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This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

Via ABC News's Rachel Scott, let's never forget for a minute what a classless scumbag the President is. x.com/rachelvscott...

submitted 11 days ago • 527 comments

Totally normal rhetoric from a President. Not even Reagan was so over the top B movie villain. And he was an actual actor

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Calvin, an experienced handyman, is raising funds so he can repair his neighbors’ homes in St Louis after they were damaged by the tornado last month. He’s already hit his 1st goal, which covers 4 houses. If you can, think about donating so he can keep going.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 13 days ago • 192 comments

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 13 days ago • 838 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 13 days ago • 289 comments

This is how an authoritarian government behaves. Full stop. The mask has officially dropped in preparation for what they have planned this weekend. Take care of each other and stay safe folks

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

As many folks warned, the RICO charges against the ATL Stop Cop City folks were a dry run at the state level They are escalating. Note also the request for social media activity and things like follower lists and donor lists

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is what a federal government deliberately provoking civil war looks like.

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

submitted 13 days ago • 546 comments

Q: The president said that paid insurrectionists were involved in the protest in LA. Does the WH have details about who they believe is paying these protesters? LEAVITT: The president has a lot of common sense ... it's a good question the president is raising

submitted 15 days ago • 267 comments

NEW: Trump's federalization of the California National Guard without Gov. Newsom's approval asserts broad powers that could apply to any state. Experts warn that deploying the military in Los Angeles undermines federal law and risks federal overreach. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social‬

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 17 days ago • 895 comments

On this topic, the Gdansk port strike that sparked the Solidarnosc movement was supported by folks on the outside bringing them food, materials, comms equipment etc The 504-sit in, Montgomery bus strikes, various multi state marches, all worked because of community support & logistics/ organizing

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I want you all to take a good, hard look at the opening sentence. "Tear gas was fired at protesters in Los Angeles when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and police and shouted insults at them." apnews.com/photo-galler...

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

If you're not following @inquest.bsky.social, you should be. Their recent article "Against Abandonment" makes clear how the poisonous roots of the so-called #bigbeautifulbill are entwined with our carceral state. inquest.org/against-aban...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

submitted 24 days ago • 48 comments

104 years ago today, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history unfolded in Tulsa. We will never forget.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

The US has no viable checks and balances on power any more

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Echoes of an American term from the 19th Century: resettlement. Of indigenous people, in our case. Ethnic cleansing is the result in both cases.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

As the spouse of a longtime federal employee, this is exactly what life has been like for them over the past four months. It's infuriating to watch the administration belittle the federal workforce like this and to see so many brilliant people leave because they just can't take the abuse anymore.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

hi yes and who pays for the army budget just wondering

submitted 32 days ago • 276 comments

International students add $44 billion to the US economy, annually. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Can we have Harvard grads and plumbers or is this a zero-sum thing? bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 29 days ago • 813 comments

Fucking yikes.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

“Sheriffs, do what you want & deputize whoever you want. You’ll not be prosecuted or held accountable. We’ll not come after you or prevent you from deputizing thugs, cronies, criminals, racists” Or “Sheriffs, help me build my big beautiful loyal Sturmabteilung” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

submitted 30 days ago • 679 comments

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

submitted 31 days ago • 121 comments

. @CNN.com looks like shit right now, and deservedly so, for shamelessly hawking Jake Tapper’s book. This is perfect: “Forgetting about the fact that how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago—for free.” ~ Jon Stewart.

submitted 30 days ago • 128 comments

Trump is, in effect, creating a permission structure and legal system whereby right-wing violence has the special protection of the state, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Journalists so rarely do this. They rarely push back. They rarely call the bluff. They rarely poke the bear. They rarely break script. And they rarely go beyond the surface questions They just play along as if all this was some fucking pantomime that isn’t impacting real people

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The unhinged and untethered “morality” of blind destruction coupled with the mindless cruelty of punishment for punishment’s sake

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

this is so despicable, if we thought the loneliness epidemic was already bad, now we have the richest most powerful companies encouraging loneliness. these tech CEOs want us to only have ai friends

submitted 32 days ago • 130 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 34 days ago • 314 comments

This is a powerful indictment of how badly elites failed during the 2024 election to alert voters to the full scale of the threat of corruption and authoritarianism that Trump posed, from @mikepod.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1956...

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments