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The Trump Gaza video is quite possibly the most disgusting, the most shameful, the most hideous public communication by a US President in living memory.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

If you look at official HUD webpage, the press release is just a long list of Fox News and NewsMax hits claiming that the agency is engaged in massive fraud. We are witnessing the merging of private and state media. www.hud.gov/press/press_...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 5 days ago • 590 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1972 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 7 days ago • 838 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 7 days ago • 419 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 11 days ago • 541 comments

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments

I realize what a long shot this is, but our kid threw their beloved teddy bear out of the shopping cart at the Target at Sunset and Western in Hollywood. Teddy is much missed if you happen to hear of a missing bear!

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children. ...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 22 days ago • 129 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 20 days ago • 199 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1215 comments

There was more urgency to stop this guy

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

It's Pritzker and AOC who get it so far. Who else?

submitted 26 days ago • 763 comments

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they really don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

submitted 29 days ago • 262 comments

call me a socialist but I just don’t think one room should be able to fit a trillion dollars of net worth, let alone that room be the United States Capitol rotunda

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Got tired of being scolded by out-of-touch traditional media and wrote about Mangione, American healthcare, and what we define as violent. open.substack.com/pub/thespite...

submitted 76 days ago • 178 comments