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Ugh, a lot of USAF mid-air refueling tankers are flying to the Middle East now...

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Ted Cruz and many others are saying that a full-blown war with Iran would inspire regime change. But this completely ignores the lessons and mistakes from the Iraq War, @akbarshahidahmed.huffpost.com reports. www.huffpost.com/entry/iraq-w...

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

submitted 3 hours ago • 75 comments

And still cutting kids off food stamps, slashing veterans' healthcare, and closing hundreds of rural hospitals. Greed beyond any villain—fairy tale evil.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 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 7 hours ago • 213 comments

Great charts on the damage Trump’s trade war is already doing

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Yep, this is bad. And from the party — and person — who keep trumpeting free enterprise

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 11 hours ago • 75 comments

Not wrong. Big picture: a whole bunch of Democrats have chosen Cuomo over women. This includes a bunch of women! Including quite a few of my women friends! Throwing ourselves under the bus. I can’t even.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a great thread on the question of free buses.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten… every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Just disgusting: ICE in Philadelphia sends surprise texts to migrants demanding they come in for a Father's Day appointment, knowing it would be difficult for them to procure an attorney today www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

The US Army marched through Washington DC yesterday to commemorate its 250th year. Many officials were in attendance, including Secretary Pete Hegseth. To show his support for the Army, he wore a camo tie. Personally, I think there was a more sophisticated choice 🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 101 comments

the longer i spend on the road the more ridiculous our housing crisis feels. Spain, the UK, Holland, these are actual space constrained places. so much of america is parking lots, half-abandoned infill, and strip malls and exurban forests and rolling plains. we have room. we lack the will/sense.

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Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

submitted 1 day ago • 870 comments

“American women are at a breaking point; an overwhelming majority of them, irrespective of party, say they want paid family and medical leave. As the sociologist Jessica Calarco has observed, other countries have safety nets. The United States has women.”

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Keep protesting. Keep going, everyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

even after an incredible day of protests, it’s impossible for me not to end it by thinking about the murder of rep. melissa hortman and what it portends.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Severance (of car parking in Paris)

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

a few days ago, the solar orbiter gave us the FIRST EVER views of the sun’s south pole!!

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It is official! Despite tanks and planes, Trump’s parade was “listless and low-energy.”

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

I stayed up late illustrating something for no real reason. I definitely didn't give out a google drive link with a high res version of it among friends and family for printing purposes.

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

No Kings vs No Crowd

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Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

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Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

submitted 1 day ago • 2125 comments

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

Look at the stands for Trump's military parade/birthday party.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

submitted 1 day ago • 2029 comments

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Just a few days ago, Speaker Mike Johnson, the puritanical pixie twit, refused to rule out arresting Governor Newsom. He added that Newsom should be “tarred and feathered,” a form of torture popularized by vigilantes. He is a reckless hypocrite.

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There's research on this by Mona Lee Crook and Juliana Restrepo Sanin, among others. It's not just a hunch - it's true.

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It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

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I’d go further—not even “not reflect” but “actively erases.” I recall reading abt how Dylann Roof was a “self-radicalized” lone-wolf mass murderer, as if he wasn’t marinated in a toxic media environment of racist hate and grievance. That’s a willful erasure of these violent politics.

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Was there. This is true!

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In a nutshell: “more willing at the moment to use the military against Americans than against Iranians” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Minnesota Democrats have consistently worked to make the state one of the most livable in the country, and someone was mad enough about it to shoot them, and this, in a nutshell, is our current political climate.

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#NoKings

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So this is after the Speaker of the House said the Governor of California should be tarred and feathered, slightly disagreeing with the President and his Border Czar who wanted to arrest him, two months after somebody tried to burn the Governor of Pennsylvania and his family alive in their home.

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Why visible badges and names matter

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An elementary school

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The people who have seized control of our FBI, perverting it into a mechanism of immigrant removal, explicitly de-prioritized combating domestic terrorism three months ago. —> www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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AOC: "They have released chaos in LA by violently raiding & ripping apart peaceful public spaces, and now they are tackling & arresting US sitting members of Congress, while going on the record & lying about what happened.

submitted 2 days ago • 393 comments

Two important things to note: 1) the most significant violence we’ve seen this year was not against ICE or Trump or members of his administration, but against Democrats 2) when ICE scoffs at people asking for warrants or for identification, THIS IS WHY THEY ASK www.fox9.com/news/melissa...

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When Stephen Miller gave the orders to ICE to conceal identity, Miller helped get these elected officials shot. He’s complicit in these attacks. Impeach, remove, prosecute, imprison.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments