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Would you look at that.

submitted 1 day ago • 925 comments

Good question. It's either a bunch of Proud Boy look-alikes or guys dressed like they're about to invade Iraq again. Neither of which should be acceptable!

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"Commenters often note that Trump talks like a mob boss, but rarely has his organized-crime style of governance been clearer than in yesterday’s statement." Everything Trump does makes just a little more sense if you think of him like a mob boss.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

This is unconscionable.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“journalist Dean Blundell reported that Washington insiders and observers from abroad had noticed how rarely Trump appears in public and how often he falls asleep when he does, prompting speculation that he is not physically able to do the work of the presidency.“ This should be bigger news!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“The contrast between the protests and the military parade suggested an important shift in political culture. The momentum and the joy, as well as the American flags, were on the side of those protesting Trump’s growing authoritarianism. (The) crowds were clearly on the side of the protesters.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“In the city when Benjamin Franklin is said to have promised the citizens of a new nation “a republic, if you can keep it,” on the parkway that bears his name, Americans kept it for one more day in a color revolution of red, white and blue.” We must keep it!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Great thread of pics from all the protests yesterday. I didn’t take any pictures where I was

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! Tell your friends. And maybe your enemies. 😉

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“But the celebration of ordinary people who fought against tyranny will be happening not just in the nation’s capital but all across the country, as Americans participating in at least 2,000 planned No Kings protests recall the principles American patriots championed 250 years ago.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) answered: “This is a lie. We all saw the video. —” She added: “If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?” All he’s done is lie since he came down that escalator.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

“A president whose disastrous first term ended with a violent attempted coup to block the peaceful transfer of power is now moving quickly in his second term to consolidate power, to accomplish the form of autocracy he sought on Jan. 6, 2021.” This is NOT a distraction!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

You are the company you keep?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“While President Donald Trump is trying to project strength by ordering a federalized National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles, a new Quinnipiac poll of American registered voters out today reinforces that both Trump and his policies are unpopular. The numbers are remarkable.” Good.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

submitted 7 days ago • 499 comments

“Soldiers were seen purchasing clothing and tchotchkes, including "Make America Great Again" chain necklaces to faux credit cards labeled "White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything."” Imagine being a person of color and have to serve with the guy that just bought the “white privilege” card.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is disgusting.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

submitted 26 days ago • 121 comments

America is not under invasion from undocumented immigrants who are mostly peacefully living & working in communities that value their contribution to society America is under invasion by Trump who is literally sending military to invade & occupy peaceful cities to crush the will of the people there

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

submitted 7 days ago • 400 comments

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

submitted 7 days ago • 124 comments

“What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment,” Newsom said. “Do not give in to him.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people.“ We are currently in an abusive relationship with the right. They DARVO everything “bad” onto the libs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“Young soldiers will make mistakes. But if senior officers remain silent, what lesson will those young men and women take from what happened today?” Don’t believe for a moment that the senior officers don’t know any better.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“Masked, plainclothes officers of the state, cruising America’s second-largest city in unmarked vans. Snatching individuals off the street without warrants and whisking them away to locations unknown,” It’s like 2020 in my hometown of Portland, OR all over again. We apparently learned nothing.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Important post. As difficult as increasing the national birth rate is, even increasing it by something like 10% (extremely improbable) would contribute fewer workers longterm than simply maintaining 2023 immigration rates.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

21 million is 6 percent of the entire US population. Three out of every 50 US residents are here illegally? That's clearly wrong. To put that ratio in terms Pete Hegseth will understand, that's like 6 of the 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The Secretary of Defense lies under oath, claiming "21 million illegals" entered under Biden. Trump previously invented a 20 million figure out of thin air at a campaign rally. Recently, he randomly started saying 21 million. Now his surrogates are parroting that fake number.

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

Both violent and property crime has fallen off a cliff in the last 30 years. From its peak in the early 90s, violent crime has dropped more than 60%. All data via FBI.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

David Dayen posted: “The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been saying for years now that a lot of people won’t believe we’re in trouble until they see tanks in the streets. I’m not sure a parade will do it, but I guess we’re about to find out.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“Those who cannot remember the past accurately are condemned to repeat its worst moments.” This is so painfully clear right now. Learning history in this moment almost feels like an act of resistance.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment