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“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 28 days ago • 876 comments

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation. I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

submitted 28 days ago • 2043 comments

And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.

submitted 38 days ago • 121 comments

So we’re gonna screw over the Etsy businesses but Apple gets exempted.

submitted 42 days ago • 99 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 44 days ago • 1518 comments

What is happening right now — and adding the bond market crash to the list of issues — is solely a creation of the President of the United States and everyone who enabled him in this foolish endeavor.

submitted 46 days ago • 107 comments

A Land for All is an Israeli-Palestinian initiative trying to reimagine the two-state solution. Its co-founder Rula Hardal tells @aloner.bsky.social we’re running out of time to solve the conflict. www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years. It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.

submitted 47 days ago • 78 comments

Howard Lutnick on CNN slamming people who buy Toyota's because it doesn't add to GDP. Toyota has 11 factories in the US and produces 12 models. 39,000 American workers. He knows this, but he chooses to lie.

submitted 51 days ago • 28 comments

Oh …

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Oh ho ho

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

Get ready ladies to fight like hell for our voting rights

submitted 51 days ago • 24 comments

What is more morally urgent that stopping the slaughter of men women and children being bombed and starved to death in an open air prison with no where to escape? Funded totally by us tax payers ? It doesn’t make the first 25 hour morality list? expect human beings to swallow this garbage ?

submitted 51 days ago • 184 comments

I hate to admit it but, as a retired psychiatrist, I find it morbidly fascinating to watch a country that 30 years ago considered itself the world’s only superpower commit suicide. Goethe once said, “Sickness is interesting.” It sure is. How did the US elect this super-sicko president twice?🤢

submitted 51 days ago • 96 comments

You can explain it to them but you can’t understand it for them.

submitted 52 days ago • 49 comments

We've now ended up with non-tariff barriers on our biggest trading partner and tariffs from our second biggest trading partner. I'm not sure 'benefit' is the word I'd use to describe that outcome.

submitted 51 days ago • 17 comments

And, Mike Pence grows some balls.

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A baseline 10% tariff on nearly all countries… Including an island inhabited only by penguins But not on Russia …tells you all you need to know about Trump.

submitted 52 days ago • 29 comments

Bloody hell. What a point.

submitted 52 days ago • 58 comments

America has no consistency in justice… and no broadly shared moral foundations. Oddly, perhaps, Europe seems to me to be a more cohesive “demos” than the US at this point in time.

submitted 52 days ago • 17 comments

Walz: "My beef on this is that this guy is out there crying about his portfolio, and my mom's Social Security check this month is late. That he's attacking the portfolios of working Minnesotans and working Americans who have paid into these programs that he calls a Ponzi scheme."

submitted 52 days ago • 557 comments

Oh.

submitted 53 days ago • 47 comments

Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest floor speech in modern Senate history, surpassing the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s speech lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, in which he spoke against the Civil Rights Act. Read more: cnn.it/4hS8Uul

submitted 53 days ago • 88 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 53 days ago • 1023 comments

I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.

submitted 56 days ago • 71 comments

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

submitted 55 days ago • 945 comments

Here's the part being obscured by the Signal scandal: Houthis aren't the problem, and bombing Yemen isn't a solution. A regime that literally bombs people who are standing against genocide is the problem.

submitted 61 days ago • 38 comments

Buttigieg: "I know this -- in my experience both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system."

submitted 61 days ago • 292 comments

My politics have evolved to be radically antifascist. It’s literally the foundation for my political beliefs. I don’t believe in the devil, I’m not spiritual, but fascism is deeply evil, and if there is any higher calling for humanity, it is defeating fascism wherever it rises.

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Always money for bombs and prisons, never any money for the people

submitted 63 days ago • 27 comments

Just a reminder...

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

As we wake up to the news of another 200 Palestinians (minimum) killed by Israeli air strikes in a clear end to the ceasefire… Take note of this statement via The Guardian:

submitted 68 days ago • 20 comments

This. Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the basic unalienable rights to which all people are entitled. That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so rights cannot be asserted. And some unwise people clap and cheer.

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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

submitted 74 days ago • 449 comments

Columbia University pushed out professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social because of her pro-Palestine advocacy. She joins @premthakker.bsky.social to discuss the systematic free speech crackdown at Columbia and across the US. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/columbia-t...

submitted 75 days ago • 72 comments

Stay focused

submitted 75 days ago • 441 comments

👇👇

submitted 76 days ago • 261 comments

Why is Musk pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia? Musk & Trump have no interest in democracy, America’s historical guarantees, rule of law, sovereignty or peace. They’re siding with a murderous dictator to try and break Ukraine - and Europe.

submitted 79 days ago • 96 comments