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This is such an important point. So many people's brains are cooked by so many weird sources of information for many different, often conflicting, reasons.

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Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

The same newspaper that gleefully profiles "MAGA fashionistas" also ponders how Palestinian emergency workers "ended up" in a mass grave. They ended up in a mass grave because Israeli war criminals put them there. That's your headline. It's maddening how the Post is rapidly turning into Fox News.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

I can tell you that @rakkasantea.bsky.social stands with white2tea and every other importer of Chinese tea now facing imminent annihilation due to tariffs of 145%

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration. It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

submitted 12 hours ago • 35 comments

Sic semper tyrannis

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

👇🎯 This stuff is the entire ballgame. And the fact that this hasn’t immediately ended this presidency is why none of us can seriously believe with certainty that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & competitive. If 👇 goes unpunished, there is literally nothing a president cannot do.

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

Having a nice cup of Georgian black tea from the Caucasus Mountains. Spring harvest arrives in May.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

It is a campaign of erasure: the systematic extermination of an occupied people, not for defense, but annihilation. Every man woman & child is marked for death or exile, every home, school, hospital reduced to ash. Now, even shedding a tear for this horror has become a crime in the land of the free.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Dunno what y'all see here, but I see Trump threatening a judge

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Whitmer is a quisling in the purest sense of the word. In 1941, Churchill described a quisling as one who "is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves."

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Very important historical fact: The Nazis had a plan to deport millions of Jews to Madagascar. When it failed, they tried to at least deport 338,000 Jews from Germany proper to ghettos in Eastern Europe. When it became apparent the ghettos were full, they simply started killing all the Jews.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Eight days ago, to much fanfare and applause, the DNC announced this shadow cabinet-type thing. Not a word since, that I'm aware of. Anyone know what's going on?

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Utterly repulsive that the Washington Post would profile fascists in its Style section

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

And it moves the Overton window either way. Once the outrage turns to us sending US citizens to Salvadoran gulags, no one has the energy to fight the undocumented immigrants or visa holders being sent there anymore, with or without criminal records or due process

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

We have the most anti-free speech government in modern American history. (And yet, in true Orwellian fashion, they claim to be champions of free speech.)

submitted 1 day ago • 542 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

Very bad that mainstream media keeps accepting the premise the Trump admin is “cracking down on antisemitism”. Everyone knows none of this has anything to do with “antisemitism” it has to do with snuffing out any dissent over Israel’s genocide in Gaza and purging brown people from society

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They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

People are really underselling the extent to which the tariffs are already evolving into an ad hoc system of domestic political control

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed Are there any states offering support for their businesses ?

submitted 23 hours ago • 1853 comments

Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

[Columbo, pauses and turns around] Just one more thing, Mr. Trump. It's probably nothing. But you said many times that the exporting country pays the tariff. Not the American taxpayer. Well, if that's the case, then why would you exclude smartphones?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Yep. Trump just exempted smartphones & computers from the tariffs, which (1) shows the absence of any real planning (2) is contrary to what he and his admin said is the point of these tariffs and (3) does not fix the numerous other problems. There are so many vital widgets US businesses get abroad.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

looking for a final solution, apparently

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“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

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“Your papers,” is what this is called in movies about other countries that we traditionally look down on due to lack of freedom

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Yeah. Centrist. Leftist. I don't really care anymore. It honestly doesn't matter at the moment. A politician who fights is far more valuable than the coward with whom I agree 100% on policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Should just make it easier for ICE and have them sew yellow stars onto their clothing for identification

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Booker put on a show for gullible Democrats, having no intention of following through with any acts of substance. We need better Democrats, not better performances from the same useless Democrats.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Big one for military folks ... Hegseth's Pentagon looking to hand on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money to the private sector. Story by @ktoropin.bsky.social + @tomnovelly.bsky.social

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Support the Troops™

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