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“The fear to speak. In America?” CBS’ Scott Pelley asked. “If our government is—in Lincoln’s words—‘of the people, by the people and for the people’—then why are we afraid to speak?” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-s...

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A bracing warning from "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley: "Our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools..." #WFU www.youtube.com/live/FcWa-wX...

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This is not good. State trooper cars should be highly visible and marked. It’s not safe to have unmarked or low visibility vehicles pulling people over, especially in the age of ICE kidnappings. www.kctv5.com/2025/05/09/c...

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ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

submitted 33 days ago • 983 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 40 days ago • 655 comments

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

submitted 43 days ago • 65 comments

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 48 days ago • 373 comments

"I very much want to believe that we will once again find our way before too much damage is done, before we descend into a time of monsters. But I very much fear that the lamps are once again going out all around us."

submitted 52 days ago • 35 comments

America has been cursed with ‘nearly 80 million’ ignorant bigots, who thought this foolish senile old man really had something special…👇 Many are still in deep denial that they RUINED our nation. But they did. These people should be shamed until the end of their miserable lives. WHO AGREES?! 🤚

submitted 53 days ago • 190 comments

🚨 If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be. Here’s how to think of them: They are no longer public servants. Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life… 1/

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Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 53 days ago • 463 comments

Instead of referring to Elon Musk as the “richest man in the world”, call him what he actually is the “Greediest Man on Earth”!

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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 60 days ago • 669 comments

Jessica Aber, the former U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, was found dead Saturday morning, police say.

submitted 66 days ago • 27 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 72 days ago • 627 comments

The eventual fate of the GOP

submitted 73 days ago • 2080 comments

Heather Koon-Swanson led the North Cascades National Park pack mules for two decades until retiring in December.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

A Trump administration freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover everything from dumpster pickups at national parks to liquid nitrogen for lifesaving military research is upending work across the government, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

submitted 80 days ago • 58 comments

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 81 days ago • 1264 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 85 days ago • 2082 comments