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I’m old enough to remember when the bunch of cops choked a man to death for selling a single cigarette on the sidewalk. And here we have a dumb president who just wiped out $6 trillions of wealth from the stock market and he’s out there golfing with the Saudis for the weekend. #RonVara

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Breaking character: Today’s nationwide protest are going to be huge and historic. Trump’s approval rating is dropping like a rock. Now is the time to step on the gas.

submitted 7 hours ago • 76 comments

I got emails from three different orgs I'm connected to, all planning to have a presence at the protest. Including my union, IATSE.

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This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign. This is Rafah today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 255 comments

After a month in custody — and a large public pressure campaign for his release that included the help of a congressman — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released Jose Gregorio Gonzalez Friday morning from an ICE detention building. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

Warren: "This is really a moment when Republicans in the House & Senate have to ask themselves - are they really just here to bend the knee to whatever Donald Trump wants, even if it crashes economies all around the world? Or are they here actually to represent the interests of the American people?"

submitted 17 hours ago • 138 comments

We know the big, blue cities are turning out for #HandsOff Let’s lift up those showing up & showing out in red states like this rowdy crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana 🔥 VC Brian Daniels on IG

submitted 2 hours ago • 23 comments

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

submitted 3 hours ago • 338 comments

The United States is currently experiencing at least 1,200 protests nationwide, join in! # #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne

submitted 2 hours ago • 49 comments

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor #HandsOff ‼️

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ChatGPT ass presidency

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Warren: "Congress has a chance right now to put a stop to this, but the Republicans in Congress have to be willing to stand up to Donald Trump and say, 'No, you don't get to break the American economy.'"

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"Access to the Warrant Materials would enable the public to evaluate whether the warrants were issued and executed in compliance with the Fourth Amendment, and whether observed and reported federal law enforcement activity exceeded the scope of the activities authorized by the underlying warrants."

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Magnolias and picket fences

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BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Education Dep't to halt payment of grants. A district court issued a TRO blocking the cancelation of the grants in a suit brought by eight states. The appeals court refused a stay pending appeal. Today, SCOTUS stayed the TRO—blocking payments.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Oh look, TROs are appealable now

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing

submitted 22 hours ago • 703 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 1 day ago • 1276 comments

This is what election-rigging looks like.

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race. Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.

submitted 1 day ago • 705 comments

absolutely insanity on Fox Business. this would be a bit much even in Pyongyang.

submitted 23 hours ago • 820 comments

WHAT THE F**K!

submitted 19 hours ago • 876 comments

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

submitted 19 hours ago • 1144 comments

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

submitted 20 hours ago • 450 comments

Spotted on Market Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1?) is being held aloft by Dad in the air. But wait! He's not a tiny human at all! He's an aeroplane! Zooming through the air. Strafing Mum! Strafing big sister! Gleeful chortles accompanying deft aeronautical feats! (1)

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

Repeat after me: The courts will not save us.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the thing. Manufacturing jobs 100 years ago were dangerous, precarious, and poorly paid. Manufacturing jobs 70 years ago were a golden ticket to the middle class. The jobs didn't change. What changed was the New Deal and unions.

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LISA ROBERTS: Trail of tragedy follows pickup trucks. Vehicles' growing size, weight, makes them road hazards. Not to mention gas-guzzling. (From March 2022) Appeared to cause offence at the time from a well known politician www.saltwire.com/atlantic-can...

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This week, China conducted Exercise Strait Thunder 2025A. I have just published a special assessment of this lightning military activity, what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sought to achieve and what we might learn from it. 1/4

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Canadian tourism advertising

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Musk Announces All 340 Million Americans Must Strip And Take Turn Pushing The Wheel Of Pain theonion.com/musk-an...

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NEW: Mass. federal judge Denise Casper transfers Rümeysa Öztürk's deportation case to VERMONT. She denies the govt's request to transfer to Louisiana, following the model set by NY federal judge Jesse Furman when he transferred Mahmoud Khalil's case to NJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Some flowers from my garden to distract from politics

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Pretty sure the reason we're adding tariffs to the Heard and McDonald islands is because they are hiding MH370 there www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/ar...

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Missouri State Rep Seitz’s(R) HB 1415 would force HOAs to allow CCW license holders to carry guns in private shared spaces, including neighborhood pools, clubhouses, basketball courts… Rep Marty Joe Murray’s(D) 11-year-old nephew, Quinton, testified in opposition.❤️ #moleg @momsdemand.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

This is like watching a Weimaraner approach a Rubik’s cube

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

If only the City of Seattle had some way to enforce the illegal use of bus only lanes via camera.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 591 comments

I blame George W. Bush. He softened America up to the idea that we could have someone stupid in the White House and things would still function.

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Senator Angus King: "I have to point out, Mr. Chairman, in the hour that we've been sitting here, investors in the United States stock market have lost two and a half trillion dollars."

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

Bingo

submitted 2 days ago • 427 comments

He hates the military. We are just props.

submitted 1 day ago • 2153 comments

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Respect your elder millennials.

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