 165 comments

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

submitted 16 hours ago • 193 comments

Vancouver-based artist creates Google Doodle for National Indigenous Peoples Day #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Endorse

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Brett McGurk - if anyone tells you they know where this is going,, they're erong

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1190 comments

62% of Democrats want the party to get rid of its leadership compared to just 30% of Republicans.

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submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

"we love you God"

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Setting a $200K student loan cap for medical school – when median med school attendance is much higher than that – just means you train fewer doctors and need to import them from abroad... ...sorry, I'm getting new info ::taps earpiece::... oh

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

1.1 million pounds of nitrate-nitrogen will pass through the city of Cedar Rapids today in the Cedar River. That's equivalent to the contents of 322 of these. One day, one river, in Iowa. waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_0...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2207 comments

Daily Memo: June 20th ICE recap. 1) raids 2) Bell / Maywood. 3) Cudahy Mayor dodges ICE car 4) US Citizen, Job Garcia, released tris morning and posts video of his arrest 5) agent who arrested 2 US Citizens 6) Viral photographer was arrested by LAPD while covering ICE 7) Dodgers Dr. Evil donation

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

submitted 14 hours ago • 416 comments

In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /

submitted 18 hours ago • 435 comments

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.

submitted 18 hours ago • 563 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 529 comments

will the black mayor of a huge neighboring, predominantly black city endorsing Mamdani get a full writeup in the new york times the same way a black SC congressman endorsing Cuomo did? Clyburn piece's newsworthiness was pegged on his influence in the NYC black community. Is Baraka not influential?

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

KTLA: “I have no doubt it’s racially motivated.” A US citizen in the parking lot of a Home Depot was tackled to the ground, detained, locked up for 24 hours for filming ICE smashing a man’s window. He plans to sue. (From @keithboykin)

submitted 17 hours ago • 240 comments

People are getting arrested for impersonating ICE officers, yet another reason we shouldn’t normalize plainclothes, masked police forces that don’t wear badges. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Lord save us from Christians who didn’t do the reading.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Just in case anyone wants a reminder of how Trump helped create the situation he's now using as justification to bomb Iran. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ira...

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

Just a reminder folks. Since Jenner first went public with the cowpox vaccine against smallpox, no single human invention has saved more lives than vaccination. RFK Jr. wants to get rid of vaccines in the US. If he succeeds, he will have become a mass murderer.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I fucking love this country. I love the nature, and the people, and you have nothing like the national parks anywhere else in the world. The fact that someone would want to destroy them makes me irrationally angry.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Wanna know something cool about Staten Island? Not only is it home to the only City-run household organics composting facility in the five boroughs, but also, Staten Islanders are the very best in the city at composting, by sheer tons collected.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

When I say "free speech absolutists" are completely full of shit, this is what I mean. Compare and contrast the situations in this article. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

submitted 21 hours ago • 387 comments