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submitted 3 days ago • 1452 comments

For those of you who watched the video of an Idaho woman experiencing handmaid‘s tale treatment, now is the time to decide what you would do in that situation—whether it's you or whether you're nearby when this happens to someone else. We are in a moment where we all have to decide who we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 678 comments

Huy7u uh

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's never good when the richest person in the world and the worst person in the world are the same person.

submitted 3 days ago • 773 comments

"Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this." -- email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen about Donald Trump in 2015 -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Please read below. Please do something. Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DNC Chair Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social SENATE Dems @majoritypac.bsky.social HOUSE Dems @housedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 21 days ago • 1756 comments

Hey everyone. It’s Feb 3rd, and the Democrats have been at home since Jan 24th because the house is out of session. They should have come back, the place is on fire. Get suing, messaging, demonstrating, speaking, everything and ANYTHING

submitted 23 days ago • 1145 comments

A potentially $300B suit in the making for Musk and each of the techies with access to SSA data.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms. The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.

submitted 23 days ago • 1427 comments

The next time I see or hear the phrase bipartisan, I'm going to smash something. The Dems are the only ones using it, which makes its own point. There is no second party. One party + one cult ≠ 2 parties.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Dude. I'm Pissed. youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...

submitted 32 days ago • 1888 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 24 days ago • 1977 comments

Elon fucking Musk does NOT appropriate federal funds. That is the job of CONGRESS. Not some foreign born private citizen jumping bean exploding penis rocket car melting nepo-baby conspiracy theorist womanizer who exchanges horses for handjobs. Congress needs to stand the fuck up. All of them!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 971 comments

open.substack.com/pub/dlitt/p/... I wrote about something which is hard to do, but anyone can do right now, and everyone should.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 25 days ago • 770 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 650 comments

Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois: “I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

submitted 26 days ago • 681 comments

NYT reports an air traffic controller’s seat was empty at DCA last night www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 27 days ago • 303 comments

So. The Potomac Crash It wasn't DEI. It was DOGE. Not your first crash, right, Elon Musk?

submitted 27 days ago • 57 comments

Yesterday, Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of people charged with assaulting law enforcement officers. Meanwhile, he pardoned more than 100 insurrectionists convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers. This is not about "law and order."

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 30 days ago • 95 comments

Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.

submitted 31 days ago • 403 comments

THIS is 💯 how I feel. We can’t wait until the midterms to DO SOMETHING! The felon is destroying our country more and more each day, and our elected Dems need to speak up NOW. Please watch this video from Politics Girl. #Voices4Victory #LiveBlue youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...

submitted 31 days ago • 84 comments

This is, IMO, most interesting ¶ of Colombian President Gustavo Petro's response to Trump. There's a lot going on, including Petro's invocation (w/mention of Aurelianos Bunedía of GGM's 100 Years of Solitude), which I hope others explain in more length. He's suggesting he has outside allies.

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

The reason conservatives don’t want people learning about the Tuskegee Airmen is that their story completely destroys the racist ‘DEI bad’ narrative.

submitted 31 days ago • 182 comments

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

submitted 31 days ago • 53 comments

If you share my deep concern that a fascist like Elon Musk could use the X algorithm to interfere with the upcoming Canadian election please write to Elections canada and demand a full investigation into X's interference in Canada. [email protected] www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 32 days ago • 344 comments

It’s really fucking hard to forgive anyone who voted for this shit.

submitted 32 days ago • 1777 comments

We keep hearing about masculinity from the Zuckerbergs of the world-- this woman has shown more courage in this 60-second clip than any of the tech billionaires have shown in recent memory as they grovel at Trump's feet.

submitted 36 days ago • 534 comments

15 years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations were people. Ever since, dark money and corporate interference has defined our elections. Overturn Citizens United. Give elections back to voters.

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

submitted 41 days ago • 52 comments

Welcome to The Contrarian, a new media outlet not owned by anybody You won’t find cozy alliances, half-measures, or false equivalences here. We bend the knee to no one, vigorously challenge unchecked authority and champion transparency and accountability Join our venture at contrarian.substack.com

submitted 44 days ago • 373 comments

"A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press..." Great piece! Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/08/t...

submitted 46 days ago • 377 comments

submitted 47 days ago • 245 comments

Trump can’t legally own a firearm, but he’s about to be given the nuclear launch codes. Very normal country we have.

submitted 47 days ago • 250 comments

Creepy billionaire toddlers getting to play “government.” What could possibly go wrong. Luckily Doggie has no decision-making power whatsoever. Unluckily it’s a pit of secrecy and conflict of interest. Like I said, what could possibly go wrong.

submitted 47 days ago • 35 comments