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Look I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this but if you’re a liberal and the president is like “We are going to detain and deport this guy for protesting” the correct response is not “Protesting what?”

submitted 16 hours ago • 38 comments

It is honestly wild to me that Republicans cooked up a bill that would prohibit D.C. from spending more than $1 billion of its own budget, devastating our city services out of pure spite, and Senate Democrats might actually vote for it. Utterly appalling. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 4 hours ago • 47 comments

Per @aoc.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 106 comments

Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.

submitted 2 hours ago • 248 comments

Why are Senate Democrats acting as though they will be responsible for a government shut down when the Republicans control the White House, Senate and House? If there is a government shut down, it’s on the Republicans – they have control and they are responsible for this abominable bill.

submitted 4 hours ago • 57 comments

I must admit I just googled "governor of California" assuming I missed something because there's no reason a sitting governor should be able to put out episodes of a podcast at such a rapid clip. Go to work.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

"The AVMA never recommends raw diets for dogs or cats because of the risk of multiple pathogens..." and the spread of H5N1 makes raw feeding riskier than ever. "The strain that’s currently circulating has a near 90 percent case fatality rate in domestic cats” www.popsci.com/health/how-t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 85 comments

Deep down even the MAGAs know this is humiliating for America, and any who don't need do no more than imagine Obama hawking Subarus from the Rose Garden

submitted 22 hours ago • 337 comments

Gavin Newsom is so cool. Pure ambition, no values or even loosely held beliefs, assesses the current situation looking for a lane and instantly settles on People Are Into Evil Guys Now and sticks the pivot. Perfect clarity of purpose. He would be a danger to all those around him in any job he had.

submitted 18 hours ago • 209 comments

I still can't believe there were so many ill-informed voters that they would return Trump to power. It's even more disturbing how many American voters recognized the vengeful, felonious Trump was bent on retribution and they were all in for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

submitted 1 day ago • 1093 comments

Prem might be the most important journalist in America right now, the only person covering this story with the urgency it needs. Absurd that there isn't wall to wall coverage of this.

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

This is the question we must all answer for ourselves. But if we cede democracy out of fear of Trump, things will not get better just because we cave. Freedom is worth the hard work it’s going to take.

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil. It's important to protect speech, even, perhaps especially, when we don't agree what's being said. If we don't support other people's First Amendment rights, then who will protect ours? We have to all be in this together.

submitted 1 day ago • 176 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

Citizens United put America up for sale, and Musk and Trump are the private equity firm stripping it for parts.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

🚨 🤥 PAY ATTENTION — Elon is telling you they want to slash programs that help the poor & elderly so they can cut taxes for the rich. Undocumented Immigrants do not get these benefits. They do not vote. He’s inventing these “waste fraud abuse” numbers. This is a heist.

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

"Nonetheless, holy shit" is the funniest possible Krugman reaction

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Why are we tanking the market for a completely pointless trade war with our allies again? If you’re arguing that trade deficits are always bad (they’re not, but let’s pretend), Canada is only 7% of our deficit. Why aren’t we focused on a larger problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 303 comments

This is a naked attempt, by an increasingly fascist government, to punish schools it perceives as enemies by stealing money from them. Nothing to do with Jews, nothing to do with Palestinians: just a naked money grab by unabashed fascists who do not believe in the rule of law or American democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

musk illegally seized control of the treasury and now wants to end social security and medicare and plunge tens of millions of americans into destitution so that we won’t go “bankrupt,” a thing that practically-speaking can’t happen

submitted 1 day ago • 384 comments

I was today years old when I learned boycotting was illegal. Up until this point, I thought we had the freedom to decide where to spend our money.

submitted 1 day ago • 499 comments

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

submitted 2 days ago • 340 comments

When you buy something you should use it. Musk bought trump so he is using everything he can.This includes Air Force One for him and his family to travel on even though it’s for Presidential use. He also stays frequently at the White House. And we pay for it all www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-f...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Musk keeps firing us, and with all this free time, we’re organizing America. They call us “paid protesters”—but seriously, where do we sign up for that paycheck? We’re open to those “Soros bucks.” Every day, we spill the tea, knowing retribution is coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 320 comments

Dems. Hold the line. Do not vote to fund DOGE (the government). Make the GOP fund the government or let them shut it down. They’re the majority.

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the urgent release of DOGE records, citing the office's "unprecedented" power and "unusual secrecy." Judge Cooper wants "rolling" productions of records to begin within weeks. Details TK ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

The thing is that even if you believed that what Khalil should get him deported — you should still be against him being abducted in the middle of the night and denied due process. If there’s evidence he did something, he should be charged and brought before a judge. Not kidnapped.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Judge Crawford: I think that is exactly why Elon Musk is spending millions of dollars on these phony attack ads against me and trying to get Brad Schimel on the Supreme Court. We need to have a Wisconsin Supreme Court that’s working for the people of Wisconsin, not one that is working for Elon Musk

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "Tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. So every dollar that you spend in federal taxes is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon. And it's also going to cut an 8-year-old kid with autism's ability to access Medicaid. That's what they are putting on the table."

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

Sending U.S. prisoners to El Salvador, as its President Bukele proposed to Secretary of State Rubio, would violate U.S. law and the Constitution, writes @lbeisen.bsky.social (@brennancenter.bsky.social): www.justsecurity.org/108825/el-sa...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"If not Andrew Tate, who are young boys meant to look up to? Where are the role models?" is one of my most hated things. There are men being successful everywhere: music, acting, sports, natural history, art, politics, science, being Mick Lynch, they are full of men mostly* not trafficking women

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

If the government can arrest a U.S. resident living here legally without charges and deport them, that is a grave threat to the civil liberties of all of us. Politics has no business here. This is a direct attack on free speech and our constitutional rights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Jews are being used as a battering ram by MAGA against free speech, colleges, protests and Palestinians. They don't care about Jews because if they did they wouldn't associate with anti semites or white supremacist conspiracies or joke about Nazi salutes. Sadly ADL and other orgs are fine with this.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

It's hard to write gripping stories about the failure to discover fraud, but this is probably the most important takeaway from the DOGE circus.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

The almost unilateral embrace of the Tate brothers by the American right is as unsurprising as it is repugnant. Actual men, with daughters, shaking their hands, sharing pleasantries. Are these your role models now?

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Only a judge can revoke a green card. The fact is that the Trump Administration is unlawfully detaining a permanent resident and refusing to tell his wife, his lawyer, or literally anyone where he is. If they can do it to him, they can do it to anyone. We need to stand up before it’s too late.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

A group of Musk staffers attempted to take control of California’s water pumps during the devastating wildfires. Inspired by Trump, the mission involved direct pressure on federal officials and even a failed attempt to activate the pumps themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

I thought I should let you all know what is going on over at Twitter ASAP Spread the word: Elon Musk is indeed deportation-eligible

submitted 2 days ago • 384 comments

If you think a minute goes by really fast, you've never tried planking.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

submitted 2 days ago • 322 comments

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

submitted 2 days ago • 258 comments