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ICE already can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

submitted 22 hours ago • 333 comments

Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

submitted 1 day ago • 391 comments

Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1265 comments

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 2031 comments

How about we have party leaders focus on the words of a United States congressman - Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama - who’s calling Black people “inner city rats” who leach off of America’s taxpayers. Stop the focus on municipal elections and get to this. Where is the censure and condemnation?

submitted 19 hours ago • 356 comments

I would have thought this goes without saying, but no one in the media is saying it: the lesson of Mamdani's election is that leftist policies are actually popular and you can run on them without this weaselly pandering to the center.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

When I was playing gigs in Atlantic City casinos with Al Jarreau way back, everybody bashed Donald Trump all the time. He was well-known as a mobbed-up asshole who fucked over everybody who worked for him. And here we are again, except this time the whole fucking country is at stake.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

You know you've been conditioned to live in a black & white paradigm when you have no ability to distinguish between -Marxism -Communism -Socialism -Democratic Socialism If all those words scream in your brain BAD, but you can't describe their differences, you've been conditioned to feel this way

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

submitted 3 days ago • 288 comments

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

submitted 2 days ago • 313 comments

Bernie to Dems:

submitted 2 days ago • 414 comments

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

submitted 3 days ago • 345 comments

This. Is. Insane. Read this, please.

submitted 3 days ago • 400 comments

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

submitted 5 days ago • 434 comments

I want to also point out this whole thing has been a gigantic ad for the concept of ranked choice voting in general, which takes a lot of the vitriol out of primaries in particular and better represents voter preference. What's not to love?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

submitted 5 days ago • 272 comments

I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

submitted 5 days ago • 105 comments

i continue to have a zero-tolerance policy with this shit. stop using spotify. i dont care what you replace it with. fuck your playlists, fuck your discover feed. STOP USING SPOTIFY.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

More to come later today but here is a first look at what just a few hours of observing with the world’s largest camera can do. 🔭 edition.cnn.com/2025/06/23/s...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

submitted 7 days ago • 1178 comments

This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS. It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

submitted 8 days ago • 267 comments

Hey check out this fucking loser

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Harris does not start this war and anyone saying otherwise is fucking lying.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

every single member of Congress should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment. and every single Democrat who isn’t calling for impeachment should be primaried

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 198 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

submitted 9 days ago • 134 comments

it takes a special brand of political incompetence to see millions of people marching against the opposition and not do anything to seize that momentum but it appears dem leadership has decided to do just that

submitted 10 days ago • 200 comments

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

submitted 9 days ago • 1161 comments

Trump is whining that he won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize “no matter what I do.”

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Jordan Peterson is proof that if a Canadian becomes a continental philosopher and a right wing Christian as well as a psychologist they become too powerful. Canadians must be banned from that exact combination.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 11 days ago • 558 comments

Nobody in their right mind would have voted for her in the first place. Therein lies the problem with the Democratic party.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 11 days ago • 172 comments

I genuinely think the role of Meta specifically in driving loneliness is underrated. Facebook replaced existing ways of keeping up with friends with what was briefly a great product, then destroyed that product.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.

submitted 12 days ago • 1729 comments

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

“worst person you know” etc etc but man this is good

submitted 12 days ago • 96 comments

From an Iranian friend in Tehran, sent just after Trump put out his EVACUATE NOW tweet.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

submitted 12 days ago • 645 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 12 days ago • 542 comments