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"What they want is for people to look at who's rich, who’s important & say, 'That’s just the way things are. That’s the way they're supposed to be.' They don’t want people looking back at the past & saying, “This is because of slavery or Jim Crow or because women were excluded from the workforce.'”

submitted 10 hours ago • 121 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 13 hours ago • 83 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 17 hours ago • 350 comments

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

submitted 18 hours ago • 172 comments

Yall probably should have voted for Clinton back in 2016.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 338 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

i begged the dem run senate to just have a damn hearing on spacex. nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses Zohran Mamdani as top choice for NYC mayor

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

If we aren’t supposed to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge?

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

“We have a new idea” “Nobody’s ever tried this before!” “We’re totally going to win elections with this one” drumroll “We’re anti-black!”

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

submitted 3 days ago • 235 comments

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 465 comments

The mayor of Tulsa announced plans for a $105 million private charitable trust to provide descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with housing assistance and scholarships

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

submitted 6 days ago • 379 comments

Yes, you did vote for the meme presidency. You just didn't expect it to have a negative impact on you.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

submitted 10 days ago • 124 comments

It’s so easy to see that Musk’s PR team said “the Trump thing really hurt, go on a media tour, say you’re disillusioned and see if we can get you back to when they were mentioning you in Marvel movies.” And the WaPo, NYT, CBS and more are just all going along with it. Easy peasy.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

submitted 14 days ago • 633 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 15 days ago • 365 comments

NEW: "Whether or not HB 1205 survives legal scrutiny, the message for Florida voters is unmistakable. When citizen power becomes too effective, the Republican-led state will try to find a way to shut it down." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gop...

submitted 15 days ago • 76 comments

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

submitted 16 days ago • 178 comments

Today the Supreme Court came one vote away from launching a frontal assault on secular public education in the name of religious freedom. The facts of this case remain completely crazy to me. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments