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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 6 hours ago • 820 comments

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 hours ago • 219 comments

If Dem leadership doesnt understand by now that in the Attention Economy the show horses are the work horses, then they are too incompetent to be in leadership.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

“ “What drove people here crazy was Katie Miller, and the fact that she was on Elon’s payroll the whole time she was an [special government employee] here,”” Elon was paying Katie Miller while she was in the White House? 👀

submitted 10 hours ago • 48 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 23 hours ago • 339 comments

It’s a sad but very revealing fact that Trump hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein has never affected his popularity with the right.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

This is a trait that kitchen-table centrists and leftist materialists have in common, and it is eternally irritating. It's ok for politics to be interesting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a trait that kitchen-table centrists and leftist materialist have in common, and it eternally irritating. It's ok for politics to be interesting.

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Anyone who sees this Elon mess and thinks "oh maybe we can be his friend instead" is an utter idiot.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"If only Dems had been nicer to the tech VC bros they could still be friends." No, the tech VC bros have zero loyalty and think they should run the universe with politicians as their puppets.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This all gets even better: crypto is getting lit up.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

All of this is precisely why you don't let billionaire oligarchs and corrupt mafia types run your government. No matter what your ideology, space and national defense policy are too important for this bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

You guys don't get it, they're penis-talking.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Tesla stock is down because the market was pricing in gladhanding and corruption. Not anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yes, Trump is Nazi adjacent. But more than that, Trump sees all foreign relations as a static Civilization game. "The Germans" and "The Americans" had a war and therefore there are hard feelings. Morals and values never enter the picture.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I cannot stop wheezing

submitted 1 day ago • 2292 comments

This took a lot longer than I expected. But the fallout is also much greater than I expected. Scorpions in a bottle.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 1 day ago • 1690 comments

When Dems emphasized Abrego Garcia's plight, Trump's approval went down on immigration. It turns out that hammering the evil things your opponents are doing can actually shift public opinion. You don't have to chase it like a weathervane. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Like all laws, CEQA derives its social license from its good-faith application. But when a bedrock environmental law is used to cause measurable environmental harm—for example, by displacing housing developments to agricultural and open lands—that undermines political support for the law."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A lot of people think "the DNC" is this big bad powerful institution serving donor interests. What people need to understand is how powerless it is. The party must be much stronger--and more accountable. See here: thehill.com/homenews/cam...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Imagine backing the Rolling Coal Party because you're a eugenicist with a breeding fetish, and then still thinking you're going to get EV credits.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

lot of research that various welfare state programs have a marginal effect at best on birthrates. but I bet banning the internet would have a pretty large effect

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Trump doesn't even care what's in the big ugly murder bill. He just wants to slap his name on something and call it a win.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This conversation is so painful. They can't pronounce basic words. They can't use basic grammar. They don't know anything about the subject matter. And they're in charge of education.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

America in 2025 is the first actually existing case of civilizational suicide, all of the decline of the West guys were correct, they were just talking about themselves instead of immigrants and gays

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Get the sense that attack in Colorado was the work of a single individual and thus hard to prevent. But worth recalling how how many FBI have already been pulled off counterterrorism and other forms of crimes for immigrant round up duty.

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

My thoughts are with our Jewish neighbors after another horrifying antisemitic attack, this time in Boulder. Hate has no place in our country.

submitted 4 days ago • 564 comments

The MAHA report appears to be almost identical to a 2023 document put out by “Children’s Health Defense,” the antivaxx front that RFK Jr. used to pay himself >$20K/wk for spreading disinformation. It appears AI was used to make the tone more official sounding & add citations, many of which are fake.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

many alleged crimes in this article. eg it says Elon got advance notice of legally required drug tests so he could stop using long enough to pass www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Trump and his people really think of the presidency as an elective dictatorship. Even if you win an election promising to shred the Constitution in various ways, that doesn't mean you actually get to do it. (Also, he won on the price of eggs, not the constitution shredding.)

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I talked to @delaneyrules.bsky.social about how the "Crypto Dem" caucus (Gillibrand, Gallego, etc...) are undercutting one of the Dems most obvious "Trump corruption is bad for people" arguments. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It isn't the content that's the problem. It's the way that center and left discourse is stuck behind paywalls while rightwing discourse is pushed out free, bankrolled by billionaires, and distributed like wildfire across social networks. We aren't failing at ideas, we're failing at spreading them.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

It's blatantly obvious that none of these people knows what they are doing, what real work is, or what it takes to run a small organization never mind a massive agency. They just spent years podcasting and tearing shit down about which they know nothing.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments