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This is possibly the best I've heard Rahm Emmanuel (who is, I admit, clearer to hear than to read). And kudos to Meidas Touch @meidastouch.com for making the absolute most of his areas of expertise, particularly on the intersections of economic and defense relationships and the Asian theater.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

America is currently led by gangsters who revel in violence.

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

This is chilling. It is a national emergency. We are consigning this person to torture so Trump can further curry favor with Putin.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Only white pandas from here on out.

submitted 1 day ago • 317 comments

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

submitted 2 days ago • 268 comments

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

It's important to understand the people behind Trump, Musk, and Vance.

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You truly could not make it up. You could not.

submitted 2 days ago • 859 comments

This week, Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that voting rights experts warn is “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted. Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest.

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NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

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“On Monday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced the first criminal charges under Texas’s abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas, a licensed midwife, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion,” a “second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison…” 3/22/25

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“I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped. I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky” 3/19/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Elon Musk’s X suspends accounts “spreading information about the widespread demonstrations in Turkey … sparked by the arrest earlier this week of … Erdoğan's main political rival...” 3/22/25 www.politico.eu/article/musk...

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New Social Security requirements pose barriers to rural communities without internet, transportation apnews.com/article/west...

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@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.

submitted 17 days ago • 158 comments

The ACA has been a lifeline for millions of Americans. But Republicans want to take it away. Let's celebrate 15 years of progress and recommit to protecting the ACA! #ACASavesLives

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

chef’s kiss 💋 perfection

submitted 7 days ago • 1357 comments

Hegseth deleted all mention of the Holocaust from Pentagon websites. Here is why we need more investigations into antisemitism at American universities.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

Article on Jackie Robinson’s military career removed from defense department website

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

Wisconsin, today is the first day of early in-person voting! Visit myvote.wi.gov to make a plan to vote.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 11 days ago • 1709 comments

Democrats have few options to fight Trump in Congress, and it seems challenging to wield the little leverage they do have. We asked two Democratic strategists where the party goes from here.

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

“If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled.” We must resist this deadly attack on the very foundations of free thought and open inquiry. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

He was elected to make egg prices cheaper and so ….

submitted 20 days ago • 310 comments

“The psychological profile of a frequent ketamine user, Morgan and her team concluded, was someone who had ‘profound’ impairments in short- and long-term memory and was ‘distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence.’”

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Take Action and Tell Congress: Protect and save our Social Security! It’s time to speak up right now so that lawmakers can hear us loud and clear. Tell your members of Congress: Social Security must be protected and saved! action.aarp.org/secure/tell-...

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

What a front cover...

submitted 23 days ago • 553 comments

Say something to your representatives

submitted 23 days ago • 1079 comments

Thank you 💙💙💙

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

"We have to take care of our law enforcement," says the man who pardoned hundreds of J6 cop-beaters. And two men who are protected by those cops applaud.

submitted 24 days ago • 72 comments

Canada’s hydro power has powered North America for decades, fuelling industries, homes, and even wartime efforts. Now, tariffs threaten this shared prosperity. Guess reliable, clean energy wasn’t ‘great’ enough?

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

This is THE THREAD of the day. Please read to the end.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

A tariff is a TAX. The company pays it — then passes along the cost as a price increase to YOU. So Donald Trump is raising YOUR taxes 25%.

submitted 25 days ago • 121 comments

Russia could release a weaponized version of any disease and end us right now. We have never been weaker.

submitted 25 days ago • 519 comments

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

submitted 26 days ago • 237 comments

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 64 comments

Some are saying Democrats shouldn't attend Donald Trump's State of the Union. I disagree. They should attend. And the minute he starts speaking, start getting up, one-by-one, and solemnly leave the chamber. It will be all anyone talks about the next day. And will drive Donald crazy.

submitted 26 days ago • 1441 comments

Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. This week, his friends in DC voted for a bill that would leave 3.4 million Illinoisans, including 1.4 million children, in the dust. Another middle finger to working families and the most vulnerable in our state.

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“The Frightening Intersection of Christian Nationalism & Techno-Fascism *** Justifying social stratification & the uneven distribution of power through religiosity is a very old trick that has resulted in some familiar social forms.” By Kelly Hayes, 8/8/24 1/ organizingmythoughts.org/the-frighten...

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Я українець.

submitted 28 days ago • 391 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 28 days ago • 95 comments

Raise your ✋ and repost this if you're participating.

submitted 29 days ago • 4835 comments

Trump Gaza is finally here.” Donald Trump just posted this AI video on Truth Social about the Gaza Strip. This is a reminder that in recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly said that the U.S. will “own Gaza” and has said its 2 million residents will be relocated.

submitted 31 days ago • 276 comments

Whoever puts this on their list of five things they did this week should get the employee of the year award

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