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This shit is as mortifying as it is dangerous. And Hasset’s smirk makes it all the more infuriating. Haha! We’re threatening war with a longtime ally and the country with which we share the longest border in the world! These assholes should never, ever be allowed to live this down.

submitted 4 hours ago • 88 comments

This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

This should be read as a regime commitment to systematic First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment violations.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

submitted 4 hours ago • 44 comments

And the thing is, about the below: does anyone truly think that policies intended to effect the elimination of Palestinian and trans people from public life and discourse will stop there?

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

submitted 4 hours ago • 134 comments

Key details here are that they did so under incorrect belief he was here on a student visa. Presented evidence that he holds a green card, agents on the spot declared it revoked. This isn't rule of law. And because fence sitters will ask: Even far right orgs present no evidence of support for Hamas.

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

If the government can disappear US Permanent Residents at will then it can disappear US Citizens at will, too. No one is safe if this happens without serious consequence or a rapid reversal.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

Hitler's 1941 Night and Fog Decree allowed the removal of suspects outside the legal process, keeping families of those abducted entirely in the dark about their fate. Governments in other oppressive systems later adopted the same tactics, most notoriously Chile and Argentina under dictatorship.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

This combined with the expanded camps at Guantanamo and on the border… very cool stuff, very chill

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Finally getting around to Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk (from 2018) for the first time, and good lord if this isn't the most darkly prescient paragraph I've read in a long while

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

This is how they will do it. They will lie that you weren't legitimately on Medicaid. And then... that you were being overpaid Social Security. With zero documentation. Then poof, it's gone. Bookmark it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

OK here's the thing, you don't have to love Blake Lively to recognize that she stood up against sexual harassment and is now facing a coordinated right-wing campaign designed to punish her and terrorize every other woman who faces similar conditions

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

I am mired in terrifying news every day and this manages to stand out.

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

Imagine if the most prominent member of the Biden administration had reposted, in agreement, someone calling a prominent GOP senator a ‘retard’. Would have been the end of the world, biggest scandal ever. The asymmetry in American politics continues to grow. Just wild to see.

submitted 22 hours ago • 376 comments

"Poor food served in the chow hall drives hungry prisoners to the commissary, which only adds to the companies’ bottom lines... 'Crappy food is being paid for twice. And then the state is paying for the medical care on that.'" www.themarshallproject.org/2025/03/08/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Look surprised “Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

It's very fitting that at the same time that Trump is cutting vital programs like cancer research, he is wasting money on golf trips. The "waste," as always, is himself. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Normally, if bad actors hijacked our government systems with an intent on crippling them, which would directly bring harm to American citizens, we’d be pretty comfortable labeling that as terrorism. But right-wing billionaires have you believing that it’s called “patriotism.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

It’s almost like none of this was fraud waste or abuse, but simply a bunch of un- and misinformed narcissists who didn’t understand how much a government does for its people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

This is classic right wing gaslighting. They do horrendous things and then complain about people being “uncivil” to them for it. And it works, for their base. They think the left are “intolerant” and “extreme” because the dead babies are far away and the American babies are on TV.

submitted 17 hours ago • 274 comments

After Elon Musk has been insinuating to turn off Starlink in Ukraine, Poland‘s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is reminding Musk that Poland is paying for it, and he is making clear that if Musk follows through that Poland will abandon Starlink altogether for being an unreliable service.

submitted 14 hours ago • 140 comments

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

What cannot be lost in all this is that students have simply been demanding their tuition not go towards funding an illegal occupation, nor a genocide. Everything that has come after is a product of the powers that be vehemently refusing to honor that entirely reasonable ask.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

January 6 apologist Ed Martin, who just demoted prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases, says he is against "assaults on police officers."

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

Remember last month when everyone realized that Trump's legal "settlements" with Meta and X showed a clear roadmap how a President can "legally" accept bribes by suing companies for frivolous reasons and then "settling" for millions? Anyway. Unrelated: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

I’ve always wanted to try listeria

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

These assholes watch SEVERANCE and think, "that looks like delicious corporate freedom, let's build more Kiers."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As the thread makes clear, this is not a legitimate function of the U.S. Marshals Service. This is folks with law enforcement authority acting as thug enforcers.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

How much is the DOGE chaos going to cost America? I mean actual dollars -- defending lawsuits, rebuilding things that are broken, paying these folks. More or less than DOGE's "savings"?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, the CDC is focused on... oh boy

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

I’m old enough to remember Democrats saying similar things about the Tea Party in 2009-10. It’s something you say en route to losing your congressional majority.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Deregulating the chicken industry when bird flu is a threat sounds really damn stupid. Are they trying to kill us?

submitted 2 days ago • 260 comments

"Trump is destroying government. But he is getting paid handsomely at the same time. At one level or another, Trump is destroying America because he is getting paid to do so."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I just keep coming back to: Jews made up less than 1% of Germany before WWII. Protecting minorities is not a gray area.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This idea definitely came from Donald Trump, who’s definitely the president

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

As an American, I don't know what to say to Canadians. Yes, our President is constantly threatening to annex you. No, I can't say for sure he won't try. I can't blame you for taking it seriously, nor for retaliating against our tariffs. I'd do the same if I were you. It sucks.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

submitted 2 days ago • 234 comments

One reason I don't think DOGE is going well is that the businessmen at the airport club are all talking about how stupid it is (instead of just bragging and being horny like usual)

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Colin Kaepernick: Quietly kneels Republicans: HE'S DISRESPECTING THE TROOPS Trump: Fires tens of thousands of vets, makes it harder for vets to get healthcare Republicans: Yeah, take that government waste These people don't care about vets and they never have. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

this is an exonerative narrative they’ve spun to convince themselves to keep doing what they want to do and have been doing for as long as they’ve been in power, not an honest assessment of the party.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Trump was elected to a second term after being charged with multiple felonies, why are the Democrats still decorum humpers???

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

This is embarrassing, but not for the ones called into the principal's office.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

In 2009 GOP Member of Congress Joe Wilson screamed “you lie” during Obama’s SOTU. No censure by the GOP, only “reprimanded” by Dems At Biden’s SOTU 2022 Lauren Boebert and MTG heckled him, nothing.. But Dems will happily throw their Black colleague under a bus for white moderate voter pandering

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

In 1943 the US government made an antifascist film called "Don't Be a Sucker" in which we see a college professor in Germany removed from his classroom by government officials who do not approve of what he's teaching about race. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments