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Al Gore speaking out more strongly that any past president and pretty much everyone in Congress www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjjtMWg1/

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

“Few Americans have been as explicit in their warnings..” Explicit. Specific. With clarity. Because @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s life’s work has been a rare depth of research, study, and analysis of exactly what’s happening right now, who’s really doing it, and how. substack.com/@keenon/note...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings. In 2023, by chance, I was at the OKC memorial when Trump launched his campaign in Waco -- the site of a siege massacre on the same day in 1993. Article here: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

We were clear from our discussions with experts on authoritarianism back in 2020 that if Trump had a second term he would go after non-profits. That’s what they do.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 7 days ago • 1750 comments

“I really like my job as a guard at Bergen-Belsen, and appreciate that the Führer is doing so much for the economy, and mostly the work is pleasant. Digging mass graves can be taxing, sure, but the commute is great & we don’t have the pollution issues that the camps further east deal with.”

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

I wish there would be mass protests over.. Executive overreach, re-segregation, disappearing people, etc. But knowing Americans, nothing is going to get people into the streets like not being able to buy the shit they want or put food on the table.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

These guys do this kind of thing because they’re so rich they couldn’t even fathom needing help to keep the heat on, and if it doesn’t benefit them, it needs to be cut. It got down to -35 in International Falls this winter.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

THANK YOU, President Musk & President Trump, for freeing Americans from the tyranny of ...disease-free food. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you, Senator Van Hollen, for your leadership. A true champion for human rights, Sen. Van Hollen has our back, and we are honored to have his. Together, let's keep up the fight to push back against Trump.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If you get funky when the beastie boys shout "HEY LADIES!" then you're a lady.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

This is at the heart of what America can’t stand to face/admit: “Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.”

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

hmm, seems to be the opposite of facilitating his return

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Rare footage of a senator doing his job. Praying for his mission.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

submitted 9 days ago • 4271 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 10 days ago • 271 comments

NEW: Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10x what was spent in his first term. Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met. W/ @texastribune.org

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Every single House Democrat will vote NO on the reckless Republican budget that rips away healthcare from the American people.

submitted 16 days ago • 246 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 17 days ago • 396 comments

NEWSFLASH: At least 12 members of Congress are flying Appeal to Heaven flags outside their offices. Great reporting from @marabim.bsky.social tracking Congress & January 6th symbolism. The ATH flag is a symbol of Christian supremacy & political-spiritual warfare. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...

submitted 17 days ago • 51 comments

Dear anonymous Goldman Sachs executive: I just want you to know that everyone reading this article thinks you're a punk ass coward, and I hope that bothers you.

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com

submitted 20 days ago • 89 comments

A really interesting (and dismaying) real-time thread tracking how the NYT persistently mischaracterized the nationwide protests in the US today, before finally (after many iterations) landing on phrasing that accurately reflects what went on.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

This is my friend Pam and her husband Ron. He is a Vietnam veteran. They have both been involved in POW causes for decades. Yesterday, at a hands off rally in St Joseph, Missouri, a man drove around them in his pickup yelling at them. MAGA folks are not patriots. They never were.

submitted 19 days ago • 111 comments

If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead

submitted 20 days ago • 170 comments

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

submitted 19 days ago • 147 comments

Breaking News: A second child has died of measles in West Texas amid an escalating outbreak. It is the second confirmed measles death in a decade in the U.S.

submitted 19 days ago • 174 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 21 days ago • 230 comments

if we get through all this, can we have a whole sale examination of male arrogance and how it puts us in the shit, all the time? Not just Trump's or Navarro's or Musk's. But every fucking pundit/banker who thought it wouldn't be that bad, or that bad for them. idiots.

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...

submitted 21 days ago • 98 comments

Several male commentators have expressed confusion over why Mike Johnson was mad about the bill allowing new parents to vote remotely. The answer is simple. He is a sincere misogynist who does not want women in power. Most Republicans agree. Analysis. www.salon.com/2025/04/03/m...

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

submitted 22 days ago • 605 comments

My Fulbright scholarship and research changed my life, and helped me get into Columbia for grad school. It’s what made me decide to pursue journalism. I still advise Fulbrighters. The admin is destroying soft power through international knowledge exchange and America will be worse off for it.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

“What we’re seeing is a wholesale abandonment of consumer protection, leaving people to fend for themselves when credit card companies, banks, payday lenders and payment apps violate the law,” said Lauren Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center.

submitted 26 days ago • 35 comments

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 27 days ago • 444 comments

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

submitted 30 days ago • 825 comments

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

submitted 30 days ago • 661 comments

Signalgate is just the start. In its first two months, the new Trump administration has made move after move that exposes the government to penetration by foreign intelligence services. By me in @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments