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Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

submitted 16 hours ago • 56 comments

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

submitted 21 hours ago • 77 comments

Parents, if your kids have encountered, taken part in, or talked to you about the anti-ICE protests that have been happening in Roblox recently, drop me a line via DM or email ([email protected])

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 3 days ago • 1646 comments

perfect

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 3 days ago • 660 comments

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

submitted 5 days ago • 163 comments

i was in an animated thing with Sam Campbell and Kate Dehnert and you can watch all of it HERE Written and invented by the very funny Millie Holten www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wG...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

y'know it's kind of a tell that they think celebrating the end of slavery is DEI

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out (unmasked/in unmarked cars) protesters are dumping pounds of glitter on them. So people can identify them as ICE for days afterward. Time to buy glitter . . .

submitted 6 days ago • 368 comments

Biden’s ultimate legacy will be that he didn’t do a single goddamn thing to protect the people of the country from the rise of fascism. Pack the courts, force through a bunch of legislation, etc. An affable, completely ineffectual President who set the stage for what we’re living through now.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.

submitted 6 days ago • 254 comments

Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

The road here was paved by the last few years of cultural persecution from the right and a cowardly abandonment by the Democratic establishment, who ignored so many warnings. Imperative that we loudly defend our trans siblings, and begin to organize together towards building safety and equality.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 7 days ago • 542 comments

Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

Awful. But there's no bipartisan-savvy, cautiously centrist way out of this. The Republicans are unleashing full police state fascism, throwing the Constitution in the trash and not pretending otherwise. Appeals to their good nature have been rejected for YEARS. What now, Democrats?

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

The armed, yellow-vested "peacekeepers" at the Utah 50501 protest in Salt Lake City opened fire into a crowd, hitting two people: A Sāmoan fashion designer with two young kids, who died. A second-generation Venezuelan immigrant and antiracist protester who was legally carrying. Cops charged HIM.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

i know a lot else is going on, but US folks PLEASE call your senators - they are actively set on trying to ban trans healthcare on Medicaid entirely which trans people like me who are on Medicaid actively depend on for life-saving healthcare

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Over the next 8 days, you won't be able to turn on your TV, check your mail or watch a YouTube video without seeing a lie about our campaign. But we have the people. And the only thing more powerful than all this billionaire cash are New Yorkers talking to their neighbors.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

no shit? voters want democrats who are willing to actually fight for them? and don’t just openly hate them? and do more than go on the news to say they’re considering writing a letter? big news here

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

It doesn’t solve anything and it definitely doesn’t change anything but it is kind of nice to know that he knows that his big macho honk honk birthday parade sucked

submitted 10 days ago • 97 comments

ACAB is putting it lightly, what a bunch of overly sensitive pieces of shit who got no business having any authority. One little insult hurts their feelings and they assault and arrest someone for absolutely nothing. And they wanna call us snowflakes lol

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms. It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.

submitted 11 days ago • 836 comments

this is fascism

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments