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the catholic church choosing to pick a side is going to continue to be one of the more interesting developments of this administration

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

No refuge for the persecuted.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

We have a massive statue in the harbor of the city whose entire point--literally printed on it--is "we'll take all comers"

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

submitted 10 days ago • 65 comments

🔥 SIERRA WINE GUY: “To the head of ICE: you cuffed Moises Sotelo like a dog. You got the guy who tithes at church and pays his taxes. Do you sleep better at night? — Let him fucking go… and maybe ask yourself who the real criminals are.” Full: www.facebook.com/share/1Bv5QQ...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Juneteenth is pretty simply a celebration of freedom. The only people who could plausibly claim to be antagonized by it have been dead for a century, flipping out about it is really a tell of where you think the American Revolution should have ended.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Funny how he doesn't post this on Columbus Day.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah man. Think we have to dismantle an agency that's sending masked dudes in civvies to raid baseball teams. Absolutely lost their fucking minds to try to do shit like this.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 10 days ago • 440 comments

Undocumented immigrants can't vote. They don't vote for Democrats because they can't vote. Democrats don't look the other way to let them into the country for votes, because, again: they can't vote. If you are a news org and people tell you otherwise, it's a lie, and you should call it that.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I need this right now

submitted 11 days ago • 341 comments

Any gang of freaks can come and grab you and say they are ICE. Police are supposed to have badges and uniforms, and not wear masks, for this exact reason, for accountability, for public safety.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

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.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Political violence is not an incidental risk which they are merely negligent about managing and policing. It is their Schmittian central premise. Political violence against their enemies is the ideology itself. That's what illiberal populism is. There's no such thing as a peaceful form of it.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

In serious countries that are actual democracies, strong mainstream parties force members who do stuff like this to resign, & far right authoritarian parties that do this are shunned from government. Here in 🇺🇸, one of our two parties has collapsed into far right authoritarianism. So neither happens.

submitted 14 days ago • 123 comments

Just a shameless liar. He’ll push the line that this was a leftist until the evidence the other way — registered Republican, homeschooling preacher, anti-abortion with a target list of Democrats — becomes too overwhelming, and then he’ll argue “we shouldn’t politicize this”

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

Sen. Mike Lee surely knows by now that the Minnesota assassin is a Trump supporter and religious Christian. It's not like Lee falsely blamed the shootings on "Marxists" based on evidence or logic. He, and fascists more generally, are anti-truth, pushing blatant lies if it helps fight their enemies.

submitted 14 days ago • 46 comments

🤔

submitted 14 days ago • 288 comments

Obvious point: Most of the undocumented immigrants who are being rounded up are better Americans, in the ways that matter, than Donald J. Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 63 comments

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 16 days ago • 396 comments

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

submitted 16 days ago • 479 comments

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

submitted 16 days ago • 128 comments

We need answers about what happened on Alderaan and assurances from the Empire that it won’t happen again.

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

submitted 17 days ago • 165 comments

In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.

submitted 17 days ago • 129 comments

Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 19 days ago • 1456 comments

There's something about this that speaks to a deep failing of Trump as a public figure. He'll never make something beautiful as a president that future generations will want to honor and steward. Everything he does will be like the gold painted decals he installed, just waiting to fall off.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

submitted 24 days ago • 368 comments

Chuck Schumer makes it to the New Yorker cartoon section. And not in a good way. Chuck, this is your legacy unless you seriously step up. @schumer.senate.gov

submitted 62 days ago • 526 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (from @BennettCartoons ) 🇺🇸 😕

submitted 72 days ago • 82 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 79 days ago • 239 comments

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

submitted 83 days ago • 53 comments