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‘“When I hear people ask if they should flee to some other country, some faraway land, I want to shake them. You want an escape plan? To where? If the United States of America falls, it’s the ball game.”’

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

submitted 10 days ago • 236 comments

I know this guy!

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I wish Democratic leadership would fight/work/advocate against Republicans as hard (or harder?pretty please?) as Dem leadership is willing to fight against their own constituents.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 63 days ago • 139 comments

“I have come to wonder whether these expressions of despair and surrender are really masking an irrational longing for a magical way out of this nightmare - a hope that some deus ex machina will swoop down and spare us what we are facing.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 74 days ago • 76 comments

@peterbeinart.bsky.social talks with Fareed Zakaria about his new book "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza” and explains how he shifted from being a strong supporter of Israel to being one of its harsh critics. www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/w...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

“We wanted to help ProPublica’s readers recognize the humanity of the people we had met and talked to, so we gave them notecards and asked them to describe their experiences with sweeps.”

submitted 117 days ago • 19 comments

2024 wasn't a lot of fun, and 2025 seems like it will be even worse. So prepare yourself with Ali Fitzgerald's Art Noveau Calendar for a Terrible Fucking Year.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump looked Welker in the eye and told her [that] she was wrong, and he was right, and all those numbers put out by DHS and... immigration reporters, even at Fox News, were fictional." He "lives in his own delusional universe." My video on his defiance of reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smh1...

submitted 137 days ago • 8 comments

A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.

submitted 144 days ago • 675 comments

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submitted 145 days ago • 72 comments

Love this, just dont think she knows our 3rd distr goes all the way west to the water so not exactly just pdx suburbs. newrepublic.com/article/1885...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Take a break from politics and listen to this

submitted 153 days ago • 186 comments