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we were teenagers waiting for parents to come home from their naturalization interview as nerds in AP course we buzzed our parents with Trivial Pursuit questions (“where did Lee surrender at the end of the Civil War?”) & wished we could play I can’t imagine if Mom & Dad never came back home

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

submitted 6 days ago • 930 comments

The ICE officers covering their faces feels like a pretty big tell

submitted 6 days ago • 237 comments

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

submitted 6 days ago • 2250 comments

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

submitted 7 days ago • 646 comments

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

submitted 7 days ago • 488 comments

The most important thing for anyone to know right now whether citizen or non-citizen.... if you find yourself detained by ANY law enforcement, no matter who they are or what they say do NOT SIGN ANYTHING without a lawyer who is advocating for you being present!

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

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The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele is a Nazi and he is running a Concentration/Extermination Camp not a prison. He said that Ábrego García who was deported to El Salvador by mistake is a terrorist and will not be sent back to the USA, nor released. But is he even alive?

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

WTF

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The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.

submitted 7 days ago • 254 comments

The videos showing the El Salvador prisoners makes me so sick. I can’t watch the footage. To know that the administration puts them out because Trump’s base enjoys the sadism is all we need to know. They are sick and depraved and vile people.

submitted 7 days ago • 70 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 7 days ago • 1374 comments

I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.

submitted 8 days ago • 253 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

submitted 10 days ago • 143 comments

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 12 days ago • 749 comments

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

submitted 13 days ago • 134 comments

@handsoff-nm

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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

submitted 17 days ago • 1445 comments

You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."

submitted 17 days ago • 310 comments

Once I was on the same plane as Val Kilmer to Albuquerque. Then, right after that, on the drive from there to Santa Fe, saw him jogging along the highway. Guess he just had to do it RIGHT THEN!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, TX Rep. Keith Self (R) quoted Nazi Joseph Goebbels on controlling public opinion🤬 Using Nazi propaganda is more than vile; it’s a flashing red siren. This is how democracy dies: not with a bang, but with silence in the face of fascist rot. America, do not be silent. Call out evil.

submitted 18 days ago • 141 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 18 days ago • 964 comments

We put tariffs on an uninhabited island full of penguins but not Russia. Very normal administration we have here.

submitted 18 days ago • 667 comments

@booker.senate.gov has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 20 HOURS and counting. #RESPECT

submitted 20 days ago • 413 comments

He's still going! Yay and thank you @booker.senate.gov, this is the energy meeting the moment. Tune in, turn on.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We all know that if Obama had invited a Black rapper covered in bling to stand next to him as he signed an executive order in the Oval Office, rightwing media would have lost their minds. That’s what white supremacy is all about. One spoken rule for me, another spoken one for you.

submitted 20 days ago • 156 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 88 comments

The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free

submitted 21 days ago • 1285 comments

March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). Today, we celebrate trans people and raise awareness of the essential roles they play in our communities. We also recognize the disproportionate barriers the trans community faces. If you are trans, know that we are standing with you. You are loved.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Friendly reminder..Iran in the 70's...Iran now.

submitted 22 days ago • 361 comments

Every American Citizen right now has privileges of free speech that those with Visas or Greencards currently do not. It is your duty to speak up loudly and contest what's happening. The Constitution is getting violated daily, which isn't surprising, but highly dangerous. Wield your privilege.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

👇👇

submitted 24 days ago • 458 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 25 days ago • 793 comments

So scary. We said people would be taken off the street in broad daylight. Here we are.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E

submitted 26 days ago • 335 comments

In case it gets lost in the onslaught of news, today PBS and NPR are defending themselves before Congress. If you’ve never seen this clip of Mr. Rogers advocating for PBS funding, I urge you to watch the full ~6 minutes. It’s incredibly powerful. Here’s to the helpers, indeed. #MomSky 🕊️🕊️🕊️

submitted 26 days ago • 92 comments

Stacey Plaskett: "In December of 2023, many people made Secretary Lloyd Austin go through the stages of the cross in self-flagellation and mea culpas for not informing the president that he was having a surgery, and now how we are treating Secretary Hegseth as if he is untouchable." Spot on!

submitted 26 days ago • 157 comments

Feels like we've lost touch with how insane it is that Gabbard is Director of National Intelligence in the first place.

submitted 26 days ago • 307 comments

So it turns out Pete Hegseth lied. And Michael Waltz lied. And Tulsi Gabbard lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath. And John Ratliffe lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath. And as ever Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic were telling the truth. This is why journalism matters.

submitted 26 days ago • 381 comments