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submitted 5 days ago • 632 comments

Trump, Billionaires, and One Hell of a party crash Protesters shut down a $50K-a-table gala for the Manhattan Institute—because nothing says “populist” like tuxedos, caviar, and billionaire bootlicking. Even a Trump clown imitator got cuffed. Welcome to the resistance, Upper East Side.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

DOGE was never about "efficiency."

submitted 25 days ago • 257 comments

🔴Power, Visas, and the Politics of Exclusion: How Borders Are Being Used to Silence Dissent Borders are now being used not just to prevent the passage of people, but of ideas too, argues Iain Overton bylinetimes.com/2025/04/29/v...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 47 days ago • 906 comments

Trump’s Individual Claims about Immigrant Targets Are False–But So Is the Larger Premise www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/18/t...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Again, you can tell who the Good Guys are because they’re the ones getting caught sneaking into elementary schools, lying that the kids’ parents sent them. bsky.app/profile/prem...

submitted 54 days ago • 110 comments

boosting because good and we need more good

submitted 55 days ago • 376 comments

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

submitted 59 days ago • 1022 comments

Thank you to whoever made this

submitted 61 days ago • 639 comments

FACEBOOK IS HIDING HEATHER COX RICHARDSON’S POSTS open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

submitted 79 days ago • 560 comments

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com

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submitted 84 days ago • 841 comments

"On day one"

submitted 85 days ago • 834 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles It is an unethical and likely illegal practice

submitted 85 days ago • 144 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 102 days ago • 1520 comments

🚨 Justice Dept Solves Immigration Crisis by Deleting the Judges Nothing says “solving the crisis” like axing 20 immigration judges while drowning in a 3.7 million case backlog. Maybe next they’ll fix airport delays by firing air traffic controllers. 🙈

submitted 108 days ago • 41 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 112 days ago • 3816 comments

The wonderful Mike Luckovich

submitted 112 days ago • 282 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 112 days ago • 962 comments

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 115 days ago • 132 comments

aging well, sadly

submitted 115 days ago • 340 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 116 days ago • 155 comments

Following the CDC's removal of critical health data and the potential approval of RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, it is crucial to access accurate health information from independent sources such as the WHO, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, and peer-reviewed journals.

submitted 118 days ago • 358 comments

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

submitted 120 days ago • 259 comments

What the right wing REALLY means:

submitted 121 days ago • 231 comments

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 167 days ago • 99 comments

“A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.” ― Rod Serling

submitted 122 days ago • 13 comments

people are beginning to realize the truth about the law: its entirely made up and can be modified to protect the rich and powerful at any point. it's a total joke and is why you should not rely on the law for protection.

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

Welp. Turns out electing an unstable maniac is a bad idea after all.

submitted 123 days ago • 254 comments