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The number of manifestly psychologically unwell people in the highest levels of this administration should be unsettling to the world.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2761 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla: "Trump clearly has one litmus test when selecting people to appoint. It's not experience. It's not dedication to our country or the rule of law. It's whether or not a potential nominee is willing to bend or ignore the law to satisfy the president."

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Someone just told me if I’m going to pick a new hobby it needs to be something I can monetize… We’ve so very lost the plot, friends.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Emil Bove’s “fuck you” to courts whose orders he’d opt to defy should abruptly end his path through the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. His nomination is well and truly fucked. End of.

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

“Books are a uniquely portable magic” -Stephen King #photography #books

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

Take note.

submitted 5 days ago • 916 comments

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

We don't talk enough about the total financial ruin defendants face when the state brings an absurd case like this. They prosecuted Karen Read for years while law enforcement engaged in blatant misconduct—and she lost both her jobs, her home, and her life savings. It's bullshit.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky. The company said the Starship "experienced a major anomaly."

submitted 7 days ago • 126 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

Yes, a brutal lesson indeed. But will Senate Republicans learn anything from it? 🧐

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

How much deeper into physical and mental decline must Trump descend before elected Republicans grasp they have a duty to their country?

submitted 9 days ago • 224 comments

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

submitted 9 days ago • 2249 comments

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

submitted 9 days ago • 761 comments

Some 20 cases remain to be decided — about a third of the total argued cases — many of them the most important of the term. But the shadow docket, with its own list of cases, looms over the other opinions.

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submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

submitted 11 days ago • 50 comments

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

submitted 11 days ago • 292 comments

The Senate Majority leader is lying

submitted 10 days ago • 416 comments

Corporate Insiders are dumping stocks at the fastest pace since November 2024 🚨🚨

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

DA confirms they will go to the grand jury to seek first degree murder charges after they have time to review evidence. Under Minn. Law, 2nd degree was the highest charge they could bring by complaint (w/o GJ) & they needed charges to get the arrest warrant they used Sunday night.

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

“Armed “security forces have often been the public face of the violence and moral collapse that can pervade societies when strongmen come to power, . . . speeding up autocratic consolidation by . . . a leader who wants to use [the military] against his own citizens.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o...

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I noticed this, too. If you marched shitty on purpose, or know someone who did, my signal contact is in my bio. I’d love to know more about this, and I’ll keep you anonymous.

submitted 11 days ago • 475 comments

I’ve never seen sooo many people at his “Big Beautiful Parade”…..I counted at least 734

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

when 4-5M people march peacefully against the current regime it's the story of the year. NYT cannot bring itself to focus on that reality.

submitted 11 days ago • 479 comments

$45 million and that’s all he got? A failed parade? That’s it?!! People in the WH are very, very quiet right now, worried about who’s going to be fired! IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY! 🤣😆😂😁

submitted 11 days ago • 93 comments

Okay so I take it back this parade is amazing. Massive turnout every city to tell Trump to go fuck himself and meanwhile his big weird dictator parade is attended by two dozen rednecks, some people out for a picnic who don’t understand what’s happening, and a smattering of press.

submitted 12 days ago • 93 comments

Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

submitted 12 days ago • 889 comments

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

submitted 12 days ago • 2097 comments

Padilla on Noem: "How does the cabinet secretary not know the senator from California when she steps foot into Los Angeles? She came through the Senate for confirmation."

submitted 12 days ago • 917 comments

Compare and contrast scenes from yesterday in America. On the one hand, Trump's low-energy Dear Leader parade (that cost you $45 million). On the other, millions of people across the country gathering peacefully to say: Here, we have no kings.

submitted 12 days ago • 194 comments

Hmmmm . . . I wonder how the Minnesota assassin might have had access to a police uniform, a police badge, and a police cruiser. Are we sure he was "impersonating" a police officer?

submitted 12 days ago • 859 comments

@padilla.senate.gov: "We’re a co-equal branch of government, our job is oversight and accountability... If there's an opportunity for me to ask a question in-person at a press conference in my home state, that's me doing my job."

submitted 13 days ago • 260 comments

Oh, just posting this. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and ..."

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This.👇

submitted 13 days ago • 98 comments

the most sickening and illegal thing I have seen. Noem deserves prison.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.” ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal. Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

submitted 14 days ago • 577 comments

The GDP of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is eighteen times as large as the GDP of Noem's home state of South Dakota, but sure, L.A. is "socialist." www.statista.com/statistics/1... usafacts.org/answers/what...

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Padilla: From the moment I entered the building, I'm being escorted by a member of the National Guard and an FBI agent. I asked, well, since we're waiting, can we go listen in to the press conference? They escort me over to the press conference. They opened the door for me.

submitted 14 days ago • 70 comments

The neuroscience of misinformation and ways to counter it www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

"The truth is, these were not very bright guys, and things got out of hand" --this, but after a piano was dropped on its head. From the fifth floor.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

It’s time for Republican Senators to speak up and support an independent investigation into what happened to Senator Padilla—and it’s time for Kristi Noem to resign.

submitted 14 days ago • 153 comments

Since I know how the United States Capitol Police (USCP) works, legislation needs to be introduced and passed that guarantees protection for all congressional representatives… which means that USCP should arrest and detain any DHS or other LE that assaults or attempts to detain any representative.

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

This is absolutely insane, and criminal. Everyone, especially a Senator representing the state, has a right to speak out. The fact that the agents felt protected in acting this way says everything. We’re quickly traversing a dangerous path

submitted 14 days ago • 971 comments