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submitted 1 day ago • 451 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 2 days ago • 2088 comments

Here's the thing re: our system of gov't. The president isn't above other branches. He doesn't "own" the gov't or the nation. Our constitutional system of checks & balances is to insure 1 person can't drag the nation to ruin We the People get to weigh in thru Congress. Except now. When we don't.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

I cannot fathom the level of depravity that someone must reach to refer to human beings as “bodies,” to then to high-five over how many they kidnapped, and then to describe the day as “good” based on the number.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the bad guys.

submitted 2 days ago • 294 comments

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

submitted 3 days ago • 505 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

submitted 5 days ago • 313 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

One reason it puzzles me that people are not including David Huerta in their list of Dems Noem arrested is … the attack on unions is coming. Hard.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Personally I think that hurting people is bad and helping people is good and it just feels like that should not be all that radical a stance. And yet

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

SIXTY federal agents kitted out like they were taking on Osama Bin Laden to raid a swap meet. The ONLY people they ended up arresting were to people already going through immigration court proceedings, seemingly rearrested because ICE agents didn’t want to go home empty-handed.

submitted 6 days ago • 215 comments

Props to @maddow.msnbc.com for getting SEQUIM right!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

submitted 7 days ago • 267 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 235 comments

One of the reasons it’s important to explicitly condemn right-wing terrorism, and not just all terrorism, after a right-wing terrorist attack is that it might help people understand that the vast majority of political violence in the US comes from the right.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 301 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 8 days ago • 258 comments

one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 8 days ago • 257 comments

There is no longer ONE WORD about yesterday's MASSIVE protests on the NYT home page. But a whole section about the miserable, misbegotten parade. SHAME!

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

I'm reading a lot of the write-ups about Trump's birthday parade, and the deference they give him on the small crowd size is something. A couple of thoughts: 1) They write that he addressed the "huge" parade, meaning the thousands of soldiers he summoned to march for him, not attendees.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

To our friends & allies across the globe who today stood in solidarity with those of us in the US who are angry, scared, & mortified: thank you for your grace, your light, & your empathy. Thank you for your support of those of us who aren't in the cult. We see you & are grateful.

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

Everything was peaceful in downtown LA until the cops attacked, with horses, flash bang grenades, rubber bullets, and tear gas, But it won’t be reported like that.

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

As I noted in today’s post, this really was the most egregious thing that happened in LA yesterday and that’s saying an awful lot

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Seems relevant.

submitted 11 days ago • 75 comments

Put this on a billboard.

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 12 days ago • 531 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 14 days ago • 82 comments