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Big tax cut bills typically don't leave the poor worse off. Bills cutting the safety net don't normally include benefits for the rich. The GOP reconciliation bill is something we haven't really seen before. w/ @aliciaparlap.bsky.social + @sangerkatz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

Democratic senators condemned what happened to Sen. Padilla during Noem's press conference. RIGHTLY so! Where was the outrage when Rep. LaMonica Mclver was arrested a few weeks ago and what happened to peaceful protesters this past week? America has fallen.

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3 apnews.com/article/nih-...

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Navarro: I'm very happy to see somebody that isn't afraid to speak up and call an authoritarian an authoritarian. And if it's Newsom, as a result of what's happening in California now, I welcome it because I have been so thirsty for somebody that is not cowardly

submitted 2 days ago • 403 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

Rep. McIver was conducting oversight. That’s her duty as a Member of Congress. This isn’t justice—it’s retaliation. A political stunt meant to silence anyone who dares to hold power accountable. They may think they can scare us into silence. They’re dead wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!? Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.

submitted 2 days ago • 660 comments

Note the “charged with” used there and not “convicted of” We knew that they never meant the “but what about due process” with metoo but this is your reminder that they can fuck themselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 2 days ago • 1460 comments

You voted for lower groceries and taxes… you didn’t get either. But you do get military in your streets, infighting in the White House, exorbitant spending and manufactured chaos.

submitted 2 days ago • 182 comments

The Secretary of Defense lies under oath, claiming "21 million illegals" entered under Biden. Trump previously invented a 20 million figure out of thin air at a campaign rally. Recently, he randomly started saying 21 million. Now his surrogates are parroting that fake number.

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

Gov. GoGo Boots only approves of looting when his wife Jackie Faux does it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hey White women! Come here. Closer. Lean in. STOP TELLING BLACK WOMEN HOW TO THINK, FEEL, AND ACT. If you’d shut your pie holes and listened to them in the first place, we wouldn’t all be be in the mess we’re in now!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The ‘big, beautiful’ bill creates a $5 billion tax shelter for private school donors... thehill.com/opinion/fina...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “The President of the US just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. “I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

submitted 3 days ago • 329 comments

I'm sharing this in case it helps someone else. I've never been able to do voice to text too well. I felt self-conscious, like everything coming out of my mouth was silly and stilted. In Dallas recently, while waiting to leave for the airport, I had an epiphany. A breakthrough.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR Say it with feeling. Louder. LOUDER. And try to ignore the cold metal of the muzzle at the back of your neck. That's what Republicans call freedom.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

No wonder RFK is attacking them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a Democratic elected official who is insisting that law enforcement attacking civilians in L.A. is a "distraction" and we shouldn't take the bait, I'm going to briefly assume you're saying that in good faith and ask you this in response: What is your plan for ICE kidnapping people?

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

submitted 3 days ago • 1473 comments

the reframing of bluesky as some sort of bubble for one viewpoint conveniently ignores the fact many of us left X because our work was obviously being censored for its viewpoints. i wrote about tesla and climate and trans people and was significantly throttled. that’s why i left!

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

WATCH: “Here’s the big scary LA protest — look: you don’t see the cops or the National guard here… are there any fires or chemical smoke? Wonder why that is.” The people are peaceful. Law enforcement is doing the escalating. Intentionally. This has always been Trump’s plan.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 4 days ago • 331 comments

Obama is not gonna save y'all. Cut it out.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

If you had any possible temptation to downplay how bad it is, stop immediately. Thread (add your own in replies, please) of things we can do to melt ICE and support immigrants here.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

“But I didn’t think he’d—“ “But the duopoly—“ “But voting doesn’t matter—“ “But the economy—“ I don’t care what the rationalization was. There was always “for fascism” and “against fascism,” and the people who chose (directly or indirectly) “for fascism” need to own that choice.

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submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

These fascist dipshits keep claiming there is all kinds of violence in Los Angeles right now. At this very moment, even! Weirdly, every single local channel is running regular programming, instead of this BREAKING NEWS EVENT. It's like ... it's like the dipshits are lying, or something. Weird.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

submitted 5 days ago • 783 comments

Big point that is being missed: without the insurrection act, the activated Guard troops are now federal army and cannot Do law enforcement. Period

submitted 5 days ago • 1484 comments

Ron and Casey DeSantis stole $10 million from a settlement for Florida taxpayers and funneled it to Casey’s bogus “charity.” Now they want to mandate the state work with that charity. And they’re sending threatening letters to Orlando Sentinel to silence their reporting.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Every single educator has a moral responsibility to speak out against the federal government harming our communities. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MndJLJ/

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

submitted 4 days ago • 534 comments