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Fascinating.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

just so everyone knows, literally at the exact same time JD Vance started trolling on here the NSC was having a meeting on Iran he's angry that he got sidelined to the kiddy table and decided to lash out genuinely pathetic stuff

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

If there's one legacy of the War in Iraq that Democrats should have internalized, it's the fact that those who lined up behind the war drums all came to regret that decision while those who wisely refused to go along were soon vindicated. One of the latter rode that decision to the White House!

submitted 17 hours ago • 75 comments

It is pretty telling that the thing a lot of people in the media absolutely loathed Biden for was ending a forever war, him supporting bombing Gaza wasn’t a scandal in the media, what he did with Afghanistan was

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

These are not the same. Left: a month before Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, from Pew. GOP support +72, Dem support +12. Right: current polling about Iran, from YouGov. GOP oppose +30, Dem oppose +50.

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Narrator: Brad Lander regularly shows up to aid immigrants seeking to enforce their legal rights. What's new is ICE goons assaulting and abducting him in front of cameras.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 21 hours ago • 255 comments

Donald Trump’s fascism couldn’t exist today if we weren’t a country where George W. Bush could just disappear into cozy, pleasant retirement, make a few public appearances a year, & enjoy 52% approval, as if eight years of lies, crimes, constitutional violations, & policy negligence never happened.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

They want to go after urban Democratic centers and sanctuary cities but doing so sloppily bred resistance and the Miller quotas mean they're gonna eventually have to go after more and more South and "flyover" industrial sites which is only gonna further alienate their base

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

JD joining Bluesky just to write anti-trans posts while the admin prepares to bomb a major Middle Eastern power just tells us all he's not in the room where it happens.

submitted 21 hours ago • 81 comments

the timidity here is truly a sickness - if you're a fucking representative of Congress and you have the authority to inspect, you go in there with that authority in your voice and backup plans for how to force your way in if they say no

submitted 20 hours ago • 48 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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Watching the news in NY, I keep thinking of this image showing thousands of Bostonians rallying against federal troops whom they called "kidnappers," furious at the reach of the slave power into free states courtesy of the federal govt. 🗃️ www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/par... www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/par...

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This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

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In letter to Netanyahu, 41 IDF intelligence officers say that the Israeli government is issuing “clearly illegal” orders that must not be obeyed, that hostages have been given ‘death sentence’—& they refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

An absolute damn delight.

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Republicans giddy about assaulting Dems because they have not felt any penalty for doing so. In contrast, they have expressed behind scenes worries about abductions (folks lobbying report 1st hand) because constituents & some Dems have put them on blast for it. Moral: blast them for it all.

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A Reagan-appointed federal judge in Massachusetts says the Trump administration’s blocking of National Institutes of Health grants due to their hatred of DEI is the most blatant discrimination he has witnessed from the bench in 40 years. #RolandMartinUnfiltered at www.youtube.com/live/PxnwYeB....

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So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

This is part of a multi state, multi year effort and a totally underappreciated undermining of direct democracy in the states. I appreciate @boltsmag.org's continued coverage of this important issue!

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NEWS: Federal judge finds Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for telling law enforcement they could enforce Florida's criminal immigration law despite the court's TRO barring its enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I thought the TikTok ban was an idiotic moral panic and a gross curtailment of expressive freedom, but I’m at least as uncomfortable about a scenario where a platform with 170m US users exists entirely on the personal sufferance of Donald Trump (or any president).

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“(On the very day the Times wrote that a vote for him would be a vote against public “disorder,” one journalist found Cuomo parked illegally in a Manhattan turn lane and another noted that he has been repeatedly ticketed in recent months for speeding in school zones.)”

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Ladies and gentlemen...the Democratic Party! www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

So @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social did a writeup of Brad Lander's arrest today at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC, focusing not just on Lander's treatment, but the treatment of immigrants inside, both in the courtroom and once they are detained. prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

i personally choose to irresponsibly speculate about drug usage, given that carrying large volumes of cash and serving in this administration are both well known signs

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it occurs to me that trump is maddening sort of how LLMs are maddening, in that it is nigh-impossible to try not to apply theory of mind reasoning to him when he is fundamentally just a collection of appetites and unthinking resentments chaining words together

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This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

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If Harris had been elected instead of Trump, there would be hundreds of thousands of children who hadn’t starved to death or died of treatable AIDS and we wouldn’t be on the verge of war with Iran. Anybody who doesn’t acknowledge this as a starting point has nothing to say worth hearing.

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Before Iraq invasion, I did big cover story: Do NOT F-ing do this. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... After Iraq invasion, I did another big story: Do NOT F-ing follow this up with war against Iran. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Can't control what Israel does. But another quagmire for US.

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it is insane watching all of this come online in under a week for no other reason other than donald trump chose to destroy the JCPOA when he was president 7 years ago and is now angry that the JCPOA no longer exists

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they can shoot us arrest us and the democrats? they help them. they. help. them.

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We have seen the video of DHS officers beating up Democratic elected officials, then the claims that those Democratic elected officials assaulted the DHS officers: it should cause you to question every accusation of assault on DHS officers (and law-enforcement in general). We saw the videos!

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This is such an important victory (now let’s get the time limit extended in Northern Ireland!!!)

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Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

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NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

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“His mother does not even know whether he is alive.” open.substack.com/pub/americas... #FreeAndry

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