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I talk about the three tools we have to fight Trump: political, legal, and legislative. When something bad happens--like that shitty SCOTUS endorsement of torture and slavery--I try to think of how POLITICALLY we can fight it.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 8 days ago • 485 comments

RFK Jr talks like a new age health guru, but most of his views are garden-variety hateful reactionary. He wants people with HIV to die as punishment. Same thread runs though his positions on Medicaid, vaccines, opioid treatment, psychiatric meds, etc: you deserve to suffer, it's God's will.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Sorry. This is very raw. But what’s happening in LA right now is absolutely horrific. #iceraids

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

Chess analysis: By disconcertingly eating his own rook and two queen side pawns, Trump is opening up the board and affording himself various attacking and defensive plans during a congested middle game.

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 13 days ago • 2711 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

🥹 Millions of Americans are coming together on this #NoKings Day to reject authoritarian overreach, defend democracy, and stand up for their communities.

submitted 15 days ago • 207 comments

ICE agents pulled this guy out of his car and beat the shit out of him, putting him in the E.R. Then they pulled him out of the hospital saying he was a "violent gang member." (He's a Doordash driver with only a traffic ticket on his record.) Now he's just...gone. What a nightmare.

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

submitted 19 days ago • 124 comments

Abandoning faith in the law is a necessary condition for despotism. Faith alone won’t protect institutions, but defeatism will certainly hasten their demise.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

submitted 23 days ago • 87 comments

We’ll keep saying it: the Jewish community’s legitimate fears and concerns should not exploited to undermine core democratic norms, or otherwise advance discriminatory & unconstitutional policies. Doing so only makes Jews - and all communities - less safe.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

The truth is simple: Trump is using antisemitism as a club to attack his enemies while actually promoting antisemitism through his statements and hires. For the NYT to euphemize this and attribute the obvious to others rather than in its own voice is cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

submitted 28 days ago • 176 comments

This trend of arresting people, ripping from their family (in front of kids), and throwing them in a truck or cell even when they are following the system and working to do the right thing has got to stop. This is inhuman and evil.

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

After Musk’s dismantling of USAID, deaths can be counted by the hundreds of thousands. “If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Someone let Jake Tapper know that the elderly president seems completely out of it and not at all aware of what his own administration is doing. Might even be worse than Watergate.

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

“No children are dying on my watch,” said Rubio. It's blatantly false. Credible estimates count 190K deaths so far. In Kenya, I am seeing devastating impact, incl this child's starvation & many deaths directly caused by Rubio’s actions. More in my @msnbc.com clip. www.instagram.com/atul.gawande...

submitted 36 days ago • 113 comments

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 39 days ago • 58 comments

When we add to this the Cato Institute report showing how many migrants sent to El Salvador had in fact entered the country legally, THIS is the top story of the night. The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process. An actual nightmare.

submitted 40 days ago • 39 comments

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

submitted 41 days ago • 115 comments

Just gets worse. "Law enforcement officials admit that the photo was of another suspect and the entry was removed last month from the Texas database, known as TxGANG, when authorities realized the mix-up. " www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 43 days ago • 42 comments

1 in 5 American women rely on Medicaid. MAGA’s budget destroys wellness and reproductive care for millions of them. I stand with women and families across the country saying ‘hell no’ to this MAGA wrecking ball.

submitted 46 days ago • 21 comments

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

submitted 51 days ago • 26 comments

BREAKING: Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show @anniewaldman.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

🎶 I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free (to own 2 to 4 dolls and up to 5 pencils) 🎶 🎶 I won’t forget the men who died and gave that right (the right to own 2 to 4 dolls and up to 5 pencils) to me 🎶

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

When Germany tells you that "rightwing extremism needs to be stopped," you should listen.

submitted 58 days ago • 21 comments

Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 61 days ago • 19 comments

Last October, ProPublica and @documented.net published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said.

submitted 61 days ago • 79 comments

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

submitted 62 days ago • 319 comments

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

submitted 64 days ago • 644 comments

Last night, a federal judge in El Paso became the first to review ICE’s claim that someone was an “alien enemy.” It went SO BAD for ICE that not only did the judge order release for the people suing, without prompting he restricted the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas.

submitted 65 days ago • 33 comments

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 69 days ago • 806 comments

The defense secretary is accused of dangerous incompetence by insiders. The homeland security secretary has her purse and $3000 nicked. The FBI director flies gov't air to visit an NHL game and his country-singing girlfriend. The supposed pretext for a security state is that it makes you safer

submitted 70 days ago • 74 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 73 days ago • 338 comments

At least 2 people—29 and 44 yo—have died while detained at Krome ICE prison near Miami. The facility is so overcrowded people are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.” english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

submitted 70 days ago • 29 comments

Mic drop

submitted 70 days ago • 170 comments

The FDA is said to be preparing to end most of its routine safety inspections, so…

submitted 71 days ago • 167 comments

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

submitted 77 days ago • 604 comments

unfathomable cruelty www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments