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“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

Love it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

"but what do you want Dems to do?" This is literally the baseline. This is minimum effort I'm looking for. More would be better

submitted 15 hours ago • 38 comments

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

submitted 1 day ago • 1243 comments

Be the disappointed mom voice that haunts your legislators in their dreams through @5calls.org 5calls.org

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 2015: Activist Bree Newsome scales the flagpole outside the South Carolina State House and removes the Confederate flag. She was arrested, but her civil disobedience soon led to the permanent removal of the flag from South Carolina’s capitol. /1

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

TRUMP: “When they go to the prison in El Salvador they don’t get out.” He brags those they sent to the CECOT mega prison are there for life (or death) — the vast majority had committed no crimes.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments

See that giant bar all the way to the left? That's how much rural Kentucky stands to lose under the proposed federal Medicaid cuts. We wouldn't just lose more than any other state, we'd lose around twice as much as any other state. kff.org/policy-watch...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It was 1865. I don't think the average person needs to necessarily remember every important historical date but the year the Civil War ended is one of those the U.S. president should definitely know.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

Mafia tactics.

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The current administration and ideology make Qanon look like amateurs.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NEW from me and @sylviaruthg.lpm.org: We went to food banks in Appalachian eastern Kentucky and heard about their fear over Congress considering major cuts to SNAP food assistance benefits in the reconciliation bill. It's a region where more than one in five rely on SNAP benefits.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Every person, regardless of immigration status, has the right to a fair hearing, access to legal counsel, and protection from arbitrary detention. Stripping away these rights puts all our freedoms at risk. Without core constitutional protections, none of us is safe. #ProtectDueProcess #resist

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country. He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.

submitted 3 days ago • 204 comments

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi. On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

submitted 4 days ago • 1667 comments

There's a fundraiser to try to help the family. www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...

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‘They’ll get over it,’ McConnell reportedly assures GOP colleagues about Medicaid cuts. “You’ll have hospitals closed, services eliminated and 20,000 jobs eliminated" if Senate proposals become law, says Kentucky Hospital Association CEO Nancy Galvagni. kentuckylantern.com/2025/06/24/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 235 comments

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

"They'll get over it." That's apparently the closing message from Senate Republicans before they vote to take away health care from millions of Americans — all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Unbelievable.

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

Their corruption is endless. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 260 comments

“Patients have also expressed concerns that any usage of health services could make them targets. Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shared the personal data of Medicaid enrollees with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security…”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime

submitted 4 days ago • 403 comments

I don't think we talk enough about how dignity is also a human right. Food, water, shelter, education, health care, representation...all of those are human rights that everyone should receive regardless of who they are. But it's also a right to not have to beg for them.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

This “big, ugly bill” is dangerous and will destroy rural health care. In Kentucky alone, 35 hospitals are under the threat of closing, stripping care from families, cutting jobs and crippling local economies. 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 613 comments

As a brutal heat wave overtakes much of the country, almost every single state lacks universal air conditioning in their prisons, where temperatures can exceed 120 degrees. This isn’t an issue of comfort or luxury — it's an issue of life or death for many incarcerated people.

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

You first Robby!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

#DontBombMedicaid Please stand up and speak out for seniors and children. We need to help the people who need it the most. The wealthy need to recognize that some things are more important than power and wealth. They just need to pay their fair share of taxes; nothing more, nothing less.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This is dark

submitted 4 days ago • 550 comments

There are Americans in places of power that courageously connect to the people and give us hope, without bullet proof glass, without threats, harsh words, or war… #PopeLeo #Chitown #Hope

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Trump on women's rights: "Saudi Arabia's done a really good job."

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

The largest digital camera ever built has released its first snapshots of the universe, showing stars, nebulas and galaxies.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This should not be happening anywhere, let alone in the U.S. This must stop.

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

NEW: Iran emptied the nuclear site at Fordow of its enriched uranium (400kgs) days before the attack. They did this because Trump told the world on Twitter he’d attack. The location of the uranium is now unknown. Galactically inept.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

In the US, the maternal death rate is 121.8 per 100,000 Black women compared to 24.1 per 100,000 non Black women. Race has no biological basis and this is UNACCEPTABLE. We must do better. #ISTH2025 #womenshealth

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

You need to watch this interview from the former Secretary of Defense. If you haven’t already started, you want to go get some supplies. www.instagram.com/reel/DLN1iCg...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments