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the image of a Jewish man locking himself to an immigrant, his fellow neighbor and a stranger, to keep him from being kidnapped by the American gestapo is making me weep. how could he have done differently when we know what we know?! how can any of us

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 225 comments

The wellness to alt right pipeline is a damn superhighway. Fatphbia, ableism, and eugenics.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

submitted 23 hours ago • 54 comments

I have spoken to rooms full of nondisabled people and heard this ripple of tense laughter. I have told my own story of flipping a car on black ice and people straight up told me they would just drive more carefully. They can’t handle the idea that you can’t wellness and responsibility your way out.

submitted 22 hours ago • 65 comments

“Unscrupulous con men will continue to exploit the faith. They're as deceived as the people they lead astray. As long as they are out there, things can only get worse.” 2 Timothy 3:13 (MSG)

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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

submitted 1 day ago • 529 comments

This is legitimately terrifying. Almost 10 million people live within the city limits of Tehran with another almost 7 million additional people in the metro area. There are 8 million people in NYC. How the FUCK would we all be able to "evacuate" with no notice??? THIS IS EVIL. PERIOD.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Let’s remember what Jo Cox said IN FULL and not what the trash More In Common foundation edited it down to.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

submitted 514 days ago • 265 comments

“John Hoffman, DFL-Champlin, entered state politics after he struggled to obtain insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida. He figured others were having the same difficulty.” All politicians are not the same, and state governments are full of people who are there because they care.

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A nightmare. 🙏🏾

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

I don't think people understand how incredibly lazy most of their representatives are. Imagine just not showing up to your job and playing cards instead. Melissa Hortman called out the lazy, misogynistic behavior and got censured for it.

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Are the two people who drove their cars into people yesterday and the person who shot at people in Utah all white men? The person who murdered Democratic politicians yesterday was. Are we allowed to connect the dots? Will be media write exposes asking why white men are so violent? Or no?

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

submitted 3 days ago • 327 comments

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

submitted 3 days ago • 324 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 3 days ago • 264 comments

There is only one side in American politics that consistently supports and endorses political violence. People need to stop being afraid to say so.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 1120 comments

The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests. None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

this statement was made just yesterday

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

submitted 3 days ago • 490 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

This works on all Chrome-based browsers including Brave.

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The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence. This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

We all, collectively, need to relearn how to sit with our feelings. Including the really unpleasant ones. The hard ones. ChatGPT is successful because it abdicates responsibility and effort. Including emotionally. And for that we all lose, individually and as a community.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

We have been working on a story about the run of ICE impersonators robbing and terrorizing mostly Latino businesses. Now this has jumped to impersonating cops for politically motivated assassinations.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 3 days ago • 2255 comments

Gov. Tim Walz says Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed last night in “a political assassination.”

submitted 3 days ago • 276 comments

I feel so many things, but mostly, I feel just an absolute wave of sadness for the evil that is taking over this country.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Hypothesis: park rangers are the librarians of our outdoor spaces send post

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