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"The measure of a life Is a measure of love and respect So hard to earn, so easily burned In the fullness of time A garden to nurture and protect" - Neil "The Professor" Peart Neat: https://clearsky.app/
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You can opt out of data broker sites like Spokeo, Been Verified, etc. If you have a public life of any sort, I urge you to do this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Sen. Tammy Duckworth just said on Colbert, "We should all live long enough to develop a disability," & the audience laughed uncomfortably. I can tell you what they were thinking. It was "Not me. That would never happen to me." & the underlying, unacknowlged premise was "b/c I'm better than that."

submitted 11 hours ago • 61 comments

I've had to repeatedly explain to people that, no, the fact the US has an authoritarian administration does not mean global sporting events will stay away. Far from it. They're strongly aligned with anti-democratic regimes. They don't want protests and anti-racism messages either!

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

"Trump's message is plain. If you commit violence in his cause, he will have your back...America in 2025 is making political murder easier. This is a choice, not fate." My column. www.ft.com/content/e172...

submitted 4 hours ago • 29 comments

Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.

submitted 16 hours ago • 161 comments

There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.

submitted 12 hours ago • 413 comments

NPR used to be the last remaining news preset channel on our satellite radio. It has been replaced with BBC world news. This stenography is a good example why.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

#ProudBlue #RU #Pinks I’m basically a very positive person (see “Pollyanna”) & that’s why I try to share something daily to lift you & it helps me, as well. But these days have been TOUGH. It requires extra effort, but strive to cultivate a mindset of gratitude & finding the good wherever you can

submitted 5 hours ago • 104 comments

It was inevitable. Scump reams out Kegsbreath for mediocre parade. Well, he had to blame someone. Truth be told, it's his own fault. $45 million could have fed and housed a lot of veterans. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

submitted 6 hours ago • 79 comments

Ben Mazer: “In the past few years, ivermectin’s popularity has only grown, and the drug has become a go-to treatment for almost any ailment whatsoever. Once a suspect COVID cure, now a right-wing aspirin.”

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

😅🤣

submitted 8 hours ago • 374 comments

The moment when the Russian drone directly hit a residential building in Kyiv appeared online. Russians continue to fight against civilians.

submitted 9 hours ago • 113 comments

time and time and time again this country has put making gobs of money over the health and safety of the public we're genuinely too corrupt to pass (and enforce) a meaningful privacy law for the internet era

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

“Our ongoing research on protests in the United States reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. ...

submitted 9 hours ago • 64 comments

Thou shalt not start World War 3! ESPECIALLY when you ran on preventing World War 3.

submitted 9 hours ago • 156 comments

submitted 9 hours ago • 505 comments

The question Trump needs to (but won’t) answer is: Does the US want to get involved in another exercise in regime change and nation building in the Middle East? Because that is where this appears to be headed.

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

WHO receiving reports of another mass casualty event in Gaza near food site reut.rs/3FSQAEC

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

Inasmuch as the Trump admin has any consistent tactical approach to policy, I think they just get up in the morning and say to themselves, what’s the most evil, destructive, and stupid thing I could do today? Then they do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

“South Africa’s scientists have been responsible for key breakthroughs against major global killers, including heart disease, H.I.V. and respiratory viruses… They have worked closely with American researchers and have been awarded more research funding from the United States than any other country”

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

even the NYPD isn't pretending subways are crime-ridden hellscapes! "Subway crime decreased to the second-lowest level in 27 years, with major crime dropping 18.1% (465 vs. 568) during the first quarter, and zero murders in the transit system for the first time in seven years."

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

(Axios) - President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/06/16/i...

submitted 3 hours ago • 71 comments

For a lot of relatively comfortable Americans, electing an emotionally incontinent imbecile was a bit of entertainment. A game. Good sport, owning those libs. I hope they’re duly entertained.

submitted 14 hours ago • 191 comments

I don’t think the political press is really equipped to deal with a gutter shithead like Mike Lee being in a position of power. Basically a right-wing engagement farming account in every way, except for the fact that he’s also 1 of 100 U.S. senators. Troubling!

submitted 15 hours ago • 19 comments

sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad

submitted 15 hours ago • 108 comments

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXeT...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

call for a vote to censure or call for a vote to expel. protract the story and explain why it matters.

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds apnews.com/article/immi...

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

New rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats or unmarried veterans, according to reporting from The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars.

submitted 16 hours ago • 65 comments

Well, that didn't last long. DHS told staff it was reversing guidance issued last week that agents were not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants. Shadow President Stephen Miller wins again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 152 comments

FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post

submitted 17 hours ago • 631 comments

Not to alarm everyone, but there’s a lot going on right now…

submitted 12 hours ago • 334 comments

"I have never seen a record where racial discrimination by the government is so palpable... Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?" Judge Young (Reagan appointee) ruling in our favor against Trump research cuts. Read more of the Judge's fiery language: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/breaking-n...

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Trump: "The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them, that's why. That's the ultimate protection."

submitted 18 hours ago • 411 comments

The Congressman who literally said Gaza should be nuked is now trying to clutch his pearls and claim the No Kings protest was a call for violence.

submitted 18 hours ago • 49 comments

does he ... does he think the UK is still part of the EU?

submitted 18 hours ago • 427 comments

This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.

submitted 17 hours ago • 456 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 17 hours ago • 577 comments

BREAKING: Jury finds MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company.

submitted 17 hours ago • 123 comments

"The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of 'Marxists,' and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor."

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

The headline is not ideal, but kudos to NYT's @anniekarni.bsky.social for shaming Mike Lee (and down in the story, Derrick Van Orden). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 108 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

I wrote about Democrats' obsession with calling Trump's actions a "distraction," and how it reflects their failure to understand the modern media ecosystem.

submitted 18 hours ago • 102 comments