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People still: Look, we can't read history through a contemporary lens. There wasn't a consensus that slavery was wrong. Every 18th c. pamphlet: How can they do this? Are we SLAVES? In SLAVERY? The worst things you can be? Are they gonna put us IN CHAINS? Like in SLAVERY? Which is EVIL? Like SLAV-

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, didn't commit any crimes. But the United States (that's all of us) shipped him to Guantánamo and he didn't even know where he was for 2 weeks. Read this. It's one of the testimones at www.courtlistener.com/docket/69633...

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I still don’t understand why Democrats would negotiate a budget when the Trump administration claims unilateral authority to cancel any spending it dislikes. As long as congressional Republicans endorse that position, they are not legitimate negotiation partners! An agreement with them has no value!

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Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

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we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

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I've been screaming this for years.

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You are witnessing the normalization of fascism right in your face. You are seeing the media’s “unbiasedness” sanitize fascism by giving these people the benefit of the doubt. These are not “Nazi-like”, these are Nazis. Beware the rhinoceros, before it’s too late.

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Trump handed Hochul re-election on a silver platter and she slapped it away, never underestimate the craven incompetence of NY Dems

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Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

No kings in America.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

many of those who work forces are the very same as the ones that burn crosses

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

We gotta abolish ICE, man www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

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The accelerationist belief that if things get bad enough, then things will start to get better is quite something to see in the wild. It’s wrong though. Historically, misery creates more misery and is visited on the most marginalized in ever intensifying cycles of horror.

submitted 7 days ago • 113 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 7 days ago • 385 comments

Blue states need to be doing the Idlib strategy of building up their own much larger administrative states to quickly reinstate actual existing bureaucracy once this government falls.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Government funding expires March 14 and there's a chance they'll need Democratic votes to prevent a shutdown so that could be a good time to demand that Musk and his teens are out of government and an impartial investigation into what they've done thus far

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 10 days ago • 188 comments

www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

it has been said before but one problem is that when some people say 'the economy' they're talking about poor people affording food and housing, & when some other people say 'the economy' they're referring to a chart of how happy rich people are

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

Yeah this is fucked.

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Walt Whitman:

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This isn't a normal detention center at Gitmo just for the grotesque optics of that location. They're disappearing people. No disclosure of who's there, or how many, or any way for lawyers to find out. And no transparency on any deaths in custody there, either. Consider the implications of that.

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Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

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Three stories from today: WaPo: Senate Republicans Propose $350 Billion for Mass Deportations Bloomberg: Trump Tax Cuts Would Cost Between 5 and 11 Trillion Dollars Politico: Republicans Preparing to Make "Deep Cuts" to Medicaid to Offset Reconciliation Costs

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Remember. It’s never: We fight for (these people) because maybe we’re more at risk if we don’t. No more Niemölling. We fight because they are coming for anyone. Every single person matters. Each and every human being’s life and safety is worth the fight.

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 21 days ago • 808 comments

I will note again the capital D Danger here isn't canceled elections. It’s elections that slip a little further down the slope of not free and fair that still look and feel like they always have.

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if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

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If you'd said by the first week of February they'd be shipping people to Guantanamo and gleefully posting the pictures, a large chunk of the center-left punditocracy would have dismissed that as hyperbolic crazy talk.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

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🚨This moment demands a national outcry — our elected officials cannot afford to remain silent on Trump’s excessive cruelty. TAKE ACTION today to say NO to immigration detention at Guantánamo Bay:🔗 bit.ly/dwnaction1 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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you shouldn’t care about it because they might be coming for you next, you should care that they’re coming for anyone at all

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit

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Literally have a post in my banned twitter account stating this was a huge part of the reason to create Space Force, to create a military body loyal to Trump for immigration nonsense. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

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As awful and horrible as Trump is, it is enlightening to see just how powerful a president can be when they choose to use their power. Clinton, Obama, Biden, etc all enjoyed the same exact powers, and could have used them for good, but almost never did

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When you see that Amazon is paying $145,000:

submitted 68 days ago • 17 comments

The continuing resolution axed by Elon and co included a SNAP benefits extension. Now that it won't get passed soon, families will literally be going hungry during the holidays because of the world's richest man.

submitted 68 days ago • 45 comments

They took Dylann Roof to Burger King after he killed nine people.

submitted 69 days ago • 54 comments

There it is. Pay the Trump Tithe and you get to avoid the tariff but that doesn't mean you cant increase prices along with everyone else who isn't able to pay the tithe, so you also get to increase profit by raising cost on all competitors Here's the oligarchy the American people voted for at work

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