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At some point a Gestapo soldier is going to pull the trigger and it’s going to go sideways. Every raid. Every fascist attack on society brings that reality closer.

submitted 21 hours ago • 49 comments

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 1596 comments

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

submitted 19 days ago • 3235 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 21 days ago • 1942 comments

NEW: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and @bxroberts.org

submitted 23 days ago • 126 comments

This entire administration

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments

GOP budget would: —Kick 8 million Americans off health insurance —Cut food stamps by 30% —Tax electric car drivers at a higher rate than gas car drivers —Create a $3.8 trillion tax cut whose benefits would mostly go to the wealthy —Reduce housing funding by $33 billion, increasing homelessness

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

submitted 25 days ago • 1527 comments

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

submitted 31 days ago • 1027 comments

With all the GOP threats to Medicaid, there has been much less attention paid to the other looming threat to healthcare coverage: The expiration of the upgraded financial subsidies for ~24 million ACA exchange enrollees, which are scheduled to end this New Year's Eve, notes @charlesgaba.com

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 38 days ago • 517 comments

That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear

submitted 39 days ago • 38 comments

This is some sick shit

submitted 50 days ago • 5410 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 53 days ago • 165 comments

awkward family photo

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Killer sign. A+++ sign

submitted 56 days ago • 486 comments

Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

submitted 57 days ago • 1356 comments

They are going to outlaw vaccines based on junk science.

submitted 57 days ago • 66 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 58 days ago • 3038 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 59 days ago • 1464 comments

I hope all these women sue for discrimination

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

submitted 61 days ago • 337 comments

Watching Love on the Spectrum and thinking about the fact that a good portion of people watching and enjoying this show are quite possibly also cheering on Trump getting rid of DEI programs in schools and not realizing their cognitive dissonance.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

They want to imprison anyone for burning down a Tesla. For 20 years. How much for burning down the stock market?

submitted 64 days ago • 886 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 64 days ago • 3262 comments

Imagine you’re Timothy Haugh, a decorated general, confirmed unanimously by the Senate to head the NSA. And while you’re traveling abroad, you find out the President just fired you on the advice of a 9/11 truther whose bigotry once got her banned by Uber.

submitted 64 days ago • 219 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 66 days ago • 1018 comments

The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free

submitted 68 days ago • 1277 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 69 days ago • 1461 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 70 days ago • 2514 comments

they only thought the DC feds would be affected.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

submitted 70 days ago • 1190 comments

Who could possibly be surprised that DUI hire Pete Hegseth, chosen by Herr Fuhrer because he “looked good” spewing propaganda as a weekend host, violates every standard of running the country’s most crucial Department within two months?

submitted 72 days ago • 41 comments

Them: “no ‘war plans’ were discussed” The chat:

submitted 73 days ago • 1468 comments

If Dems fail to make Signal leak an incessant story demanding resignations/impeachment, it would be a mirror image of Benghazi, her emails, etc. In face of GOP zone-flooding, Dems cowered instead of calling bullshit; now when GOP says Signal leak is NBD, a failure to push back would be catastrophic.

submitted 74 days ago • 326 comments

Imagine being Europe and reading this

submitted 74 days ago • 1763 comments

🤔🤔🤔

submitted 74 days ago • 2052 comments

Detainees died due to starvation or dehydration. ICE murdered them.

submitted 75 days ago • 770 comments

Oh FFS, now he’s selling sponsorships to National Easter Egg Roll 🤦‍♂️

submitted 76 days ago • 196 comments

So, if you’re not a good ally, we can takeover your territory? Sounds like the German approach ahead of the start of WW II.

submitted 75 days ago • 755 comments