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The first Trump administration—with the exact same information they have now—let this guy stay in the country and gave him a work permit

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagine if there were a place you could present evidence and someone could decide if you were right

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

"how is china so good at manufacturing!?!?" look so there's a long complicated answer but there's also a very short simple answer: they pay for it. china's household share of the economy is 56%. america's is 68%. to bring the chinese economy up to american norms? $2.13 trillion. that's how.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

“We think we can create an enslaved god” is one of those things you halfway suspect are going to end up being a cautionary tale in the Bible 2,000 years from now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

The American people built a way to file taxes for free and now they're burning it down to enrich the predatory tax-prep industry who helped Trump get elected. Hail to the thief.

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

They warned us that something we wanted might happen

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy

submitted 12 hours ago • 98 comments

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

submitted 13 hours ago • 49 comments

This means we’re all paying for this crime against humanity.

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

wow shocked to hear that paying the dane-geld failed to get rid of the dane. if only everyone had warned them.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

DOGE Whistleblower at NLRB shocking accusations Correct Username and Password used from Belarus with Russian IP NLRB was investigating Musk Not protecting data it gathers Potential exposure of list of labor organizers www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow. I hope you guys are happy. I hope you guys are proud of yourselves!

submitted 14 hours ago • 62 comments

This is genuinely insane

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the UK press runs an average of three stories - almost universally negative - about trans people a day

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

welcome back to the workforce, airbnb hustlers. hope you had fun on your little adventure I just sent you a teams invite

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

the right always say they just want immigrants to assimilate! here you have a "Maryland dad" but he's not really from Maryland according to them he's wearing a Chicago Bulls hat but he's not really a Chicago Bulls fan according to them you'll never be American enough

submitted 1 day ago • 362 comments

Trans women are women.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Yes.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Imagine you spent the last decade building a career around being wrong abt the gravest threats to speech in America. When this becomes clear, you could a) either admit it, or b) relabel the threats to say that you were right all along. You'll never guess which route Thomas Chatterton Williams took!

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

submitted 18 hours ago • 807 comments

I’d want this house member to be primaried for saying what’s happening is irrelevant but even more than that I’d want them primaried for being dumb as fuck

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

The President is ignoring a 9-0 Supreme Court decision but have you considered the conservative failchildren of people with Wikipedia articles have baby bird feelings and must be protected at all costs?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

we now have election-style "race calls" on whether or not republicans have successfully invalidated enough legitimate votes validly cast by constituents to steal the office they lost

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

a democratic politician calling out fox news hosts by name and identifying them as villains is necessary and has been sorely lacking

submitted 20 hours ago • 75 comments

strong point here; even if you take as a given [DO NOT DO THIS] that there's 20m undocumented people in the US and we need to deport them, this is not actually deporting people, but instead sending them to a death camp in el salvador (at significantly higher expense) one wonders why they chose that

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

submitted 1 day ago • 1078 comments

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 1 day ago • 538 comments

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family. I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

submitted 1 day ago • 1540 comments

Nothing makes me more sympathetic to open borders style thinking than how ready ‘normal’ career officials within immigration enforcement were, unlike other places like the military, apparently as a bloc ready to go full Hitler the second they were given a chance.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

Holy shit, just learned that RFK Jr's "Children's Health Defense" website made a fake CDC page with false anti-vax information linking vaccines to autism. They took down the page after the NY Times started asking questions:

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

If Karoline Leavitt or anyone in this administration has receipts showing that Mr. Garcia is a member of MS-13, or engaged in human trafficking, they’d be presenting them in a power point presentation every single day.

submitted 1 day ago • 414 comments

Lest you believe this is about the elite ivies, $20 million dollars in federal grants and funding have been cut across UC Irvine. This is about attacking economic mobility, destroying free thought, & creating fungible, powerless workers for the oligarchic bosses. Our kids’ futures are at risk.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Technically the dominant fish in a clown fish colony is a female, and they change sex depending on their position in said hierarchy (female-->breeding male-->non breeding male) this is basic science!

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Sooner or later, we're ALL going to be Kilmar Abrego Garcia

submitted 2 days ago • 443 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments