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MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

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@cherijacobus.bsky.social @euronews.com Christian Nationalists renect the teachings of Jesus in pursuit of power. #Greed #WeaponizedReligjon

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Every word of this is depraved beyond belief. ICE abducted a six year old with leukemia, threatened him with a gun such that he wet himself, and has denied him medical treatment. I don’t know what to say. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

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Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

submitted 3 hours ago • 56 comments

They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

submitted 2 hours ago • 202 comments

Oh this is interesting.

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Sickening to read, devastating look into what is happening inside of ICE detention facilities. A good time to call your MOC about this is now.

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Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful. If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail. I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

submitted 1 day ago • 2365 comments

If the Senate budget bill passes, the 16 MILLION people who would lose their health insurance & the 179 MILLION people with health insurance whose health care costs will increase by $485/year won’t just “get over it.” This budget is cruel.

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RFK Jr. has just appointed another anti-vax liar to the CDC. Lyn Redwood, former head of the same misinformation factory that paid RFK Jr. to lie about vaccines, will now work at the CDC. Every day it gets worse. The U.S. government is subjecting Americans to a disinformation campaign.

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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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52 years ago today, June 25, 1973 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a huge coverup of Watergate & much more. Telling the truth matters.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 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...

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Trump & Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be one of the largest wealth transfers from the working class to the wealthy in U.S. history. But how would it affect YOU? We built a calculator. Plug in your info to see what it’d mean for your finances. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

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Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

submitted 3 days ago • 1070 comments

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

submitted 4 days ago • 217 comments

This Friday on PBS American Masters, a short documentary about Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and one of the 20th century’s most influential political thinkers. Looks great — here’s a trailer. [kottke.org]

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 5 days ago • 1649 comments

An act of war weeks in planning but unauthorized by Congress against a country that Trump's own director of intelligence testified under oath was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

RFK Jr. is going to kill thousands of people. That’s not hyperbole.

submitted 7 days ago • 523 comments

Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH: “I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.” #medsky www.aamc.org/news/former-...

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Come work with us!

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OMFG, the HPV vaccine 😩 Having the nation's public health now led by the world's most dangerous, most extreme, & most notorious anti-vaxxer, one who has made a fortune peddling disgusting anti-vaccine lies, is going to get many people killed www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1305 comments

Googled the phrase "AI Free Future" to see if others had arrived at the same point where they fear that the "inevitability discourse" around AI is becoming self-fulfilling prophecy and if political opposition and solidarity around the "right to live and think without AI" is a thing...help?

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New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' More of this, please"

submitted 9 days ago • 900 comments

‘Americans Are Going to Die’ -- Why Dr. Fiona Havers, an influential vaccine researcher, left the CDC. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said, by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h... via @nytimes.com #vaccination

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Slash and burn at NIH & other federal agencies hurts real people, today and in the future. From @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social wapo.st/44ntbo4

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North Korea reported on Trump’s birthday parade and they are brutal with their descriptions. ‘The inferior leader pictured here looking old, confused and tired sat next to an expensive prostitute and a drunk television host for the duration of the parade.’ 😭

submitted 9 days ago • 124 comments

A US attack on Iran would not only violate Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, but by virtue of the Take Care Clause, it would also be unlawful as a matter of US domestic law. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

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An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

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FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post

submitted 10 days ago • 781 comments

1/3 Under Trump’s latest executive order, the VA is now letting doctors refuse care to veterans based on marital status and even political affiliation—specifically targeting unmarried vets and Democrats. This is nothing short of a betrayal of those who served our country. tinyurl.com/2zh984p9

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

ICE is charging around kidnapping people willynilly. Where is ICE detaining them? In random basements? How is this tracked and monitored to ensure kidnapped people remain safe and healthy? Kidnapped families with young children aren't getting enough to drink. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I highly recommend following @maxkozlov.bsky.social, science journalist at Nature, whose coverage of the barbaric, horrific, deadly NIH cuts & of Jay Bhattacharya's floundering, pathetic NIH leadership has been some of the very best in the business

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

submitted 11 days ago • 1131 comments

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

submitted 12 days ago • 384 comments

With all the ink spilled about this man and his family, I think it is understated how joyless they always seem. Springsteen captured it…probably others too, but talk about Les Miserables.

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Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

submitted 12 days ago • 2172 comments

Compare and contrast

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JFC

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

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U.S. experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs. Administration’s actions signal move away from technology as health agencies see vaccine-related shakeups, by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @theguardian.com

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