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great question

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 5 hours ago • 310 comments

Look I took the farsight feat not blindsight

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 4 hours ago • 132 comments

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated before the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

submitted 13 hours ago • 592 comments

It should be illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and not show ID. This makes it too easy to impersonate law enforcement and murder people in their homes.

submitted 18 hours ago • 735 comments

trans rights btw this isn't up for debate

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman was a staunch advocate of tighter gun laws. She had a hand in passing several pivotal reforms, including expanding background checks, establishing a red flag law, and upping penalties for straw purchasing. Hortman was shot and killed on June 14.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

A reminder from Dragon Con - You are who you are and there is nothing wrong with that. "It's about acceptance and belonging. It's about pride and connection and understanding. It's about healing and hope." - Michelle Dockrey (Vixy) dragoncon.tv www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HCK... #DCTV #DragonCon2025

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Florida man breaks Canadian trophy 🏆

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

It feels weird to me that we're supposed to call our representatives to be like: "Hey can we not initiate another forever war?" You'd think they'd be able to handle that one without a ton of input.

submitted 20 hours ago • 44 comments

Brutal.

submitted 21 hours ago • 372 comments

There is absolutely no reason to deport a longtime journalist who is authorized to work in the United States. The Dekalb County Sheriff's Office should not have released Mario Guevara to ICE.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Two facts worth considering: 1. The Fed is projecting GDP growth of 1.4% this year 2. Nearly every time growth has slowed to this rate, the economy stalls, and a recession follows

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

I have seen this exact quote everywhere on right-wing social media & in interviews. So many of their views on whether the US should go to war for/with Israel is based off a passage in the Bible. US foreign policy in 2025 is based on something from the Bible. It’s a Holy War. bsky.app/profile/yash...

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz on Israel and theology.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

it was dumber than this

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

Moulton: I have heard that a lot of officers are considering resigning their commissions because they question whether this is constitutional—whether they’re violating their oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not the president, by carrying out these orders. These are active discussions

submitted 1 day ago • 464 comments

The Fed further dropped its 2025 GDP projection. They're now expecting 1.4%, down from the 1.7% projected in March and 2.1% in December.

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Useless Chuck once again demonstrates how useless he is. At least he (or his staff) had the good sense to delete this offensive, tone deaf, useless (very on-brand) skeet. Protect trans kids. Trans rights are human rights.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson clashes with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz about Iran, underscoring a broader split within the MAGA movement over U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

US Social Security, Medicare to run short of funds in 2033, trustees say reut.rs/3G2Ujzq

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

how is it a distraction? how is it not part of the thing you just said? you and your staff are fucking venal idiots

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a Tennessee ban on gender affirming care for minors is a major loss for the transgender community at an extremely vulnerable moment. “Materially and emotionally, for transgender young people and their families, the worst case scenario has already happened.”

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

"The C-suite execs are set to bypass traditional basic training, serving about two weeks annually." I thought Pete Hegseth was not going to lower physical standards for any soldier. This is an insult to my dad, grandfather & anyone else who has worn the uniform. This isn't service. It's cosplay.

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"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Reddit thread from a future generation if we’re not careful: “Hey, how did people get basic facts wrong before you had AI?”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 1 day ago • 502 comments

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social

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NEW: Powerful from Brad Lander after being freed: "I'm fine. I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight. I have a lawyer. At that elevator, I was separated from Edgardo. He's not going to sleep in his bed tonight. He has no lawyer. He’s been stripped of his rights. Our Constitutional democracy is not fine.”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Sometimes when I’m driving I pull over to text my wife something urgent like this: Rick Steves is like Mr Rogers but his neighborhood is the entire world

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Under what constitutional authority? Under what constitutional authority? I repeat, under what constitutional authority?

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

I told you guys

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

THERE IS VIDEO. AGAIN. Lander didn't lay a hand on anyone. Quite the opposite.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

Sen. Padilla speaks on the Senate floor for the first time since being forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s Los Angeles press conference. Padilla emotionally recounts his experience, asking, “what will a city already on edge… think when they see their U.S. senator being handcuffed?”

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart harshly criticized Mike Lee for his posts about the shootings that left a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband dead, calling Lee “the avatar of the insanity of this moment.”

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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 2 days ago • 1164 comments

CBO just estimated the macrodynamic impact on the cost of the GOP bill - i.e., "is this bill going to help the economy so much that it pays for itself?" CBO said that the bill pays for just 3.5% of itself - w/ a tiny upfront economic boost that declines over time. Legitimately embarrassing for Rs.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

So we have a US official in Germany saying they are “just following orders” in denying Harvard-bound scholars visas despite a federal judge’s restraining order www.masslive.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

I know we all know he’s unaware of history, but the implication here is…scary

submitted 2 days ago • 44 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 2 days ago • 862 comments