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Thread. Because not enough people understand this. Medicaid is a lifeline for pregnant women, children, poor, disabled, veterans and the elderly. If its decimation doesn't impact you now, it will when your senior parents need it. Or your kid serves our country and comes home less than 100%...

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

In Nashville, an undocumented woman who was detained by ICE while pregnant had a stillbirth after allegedly being denied medical care in ICE custody. “I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach," Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus said.

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

Green-card-holding army vet with a Purple Heart forced to leave US after 50 years due to long-ago drug violation, related to his PTSD. Stories like this do not make me feel safer. Do you? www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g...

submitted 1 hour ago • 16 comments

Absolutely incredible.

submitted 1 hour ago • 15 comments

Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?

submitted 1 hour ago • 375 comments

Am I wrong

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

How did 77 million people actually vote for this lunatic?

submitted 1 hour ago • 191 comments

JUST HAPPENED: West: “You can’t violate another country’s sovereignty.” Jennings: “Why? We do it all the time. Who’s going to stop us?” He admitted America breaks the law constantly—and then dared the world to do something about it. That’s not journalism. That’s fascism on live TV.

submitted 13 hours ago • 270 comments

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

submitted 10 hours ago • 138 comments

For the love of god, can someone stop Israel from KILLING DOZENS OF PALESTINIANS EVERY SINGLE DAY. Will Western media even cover this??

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

100 days. 💔

submitted 23 hours ago • 281 comments

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

submitted 20 hours ago • 248 comments

Iran just bombed our US base in Qatar. I can really feel the peace now. Trump's Noble Prize is coming soon.

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

Breaking: Iran has begun an operation against a US base in Qatar, Iran state TV has reported.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: As Iran reportedly has fired 6 missiles at a US bases in Qatar, and another missile at a base in Iraq, this is the scene reportedly over Qatar, where air defenses try and shoot down some of the missiles.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

Great Job, Donald!!!! BREAKING: A shelter-in-place order has been issued for U.S. citizens in Qatar due to a possible imminent Iranian attack. Trump has made us all less safe with his reckless bombing.

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

A federal judge ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should be released while awaiting trial. 100% agree.

submitted 1 day ago • 195 comments

LAT posts a picture of Narciso Barranco, who was violently assaulted by ICE, with his 3 Marine sons. These are the proud Americans Stephen Miller is targeting. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian Retaliation Underway 🚨 Here’s what we know so far: - Iran has launched “Operation Glad Tidings of Victory” targeting U.S. forces. - At least 6 missiles fired at U.S. bases in Qatar. - Explosions heard over Doha, possibly intercepted. - U.S. jets scrambling over Saudi Arabia. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 681 comments

Jeffries: We’ve seen no evidence to justify this type of offensive strike. There doesn’t seem to be a plan for how to avoid the kind of escalation that could drag America into another potentially disastrous Middle Eastern war—one that the overwhelming majority of the American people want no part of

submitted 23 hours ago • 299 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 1 day ago • 725 comments

Funny, that.

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

submitted 1 day ago • 254 comments

Sen. Murphy: “There was no imminent threat.”

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

JOE ROGAN: “These ICE raids are fuckin’ nuts… if Trump had said we’re gonna go to Home Depot and arrest everyone, tackle people at construction sites, I don’t think anyone would’ve signed up for that… It’s crazy.” (PSA: You were warned, Joe. Yet you signed up for it.)

submitted 1 day ago • 367 comments

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 3773 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 1 day ago • 1125 comments

“U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile” Mission accomplished! 🤦🏽‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 1128 comments

"A day after Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been 'completely and totally obliterated'... the actual state of the program seemed far more murky, with senior officials conceding they did not know the whereabouts of Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 392 comments

So Trump lied when he said “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated”? No way? He lied?

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Schiff: "It's not an operation that should've ever been authorized by the president in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb."

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Iran's top security body to decide on Hormuz closure, Press TV reports reut.rs/4newwxc

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Sen. Mark Kelly also admitted what his "big fear right now" is.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 2 days ago • 1863 comments

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 568 comments

A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans: If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?

submitted 2 days ago • 217 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. Iran didn't strike Israel. It was Israel that struck Iran first. Trump was set to meet Iran for potential negotiations. Netanyahu blew it up. Trump got played by Netanyahu, again, and has now led US into an unnecessary with Iran. America First.

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

submitted 2 days ago • 1815 comments

- war without congressional approval - masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process - concentration camps on foreign soil - US military deployed against protesters - tariffs costing families thousands - gutting healthcare for millions … we’re only 152 days in

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon. Iran did not have a nuclear weapon.

submitted 2 days ago • 656 comments

What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)

submitted 2 days ago • 465 comments

On Hannity tonight, Fox News’ National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports that it’s not clear whether the U.S. was able to destroy Iran’s nuclear site at Isfahan—despite Trump’s claim that all three sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.”

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments