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You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it does have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence. www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...

submitted 19 hours ago • 508 comments

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

submitted 15 hours ago • 504 comments

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

submitted 21 hours ago • 856 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 19 hours ago • 177 comments

The same people who can’t stop talking about Biden’s health won’t ask Trump why this keeps happening.

submitted 9 hours ago • 627 comments

"Only 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date..." www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 272 comments

Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

submitted 9 hours ago • 105 comments

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

submitted 17 hours ago • 151 comments

President Miller overrules Trump

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Guy who has never had a real job says you're not working enough

submitted 12 hours ago • 122 comments

You lazy fucks aren’t working enough.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2683 comments

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.

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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound incredibly on, the subtitles will not help.

submitted 1 day ago • 494 comments

GOV. ANDY BESHEAR CRITICIZES ICE RAIDS!!

submitted 1 day ago • 346 comments

I don’t care what city or town you live in. If these guys jumped out of an unmarked van and grabbed you on the street, would you just assume they’re ICE or FBI? Would you willingly comply with their orders and get inside the van? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. THIS IS NOT AMERICA.

submitted 1 day ago • 2215 comments

Good morning bluesky!

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 1 day ago • 775 comments

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

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For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

submitted 1 day ago • 1536 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

The GHC or whatever they call it is an unmitigated disaster, surprising no one

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Source: Judy Miller

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Marcy calls it Democrats' "Catturd Deficit"

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA. @bxroberts.org‬ takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Fascism coming fast to the US

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

Note, there are two dailies in SLC. The SLC Tribune, which is more mainstream, and the Deseret News, which is Mormon. This is the Mormon newspaper calling on him to apologize.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Nothing new the world is getting so old.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Wait a minute...didn't we all learn from the Trump Mar-a-Lago case that doing this is totally OK, and that jailing any person for it would mean America haa a "two-tiered system of justice" that is biased against Donald Trump? Really confusing these days trying to navigate the American fascist state

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Ahahahahahaha. This asshole has no idea what the U.S. Army is like.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

👀 “Trump Made $57.4 From World Liberty Financial, New Filing Discloses” Me, for @forbes.com

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

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 • 1169 comments

of course schiff we could've had a genuinely badass progressive senator with Barbara Lee but pelosi and the rest of the democratic establishment would not allow it

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Our early warning capabilities, our planning tools, our interagency coordinating mechanisms, and the resources available to the government to respond to crises have all been greatly diminished. This will remain true despite planned increases in defense and homeland security spending."

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

These ICE goons are completely out of control. Arresting US Citizens, elected officials, and terrorizing our communities. Comptroller Lander was simply asking for the warrant.

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

Either the Director of National Intelligence lied in her testimony before Congress, or Trump is lying now. It is that simple. Will any Republicans in Congress say a word? Nope. Will media splash huge stories about it and lead with it? Nope. Just another day in Trump’s America.

submitted 3 days ago • 186 comments

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

submitted 3 days ago • 176 comments

When asked in 2024 if mass deportations would harm Florida's agricultural industry, a farmer-legislator confidently said Trump wouldn't actually engage in an indiscriminate mass deportation program. Even if that did happen, he said, there will always be a supply of H-2A workers. (Pub. Oct. 2024)

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

As @mattpolprof.bsky.social points out in this thread, a core problem with MAGA is it promises widespread well being to the in-group, but its insistence on making everything zero-sum at all times actually undermines that in-group's prosperity (though the pleasures of hate might suffice):

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, massive.

submitted 4 days ago • 436 comments

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

submitted 5 days ago • 290 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments