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A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.

submitted 19 hours ago • 39 comments

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

submitted 13 hours ago • 137 comments

BREAKING: In a major win for all working people, a federal judge has ordered that the administration cannot revoke federal workers' collective bargaining rights.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Can someone explain why Medicaid activists in wheelchairs are being zip-tied and arrested at the Capitol? They’re peacefully pleading to keep their benefits — and this is the response? Is this who we are as a country?

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

New in PN: SCOTUS clears the path for Trump's network of global gulags "With one paragraph, the Court undercut lower court judges and consigned countless immigrants to be renditioned to a system of gulags. It will have lasting corrosive effects on American civil society and respect for the courts."

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

My heart is breaking in ways I didn’t know were possible—but I’m holding onto outrage. Two U.S. teens were dragged from their home in SoCal as federal agents shattered windows, hurled flashbangs, & took their parents. This is cruelty. This is terrorism. And it’s happening on our soil. F*ck ICE.

submitted 22 hours ago • 157 comments

RFK Jr. has just appointed another anti-vax liar to the CDC. Lyn Redwood, former head of the same misinformation factory that paid RFK Jr. to lie about vaccines, will now work at the CDC. Every day it gets worse. The U.S. government is subjecting Americans to a disinformation campaign.

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

ICE forces U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran to deport—after taking 2 bullets in combat. Sae Joon Park "miraculously" survived being shot in spine—then given 3 weeks to deport to South Korea. Will miss dying mother's funeral—then his daughter's wedding. Was legally in U.S. under deferred action.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

Watch this. Because this is the way: Local officials using their platform right, reaching out to the community. Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, affectionately known as “the popsicle man,” was reportedly abducted in broad daylight in Culver City. Masked man. White van. Cart left behind in the street.

submitted 14 hours ago • 354 comments

Ukrainian leader signs an accord with the Council of Europe to set up a special tribunal to try top Russian officials.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

A Denver judge on Wednesday blocked the Colorado governor’s office from forcing a state employee to hand over records to federal immigration authorities on 35 sponsors of unaccompanied immigrant children in the state. By @sarawilson.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

What badass investigative reporter is going undercover with one of these ICE goon squads? This is, like, THE story right now. Who trains? What rules of engagement? What propaganda do they consume? How do they recruit, and weed out non-sadists? Would they follow orders to shoot regime enemies?

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Today, on the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, we submitted a letter w/21 other AGs to the American Hospital Association reaffirming that hospitals nationwide are legally obligated to provide emergency abortion care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). #orpol

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

submitted 21 hours ago • 944 comments

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

submitted 19 hours ago • 226 comments

this was my reaction too when I walked into cardiac surgery and started unplugging things. turns out that perhaps the hospital should've chosen someone who knew anything at all about cardiac surgery before making me the Cardiac Surgery Efficiency Boss With Unchecked Arbitrary Power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 17 hours ago • 202 comments

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 459 comments

So weird. They’re all just so fucking weird.

submitted 15 hours ago • 229 comments

One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!

submitted 14 hours ago • 85 comments

Tennessee passed a law threatening felony charges against local elected officials who vote in favor of policies supporting immigrant communities. This is an attack on the legislative process and democracy itself — @aclutn.bsky.social will see the state in court.

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

Not only will this likely result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year - in the most poor and underprivileged areas because it is eugenics - this will make us less safe at home as well and put us at risk for increasing disease outbreaks and increasing spread of infectious disease.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

NEW: A GOP-led House investigation is targeting 200+ groups accused of fueling Biden's "historic border crisis" by helping immigrants. But list includes several faith groups and entire denominations, and some are calling the probe a violation of religious liberty. religionnews.com/2025/06/25/f...

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

This is the slippery slope New reporting on use of federalized National Guard in what appears like DEA-led drug bust, no protesters in sight, far outside of LA @lizagoitein.bsky.social has very sharp analysis on why this appears illegal on all counts (including Trump’s own presidential memorandum)

submitted 20 hours ago • 48 comments

Trump calls for Israel to cancel Netanyahu’s corruption trial or pardon him

submitted 19 hours ago • 618 comments

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

submitted 20 hours ago • 2192 comments

Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/

submitted 18 hours ago • 103 comments

New York City: where apparently it's a grand conspiracy theory when the immigrants are replacing the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the Native Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

If they weren’t stuck in their Nazi echo chamber on Twitter, and were in the real world like on Bluesky with normal people who have real jobs and families, they would have seen this coming. The political snd media elite must face a big reckoning and ask why they’re so out of touch with real America.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Kansas rural hospitals brace for impact of $4 billion funding loss under mega-bill | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

man the cowardice of democratic leaders who refused to oppose Cuomo looks worse and worse right now. primary them all

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

"The US military strikes on 3 of Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment described by 4 people briefed on it."

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

A reminder: Law Professors: The Constitution still exists and the Courts will protect us. Historians:

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 3788 comments

How about Democrats stop letting Republicans define any policy that they don't like (all policies that actually help non-billionaires) as "socialist?" (As they've done for a century now.) How about Dems run to their base, run to the next generation, run to their principles, run to good policies?

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 691 comments

Damn right!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 826 comments

Trump kidnapping your spouse and bombing Iran because he got mad and sending the Marines to Los Angeles to prop up his campaign of domestic warfare and rendition, while ordering the Justice Department to wage expensive psy ops on people who say he didn’t win an election he lost are all a distraction

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

When was the last time a socialist politician campaign in NYC in Yiddish? Meyer London?

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes

submitted 3 days ago • 258 comments

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

submitted 4 days ago • 446 comments

Francisco Urizar, 64, was detained by ICE while on his work route delivering tortillas. His daughter Nancy is trying to find out what happened to him.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

This really is Congress eating its own institutional capacity to stifle any dissent to Trump. They accuse CBO of being Democrats, even though it is run by a Republican appointee. GAO has pointed out the illegality of impoundment. DOGE tried to take over GAO, and now House Republicans want to gut it.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

submitted 3 days ago • 1396 comments

The Russians, who have been murdering Ukrainian civilians and bombing cities for three years, are suddenly very worried about "gross violation of international law" and "global and regional security" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/22/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 215 comments

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.

submitted 3 days ago • 670 comments