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retired after 32 years of teaching; actor/director/theater manager; committed liberal; worried about the directions our country is taking. No DMs.
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🤬f***, just in case your imaginantion didn't supply the word missing here.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

submitted 6 hours ago • 996 comments

Standing up to a bully is the only way to stop him. Why does the bully currently control all branches of government? They let him. Let that sink in. Gov. Mills is fighting the bully. Together, we can be like Gov. Mills. #MomSky #FightFascism

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The Lincoln Project just decimated Elon Musk with one ad...

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

I’m running out of expressions of outrage. Sliding into _______. Not sure what say anymore. It is all authoritarian.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent; neither he nor anyone associated with this admin will respond--nor give any thought to these pertinent questions--but I appreciate their existence, at least, all in one place.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Approach each day with the childlike wonder of a New York Times reporter reading a new press release from a demented 30-something right-wing basement blogger wholly devoted to the reversal of civil rights

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Amen.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing, but wonderful, decision!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"The Contrarian contributor and historian Ruth Ben Ghiat recalls that after a failed assassination attempt, Hitler declared, 'I am invulnerable. I am immortal.' She notes, 'For believers, Hitler’s survival proved that he enjoyed divine protection.'” (DT says he was spared assassination by God. 🤮)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thank goodness voting in Australia is compulsory. You can vote informal or do a donkey vote if you want to, but you will be fined if you simply don't turn up. This makes everyone accountable.

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Didn't do any research on this; I don't doubt that it might be true--I just think it makes a valid point, regardless of the # of people or amount of $.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 14 days ago • 241 comments

I agree, and he's waking up too little and too late.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Reup: the guy lying about his Signal chat claims he has to oust all trans people from the military bc (he claims) they're not honest. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/30/h...

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

To everyone saying to “ignore” what he’s saying because “it will never happen”…you are why we lose.

submitted 14 days ago • 584 comments

I hope so, but I will withhold any positive response to CNN till it becomes a pattern instead of an anomaly.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

US women deserve better

submitted 14 days ago • 81 comments

NEW YORK!! ❤️‍🩹

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

DAMMIT. Whose toes have to be stepped on before people in our Congress will stop playing tiddlywinks and DO something?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I know this was 2 weeks ago, and in this firehose of crazy we're living in, we've moved on; but this tirade really strikes home and bears watching again. Good for Representative Larson! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MJD...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

From The Atlantic: "Beyond the fact that this kind of shitposting is so obviously beneath the office, the posts are genuinely sinister. By adding a photo of an ICE arrest to a light-hearted viral trend, for instance, the White House account manages to perfectly capture the sociopathic ... /1/

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment