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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 12 hours ago • 171 comments

At an absolute minimum, the due process clauses of the Constitution forbid this: arbitrary arrest and imprisonment under no official and or knowable legal rules.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

In the basement of LAX:

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status." SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status" Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

palms greased with that sweet Texas tea

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 1 day ago • 438 comments

May there be a Hell, so that six people can be interred there forever: www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/cour...

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The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

something i really wanna hammer here is that a major pitch from dem leadership on how we'll get change, for over ten years now, is "the fever will break" and the GOP will become good faith partners once again. a key part of their strategy forward has been "my opponent will decide to be nice to me".

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 358 comments

If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

submitted 2 days ago • 500 comments

If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1168 comments

Oh... www.wired.com/story/cfpb-q...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

Economists say you'll know AI matters when it shows up in the productivity data. Latest overall numbers are in fact a decrease, and with the one bright spot being manufacturing, whereas I would think AI should boost productivity in the service sector more, no? Detailed: www.bls.gov/news.release...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Trump posted this deranged message ordering every federal agency, including the pentagon, to do mass deportations in major cities because of trans people. I wish I was joking.

submitted 4 days ago • 234 comments

Happening now: a small group of protesters are once again blocking ICE agents' vans outside immigration court in Chicago. Masked agents with handcuffs are threatening activists with arrest and intimidating photographers. Situation is tense, we'll update as we can.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

submitted 4 days ago • 494 comments

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

submitted 5 days ago • 689 comments

Every story is, on some level, about either traffic congestion or parking

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Obviously the cops can instigate violence at any protest and everyone should remain cautious, but if you just want to go to a big protest like the ones in most cities today and stand on the outskirts and observe and add your body to the numbers you can and should and you will be fine.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

it’s quite strange that wednesday ICE employees got an email saying it’s open season on warrantless arrests, as i reported (ostensibly to meet daily quotas) and then another email thursday saying heyyyy pump the breaks on arresting certain types of workers. somebody’s lying or incompetent or both.

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 7 days ago • 192 comments

Are you attending a protest sometime soon? Here are EFF’s tips for how best to prepare one’s digital devices and oneself while exercising your First Amendment rights.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

submitted 7 days ago • 1121 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 7 days ago • 692 comments

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

submitted 7 days ago • 256 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments

The president of the United States in our time is not supposed to wield armed troops and even station marines on American soil because of political speech and assembly he doesn’t like, that is typically not allowed and no I don’t care if any of it is technically “legal”

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

- @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social here: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

“I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “Whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next.” @wttw.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments