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It is pathetic how easily network news executives let right wingers manipulate them. Terry Moran rightly calls Stephen Miller a hater driven by bile, and ABC News accepts the idea that this is “unhinged” behavior. Critiquing people abusing their power is the JOB of journalism.

submitted 11 hours ago • 63 comments

Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.

submitted 4 hours ago • 33 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 4 hours ago • 360 comments

Bitch you're the only person talking about this shit! This is letting the other side dictate the debate! We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 6 hours ago • 229 comments

The guy who called a mob to DC to be "wild" to overturn an election might have an interest in inciting violence for his own purposes? Naw, that can't be it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

If you see this, post a favorite cartoon theme song! (No surprise about my choice here. 😀) youtu.be/lQsQqOlPjhs?...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

And for precisely opposite reasons, it must be said.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Been saying this for sometime. NASA has become OVER reliant on one vendor, a vendor NASA helped prop up and create. Whenever I think of the NASA/SpaceX relationship lately, I always think of Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" and we know what the Monster did to it's creator in that story. SO much this 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

All of these violent, lawless ICE officers terrorizing communities and hiding their faces weren't just hired this year. It's why dismantling ICE as an agency was so important and remains so. These people are unfit to be public servants if they hate the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

And for those of us in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties you can call the Immigrant Rapid Response Hotline at 1-805-870-8855.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Stephen Miller is fulfilling his high school wet dream of terrorizing all the Brown people in Los Angeles. My daughter's friends who went to SaMo High with him said he used to seethe while the morning announcements were repeated in Spanish. Hell, they did that when I went there. (Mesozoic age.)

submitted 1 day ago • 512 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 1 day ago • 392 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 2 days ago • 841 comments

I found a very weird reply bot responding to popular Bluesky posts. @marcus984iri8.bsky.social has replied "oiiio" to popular posts and then quotes one of the only two posts from @william843uu8.bsky.social, which look to be AI-generated. 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes, Mr. Roosevelt, there's a polio vaccine. Yes, sir, this man lies about vaccines. Yes, sir, we think you should embrace him. No? Okay, you're the boss. Now onto this next potential supporter. He's a car manufacturer. Yes, the fellow who did the Nazi salute. Sir, please stop yelling at me.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 338 comments

It was never supposed to be this way, at least not on the NASA side of things. There was always supposed to be at least two providers to prevent over-reliance on one company. Instead, it evolved into what we got. And now the monster NASA helped create may help destroy the agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If Democrats want to get back to issues maybe point out that for months Trump allowed his messy frenamy free rein over the entire government.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Finally, a NYT headline I like.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 3 days ago • 349 comments

What today feels like

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still a Nazi loser who should never feel safe in public again

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

submitted 3 days ago • 361 comments

Steve Bannon is trying to get Trump to deport Elon Musk! The whites are fighting! 😂😂😂😂

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 5 days ago • 321 comments

They just want to erase everyone who isn’t a straight white man They are pieces of shit. Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

This NYT story on FTC's investigation into "collusion" leading to boycott of Xitter does not mention antisemitism, one major reason for the boycott. Spending federal $$ to support antisemitism violates several Trump EOs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

this is something I’ve been thinking about a lot we are not, as a country, the kind of place where armed goons in masks kidnapping people in broad daylight is a common experience and I don’t think most people are going to like it very much when it becomes significantly more common

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

Correct. Yarvin matters because of his influence on the tech-right billionaires who are funding a lot of the far-right, but if you want to understand the ideologies behind the Trump administration's actions, you'll probably learn more by reading up on white Christian nationalism and the groypers.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 6 days ago • 548 comments

"Florida votes Republican, so who cares?" is the easiest block I'll ever make, so keep them coming.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

good read on the futile stupidity of Starship, or as I call it the Space Cybertruck www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Musk has now traveled through an entire arc of embracing anti-black crime panic narratives, embracing overt race science, embracing swastika-bearing neo-Nazis, openly promoting Nazi conspiracy theories, introducing them throughout government policy - all without political elites noticing or caring.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

submitted 7 days ago • 151 comments

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

Musk's illegal dismantling of USAID and other foreign aid projects has killed 300,000 people most of them children, and will kill 25 million over the next 15 years. We don't need to rehabilitate Hitler because of his principled vegetarianism.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments