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It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

This was the plan the entire time and it was always going to be targeted towards Democratic run cities. It’s not about law and order. It’s about controlling by force the areas where Trump does not control by ideology.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

I legit think the chances of a coup by retired generals is not zero in America’s near future

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck you michael bloomberg

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idk why but it keeps striking me that seemingly every ICE raid I hear reported on is at a workplace where the persons being kidnapped are doing what we would have considered "essential" work back in the pandemic.

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To get an idea of how catastrophically bad a president and person trump is he is making Gavin Newsom look momentarily good

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 4 days ago • 244 comments

"It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work and whose labor is in great demand. It’s about as far as you can get from just going after the bad guys, as the WH routinely claims."

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

memories from the campaign trail that are relevant right now

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

I want to be clear on this: the reason for the unrest in LA is these are LEGAL immigrants who are doing EXACTLY what they are supposed to by going to ICE check ins that many have been doing for years, and seeing them getting rounded up including at naturalization preparations.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

What is the city but the people?

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

heartwarming video of man who just received cochlear implant hearing the video of the lady who fell and hurt herself stomping grapes on the news for the first time

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Fuck ICE. This shit in LA is coming for all of us and if you’re not standing against it you’re allowing it.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 5 days ago • 164 comments

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

submitted 5 days ago • 403 comments

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

submitted 5 days ago • 291 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 6 days ago • 355 comments

I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

One of the wild things about NYC politics, and how people tell on themselves, is that Zohran’s mom is from India, and he was born in Uganda, both countries which have huge diaspora communities in the city, and every single question about a foreign country is… neither of those.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Life expectancy in every Western European country, even the worst one (Germany), was considerably better during corona than life expectancy in the US without corona. That's how far behind American public health is. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...

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