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Crucial point made here — we should learn from others rather than imagine that everything is new and therefore shocking and impossible to resist. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

Putting up a few thoughts on the latest tariff swerve paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

If Trump can claim a "national emergency" to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

submitted 15 hours ago • 225 comments

As of 6 pm today, 34 people were killed and 117 injured by the Russian strike on Sumy. Two of the killed and 15 of the injured are children. The Russian strike killed everyone in the Martynenko family - mom, dad and their son Maksym, a six-grader. Deepest condolences.

submitted 22 hours ago • 117 comments

Hannah Arendt wrote about how totalitarian regimes would denaturalize groups of people—Jews, etc.—to pave the way for sending them to concentration camps. The Trump administration wants to denaturalize US citizens to send them to concentration camps in El Salvador.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔

submitted 21 hours ago • 276 comments

Sumy 💔 24 people killed, including one child. 84 people injured, including seven children. The Russian missile was a cluster one to maximize the damage. The most victims were in the trolleybus.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Mom tries to comfort her daughter after they survived a Russian missile strike on Sumy this morning. Heartbreaking.

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

We "defend Christian values" by using ballistic missiles to kill children as they gather to attend Easter worship.

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submitted 1 day ago • 297 comments

Great. Now I need to inject bleach into my eyes.

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If I had the power to keep children from ever feeling pain, hunger, or like they are"less than", my heart would be overflowing. This little man's smile is truly everything ❤️🥲 🎥jayshetty

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

“IDEAS”

submitted 3 days ago • 546 comments

Lawlessness and shamelessness.

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

submitted 3 days ago • 858 comments

German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

Nothing to see here… Just a squirrel that found a grocery aisle in the garden center 🐿️ 🔊🔊 🎥animalbeingpets

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Somebody told me if you hold up a Shell you can hear the sea. All I got was 6 years for armed robbery.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 4 days ago • 887 comments

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Yes, the captain intentionally piloted the ship into a huge iceberg, cracking the vessel like an egg. But the officers insist we'll all greatly benefit from an invigorating midnight swim through Arctic waters.

submitted 5 days ago • 104 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 5 days ago • 2274 comments

It’s the stupid, economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-...

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Marharyta Polovinko, Ukrainian Defender and artist, died on the frontlines. In 2024, Marharyta evacuated wounded Defenders as a volunteer. Later, she joined the 3rd Assault Brigade. Marharyta shared about her drawings after Russian atrocities in Kyiv region became known:

submitted 5 days ago • 123 comments

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 385 comments

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

submitted 7 days ago • 319 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 6 days ago • 527 comments

Three innocent children were taken by ICE - not for crimes, but as victims of the Trump regimes ethnic cleansing. Now they sit in a detention center, terrified and alone. No due process, no answers. Just desks still empty, teachers still waiting, classmates still asking why, & so much heartache.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

submitted 6 days ago • 860 comments

Republicans in Congress can join Democrats right now to turn off the bogus emergency Trump has declared to impose worldwide tariffs. Or they can continue to bend the knee to Trump.

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.” —Victor Hugo We’re entering the “worse” phase.

submitted 7 days ago • 144 comments

Nailed it!

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

You guys wanna see a dead body 🤣💀

submitted 7 days ago • 966 comments