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Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump using the specter of antisemitism as a Trojan Horse to censor universities, violate the 1st Amendment, and disappear dissidents is nasty work. Him pretending that antisemitism doesn't exist when Shapiro's house gets set ablaze isn't surprising-- condemning Cody Balmer means condemning MAGA.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I can't understate how ugly things are about to get. Fascists crave violence, and some of the worst MAGA adherents imaginable believe they have a free hand to kill people they disagree with politically. Cody Balmer tried to assassinate Josh Shapiro and his family by burning them alive.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Thread. With Hegseth at the helm, we're one false flag op away from US military incursions and straight up land theft in Mexico. FWIW, I thought the regime would eventually do this. All dictators start wars to keep themselves in power, but things are accelerating in a hurry.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Jimmy Butler is hobbling around in serious pain. With a quick Play-In turnaround against Memphis on Tuesday, Kawhi's knee may have just dealt a deathblow to the Warriors playoff hopes. Then again, the Grizzlies are an unserious basketball team that are more than capable of sabotaging themselves.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Yikes. Draymond went hunting for a foul instead of just going up strong for the finish. Boneheaded move. He has to dunk that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

What a horrible moment for Jimmy Butler to try and swat Harden's runner out of mid-air. Coming from under the basket like that always results in a goaltend.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

If this Kawhi shows up in the playoffs and stays healthy, nobody should be surprised if the Clippers come out of the West. He and Harden are monsters, as is Zubac-- who should be getting votes for All-NBA.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

this is the no fucking shit of all no fucking shits and yet barely anyone anywhere is saying it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 120 comments

There is a lot to criticize Josh Shapiro over, but this is horrific. it will be very interesting to see how Kash Patel's FBI and Pam Bondi's DOJ react. At first glance, this looks like domestic terrorism. There's only one reason to burn down a Governor's house with him and his family inside.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm old enough to remember when Mitt Romney was torn apart for championing an immigration policy of self-deportation. What's happening now is meant solely to sow panic, fear, distrust, and chaos. That, and disappearing people en masse to El Salvador on trumped up garbage is legalized cruelty.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Because they are white supremacist fascists.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The ultra wealthy are building bunkers to insulate themselves from the world they're rapidly destroying. It's why we have to work together because it really is a 0.1% vs the 99.9% situation www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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American police spend billions on tasers and taser training and yet they still default to unleashing a hail of bullets when confronted by a kid afflicted by cerebral palsy

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This Theresa May? Theresa May 'allowed state-sanctioned abuse of women' at Yarl's Wood. Shadow home secretary criticises minister after TV documentary alleges rape and self-harm at detention centre were ignored: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

And it moves the Overton window either way. Once the outrage turns to us sending US citizens to Salvadoran gulags, no one has the energy to fight the undocumented immigrants or visa holders being sent there anymore, with or without criminal records or due process

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

“The freak development has experts worried that big banks, funds and traders are losing faith in America as a stable, predictable, good place to store their money.” Uh, people don’t even want to store their college dorm furniture here anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is a good piece on the massive problem of state ownership of a football club. This paragraph stood out to me: “Yes, there were some reforms introduced for women but all the women’s rights reformists were rounded up and arrested, arbitrarily detained, tortured and blamed as traitors.”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Israel won't stop until they've murdered or ethnically cleansed Gaza of all Palestinians. This was always the plan. Don't you dare look away.

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WSJ now outflanked the NYT editor class

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Indiscriminately deporting people and blaming an algorithm for it all isn't slick. This is all flagrantly illegal, unconstitutional, and circumvents due process, but the regular rules no longer apply. DOGE adds to the fuckery, but other than terrorizing people, DHS or ICE have no reason to exist.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This story is hardly unique. The capriciousness and malevolence of these ICE and Border Patrol agents underscores the impunity with which they are acting. DHS is a horrible agency that has grown into a monster. And they are upending peoples' lives on a whim. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Border Patrol and ICE don't psychologically profile potential employees very much beforehand-- both departments are filled with some of the most ignorant, abusive, and gleefully racist people you'll ever meet. They'll never feel more empowered to be the worst versions of themselves than right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

this scenario and then obviously the scenario of "my kid went to college, got politically engaged, and realized my shallow views were dogshit and challenged me on them"

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

"rich people went insane because their own kids couldn't cut it in even in the half-assed version of 'meritocracy' where rich kids are merely handed dozens of advantages rather than guaranteed success" explains a lot of how we got here

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Everyone’s got their theory on why he hates universities, and mine is 80% Rich Guy College Admissions Madness. Marc’s complained about accommodations on testing, he’s a wealthy Bay Area man, he probably has a few friends whose kids have gone through it now, it’s the game for America’s Wealthy.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

It isn’t an “echo of”. It’s a “return to”.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

China will win this trade war solely because Xi Jinping doesn't have to worry about polls, pressure from opposing political parties, mass protests, or the media turning on him. Trump has to worry about all of this and people in the WH eventually leaking to the press. Tariffs have consequences.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Worth noting though, that most successful populists (eg. Erdoğan, Orban, Chavez) built the foundations of their success on an initial period of rising economic prosperity/expanding social security net, before their eccentricities undermined it. Trump is skipping that step.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Thread. Every fascist dictator does this. It's how they keep the oligarchs, "elites", and handpicked loyalists in line-- by giving them goodies and favored treatment while they oppress and rob everyone else blind. If only the US media would cover this for what it is instead of normalizing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

She has broken ZERO LAWS and she is now imprisoned because she wrote an op-ed.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Let's speak plainly about what is happening. The First Amendment has been terminated for immigrants.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

How did so many people attach to this idea that if Black people take to the streets, that's how the state will suspend normative law and deepen overt fascism? The state doesn't need Black people protesting or any alleged excuse for that matter to do what's already happening in plain sight.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

submitted 3 days ago • 996 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 4 days ago • 315 comments

Let’s break this down: in summary- he’s shat his pants because US treasury bonds were being sold off like lemonade in a desert. He’s fucked up big time. And any other spin is bullshit.

submitted 4 days ago • 274 comments