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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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Trump’s America

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The right question

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

As gently as I can put it, the Administration is certainly governing as though they do not feel constrained by the US public being the most-armed public in modern history.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

this was sadly predictable, and a shooting liberals need to reckon with not just as a symbol of a lack of gun control but as a product of the police state

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 16 days ago • 2340 comments

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

submitted 20 days ago • 395 comments

Liberation Day, United States (2025).

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

Now that’s a screenshot. > @atrupar.com

submitted 24 days ago • 952 comments

Ahead of Petey Hegseth’s visit today, the US Naval Academy removed virtually all photos of female Jewish Academy graduates to shield him from exposure to "wokeness" cooties. Story from Military Religious Freedom Foundation: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 142 comments

This voter ID executive order is fun because military IDs don't indicate your citizenship on there.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

HOLD UP!! Are we about to Go to War with Iran? A secret move of 7 Stealth Bombers to Diego Garcia for can only mean two things … an incredible, massive, insanely expensive exercise or Trump is going to strike Iran’s Ballistic Missile City. These moves spell war. www.twz.com/air/signs-u-...

submitted 32 days ago • 134 comments

This is like watching all the animals fleeing inland right before a tsunami. They know what's coming. So did Einstein in 1932 when he left. Doctors Stanley and Snyder are two of the top experts on authoritarianism, and have called it quits. I'll be joining them in Canada this summer.

submitted 32 days ago • 37 comments

DOGE wants a criminal to have access to everyone in America’s social security number and tax information. Tell your family and friends.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

This oldies topic is a reminder: if you keep looking around for adults and “don’t see any” it’s because YOU are the adult. It might not look like it did when we were kids (congrats, we won) but it doesn’t change what you are

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 34 days ago • 329 comments

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

The cool thing about the “wyd” emails is that if you aggregate enough unclassified information, it may become classified. Even better and more convenient if you put it all into one LLM.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE: we're gonna save so much grant money just by changing the indirect rate The grant writer I talked to last night: So he fired everyone who knew the difference between direct and indirect costs and also every auditor. Good luck with that.

submitted 62 days ago • 53 comments

@ferallaureth.bsky.social

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The Moscow Institute of Computer Science has "caught fire", I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

submitted 67 days ago • 441 comments

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submitted 66 days ago • 754 comments

Spent my Saturday teaching queer folk shooting basics with handguns. If you want to help me keep my body together I’ve got medical procedures coming up this week and could really use your help holding things steady. gofund.me/18b9caca

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Modern day book burning. They're even targeting the same specific marginalized minority that they did in the 1930's.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing, I'm thinking about several things, one of which I just learned bout. The first is "Chesterton's Fence": an early 20th Century author who used a parable of a fence to posit why we should not destroy what we do not understand. 1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGb...

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

A deeply sobering but important article here from @hungrybowtie.bsky.social podcast episode to come via It Could Happen Here shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-fe...

submitted 76 days ago • 34 comments

Looks like what Blackwater morphed into, is now preventing the US Senate from its Constitutional duty of oversight.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments