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BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 15 hours ago • 596 comments

still a massive victory and don't let anyone tell you different. massive defeat for the fascists to concede that they have to give someone their day in open court and can't just disappear people extrajudicially

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Let’s settle this like men by calling each other pedophiles online

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

“Does refusing to hire a Holocaust denier as a member of Harvard’s history department faculty count as an ideological limit test?” Takano asked. Replying, McMahon said: “I believe that there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses.” CC: ADL, Elise Stefanik

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

I feel like the center very clearly had a story in 2020, primarily centered around 'restoring the country's soul". Biden won, and then neither definitively restored the country's soul nor built a bedrock for something different and then we lost.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

fun fact: a lot of zoomers i know use gpt as a search engine this is going to get way worse

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

it's bad that the public and the media have been trained by corporate hypebeasts to consider all forms of automated software as CUTTING-EDGE AI, actually

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The exonerative voice was initially reserved for cops, but now it's applied to the IDF and even random hate criminals

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

Gavin Newsom seems so genuinely stupid

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. It's the same reason that, under the laws of war, legitimate soldiers are required to be clearly identifiable in the official livery of a national military.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Someone should remind cops that the reason that they identify themselves is so people know that they're legitimate and don't shoot them with a gun

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Under wokeness we were a proud nation, government officials smoked loud, how far the west has fallen

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Every day I'm so glad that I grew up in the kind of Italian family where we learned about how Garibaldi was cool instead of Columbus

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

submitted 15 days ago • 432 comments

i hate to say it but im starting to think the presidents crypto scheme taking in hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous foreign sources may not be on the up-and-up

submitted 16 days ago • 176 comments

The replies to this are full of people yelling at Kat, a Palestinian-American politician, for not supporting the shooting of low-level staffers in DC, which has only had the effect of drawing coverage away from the genocide in Gaza & provided a pretext for future suppression of peaceful protests.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night. The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, and Palestinians.

submitted 15 days ago • 55 comments

There should be an entire field of historiography covering military misuse of history.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

PSL is yet more proof that the US is a Latin American country with identity issues

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Honestly Van it would be cooler if you became a maoist again

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote about how the pandemic forced everyone to be much more online than they used to be, and about how that’s still messing with our glorified ape brains today: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

There has to be a truth and reconciliation type process on the other side of this to hold these people accountable in large numbers and the fact that I simply do not believe this country can do that is why I am so pessimistic. No one will be punished and we will pause and do it again.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

Many years ago someone from NYC on Twitter explained Trump as the uniquely New York Society phenomenon of the "straight queen" and I didn't fully absorb what that meant until I saw this.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

13yrs old... one of the youngest would've-been mass killers I've encountered. Police charged the boy's mother with aiding him to an extreme degree. The kid had an IED with "For Brenton Tarrant" (Christchurch shooter) and "multiple 'SS' symbols and '14 words'" on it. abcnews.go.com/US/mother-al...

submitted 22 days ago • 31 comments

All I could think about during the Andor finale was how this dumbass was probably playing with his toys during it

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

submitted 22 days ago • 2326 comments

Love this piece by @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org , it captures my frustrations with defeatism better than I ever could.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, because Microsoft canceled it

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

My favorite part of this is that 1985 is just two years after Bob Jones took their case for religiously motivated segregation and banning students from interracial dating all the way to the Supreme Court, with the support of the entire religious right.

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