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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 15 hours ago • 250 comments

need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.

submitted 1 day ago • 508 comments

This is correct and must be understood in these terms. Imagining that there is any daylight between the people being targeted and you is a fool’s game. The situation is emergent and we need to mount an organized response

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 1 day ago • 645 comments

Been saying this for 15 years now - the worse living standards get, the worse the “mental health crisis” gets. They are directly proportional. People I know who work in mental health have been saying the same for a decade now, their clients don’t need therapy, they need money.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Feeling good about this take rn

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Oh my god this motherfucker is going to Philly next week?! They’ll never find his body

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the many implications—all horrifying—of the Trump administration reviving seemingly unconstitutional Red Scare–era laws to abduct and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, without due process, in retaliation against his protected speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

very good thread with an important kicker

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

if we would actually turn up like this we'd be getting somewhere

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech. @nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 232 comments

No uniforms No badges No names No warrant No charges Just guns and SUVs taking a man away while his pregnant wife says "my love, my love"

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 3 days ago • 4171 comments

You know things are fucked up when the blue wave emoji accounts and the communist Garfield accounts are exactly as pissed off about the exact same thing for the exact same reason

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

American exceptionalism is why many Americans genuinely don't understand why Canadians wouldn't want to join the US because they don't understand that people in other countries see the US for what it is- without freedom colored glasses (formerly known as rose colored glasses but sold in the USA).

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

there’s a stark contrast where typical liberals in the democratic party would deride you when you told them democrats were feckless losers that always capitulate, all these people seem to also be mad at the democratic party now. this is a great change. the party establishment needs to go

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 4 days ago • 3179 comments

So much of the last few decades were the ultra rich forgetting that taxes and regulation were the compromise, and they're not going to like the alternative

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Happy pi Day everybody

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's own former chief of staff warned the country about this exact thing, at great risk to himself, and the New York Times imes ran it on A14 and buried it

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires. This is a bill I cannot support.

submitted 5 days ago • 613 comments

This is also known as invading Panama.

submitted 5 days ago • 689 comments

Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

After relentless attacks from the Trump administration on the transgender community, trans Americans and allies from across the country will convene in Washington DC to show we’re not going anywhere. Join us at transdayofvisibility.com.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

Real talk it's really weird going from being a commie that wasn't taken seriously during the height of the COVID lockdowns when I talked about how we needed radical change to now where I can just casually say "This dude's gonna cause a civil war" at work and have everyone on the rig agree with me.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 6 days ago • 1090 comments

Okay, Schumer's speech was a head fake. This is the Senate D caucus trying to fool their own supporters. Sorry to say that but that's what's happening.

submitted 5 days ago • 211 comments

Real talk, it’s no wonder we millennials have a reputation for being cringey failures-to-launch with arrested development who “can’t adult”—no one taught us how to be adults in THIS version of the world. Everything we were taught and prepared for was for a version of the world that’s gone extinct.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

LATEST: Senate Minority Leader Schumer says Democrats won't provide enough support to pass a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the House, leaving it uncertain whether Congress can avert a shutdown before Friday night's deadline.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

I am dead serious: get rid of the senate (or make it ornamental like the House of Lords). Get rid of the presidency. Vastly limit the power of the supreme court. Expand the house until it is representative to actual population. The end

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

the fight/don't fight axis. I'm happy to be in coalition with anyone who is serious about stopping Trump. but not collaborators, whether they're liars or cowards

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Well at least we tried our worst

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 6 days ago • 2729 comments

Mahmoud Khalil’s family is raising funds for his legal defense and to support his wife who is 8 months pregnant. Please consider giving whatever you can - every contribution will go a long way in helping bring Mahmoud home. Please donate and share:

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

submitted 6 days ago • 1104 comments

First they came for the Palestinian protestor and I said “hey you Nazi fucks, you’re being Nazis, everyone else we need to shut these motherfuckers down RIGHT now” because I actually paid attention to the poem

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

we should organize and take to the streets over this shit, we should be going to jail over it but we're so cult-of-individualism poisoned that people are like "well, why aren't YOU doing it?" I can't do shit! only we, collectively, have power. this is a time to organize ourselves and use that power

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments