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one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards or of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights

submitted 6 hours ago • 129 comments

The freakout about the Zohran government possibly opening some groceries store in food deserts is fascinating because the simplest way for capital to route around it would be for businesses just open up there and obviate the need but they appear unwilling/uninterested in doing so, so govt steps in.

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 20 hours ago • 206 comments

Yeah, wanting non-billionaires to be able to afford some things is "communism." Da fuq outta here.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨The Florida government is going to tear down Everglades wetlands so they can build a tent camp in the swamp to fuel Trump's mass deportation operations — and they’re going to get money from Trump that Congress intended for humanitarian care to recently arrived-migrants.

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

It's been so weird to watch a president learn things in real time when fielding a question from the press. Then, whatever word or concept he learns, he uses in the next few social media posts. It's like when a 3rd grader learns a new fact about dinosaurs.

submitted 2 days ago • 329 comments

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

submitted 2 days ago • 590 comments

I see the Washington Post is platforming an op-ed by Krisi Noem, because apparently they're still pissed they missed their opportunity to publish Goebbels in the original German.

submitted 3 days ago • 272 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 4 days ago • 1134 comments

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

submitted 3 days ago • 1627 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 4 days ago • 1169 comments

Incredibly well delivered truth. Netanyahu’s Israel is not biblical Israel. Two parts to this. Worth every second. Part 1

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

submitted 4 days ago • 404 comments

Impeach the motherfucker.

submitted 4 days ago • 328 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 4 days ago • 2091 comments

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 696 comments

100 fucking percent. 😳👇

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Hello, I’m Jewish. I think genocide is bad and Zohran Mamdani is good. Hope this help.

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

> New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Let the kids pick KPop Demon Hunters for movie night. Surprisingly amazing. Big fan.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

Study: Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws "Firearm deaths of children &teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after 2010 Supreme Court ruling...In states that maintained stricter laws, firearm deaths were stable after the ruling"

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

submitted 6 days ago • 188 comments

An MIT study shows ChatGPT is eroding people's critical thinking skills, which is unsurprising but could have profound consequences. How do we fight fascism and the worst climate change scenarios when society is eager to off-load challenging intellectual work to AI? time.com/7295195/ai-c... (1)

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."

submitted 7 days ago • 512 comments

“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1498 comments

The individual maximum a person can donate to a NYC mayoral candidate is $2100. Mike Bloomberg just donated $8.3 million to Andrew Cuomo through a super PAC. This is what a rigged campaign finance system, designed to let the wealthy buy elections, looks like.

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

it would be nice if these repeated recorded instances of dhs and ice not being assaulted and then arresting people, often public figures, for "assaulting an officer" gave a few more people a bit more pause about the presumptive legitimacy of police arrests more broadly

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Tariffs are driving up prices The military is arresting citizens ICE is deporting Americans Republicans are assassinating Democrats RFK, Jr fired a bunch of qualified doctors And we’re on the verge of war with Iran But at least transgender athletes are being vilified So congrats MAGA, I guess

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

In classic form, Trump sidestepped the actual tragedy and used the shooting to tee off on Gov. Walz. No solutions. No sympathy. Just blame, branding, and campaign trail jabs. Because Trump is broken and flawed in almost every way a human being could be.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 9 days ago • 235 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 9 days ago • 141 comments

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 350 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 10 days ago • 2683 comments

The thing is, it really isn’t that long since a US senator spewing raving conspiracy theories about a political murder the very next day would legitimately have been a huge national scandal and almost certainly ended with him resigning, or at best announcing a retirement

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments