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I for one, could never imagined that the United States government could be so thoroughly corrupted and damaged in such a short period of time. I also thought a lot more highly of many former friends than was apparently justified. Immorality abounds in 2025.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

As someone who has worked counter-influence on the DOD side, this is an excellent 🧵!!!! If you're curious as to the empirical theory behind what @asharangappa.bsky.social is describing, it is techniques of neutralization & drift.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

submitted 9 hours ago • 97 comments

Quite a thing to post after someone shot and killed a Minnesota lawmaker and injured another in a blue state.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

It's always interesting to compare the numbers to the Tea Party protests and the respective coverage of them.

submitted 21 hours ago • 46 comments

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects 82 million fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Land of the free

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There are a lot of objections to the NYT's house style but sometimes it produces literature www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Get in losers. We're building a popular front.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Resources about the New Apostolic Reformation movement of alleged assassin Vance Boelter from national treasure Frederick Clarkson. The Christ for the Nations Institute he graduated from. religiondispatches.org/the-spirit-o...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Trump birthday parade sponsored by coinbase

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

The #NoKings march in Dallas, Texas is HUGE!

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

#NoKings Reno

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

I'm floored. This is ONE stretch of ONE side of the street in deep red, small town Knoxville, TN today. This is a city that Trump won in 2024 by 20+ points. The scope of these protests are massive—American from both sides of the aisle are pissed. There will be no kings.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

submitted 1 day ago • 371 comments

Golden calf sighting in Nashville

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems

submitted 33 days ago • 87 comments

#ICYMI: In April, we reported that at least a dozen members of Congress wrote to the Trump administration with questions about citizens detained, questioned and even held at gunpoint by ICE agents. None of them received an answer. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social‬

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

submitted 2 days ago • 336 comments

An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers

submitted 2 days ago • 895 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments

Someday we’re going to need to retract every federal publication, policy modification, and guidance document prepared under this administration to prevent further propagation of outright lies, amateur errors, and disinformation.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

If you aren’t already following this historian, trust me you should remedy that You will learn things

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From the last time Americans said "no kings"

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments