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I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

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i think its bad for your entire personality to be jacking off to anime

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

The neo-Nazi crypto community has been torn apart by drama. At issue: an extremist who frequently hosted Kash Patel on his show, and now stands accused of ripping off his best Nazi buddy with a memecoin. My False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com is here: www.thebulwark.com/p/they-did-n...

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Well, that didn't last long. DHS told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants. Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 160 comments

Free speech absolutism strikes again.

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saying that someone “no longer has any legal interests” because they’re dead is the sort of claim you might wanna run by a lawyer before publishing in The Atlantic

submitted 23 hours ago • 79 comments

“I told him it was brutal and cruel.” Minnesota Senator @tinasmithmn (D) pulled Utah’s @senmikelee out of a Republican meeting and confronted him for his ugly tweets blaming Democrats for the shootings of Dems in Minnesota — by a man friends say was a staunch conservative.

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

Never has it been clearer that “no one is free until Palestine is free” is not a chant but a warning, as we all stare into the abyss of another world war.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

I think “prosecute every ICE employee” is the best deal those Nazi fucks should expect to get.

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

it is time to shut down the mormons like japan did to unification church and aum shinrikyo. clear your big goofy temple out, that shit aint real and you know it

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Holy crap. The US-UK trade deal is a blank sheet of paper and only Trump signed it. (Genuine screen grab).

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A US judge to govt lawyers defending the NIH's grant terminations: "I understand the administration is against DEI. Respectfully, I just don't know what you mean. This isn't a teasing question. There has to be some working definition. This is research to advance healthcare for all our citizens."

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“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard so many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

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No way are these guys legitimate cops of any kind Seems like half the guys in these pictures look like they left a tailgate party two hours ago

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

make them all get real jobs

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

What in the actual dystopia

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Largest trans survey ever finds the top reason transgender people stop transitioning is transphobia “In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community,” the survey found.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Can’t believe nobody wants to go to a soccer game to be kidnapped by ICE

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

What I mean when I say I want masculinity without toxicity

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

just anecdotally, the idea that Iranians yearn for the West to topple the regime may have had some truth to it before the Iraq war. now everyone understands that it just means death, misery, and destruction.

submitted 23 hours ago • 88 comments

NEW — Here are the 12 members of Congress who have so far signed on to efforts against the Trump-Vance administration's moves towards war on Iran. 2.2% of Congress

submitted 23 hours ago • 35 comments

Same energy

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

submitted 456 days ago • 48 comments

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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well why did they watch him do that

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It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”

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Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a 39-year-old Utah resident, died Saturday night after being shot during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest. Police said a member of a peacekeeping team fired shots trying to contain a man pointing a rifle at demonstrators, hitting Folasa Ah Loo.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

submitted 4 days ago • 570 comments

Whoa! Hats off to ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for keeping his cool yesterday. This LAPD officer needs to be relieved of duty if he can’t handle an alleged “touch” without snapping.

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www.kuer.org/news/2025-06... Bystander shot during Salt Lake City No Kings protest dies at the hospital | KUER

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Okay this is absolutely horrifying - this young man posted a statement against everything going on with ICE, and now they’re threatening him with a psych hold

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

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I’ve seen a few variants of “if Iranian civilians don’t like what’s happening, they had 40 years to overthrow their dictatorship, time’s up” on here, and if you genuinely love Israel, that is … not the sort of stance on civilian casualties you want to be encouraging

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OFF-spring. @theonion.com

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse