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How do we feel about this? Misgendering as a weapon? It gives me the icks in 2025 but maybe I'm alone here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Rep. Grothman (R-WI): President Trump has done some very good things Crowd: Booooo

submitted 20 hours ago • 259 comments

Constituent: When will you stand up to them and say that is enough? Rep. Fitzgerald: The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered Crowd: Booo

submitted 20 hours ago • 275 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 23 hours ago • 237 comments

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Dow tumbles 800 points as inflation and tariff fears mount www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/i...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Inbox: Morgan Stanley economists warn that Trump's immigration restrictions look likely to drag on GDP this year, increase inflationary pressures, limit interest rate cuts

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

It's not (only) to expose the criminality, but the unconstitutionality. It's "no taxation without representation." Our elected representatives in Congress passed legislation mandating spending of our tax dollars, & random guys are deciding Congress doesn't get to do that. Total Article I failure.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

Gift link. The actual story of the shackled people being deported without even being told where they were being taken — maybe to countries where they’d face torture or death — while their terrified children cried.😢 The White House posted that pic with “ASMR” tag. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Probationaries who have been illegally fired: this article contains information about which law firm to contact in order to join the class action suit. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

RFK's not-so-veiled threat to take mental health drugs away is even worse than it looks at first blush. He wants to replace these medications with labor camps. This fits with the larger, eugenics-informed Trump/Musk agenda. www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 3 days ago • 506 comments

That's the MAGA Grifter Game Plan - they distract you over here with a little anti-trans bigotry in an executive order about school sports, while billionaires over there are stealing your Social Security number. #ResistTrump

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Czechoslovakia as a part of Germany? Hitler thinks it would be a boon to his legacy, but would the Sudetenland vote for his opponents?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 823 comments

Antivaxxers will worry about imaginary neurologic damage from vaccines but do not care about reality like this year’s influenza strain causing necrotizing encephalitis in children.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

submitted 5 days ago • 3750 comments

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

submitted 5 days ago • 370 comments

"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship www.salon.com/2025/01/23/e...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Pro-russia collective NoName057(16) launched DDoS attacks on Italian sites, targeting airports, the Transport Authority, major ports, and banks. securityaffairs.com/174294/hackt...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Our insurance company just wrote to us that the life saving medication our 9-year-old daughter needs to live is rejected because they decided—CONTRARY TO HER DOCTOR—that it is "Not Medically Necessary." Her meds costs ~$200K/year. Insurance industry raked in $88 BILLION in profits last year. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 778 comments

"The overall burden of influenza (flu) for the 2023-2024 flu season was an estimated 40 million flu-related illnesses, 18 million flu-related medical visits, 470,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and 28,000 flu-related deaths." www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/p....

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments