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“The authoritarian playbook only succeeds if the people fail to recognize that the government’s survival depends on the consent of the governed.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-energy...

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Tucker Carlson says Fox is a propaganda network that manipulates their mostly elderly audience.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1724 comments

Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.

submitted 3 hours ago • 34 comments

The result of the antivaxx movement is death for kids. Whooping cough can be fatal for young infants - it causes them to stop breathing. Kids can only be vaccinated at 6-8w of life. Before then, protection is provided by vaccinating mum during pregnancy.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

They hate science and academia but still want to claim their legitimacy

submitted 13 hours ago • 48 comments

The sheer lack of “Mike Lee and Elon Musk celebrate assassination of Democrats” headlines right now suggests we need to capture and purge every news outlet.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Gut-wrenching investigation here in which @mattshuham.bsky.social and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social tell the human stories behind Trump's aggressive deportation campaign — hundreds of detentions without charge, trial or sentencing www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Nonviolent mass protests only work if they are sustained and not just one off every three months. If you actually want your nonviolent movement to work, you can’t go back to work on Monday. You actually have to sustain the protest for months or until you oust the fascist leader.

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

“Herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH.” This is the dumbest, most embarrassing slide into civil war possible.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

I think this means he knows he’s losing. The he being Miller who wrote this and Trump who has no other plays but lean into it and get more blowback.

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

This is not a president of the United States. This is a hateful demagogue and pathological liar who is exploiting the office to sow division and dismantle our democratic system.

submitted 17 hours ago • 67 comments

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

submitted 2 days ago • 172 comments

👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

The world's most powerful malignant narcissist has just sustained a narcissistic injury of epic proportions. Yesterday was all injury, no supply. Brace for blowback. @narceducator.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

He's not gonna fuck you, whoever wrote this

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Instead of piling on and sharing that op-ed that, for some reason, tries to put a silver lining on Trump's slashing of NIH funding, I'm sharing this @propublica.org piece that more accurately demonstrates the vastness of the damage being done to health research.

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For those with this conclusion, I’d suggest you’re falling into the narrative that those you oppose want you to believe. Don’t do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Kristi Noem thinks her lie about Sen. Padilla not identifying himself is a real own when, in fact, her supposed inability to recognize a US Senator--who is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship & Border Safety--makes her goons' thuggery even more disgraceful.

submitted 3 days ago • 494 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla blocked GOP efforts to pass the SAVE Act, calling it an attack on voter access. He’s pushing new legislation to expand registration, fight Trump’s anti-voter order and defend free elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Like this.

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⚡️US opposes lowering G7 cap on Russian oil, Bloomberg reports. The United States is opposing a push by other G7 members to lower the price cap on Russian oil from $60 to $45 per barrel, ahead of the group’s summit in Canada.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

submitted 2 days ago • 323 comments

Trump just gutted California’s clean air waivers. This will unleash 1.6 billion metric tons of emissions and saddle consumers with billions in extra fuel costs. It’s all part of this administration’s Polluters First Agenda. We will fight this.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

We could have had nice things

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𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙇𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙠𝙞 understood that physically attacking Sen. Padilla was outrageous and wrong. nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

Shorter version: This is as transactional and as corrupt as everything else.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

submitted 3 days ago • 286 comments

"I cannot say this strongly enough: until 2026, only two things stand between the authoritarian project and its objectives: the judiciary and a popular protest movement. We have no control over the former. We must not surrender, or abandon, the latter."

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

Heads up #PDX protesters: no police agency in Oregon has any rotary-wing assets. There are no news helicopters visible on flight trackers. The helicopter over you is DHS.

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Looks like everyone is coming to the Big Beautiful Protest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Remember, NO DICTATORS!

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Idiots. Morons.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

Rain on his parade.

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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

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submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments