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Mandatory voting is a best practice democratic institution that enables representative democracy to work as best it can. When everyone votes, representatives have to worry about everyone's interests or risk being voted out. When only some vote, those who don't are vulnerable to exploitation.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

This is real

submitted 12 hours ago • 5007 comments

The lesson of trump's first 100 days: If you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Trump-appointed federal judge bars use of Alien Enemies Act in key South Texas area minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/01/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

submitted 1 day ago • 2014 comments

Pete Hegseth shows real leadership by passing the blame to Mike Waltz. Was it Waltz who set up Signal on Hegseth's office computer and added his wife, brother, and lawyer in a war plan group chat?

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

This is a bad vision, and I think regulation is appropriate here. AI should not pretend it's your friend until we know much more about the psychological implications of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

He’s talking about deporting US children with brain cancer.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 911 comments

My great grandfather, a farmer, was one of these Germans in the early 30’s. So much so that he often loudly made fun of the Nazis at his local tavern. Then the Gestapo came to the house and took his two sons at age 7 and 10. He never saw his older son—my grandfather—again.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Just incredible

submitted 3 days ago • 1476 comments

This is what Trump’s reckless tariffs are about. Trump and Musk make you pay $4,000 more a year so that corporations and foreign countries will bribe them for exceptions. It’s the same story over and over: they get rich. You get screwed.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Jeffries is reportedly discouraging Dem members from going to El Salvador to protest the continued detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-happe...

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

submitted 3 days ago • 1747 comments

The media uses the possibility his brain is mush to avoid calling him a liar and the fact that he’s a liar to avoid saying his brain is mush. The effect is that they write up neither of the 2 possibilities, dramatically helping Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

submitted 3 days ago • 1169 comments

I knew he would do this. I wrote a whole article about how he would do this. I am not surprised he’s undermining vaccination. I know he’s an anti-vaxxer & a predatory crank. And yet…you have got to be fucking kidding me. He’s promoting infant mortality.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Jesus Christ

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Everything Lutnick said is nonsense.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump called Jeff Bezos to complain about an Amazon plan to display the costs resulting from tariffs, and then Amazon said that idea is "not going to happen." www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

The Trump Administration seems motivated solely by white supremacy.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: State offices in Mississippi are closed to commemorate the men who died fighting the U.S. government to protect the institution of human slavery. The majority white Legislature once again killed a Black lawmakers' bill to end Confederate Memorial Day and replace it with Juneteenth Freedom Day.

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

Oppression is the mask of fear.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The driveway of the White House is now lined with mugshots….disgusting….this had to be a Stephen Miller idea *posted this morning by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt

submitted 5 days ago • 215 comments

Bessent in two weeks, finding out about just in time ordering:

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

This is an active current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

...Why?

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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 5 days ago • 226 comments

This is, straightforwardly, an effort to curry favor with a tyrant

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Trump’s approval rating sinks in new Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

At some point, human beings will become our primary export, and El Salvador our primary trade partner.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

A ten-year-old U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents a TEN YEAR OLD. a TEN YEAR OLD child recovering from brain cancer deported. Your government did this www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

While the world paid tribute to the Pope in black attire, Trump opted for his tacky ill fitted blue suit and floor length tie.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

what are they hiding? (car crashes)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.

submitted 6 days ago • 658 comments

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

submitted 6 days ago • 413 comments

denial is a good strategy for dealing with problems, right?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

A useful way to think about his tanking poll numbers is that they would be far worse if more people knew what he is doing

submitted 6 days ago • 304 comments

For those who think Elon Musk just “turned” bad a few years ago: In 2014, Musk threatened an entire team at Tesla with deportation when their leader asked him to address a brake safety issue with the Model S. She was forced to resign.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

In Minnesota, freedom is a birthright.

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

crazy that an incorrigible drunken dipshit who has failed at everything of consequence he has ever tried is also disastrously bad at leading the single largest bureaucracy in the world

submitted 7 days ago • 220 comments

Yes, especially when they reveal the huge budget cuts they are working on, to pay for a tax cut for the rich. That will be horribly unpopular -- the cuts to Medicaid, especially. People may forget that to date the Congress has passed very little legislation. Wait until they do, if they can.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Elie Wiesel: "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Man’s brain is applesauce, but it remains an interesting dynamic that his gut reaction is of course I don’t violate court orders, meanwhile he has no comprehension of how his people are gleefully doing exactly that and bragging about it.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

oh it’s not just in Milwaukee.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment