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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

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Gotta watch the local and state politics - this is where they're trying to solidify their fascist grip on our country.

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Everyday, I learn new words.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Dance with the Devil, by @LincolnTownley, 2020, 📸 by Bruce Bennett

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

An elementary school at Fort Campbell is removing books mentioning slavery and civil rights to comply with White House executive orders and Department of Defense guidelines. The fort is home to the 101st Airborne, which protected Black students during the desegregation of Little Rock, AR, schools.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 701 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

submitted 3 days ago • 354 comments

Such spectacularly pathetic cowards, 90% of the Republicans in Congress. History— and for all I know, God — will not look kindly on them.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1925 comments

Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

submitted 3 days ago • 209 comments

Adorno got it right in 1945

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Come ON

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Senators can, at any time, tell Trump he has exceeded his power. Instead, they have conceded their power, turning themselves into beggars. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Seems futile to point this stuff out anymore, but Musk and Trump holding a photo op to tout all the “corruption” DOGE has found on the same day Trump’s DOJ announced it would no longer investigate foreign governments who try to bribe U.S. officials was some real Orwell-level messaging.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

People of faith suing the Trump administration for violating their religious freedom. Including UCC, PCUSA, TEC, UMC conferences...the list is long... Read the complaint. Lawyers are heroes. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

amazing how far downhill you can get from freedom fries

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything

submitted 12 days ago • 69 comments

Donald Trump is still stripping the security clearances of his political enemies, and this time, he’s doing it to people who still work for the government!

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

The defiance of the law and judicial mandates is now open and brazen:

submitted 12 days ago • 91 comments

Was listening to an interview with Richard Seymour this weekend and he was asked if he thought technology inherently leans right and he said "it leans stupid which leans right"

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Anyone who has studied the fascism, violence and pogroms of the post-reconstruction era of America would know that white humiliation / Black progress has long been this country’s ticking time bomb. The historical parallels are 1920s Oklahoma, not 1930s Germany. But this history is often buried.

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

Early this morning we won a court order that blocks Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire attempting an administrative coup of the federal government, from accessing Arizonans' private personal information. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 16 days ago • 1401 comments

The most frustrating part of all of this for me is what I have witnessed from both Democrats and Republicans and even non-voters. Which is the mindset of “well don’t worry. That’s not gonna happen to me/you.” That mindset, to me, is pure unadulterated evil.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 16 days ago • 84 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

They all know what they're doing is illegal because lawyers and relevant experts tell them it is illegal as they do it. In any future functional government they end up in jail. They know it. They behave as if they don't expect to ever be a future government other than their own.

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

For what it’s worth, Democrats did refuse consent on Vought. They tried to filibuster him, forced Republicans to jump through hoops and used up all 30 hours of allowed debate time, with an all-nighter on the Senate floor, and all 47 Dems voted NO each time. That’s about all they can do procedurally.

submitted 16 days ago • 103 comments

In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation. www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...

submitted 16 days ago • 305 comments

NEW: Apparently the Dept of Energy has replaced its Chief Information Officer with a "network engineer from SpaceX" who has maybe run a service desk but has no other IT leadership experience, per a source with knowledge. The DOE, among other things, oversees all nuclear security. So that's cool.

submitted 17 days ago • 108 comments

That’s not just a security guard, it’s a member of the Triple Canopy private paramilitary organization that merged with Erik Price’s notorious Blackwater group.

submitted 16 days ago • 179 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

"Texas authorities arrested a Jan. 6 rioter recently pardoned by President Trump on Thursday for online solicitation of a minor..." thehill.com/regulation/c...

submitted 16 days ago • 844 comments

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

submitted 17 days ago • 190 comments

It’s called FLOODING THE ZONE. Enemy within Steve Bannon created the strategy, and the Trump administration is using it to brutally attack America. “Flooding the zone,” according to Bannon: "The media can only—because they're dumb and they're lazy—they can only focus on one thing at a…

submitted 16 days ago • 197 comments

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 16 days ago • 764 comments

What is, say, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center supposed to do with this?

submitted 17 days ago • 120 comments

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

submitted 17 days ago • 138 comments

FEDERAL WORKER AT A VIRGINIA TOWN HALL: “And to top it all off one of Musk’s top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the 6th floor.” 🤔 Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2r7Y3V7/

submitted 17 days ago • 200 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1018 comments