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"When we become Americans, we accept not only citizenship's privileges that we did not earn but also its responsibilities to correct wrongs that we did not commit." - Richard Rothstein
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“Why do Democrats want to send our money to Ukraine for war when we have people who need help in America?” *bombs Iran and cuts SNAP/Medicare*

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

We need to put a stop to all op-ed writers that bought into the “Donald The Dove/Democrats Are The Party Of War” delusion until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

“The President” is just a character Trump is playing on TV. He’s the President because he likes being the protagonist on the show he sits his delusional elderly ass on the couch to watch every day. He considers himself the greatest game show host on Earth. That game show being The World.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The position of the Trump administration is that you don’t even need or deserve to know why we went to war, the actual facts are irrelevant, and you should just trust them no matter what

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

It genuinely funny, if not a bit sad, that every time Trump breaks a law the initial reaction from the Dems is to call for a new law (that they can’t pass) to make whatever Trump just did extra illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

lol

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

NYT headline: “Trump may just have unconstitutionally started war with Iran, but Biden’s mental decline was the real constitutional crisis”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered theonion.com/mike-le...

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

If it's market rate, it's just housing for rich people and must be opposed. If it's affordable housing, it's not affordable enough. If it's deeply affordable housing, then "street conditions and neighborhood safety will get worse." Also, what about parking??

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option. 2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it. It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

i like that the unsc had an oddly realistic space warfare doctrine for a video game and the covenant was just kind of like [space magic]

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In this house we believe The state enjoys a monopoly on legitimate violence Violence can only be legitimate when constrained by the rule of law Agents of state violence should be uniformed and accountable to the people

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Every time a rich person tries a threat like "if you do [political thing I don't like] then I won't try to make money anymore" I don't believe them. Why would anyone? Yeah buddy, you'll forgo that extra million simply because it isn't the $1.1 million you originally thought you'd get. Sure Jan.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

Trump winning a second time caused being an asshole to be victory coded with morally corrosive effects that will be felt for generations.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

You know your ideas are correct and good when you need to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge in order to arrive at them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

it's amazing how effectively the anti-Zohran crowd and media has managed to make it seem like he actually SAID "globalize the intifada" instead of being asked about other people saying the phrase and essentially responding "it's complicated." Meanwhile Cuomo is pro-bono lawyer to a war criminal.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Campists bashing out 10,000 words to insist Russia’s reasons for invading are noble complex and every couple of months Putin just says “I’m the imperialism guy. I love doing big 19th century violent imperialism.”

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The reason ICE agents won’t let elected officials into detainment centers is because they’re treating detainees so inhumanely that they don’t think it will survive a news cycle. Think Abu Ghraib. The images and videos that will surface after this is over are going to horrify you to your core.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Nah it must be the NATO expansion

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Honestly believe that none of this would’ve happened if my country were actually filled to the brim with good-natured moral people as opposed to complete pieces of shit. We have a piece of shit problem in the US and it starts and ends with the parents tbh.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As a Lithuanian with an Irish partner I beg people to stop trying to suggest either of our countries had it harder.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

US foreign policy failures from 2014 to 2021 set much of the groundwork for the wars in Sudan, Ukraine, Israel and Gaza, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Houthi blockade, and now Iran. Never forget who was the president for most of that time. Never let MAGA forget, either.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks you say?

submitted 4 days ago • 469 comments

Yeah man. Think we have to dismantle an agency that's sending masked dudes in civvies to raid baseball teams. Absolutely lost their fucking minds to try to do shit like this.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 4 days ago • 3211 comments

The "Dems and Reps are the same" crowd must be so excited that another group of brown people can be exploited to push their agenda. I can't wait for them to instantly forget about Iran's existence the nanosecond this is over, like how they did with Afghanistan. Yeah, I still won't let that slide.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is in some ways a villain from a fairy tale. You have make yourself grotesque in some way to serve him. For men, he emasculates you and makes you a servile dog, taking a picture of himself with you where he smirks and you look sunk. for women, he mutilates your face

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

On Juneteenth, we honor the activists who fought for the freedom of Black Americans. Today, we uphold their legacies by fighting against systems of oppression that continue to limit opportunity and access to safety and mobility in our communities.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure we can say everyone is welcome here until we enable them to have a place to live

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

JD joining Bluesky just to write anti-trans posts while the admin prepares to bomb a major Middle Eastern power just tells us all he's not in the room where it happens.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

general shell says army should stop shelling because it would dilute the power of their 155mm shells

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything. Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

we can't curfew and police our way out of having few safe, fun, and social activities or spaces for teenagers in their neighborhoods when they're not in school

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It rules how a lot of dem political leadership seems to view the concept of "political capital" basically the same as noobs with super rare consumables in an RPG where you can't use it now because you might need it later and we don't know when we'll get another one

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

what gets me about this stupid ass shit is that Ukraine is dealing with literal russian tanks and meanwhile the president is about to toss american power into the MENA meatgrinder once again

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Future Democratic majority/Presidency priorities: 1. Putting members of the Trump Administration (Trump included) in prison for their many crimes. 2. Wrestling Congress’ power back from the executive branch. 3. Housing costs. Feels like a solid Top 3 that might actually save this Republic.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 5 days ago • 445 comments

I know parents from Hinsdale who let their kids metra to the loop unsupervised on weekends. What are these alders doing representing our city when they’re too scared of streeterville. Deeply unserious people.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment