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“Squared off”

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 2 hours ago • 99 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 1 day ago • 634 comments

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

“Pro-STEM rhetoric is really just anti-humanities rhetoric” is a sharp observation that really helps cut through a lot of the bullshit in discussions of academia over recent decades.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about “bread and circuses” is that you’re not supposed to double the price of bread and then become the circus

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Here’s the next iteration of putting up a Bernie Sanders lawn sign while simultaneously opposing housing in the neighborhood: Standing up for your immigrant neighbors against ICE while simultaneously fighting housing in the neighborhood. Opposing new homes isn’t progressive. Full stop.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

It would not be too much of a stretch to marginalize rural areas: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-duff... when you do everything for them and they spit in your face

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The GOP is proof purity tests work. Anti-Trump Republicans and the result is a more unified party in lockstep pushing policies he wants

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

waiting for the first national democrat to embrace pedocon theory

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

There's a pretty explicit test case of a center left party abandoning trans people and immigrants. Labour in the UK have done just that and their political support has imploded while legitimizing the fascist Reform party. Dem consultants seem content to follow this strategy.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 5 days ago • 1185 comments

i saw gazans being burned alive on here and it was the most horrific thing i ever witnessed and i can’t imagine anyone who was devastated by that thinking that the correct response is to do it in turn to people half a world away who simply want their friends and family back

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

the post usually sucks but this article is spot on: millionaire homeowner NIMBYs use NYCHA tenants as pawns to oppose more housing in Manhattan

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments