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Iran has the world’s third largest oil reserves behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. I’ve seen this movie before.

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

Trump set US tariff policies to make every other company’s smartphones more expensive, and is launching a cheap smartphone to compete with those companies he’s regulating. This is next level corruption.

submitted 10 hours ago • 76 comments

Remember when the New York Times stood up against a sexual predator instead of empowering him?

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Reminder: Not only is Cuomo funded by Trump donors, he was also funded by Trump. If you think he’s going to stand up to Trump, and go against his donors, then you don’t know anything about Andrew Cuomo.

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

Andrew Cuomo has the experience when it comes to sexually harassing and assaulting his staffers, and killing seniors while taking money to cover it up. That’s not the experience NYC needs. If you care about women, don’t rank a sexual predator.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

The top .05% evade $120B in taxes, and employers steal $50B in wages from workers — each year. All other property theft totals $14B per year, with immigrants responsible for only a tiny fraction of that. CEOs & billionaires will always be a bigger threat to you than immigrants.

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Rep Melissa Hortman & her husband Mark volunteered with Helping Paws Assistance Dogs training service dogs for ppl in need, like Veterans. Their dog Gilbert was also killed in the assassination. “Both sides” are NOT the same. Trump & Republicans spewing their hate as sure as pulled that trigger.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Good for Nezza. She was told she had to sing the National Anthem in English, but sang it in Spanish anyway in solidarity with the Hispanic community. Protest and resistance comes in all forms. Kudos to her #Resist ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

Trump is going after Blue cities based on nothing more than the crazy, conspiratorial voices in his head. He’s already violating our 1st, 4th, 5th & 14th Amendments, and deploying the U.S. military against citizens in L.A. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Happy Father’s Day. Whether you’re in Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago, or anywhere else in the US, stay inside if you’re not white, cis and Christian. This is real.

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Since this article was published in 2018, billionaires have increased their wealth by $7 trillion, and an estimated 254,000 people in the U.S. have died because they couldn’t access or afford healthcare. Healthcare shouldn’t be for-profit.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Using the military as props in a personal propaganda parade is the opposite of “support the troops.”

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Trump profiting off his Presidency: World Liberty Financial: $57.35M Save America coffee table book: $3M Trump Sneakers & Fragrances: $2.5M Trump Watches: $2.8N Trump Bible: $1.3M “45” Guitar: $1M NFT licensing & royalties: $1.2M Trump calls this “America First.”

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Up to 96% of undocumented immigrants have jobs. Trump is realizing that deporting millions of workers would crush the economy, so we’re back to “undocumented immigrants are good if companies can exploit them as cheap labor.”

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Immigrants aren't stealing your money and giving it to billionaires. Republicans and Trump are with their budget bill. They want you to blame immigrants so you won't blame them.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Banning children’s books and arresting librarians because of LGBTQ+ content doesn’t protect kids and prevent indoctrination, it protects bigots and is indoctrination. I hope this clarification helps. popular.info/p/florida-of...

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

“Gavin Newsom should thank me for violating the Constitution and solving the problem I created.”

submitted 4 days ago • 125 comments

It seems like Donald Trump is about to go full dictator.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

The people who believe all of Los Angeles is burning to the ground are the same people who believe tourists were just taking peaceful self guided tours through the Capitol on Jan 6th.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Trump’s deal with China is that Americans will still be forced to pay 55% more on things like electronics, clothes, toys, and more.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

If you’re more upset at protests than masked federal agents abducting and deporting people without due process, and the President violating the Constitution to deploy the military on US soil against Americans, and justifying it with lies, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

We’re told immigrants don’t work, but they raid workplaces. We’re told hiring undocumented immigrants is illegal, but they never arrest the employers, just the employees. We’re told this is about safety, but it’s really about furthering a white nationalist agenda.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Members of Congress should be banned from having side hustles and salaries from the companies they regulate… or trading stocks in the companies they regulate… or taking campaign donations from the companies they regulate… These are all examples of corruption. popular.info/p/congressma...

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

ICE is gearing up to deploy to these blue cities: Chicago, NYC, the DC area, Seattle, and Philly. If any of these are your hometowns—get ready. If not—watch anyway, all the way through, because Trump’s unhinged order will affect you. Spread the word.

submitted 6 days ago • 234 comments

Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator. Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria. By Timothy W. Ryback www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

New York’s worst kept political secret: Republicans run as conservative Democrats in Blue areas when they know they can’t win as Republicans. You can’t be an opposition party when you’re funded by the opposition.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Don't know who needs to be reminded of this but threatening Americans exercising their protected First Amendment right to free speech with "heavy force" is what dictators do.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Not only are Republicans gutting Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP to pay for their tax breaks for corporations and billionaires — but they’re also cutting their promise of “no taxes on tips” “no taxes on overtime” and tax relief for seniors, to make those tax breaks bigger.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Trump's version of free speech: - using the military to stop protests - banning, suing & targeting media and journalists reporting on him objectively - arresting legal residents for social posts and op-eds - banning books - censoring education and history popular.info/p/the-state-...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Reminder: The Marine Corps oath explicitly places the duty to support and defend the Constitution first, and obeying the President second — and qualified by "according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice," to ensure that orders are lawful and constitutional.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. This was always their plan, and people voted for it anyway. America failed an open book test.

submitted 7 days ago • 149 comments

When people said “abolish ICE,” this is why. The politicians from both parties who called that “radical,” blindly funded them and called it “immigration reform,” because they were getting campaign donations from the corporations getting ICE contracts. And now we’re here.

submitted 7 days ago • 81 comments

Okay. Start with the ones abducting and trafficking people, and denying their rights to freedom of speech and due process.

submitted 7 days ago • 273 comments

Don't fall for the lies. They want you to believe Los Angeles is in chaos. Nothing could be further from the truth.

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

🏳️‍🌈Celebrate Pride🌈 This is what a Proud lgbtq+ mom looks like

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

If you are #NationalGuard or Active Duty #military and you are being ordered to violate the #constitutional rights of #US #citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support. You don't have to go through with it. 1-877-447-4487

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Trump gave an ex-Fox News host with a drinking problem the power to deploy the military into US cities to crush protests and violate our constitutional rights protected by the 1st, 4th, 5th & 14th Amendments, to help an ex-Governor who shot a puppy continue abducting immigrants.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

submitted 8 days ago • 331 comments

Trump is deploying the military on U.S. soil to crush the first amendment rights of citizens protesting his administration’s illegal abduction and trafficking, and detention of immigrants. This is the authoritarianism we warned about.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The Medicare fraud Republicans have been looking for is being committed by CEOs in boardrooms, not immigrants in our communities.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 9 days ago • 355 comments

I’m surprised Cuomo had time for all of his corruption in Albany with all of the time spent sexually harassing and having inappropriate relationships with staffers.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Alex Jones’ attorney once argued that he was a "performance artist" and not to be taken literally, so he couldn’t be held accountable for the things he says.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Republicans are using bad faith arguments, fake science reports, misinterpretations of the law, and denying necessary medical care to purposely make it dangerous for women in America to become pregnant. That isn’t pro-life. It’s an attack on women. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-admi...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

ICE is denying people the right to due process, abducting and trafficking them to foreign countries and locking them up indefinitely in dangerous prisons. Now they’re preparing the military to deploy on US soil and in our communities to help. This is authoritarianism.

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

We used to have laws that prevent the use of our military against US citizens on United States soil. The Posse Comitatus Act is a US federal law that generally prohibits the use of the US military for domestic law enforcement purposes. Trump ignores the law, though, so who knows what comes next?

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments