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The best part of the Blade Runner movie is when Blade Runner (played by Harrison Ford) turns to the camera and says “I run blades”

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Odd how the same companies asserting strong First Amendment rights in the election spending context have very little to say when the government threatens them with criminal charges over milquetoast corporate diversity initiatives ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That everyone outside your own political base isn’t “real people” is a very succinct summation of populism’s core premise. It’s not about some nebulous notion of representing the masses, it’s about claiming the power to decide who counts as “the people” with rights and legitimacy.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Every American should be aware that proportional representation and multipartyism is what makes it possible for pro-democracy forces to unite against extremists. A two party system is uniquely terrible at this

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The sheer absurdity of this is still flabbergasting. The government is professing not to know who's running what's nominally supposed to be a government agency, or through whom the chain of command flows from POTUS to that agency, or who can be sued or enjoined for its actions. Insanity.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

Democrats are the Whigs and the their demise is just a matter of who fills the vacuum and how quickly

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 3 days ago • 489 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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Sure, laugh at the French Third Republic, but it lasted 69 years, which is longer than the US lasted as a universal suffrage liberal democracy.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 8 days ago • 2872 comments

Any minimally competent opposition party would capitalize on the president calling himself a king but we have the Democrats

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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 8 days ago • 584 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 9 days ago • 627 comments

The combination of totally haphazard, clueless dipshittery and calculated evil is really something.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

It’s nice to see someone actually push back

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I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 8 days ago • 83 comments

My new lunch activity is calling my elected representatives in congress (all democrats) and demanding they call for the leadership to resign and also demanding that they not run for reelection themselves.

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 9 days ago • 170 comments

Primary every Democrat

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

submitted 12 days ago • 335 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 12 days ago • 5657 comments

If the Democratic leadership is conceding one-party rule, then the progressive wing of the party needs to step up and take the reins. We've had 33 long years of neoliberalism in the party. Time to try something else. The modern GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. Time to move on.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Cheating on Jesus 🙏

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

why gerry connelly over AOC? why has hochul protected eric adams? etc etc so many questions are easily answered once you understand this basic truth from @ositanwanevu.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

submitted 14 days ago • 611 comments

Straightforward corruption on display

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

What organizations can I connect with that are going to primary democrats next cycle?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Primary every Democrat

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We need to start laying the ground for a #generalstrike right now because at this point it’s all we got.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

At this point, in my eyes, the Democrats are complicit

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 16 days ago • 1139 comments

How am I supposed to lawyer if there is no rule of law

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

MMW: we are heading toward a scenario where POTUS will ignore legal court orders and enforce his illegal executive orders through MAGA militias/“constitutional sheriffs”/sympathetic cops

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You're doing it now" Seen in Tulsa, Oklahoma

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

JD Vance will really be like "you believe in loving thy neighbor? That pales in comparison to my strategy, loving my family first" and then not love his family.

submitted 20 days ago • 185 comments

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

submitted 21 days ago • 190 comments

Overturning Sullivan has at least two votes on the Supreme Court — Thomas and Alito. Maybe more. I can’t overstate how catastrophic that would be for free expression in America in an environment where political and performative defamation litigation are common.

submitted 20 days ago • 122 comments

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

submitted 22 days ago • 195 comments

Oh no! We forgot to learn from history

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments