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After Musk baselessly accuses a Tesla Takedown protester of committing crimes, she’s flooded with violent threats, she gets a lawyer and she prepares her roommates for the nightmare scenario: “What happens if the Feds come?” www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

submitted 20 days ago • 37 comments

New Administration, But Same Old Playbook: Trump is still Putin's bitch.

submitted 53 days ago • 40 comments

The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.

submitted 52 days ago • 75 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 53 days ago • 1138 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 54 days ago • 2284 comments

President Trump just shut off funding for law enforcement, farmers, schools, veterans, and health care.
 We are working diligently to reverse this, but we are preparing for every outcome to help Minnesotans weather this storm. Minnesota needs answers. We’ll see Trump in court.

submitted 68 days ago • 672 comments

The Wall Street Journal editorial board warns against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Trump's health and human services secretary, raising concerns about “his giant closet of business conflicts and dubious ideas.”

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

And yet on the anniversary of the liberation of survivors for Auschwitz, we have this article. It was a N*zi salute. We all know what we saw. Sell your Teslas, you don't need the stigma, but he seems to crave it. He can have it.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 76 days ago • 523 comments

Joe Biden pardons the Members of Congress and staff from the Jan. 6 Select Committee, law enforcement who testified before the committee, as well as Mark Milley and Dr. Fauci.

submitted 76 days ago • 193 comments

here's today's post: "no, idiots, Los Angeles isn’t on fire because of ‘diversity.’ shut the fuck up" — America’s bigots are at it again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 87 days ago • 344 comments

People think AI images of Hollywood sign burning are real AI generated slop is tricking people into thinking an already devastating series of wildfires in Los Angeles are even worse than they are — and using it to score political points. 🔗 www.404media.co/hollywood-si...

submitted 87 days ago • 24 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

submitted 87 days ago • 898 comments

The federal government typically covers 75% of rebuilding costs after a major disaster. President-elect Trump has threatened to withhold firefighting money from California. via @calmatters.org

submitted 87 days ago • 122 comments

After a deadly tornado ripped through Alabama in 2019, Trump told FEMA to give his base "A + treatment." Compare that to how he talks about Californians and Puerto Ricans and mocks them in their moment of fear and pain. His MAGA base eats it up. Keep the receipts.

submitted 88 days ago • 42 comments

Republicans are blaming people of color and DEI for California fires? OK, let's play that game. Trump presided over the COVID disaster which killed over 500K Americans on his watch. Every major recession in America was under white presidents & white men in charge of the economy. So, that means...

submitted 87 days ago • 49 comments

if you live in LA and are or might be evacuating: take a cellphone video of you walking around your place, going over all of your belongings, it's admissible when trying to get insurance payouts for it

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Now THIS is Presidential. Thank you, President Biden! Praying for everyone's safety in the Los Angeles area.

submitted 88 days ago • 32 comments

This thread is a list of places to donate to support those impacted by the LA fires. Scroll on down and do what you can.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

California has quickly secured a Major Disaster Declaration from President Biden in response to the Los Angeles fires. Thanks to President Biden’s support, we're immediately mobilizing life-saving and life-sustaining resources and funds across the region.

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 89 days ago • 651 comments