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Wow! What a great cover!

submitted 8 hours ago • 277 comments

“We know in our bones and from our modern history the danger of an unchecked government scapegoating ‘outsiders’ to gain power, preying on a population experiencing hard economic times to gain support for a violent and destructive agenda. We will not stand by while history repeats itself.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, SCOTUS, you cool with this part of the executive order Scribble Face signed today?

submitted 5 days ago • 84 comments

ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

This is what the news feels like now

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

am i losing my mind or is the president openly bribing a mayor with dropped charges right in front of us? and now we're just gonna watch the mayor pay it off and no ones going to do anything? is that whats happening?

submitted 10 days ago • 182 comments

In addition to being brave and the right thing to do, Sassoon’s letter points out that the Emperor has no clothes — it demolishes the utterly fatuous, transparently corrupt excuses for dismissing the Adams case.

submitted 10 days ago • 79 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Anti-abortion politicians will stop at nothing to deny people essential health care, including threatening to lock up doctors and those who help people get abortions. No one should face prosecution for helping someone end their pregnancy.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Hearing from federal employees tonight who are getting messages via their agency’s emergency notification system, which is usually reserved for snow-related office closures, that’s like DO NOT RESPOND TO THAT EMAIL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE NO IDEA IF ANY OF THOSE PROMISES ARE REAL

submitted 26 days ago • 138 comments

JUST IN: Six transgender service members are suing Trump/Hegseth over new ban on trans people serving in the military. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

ICE should be designated a terrorist organization.

submitted 30 days ago • 38 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 32 days ago • 425 comments

Our statement on President Trump’s planned executive actions and policies announced today:

submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

submitted 34 days ago • 140 comments

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

submitted 34 days ago • 896 comments

Donald Trump has lost his appeal in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. Here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden.

submitted 55 days ago • 45 comments

According to a new report, doctors in abortion ban states described hospital lawyers who: •“Refused to meet” with them for months. •Were hard to reach during “life or death” situations. •Offered little help beyond “regurgitating” the law.

submitted 58 days ago • 270 comments

We wanted to understand Donald Trump’s plan to deport 5 million undocumented workers. So we talked to three unemployed UFC fans at a Taco Bell in Toms River.

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

submitted 65 days ago • 946 comments

wow are you telling me that dems moving right on an issue didnt take it off the table and only resulted in republicans moving even farther right?

submitted 65 days ago • 72 comments

“I’m waiting for an ambulance. I might be going into labor. Is that okay?” “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.” This is the “culture of life” I’ve heard so much about. www.lpm.org/news/2024-12...

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

When you can’t tell if it’s seasonal depression or Trump-related depression, that’s called treasonal depression.

submitted 65 days ago • 45 comments

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

submitted 71 days ago • 415 comments

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

submitted 71 days ago • 1592 comments

From the timing (a judge had ordered Trump to sit for deposition next week), it seems ABC News didn't even bother to depose Trump, much less file for summary judgment, and instead paid a $15m bribe to a slush fund Presidential "foundation" not yet established. It's obscene.

submitted 71 days ago • 109 comments

This was an utterly meritless lawsuit. ABC suits are cowards who embarrassed their news division. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 324 comments

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

submitted 72 days ago • 952 comments

What is the fucking point of eliminating food dyes in children’s food if you’re just going to take their vaccines away?? Jfc.

submitted 72 days ago • 56 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and grants 39 pardons in biggest single-day act of clemency in modern US history.

submitted 73 days ago • 77 comments