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Everyone has already made this point but reiterating that US citizens cannot be ‘deported’ and using that language does the mainstreaming and propaganda work of the fascists who want to make it sound normal to kidnap, disappear, and traffic people based on their ethnicity or politics

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

As we approach the end of the first 100 days, I am noticing in myself a feeling I associate with the first few months of grief/loss when a beloved dies. 1/?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The people I know who are most engaged in creating a more just world are consistently worried that they aren't doing enough. Then there are those doing nothing who seem completely unperturbed. It's actually incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

THANK YOU. I do not give a flying fuck about AI's "consciousness." If NYT is going to waste column inches on this useless circle jerk of a tech, this is what they should be talking about.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 32 days ago • 960 comments

They actually hate children. Children are just something to weaponize against women.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

So important to note that the threats of arrest and even deportation to a country not your own are designed to force students to self-deport, meaning that they’ll never even have the chance of getting their day in court. Hard to overstate how shocking this is

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

They watched this movie win an Oscar and said "that's right, we did all that...and as soon as he's back we'll kill him" The West created this monster. This is 100% on Germany, France, UK and the US who have not only enabled but encouraged these beasts. Shame on you. Shame on you.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

the Signal fiasco is a good reminder that while these people are destructive, and cruel, and bigoted, and petty they are also really, really stupid

submitted 41 days ago • 331 comments

Today, Israel killed our colleague Hossam Shabat, who reported for @dropsitenews.com from northern Gaza. Witnesses say it was a targeted strike on his car. This is our statement: www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities. Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.

submitted 44 days ago • 234 comments

My latest piece for @thenation.com "Jackie Robinson AGAIN Teaches Us To Never Back Down To Bigots" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Other people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."

submitted 48 days ago • 179 comments

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 53 days ago • 518 comments

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 61 days ago • 127 comments

At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

submitted 61 days ago • 118 comments

Every day

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

This is ghoulish

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

So much of the Trump administration's policy endangers the lives of specific groups. So in a way, having RFK Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services is a way of making things more fair because now EVERYONE is more likely to die.

submitted 80 days ago • 25 comments

Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor

submitted 80 days ago • 50 comments

Just had the realization that America now has an evil vizier

submitted 80 days ago • 41 comments

Replacing the words "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" -How can we respond to COVID without sacrificing rich people's yacht money? -Saving the environment sounds nice but what about rich people's yacht money? -Medicare for all would destroy rich people's yacht money.

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

submitted 81 days ago • 1016 comments

"It is time to name the result of the chaos for what it is — unbounded cruelty. It is time for complicit Catholics, in particular, to stop aiding and abetting cruelty by asserting that this administration is in any way pro-life. It is not."

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

We all know the president's brain is a rancid pile of pudding but it's still a bit jarring to see him open his piehole and have utter nonsense come tumbling out.

submitted 87 days ago • 228 comments

new hypothesis: you can be pretty wealthy while having both ethics and self respect, very wealthy with just one of these but to end up ultrawealthy you cannot possess either

submitted 88 days ago • 16 comments

If anybody is worried about this, I will gladly play the role of "dude with the red string on the cork board" so you look sane by comparison. Because the reality is the richest person in the world is a nazi who snuck in at midnight to steal every American's data so he could shut down the government.

submitted 90 days ago • 14 comments

it's because trump is incapable of understanding any transaction or interaction as anything but a zero sum game with a winner and a sucker, it's the mindset of a professional fraud

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

yeah this is what has me totally losing my mind I assumed, as evil rich white guys, that they would rob the bank I did not expect them to go into the bank and set everyone’s money on fire, including their own nobody’s getting out of this unscathed, rich white guys included

submitted 93 days ago • 51 comments

again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government

submitted 93 days ago • 274 comments

I hope folks understand what’s happening here. Some in the administration view concentration camps inside the US as maybe a bridge too far. So they’re starting with Guantanamo Bay, away from prying eyes and 24/7 coverage.

submitted 95 days ago • 345 comments

We are all we’ve got. I don’t even think of it in terms of political parties anymore. They will not save us. I think about this in terms of anti-authoritarianism, pro-humanity at this point.

submitted 111 days ago • 10 comments

I don't even have anything insightful to say today. I still can't believe he won after his actions 4 years ago today.

submitted 118 days ago • 2361 comments

Don’t let anyone lie about January 6th. It was an armed attack. They had pipe bombs, guns, Molotov cocktails, stun guns, a crossbow, hockey sticks, bats, flagpoles, pepper/bear spray, brass knuckles, scissors, screwdrivers, and an axe. More than 1,200 arrested. 117 for weapons/assaulting police.

submitted 118 days ago • 184 comments

This is exactly what I was thinking last night as I made chili — the recipe said two cloves of garlic and I thought, “That cannot be right.” As another commenter said, the effort of preparing two is worthless — might as well leave them out. Anyway, I put in several more than two in the chili.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments