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This lede is the most evergreen tweet if Trump 2.0: “The White House is signaling it may soon invoke a little-known and legally untested power” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 109 comments

Does anything in this picture say, "federal agents making a lawful arrest?" Perhaps they identified themselves. But when did it go out of fashion for law enforcement to look like law enforcement?

submitted 22 hours ago • 297 comments

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

submitted 20 hours ago • 613 comments

"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

This Should Be Done Immediately! Unmask ICE and find out how many Proud Boys were hired with a $40K signing bonus!

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 1 day ago • 542 comments

Trump Organization Launches Trump Mobile Cell Phone Service theonion.com/trump-o...

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 1 day ago • 1141 comments

Call your reps. I know you’re going to say “but mine don’t care” and let me tell you yes, they will actually care, because you don’t just call. After you call, you tell three friends who aren’t online, and ask them to call. Posting is useless. Pick up the phone and tell them not to sell your land.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

submitted 2 days ago • 420 comments

This perade coulda been an email.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

‘I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her‘ — James Baldwin

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Journalists, once again: Get used to using the word LIE. In fact, put that ish in your editorial policies.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 6 days ago • 392 comments

It’s looking more and more like a dictatorship. That’s no way to treat a U.S. Senator. Claiming he was an attacker and failed to identify himself is delusional he’s a sitting senator. America is watching, and the tides are turning.

submitted 5 days ago • 504 comments

“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

submitted 6 days ago • 1109 comments

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

submitted 6 days ago • 531 comments

When a reporter was killed in the Amazon, in 2022, a group of journalists carried on his work. Read Jonathan Watts on finishing his murdered friend’s book. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan: www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 141 days ago • 109 comments

ICE sent a reminder that “all non-American citizens need to carry proof of their legal status” when attending the games. So that’s where we are at, can’t even go to a soccer game without the threat of being asked to show your papers.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Impeach Robert Kennedy Jr. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

RIP Sly - thanks for everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czr...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

What standing up to ICE looks like. #Resist

submitted 8 days ago • 371 comments

This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.

submitted 8 days ago • 559 comments

The head of Social Security has said he’s “fundamentally a DOGE person.” The DOGE that fired thousands of workers, threatened to shut down offices, and is now rifling through Americans’ personal data? Elon Musk may be out of the picture, but DOGE is still creating chaos.

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 9 days ago • 898 comments

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 10 days ago • 373 comments

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

submitted 10 days ago • 306 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

Elon Musk has questioned whether Donald Trump was replaced with a body double, days after Trump reposted that Biden had been assassinated in 2020 and replaced with multiple clones. Our critic asks: Are body double clone conspiracies having a moment?

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

submitted 12 days ago • 596 comments

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

States Left Without Aid After FEMA for days Why? Trump administration failed to notify FEMA Although the approval process typically involves FEMA officials, the agency was not officially notified for days after Trump's approval www.latintimes.com/states-left-...

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Sending taxpayer money to private religious schools is a violation of the Missouri Constitution…

submitted 13 days ago • 80 comments

Let me suggest that when a federal judge spends the first full page of the opinion summarizing Kafka, it's not a good sign for the government

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

I use it very deliberately to link the current moment to COVID! Thank you. I’ve been thinking on that rupture for awhile:

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Mount Etna blowing its stack and the view from above is truly astonishing. This wonderful image was taken by Italian photographer Pio Andrea Peri!

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Nearly 3 months after their disappearance, 200+ Venezuelan migrants remain locked in El Salvador’s mega prison, cut off from family & lawyers. “Our souls are hanging by a thread,” said the mother of Andry, a gay asylum seeker falsely accused over tattoos. #FreeAndry 🔗 bit.ly/4n0hUl9

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

An outright lie from OMB Director Russell Vought.

submitted 17 days ago • 137 comments

When federal agents wear masks, carry rifles, and raid homes without warning or accountability, that’s not immigration enforcement, it’s intimidation. ICE operates in the shadows, and traumatizes families. This is state violence disguised as law and order.

submitted 17 days ago • 68 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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I was reminded again this week through certain interactions of a bitter fact: within my cultural milieu - rural, white, evangelical - objective truth has been and is being annihilated. There’s no common basis upon which to have a conversation about current events.

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

Printmakers interviewed for 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

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Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers

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