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"The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show." apnews.com/article/ice-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

submitted 11 hours ago • 681 comments

If anything, it is understated in our public consciousness how “North Korean” we have gotten in such a short period of time, even compared to Trump’s first term. We are only a few short months in and already upwards of a BILLION has been spent on making this one guy feel good about himself:

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 240 comments

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

submitted 22 hours ago • 106 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

The fact that so many people think celebrating the end of slavery in the US is “DEI” is actually clarifying of what they mean when they use DEI. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Omg I hate this shit so much

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 4 days ago • 180 comments

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is vastly more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

Blocked🚫

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

One thing that's psychologically fascinating about Bluesky is in the absence of an algorithm you're quite sincerely thrown into a wild west marketplace of ideas and have to survive on, uh... merit. A lot of journalists are finding their ideas aren't popular. Rather, they are just well paid.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

So the Senate Reconciliation Bill is basically privatizing the American West. www.wilderness.org/articles/med... wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Do you think my conviction that liberals need to fill the discursive space, draw attention, and worry less about how they’re perceived might not be a lack of self-awareness but in fact be related to how I engage online? Let’s think hard about this

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything. Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

It would be really nice if politics worked like this because it would create positive incentives and reward thoughtful, careful people. But it just doesn’t! Not right now! You win by being loud and being seen and talking constantly, so liberals need to suck it up and be loud, for the greater good.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The Supreme Court is illegitimate. Not just because it is stolen, and it is, and not because it is corrupt, and it is, but because it is wrong and it does not represent the interests of the people. We have to get comfortable with unchaining ourselves from tradition, norms, and decorum.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

Manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Obama to convince him to rip up the JCPOA, precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was. www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Cities the president hates, I thought.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 6 days ago • 596 comments

RCV is the reason why the Lander and Mamdani fan bases aren't at each others' throats, Bernie vs Warren 2020 style

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

There is a non-zero chance that Christian zealots push humanity over the edge and into the abyss and every step of the way the evangelical Right is cheering and praying as we all perish in a giant inferno.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“The true battle being fought, in the US and elsewhere, is not left versus right but nihilism versus universalism. Trump and his ilk of populist nationalists do not believe in universal principles, the rule of law or human rights.” www.liberalcurrents.com/universalism...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

Imagine watching everything Trump has done for the last 150 days - ripping children from their mothers, gutting the administrative state, sending the military into LA - and helping him pass any legislation, let alone a bill that allows him to massively profit. 16 Dem Senators are choosing to do so.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is a truly despicable way to treat a person who put their life and honor on the line for this country. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Cincinnati people: please help me find a video of the old Honda East commercial set to the tune of "Help Me, Rhonda"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

So, from the looks of this story, the Trump regime is using the American Gestapo, ICE, on a journalist. This is very bad

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

2017, MeToo style punitive intolerance for sexual misconduct—but this time sincere.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I know a lot of people just don't really know much about foreign cities, but please imagine how it would go if someone told all of NYC to evacuate "immediately," and then add two million more people to that scenario

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

This is really good.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I strongly believe that this is the root of the rot; it’s hard to make an institutionalist argument for anything good when the institutions have been so thoroughly captured.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

As early voting begins in NYC, I wrote about the hope of the Zohran-Lander cross-endorsement and the state of the race

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Agreed, I didn't think I needed to be further radicalized against these people but here it is

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Next Democratic president should just ignore the immunity decision and prosecute Trump. If John Roberts doesn't like it he can bust Trump out himself like Assata Shakur.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments