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asked for an invite to VP Vance’s press conference here in L.A. today — his office said no.

submitted 8 hours ago • 69 comments

For months, Republicans said they wouldn't touch Medicaid. News flash - they lied. Cutting Medicaid and Medicare, and tax breaks for the wealthiest are all wildly unpopular. Their one big idea is to cut Medicaid and Medicare in order to fund billionaire tax breaks, and lie. #DontKillOurMedicaid

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

In another era he would have had to shout “I’m Aryan!” to get released.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

In case you don't know how this works... you can't just confess and keep doing facism. A huge part of the act of contrition is pledging to stop doing the thing that triggered your confession

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

I’m old enough to remember when a British ambassador to the United States sent cables to Whitehall describing Trump as, among other things, incompetent, abnormal, dysfunctional, clumsy, and inept. www.bbc.com/news/uk-4889...

submitted 8 hours ago • 50 comments

Yes. Failure to impeach, convict, and remove is an active choice

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

Medicaid doesn't just impact our health. It also impacts our healthcare workforce. Cutting Medicaid will mean cutting jobs. Lots of them! This leaves hospitals understaffed, with more patients dying needlessly! #DontKillOurMedicaid

submitted 17 hours ago • 28 comments

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

submitted 8 hours ago • 65 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 713 comments

WATCH — @underwood.house.gov : “Elderly will lose Medicaid. Nursing homes will close. What are people supposed to do? They don’t care… there’s no way to sugarcoat it - it will be devastating for our communities.” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 8 hours ago • 104 comments

A new documentary on PBS shows what it's like to care for adult family members and recounts the history of caregiving policy in the U.S. revealing why those caring for family are often on their own.

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

Universities are major employers - attacks on universities are attacks on jobs.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

Re Stephen "Nosferatu* Miller's revenge project #CA, pls be advised that the CEO of #HomeDepot is a GOP Big Donor and Crony of the Corrupt Orangeman who is allowing this Economic Suicide Mission to continue at his company sites-- after many yrs in which #HomeDepot financially GAINED from Immigrants

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

this is deliberate, it’s not vance being clumsily racist and vance served with him for two years, he’s deliberately invoking josé padilla because he’s a troll piece of shit

submitted 10 hours ago • 92 comments

Elon Musk and DOGE broke numerous aspects of Social Security delivery Rather than fix the damage, the Trump administration has simply stopped reporting the data www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.

submitted 13 hours ago • 74 comments

Worth noting that back in the 1920s many localities were filled with mask wearing vigilantes, many of whom were also police officers, who sought to rid the nation of foreign “contaminants.” That group was the Klan and they targeted Catholics, Jews, Black people, and Mexicans.

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are one nation and all of Ukraine is effectively Russian as part of efforts to justify his continued conquest of Ukraine. (🧵1/X) Read more in the June 20, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar062025

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

What Christians should be doing. This is baseline.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

submitted 11 hours ago • 87 comments

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that private equity companies have gotten involved in the daycare business and now we have people calling it socialist daycare if there's any government funding for it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 55 comments

Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.

submitted 17 hours ago • 266 comments

I wonder if appeals to self-interest on immigration—rather than, say, appeals to fairness or due process—might move Republicans? For example, does telling people mass deportation will weaken social security shift any attitudes?

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

The Dodgers announce they are donating $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region, with more announcements to come.

submitted 11 hours ago • 226 comments

Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, draws a historical comparison to the Fugitive Slave Act and that of the ongoing ICE raids. The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Every two years, Robin Vos invents a new, bad faith, evidence-free reason to cut the UW budget. First it was too many reserves. Then it was DEI. Now it's "broken process." He serially lies about us & never pays any penalty for it (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). There is nothing we can do to placate him.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

The fact that none of these guys have been assassinated by cartels or human traffickers demonstrates the extent to which immigration enforcement does not actually threaten their activities

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Good point - Al Capone had more capacity to kill these men than any immigrant or even cartel and yet here they are, showing their faces because they aren’t ashamed of their work

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

If I worked at the Washington Post, I would be dying of shame. This is not about publicity-seeking Democrats, this is about the rise of a police state. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

submitted 14 hours ago • 425 comments

I wonder what they would do if I, a peaceful citizen without any criminal or disruptive intent, simply offered them my opinion about how inappropriate it is that they are wearing masks. I suspect it would end with me being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

The Bush administration went to great lengths to get the intelligence community to indicate that Iraq had WMDs to legitimize invasion and Trump just blurts out that US intelligence is wrong and his hunch is right.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

"People are hiding in their homes from the federal government like Anne Frank." EXACTLY!

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

This is great.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government

submitted 16 hours ago • 135 comments

A testament to how much fuckery there has been done by the government in Khalil, it took more than three months for him to finally be released from detention, despite having top notch lawyers, substantial media attention, and a judiciary engaged in the case.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people. Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

submitted 16 hours ago • 38 comments