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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 4 days ago • 2336 comments

With the SAVE act passing through the house I would like to remind everyone that it took the Taliban only 3 years to ban women from speaking #waronwomen #SAVEact

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino

submitted 13 days ago • 202 comments

My friend from Texas is visiting Cleveland soon. Should I tell her in advance about Tim Misny or just let it happen as God intended?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 15 days ago • 11250 comments

"Two US officials said Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including on Russia/Ukraine and on military operations. They declined to say if classified information was posted in those chats." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 475 comments

bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location

submitted 17 days ago • 337 comments

Dear all foreign friends outside the United States, Our country is big. Like really big. Like so much bigger than you ken. Our states are bigger than many countries, and there's 50 of them. So when you wonder why we are not all marching on DC I live 2,500 miles (4000 km) from the White House

submitted 17 days ago • 1555 comments

Detain him with plainclothes masked men, send him to a Louisiana jail and don’t tell his lawyers where he is or you’re not serious about stopping shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 558 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 400 comments

Yep

submitted 18 days ago • 765 comments

Very Well Said AOC….

submitted 22 days ago • 472 comments

Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

submitted 22 days ago • 140 comments

BREAKING Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared. Full Story: bit.ly/4c4hqW2

submitted 22 days ago • 83 comments

Rebellions are built on hope.

submitted 23 days ago • 540 comments

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

submitted 25 days ago • 257 comments

Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

submitted 25 days ago • 246 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 25 days ago • 3508 comments

Always, ALWAYS read @drewmagary.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

No!

submitted 33 days ago • 174 comments

[Sigh]. A) Jelani Cobb is a great journalist and teacher of journalism and he oversaw his students as they did superb and vital work covering the protests on their campus. B) He is telling them (as he says later) the honest and brutal truth: their school can't protect them from the Fed Govt.

submitted 34 days ago • 43 comments

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes.

submitted 34 days ago • 369 comments

Habitat for Humanity. For fucks sake.

submitted 34 days ago • 530 comments

Everyone together now!

submitted 35 days ago • 148 comments

Please read and share. Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.

submitted 36 days ago • 315 comments

Over 9 in 10 Americans agree: Medicaid is important for their community. Protecting health care for working families isn't a partisan issue. Save Medicaid. No cuts.

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying ‘shut up about gas prices’ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end.

submitted 38 days ago • 572 comments

This is all you'll be missing when you boycott the SOTU.

submitted 42 days ago • 60 comments

Anger. Righteous anger. We need more of it in this country.

submitted 46 days ago • 1078 comments

I say again: any Republican in congress with an ounce of integrity would switch parties immediately. They are complicit, sadistic cowards. Every single one.

submitted 46 days ago • 164 comments

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

submitted 46 days ago • 664 comments

I’m whatever age people start yelling at Wheel of Fortune contestants years old. #SolveThePuzzleAlready

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

“We fired all the guards at the bank so they’re not roadblocks to anything that happens.”

submitted 51 days ago • 276 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 51 days ago • 680 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 53 days ago • 1072 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 53 days ago • 152 comments

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 56 days ago • 1173 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 57 days ago • 806 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 59 days ago • 2878 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 62 days ago • 898 comments