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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

submitted 9 days ago • 476 comments

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

submitted 13 days ago • 1521 comments

This is a view from the surface of Comet 67P. The busy particles in the foreground are cosmic rays or bits of dust and ice. The dots moving in the background are stars.

submitted 13 days ago • 329 comments

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!

submitted 17 days ago • 629 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 18 days ago • 1117 comments

Scary stuff

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This is BONKERS and kinda scary as well

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Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

submitted 25 days ago • 1775 comments

oh no

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I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

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MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

submitted 28 days ago • 2006 comments

So we're saying tariffs are not beautiful?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

No container ships at Port of Seattle

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Crypto is the vehicle for the worst corruption in government in U.S. history.

submitted 29 days ago • 247 comments

I know from experience: When we fight, we win. This week, we stopped the GOP from stealing a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. Democracy Docket reported every update on this case. Subscribe to its free newsletters for the latest on all the lawsuits to come: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 29 days ago • 427 comments

Voice of reason

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Traffic at the ports is drastically lower now. This is the canary in the coal mine for the coming self-inflicted economic hardship. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/p...

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Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

submitted 31 days ago • 714 comments

This database will also be used to go after "enemies of the state". www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Great set of starter packs from @alansmitheedga.bsky.social

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 41 days ago • 618 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 43 days ago • 861 comments

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

submitted 43 days ago • 1298 comments

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

submitted 44 days ago • 784 comments

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

submitted 44 days ago • 1421 comments

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

submitted 45 days ago • 841 comments

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

submitted 46 days ago • 542 comments

This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.

submitted 47 days ago • 3550 comments

Happy 72nd Birthday to Rick Moranis. Thank you for being the Canadian treasure that you are.

submitted 48 days ago • 116 comments

We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.

submitted 49 days ago • 338 comments

How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?

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If I disappear, I’ll probably be in the El Salvador gulag. People laughed at me when I said they would have concentration camps.

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i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 60 days ago • 711 comments

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 54 days ago • 408 comments

“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

submitted 56 days ago • 449 comments

NEWS: The House narrowly voted to approve the GOP budget blueprint by a vote of 216-214, which aims to make massive cuts to Medicaid and give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

submitted 56 days ago • 614 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

submitted 56 days ago • 1227 comments

A psychopath, a con man and a rapist walk into a bar. The barman says "Good evening Mr Trump".

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 57 days ago • 430 comments

Today's stock market crash was the worst since the Spring of 2020. Can you guess who was president during both crashes? I bet you can!

submitted 63 days ago • 920 comments