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"We do a highly informal show. The higher we are, the more informal we get." ~ Roger Miller Musician, writer, opiner, general scaliwag, occasional gadfly Photo: Socialist candidate Eugene Debs speaking in Ftn City Park, Knoxville, TN- 1905
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WATCH: “You shouldn’t treat every child in your care like they’re murderers. Most kids in Dick Bean’s facility are not convicted of anything.” The still operating KNOXVILLE facility known for sticking kids in solitary, sometimes for ‘talking back’ Story: www.propublica.org/article/knox...

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"Iran doesn't have nukes. Israel does. Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Israel isn't. Israel has allowed IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't." But Israel is the victim? My video for Zeteo on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased. zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 22 hours ago • 159 comments

Useful reminder that Israel is believed to have 90 nuclear weapons. Also, Israel is not party to the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and has not accepted IAEA safeguards on some of its principle nuclear activities. But yes, only Iran is the rogue state...

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

submitted 2 days ago • 522 comments

Let’s be clear: this is Trump’s war.

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

“We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Kristi Noem theonion.com/kristi-...

submitted 2 days ago • 186 comments

A three-judge appeals court panel on Friday cleared the way for Kansans to resume changing their gender markers on driver’s licenses, rejecting arguments made by Attorney General Kris Kobach and overturning a lower court ruling #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/06/13/k...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Defense Attorney Shabazz: “If Kilmar is so dangerous, why did they wait 3 years to indict him on this? They’re only doing that now to justify denying him due process and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment (in CECOT).”

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

🚨Gaza | June 13, 2025 Israel has killed more than 50 Palestinians across the Strip since dawn, amid a second consecutive day of total internet blackout.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Judge observes that testimony from cooperating witnesses (who have something to gain) about Kilmar being in MS-13 was conflicting, and one changed his tune “for some reason” in their second interview after saying he wasn’t in the gang in his first interview.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I strongly oppose Israel’s attacks against Iran and Iran’s attacks against Israel. Both endanger civilians and risk all-out war. If you’re like my opponents and only condemning one side, I hope you find a spine and some moral clarity.

submitted 2 days ago • 729 comments

There's no point in screenshotting the overwhelming examples of pundits who pretended to be anti-war and now are drooling at the opportunity to for a full scale invasion of Iran. Most people knew that. It's figures like Glenn Greenwald who tried to convince you the "anti-war" right was even a thing

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

We are officially in the Third Red Scare. This letter from Josh Hawley to the @pslweb.bsky.social is absolutely chilling.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

The facts are on my side: I was at Delaney Hall to do my job. Through their actions, this administration has made it clear that this is political intimidation, but I won’t roll over. I am looking forward to my day in court.

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Also, it's amazing but not at all surprising how much of the media has uncritically parroted Noem's line that Senator Padilla "lunged" at her. Again, without noting that THERE IS CLEAR VIDEO EVIDENCE HE DID NO SUCH THING. This isn't only bad journalism; its a racist trope that KILLS men of colour.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

We are marching to Senator Thune’s office. There must be accountability for the detainment of a Senator. This is not normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 990 comments

The U.S. and Iran were scheduled to meet Sunday to continue nuclear talks. Trump told Israel publicly and privately not to attack before the talks were over. Israel clearly believes they can force the U.S. into this war of their choosing.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

The administration's actions are turning mild-mannered Senators like Chris Van Hollen and Alex Padilla into Heroes of the Resistance. Nobody in Washington has any excuse but to get in the fight.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Obama 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Israel is the only country bombing and attacking multiple countries in the Middle East right now and demanding you pray for their safety while doing it. Meanwhile western politicians are falling over themselves to do so

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Bibi Netanyahu, in 2002, urging the US to invade Iraq: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." The US listened then, and we saw what happened. 23 years later, here we are.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

This is incredibly problematic because it’s the first step towards also going after protest medics and jail support teams. Giving people masks when cops are launching tear gas every night is not a crime, it’s common sense protection.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

submitted 3 days ago • 908 comments

This racist mail out that photoshopped a larger beard on Zohran Mamdani was paid for by Doordash btw

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Reminder that seven Democratic senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem and six Dem senators declined to vote either way. She was confirmed, 59-34. The good faith experiment is clearly over, and we need the Democratic senators who didn't stand against her nomination to be loud as hell right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 194 comments

Holy shit Chuck Schumer just went OFF about Noem’s actions: “Are the Democrats weak & behind the times? Does Macy’s tell from Gimbels? I’ve written a terse letter and as soon as we mimeograph a million copies everyone’s gonna wake up tomorrow and find one rolled up in their milk delivery!”

submitted 3 days ago • 135 comments

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

submitted 3 days ago • 265 comments

FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him. Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting. Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

ICYMI yesterday, I reported on the spate of kidnappings by masked men in unmarked cars happening in Los Angeles. Some call these kidnappings "immigration enforcement" prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Men are pretending to be ICE to abduct women as if this wasn't the most predictable thing to come out of allowing masked goons with no ID to snatch people off the streets.

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

They’re just now figuring that out?? The Election Day bomb threats that nobody talks about was the first clue.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 4 days ago • 105 comments

What amuses me is that Gavin Newsome could have probably ridden this shit all the way to the White House if he’d kept his yap close about trans girls in sports. Now no matter what he does in response to this Trump manufactured crisis, all I’ll ever think is “you raised a kid who likes Charlie Kirk.”

submitted 5 days ago • 79 comments