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Unlike the Bush administration and its media allies, who put great effort into convincing Americans to support the war on Iraq, Trump has put little effort into convincing Americans to support war on Iran. I guess the U.S. has become so deindustrialized they can't even manufacture consent anymore.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

If Americans don’t realize that their most trusted sources of information are wealth class propaganda, little will change. Bernie would have won, socialism is a moderate position, cancel your NYT and subscribe to independent media outlets instead

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 11 days ago • 597 comments

I read a book about cosmology recently. It filled me with wonder at how small humans are but also how clever we can be trying to figure it all out. I have faith that a better world is possible.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

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You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

submitted 34 days ago • 2115 comments

The Democratic Party has powerful antibodies known as "dweebs" who swarm whenever they detect the threat of a candidate who is good at communicating and that people might actually like.

submitted 37 days ago • 85 comments