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NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

Holy shit

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

"From now on, the influence of the median voter will be outstripped by that of the median protester, an individual more likely to be motivated by the attack on rights than the price of eggs. The Democrats must tailor their strategy accordingly." 1/2🧵

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Please, everyone, remember, that authoritarianism doesn't have a finish line. Its hunger is endless for power, for control, for silence. We can't shrug it off. Not now. Not ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Trump sabotages - Ag, family farms - US health care and public health - Science, research, academia - fiscal health of US - our democracy and our humanity - our global reputation Eternal shame to his Congressional enablers.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

This is the way. Don’t engage. Don’t acknowledge. When people lie and make bad faith arguments, the simple act of responding gives them more reach and credibility. They deserve neither. Just block and move on.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

submitted 3 days ago • 629 comments

“If we do not stand up to Peter Thiel, they’re going to come after all of us.” 13 people were arrested protesting Palantir’s surveillance of Americans. Palantir is profiting off of ICE raids. It’s refining its tracking techniques & gathering data at lightning speed. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

submitted 2 days ago • 508 comments

Make this go viral.

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Please boost the numbers that exist to help folks instead of just the news that one option has been taken away.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Article about the Unbreaking project/ website. This looks really fantastic! ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/unbrea...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The news really sucks today. Instead of boosting a harmful Supreme Court decision, here’s something better: a practical guide on how to support the LGBTQ+ youth in your life. Because they deserve our attention, our protection, and our love. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/ar...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

This is the first MSM journalist I've seen state this so broadly. Authoritarianism is here.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

[World News Section] Regime Imprisons Minority Party Local Finance Minister in Latest Crackdown

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We CANNOT think individually, #Montana. We must think of the collective health and conservation of ALL public lands, far beyond our state. Because when they come for one, they come for all. Also, fuck Sheehy and Daines.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 3 days ago • 357 comments

America's secret police just detained a guy who might be Mayor of New York City and his NYPD escort. We have to abolish ICE. That should be the baseline Democratic Party position.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

MORE OF THIS, BLUE GOVS

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I was literally taught my whole life that if someone in plain clothes and a mask tries to detain you and refuses to identify themselves, you call 911 and you’re absolutely within your rights to not comply for safety reasons. What’s happening is kidnapping. Full stop.

submitted 4 days ago • 96 comments

AI criticism engenders my least favorite response to anything: “you don’t like it because you don’t understand it.” No. I don’t like it because I understand it very, very well.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I guess we can now simplify down from eleventy-billion definitions of democracy down to "is there a masked secret police disappearing people?"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Digital resources, particularly eBooks and audiobooks, are going to bankrupt libraries if something isn't done to halt the extortionary pricing models of publishers.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Fucking hell

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A brief comment/thread on Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten refusing DNC appointments. Overall, I think it's a very good thing for both the DNC and labor that this is happening. Here's why: 1) first, this isn't about ideology or labor policy. This is about how the party will be run.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Our inability to say - explicitly - that the right wing strategy of vilifying whomever they deem other, stoking status threat and glorifying guns led to the murder of an extraordinary public servant and effective leader simply aids the right's aims.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Absolutely 💯 Worth 💯 Your 💯 Time 💯 3 minutes

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This was the celery of military parades

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

She does a great job explaining why we gotta fill our ballots - rank FIVE candidates with people who are NOT Andrew Cuomo!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This ad is a great argument for ranked choice voting

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment