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If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that

submitted 9 hours ago • 70 comments

This people, THIS!!! We've heard RFKJ spew on about increasing rates of childhood autism and how the cause MUST BE vaccines or toxins. But he failed to acknowledge or investigate the simplest answer: we expanded the definition of autism, leading to more diagnoses. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

WTAF?!! This is Bullsh!! #DemVoice1 Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Gutting the National Institutes of Health - which was the greatest biomedical research organization in the world - to turn it into a right wing man’s grievance-based podcasting studio

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Insurance companies currently rely on ACIP’s guidance on which vaccines to cover. But if enough reputable public health groups come up with recommendations different from ACIP’s, Osterholm said, those groups could sway insurance companies on which shots to cover..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 15 hours ago • 66 comments

A 58-year-old man in Virginia may spend the rest of his life behind bars for following and shooting two Latino men because he was "pissed" about "illegal immigration," and immigrants receiving welfare. So much hate. Where does it come from? lawandcrime.com/crime/man-ob...

submitted 8 hours ago • 260 comments

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

submitted 13 hours ago • 303 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

submitted 13 hours ago • 516 comments

DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service. Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike. Straight up Secret Police shit. These were on LinkedIn.

submitted 21 hours ago • 297 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 18 hours ago • 697 comments

A Trump regime ICE trooper pulled a gun and threaten to kill US civilians in a car as he crossed the street. Meanwhile other regime thugs pepper sprayed and attacked civilians, during an ethnic cleansing operation, at Home Depot in Santa Ana, California. #StopICE

submitted 19 hours ago • 153 comments

Graduating seniors will no longer have to pass a U.S. history state assessment after the Mississippi State Board of Education voted on June 19 to eliminate the requirement beginning in the fall.

submitted 21 hours ago • 28 comments

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 3763 comments

Masked ICE agents (or unidentified kidnappers with “badges”) who don’t like being followed

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

In case you're wondering why I'm suddenly curious about off-grid long-range comms in the event of cyber-attack

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

“Ticking time bomb’: #ICE detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely. Guardian reporting reveals confusing and contradictory events surrounding death of Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I'm going through UF Law book award winner Preston Damsky's twitter account, and it's worse than what the NYT reported. He thinks that Stephen Miller isn't racist enough. Because he's a Jew, and the "Jew clique ... is bringing America to ruin." x.com/preston_terr... x.com/preston_terr... 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Key RFK Jr advisers stand to profit from a new federal health initiative www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

He is to be released today; judge found no cause for detention. His attorney pointed out that this entire prosecution is retaliatory, simply because of his views, and that the administration had announced that it planned to "make an example of someone," with this case. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

They're not really going to reduce actual toxins, either. While claiming they're for reducing toxins and chronic disease, they undermine work to actually do that. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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 3 days ago • 506 comments

Jack Hibbs is positively giddy over the prospect that the Israel/Iran conflict will usher in the Rapture: "If this is not Ezekiel 38, this is a huge step toward Ezekiel 38. If it is the opening assemblage and the putting together of Ezekiel 38, you are ... on the threshold of history."

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

submitted 3 days ago • 699 comments

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

submitted 21 days ago • 85 comments

The benefit of having covered these anti-vax and COVID contrarian folks for years is that we know where the bodies are buried. And we’re going to keep digging them up over and over and over again until everyone knows.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

“The Voting Rights Act is functionally dead in a vast part of our country,” warns Samantha Blencke, an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund. boltsmag.org/voting-...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Hollywood, CA, yesterday. Do not look away because this will be your city soon. Source: Reddit

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

The National Association of Christian Lawmakers had a conference early this month at Liberty University. One of the speakers, Braeden Sorbo, has a history of racist and antisemitic rhetoric. angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/19/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The question will be whether any Member wants to sue over this.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

#ICE now publicly brandishing assault weapons in Los Angeles. Continue to be in plainclothes, masked, no ID. People are being kidnapped by unidentified, armed forces. (Hollywood Home Depot - 6-19-25)

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

New in @zeteo.com: My look at how Trump & the GOP's purported fight against antisemitism — a ruse for persecuting pro-Palestinian voices — is one of the most odious, cynical, destructive, and ultimately antisemitic political projects in living memory. zeteo.com/p/if-trump-c...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

A man in Tennessee was arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping after police said he scaled a wall and knocked on Memphis Mayor Paul Young's door while armed with a Taser and wearing gloves.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

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 5 days ago • 901 comments

abundance spam comes from right wing think tanks thrilled they have a new messaging vehicle. like "broken windows" or "workfare" etc etc

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

ICE denied U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) entry into it’s facility in Chicago.

submitted 5 days ago • 1412 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston blocks Trump administration firings (RIF) at Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. Judge Myong Joun (Biden) says OCR can't resolve complaints without the RIFfed staff. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

submitted 5 days ago • 528 comments

28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

submitted 5 days ago • 507 comments

BREAKING: Judge Myong Joun, who previously issued an injunction blocking the Education Department's department-wide RIF, issues a related injunction today — blocking the RIF specifically as to the Education Dept's Office of Civil Rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Eric Adams, current NYC mayor who is also running for reelection, was smoking cigars at Gracie Mansion with an antisemitic streamer days ago outlets obsessed with attacking Mamdani barely covered it the ADL that smeared Hasan for his pro-Palestine streams haven't said a word

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Looks like being a competent FDA official is a little bit harder than being a professional podcaster.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE. The Trump administration shipped a guy to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial, in conditions worse than we treat even convicted serial killers, because he was in a picture standing next to someone with tattoos. LITERALLY NO OTHER EVIDENCE.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

ACIP's agenda is now up. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... Things to be concerned about: * Vote for VFC for RSV vaccines - it's currently covered; if the new handpicked committee overturns that, they will remove coverage. 1/7

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments