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NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. www.samiraahmed.com
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JFK literally had multiple chronic diseases and spent a significant part of both his childhood and adult life hospitalized and convalescing. RFK Jr. is an embarrassment.

submitted 4 hours ago • 37 comments

Trump's new “supercharged” travel ban takes effect today. The order amounts to an even more sweeping bar than the infamous travel ban on Muslim-majority nations that President Trump implemented during his first term.

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

An authoritarian regime disappears people daily, brutalizes people with open glee, fills the streets with armed goons, and people covering this have the fucking audacity to look at protesters and say, “I hope no one lights a match here.” It’s set up to blame people getting killed. Fuck. This.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

Solidarity with LA. Solidarity with Chicago. Philadelphia. New York. Solidarity with every single protestor standing up, putting their bodies on the line to protect our people and our freedoms. Not everyone can put themselves in harms way & so it's up to us to help how we can. Find a way to help.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is the most accurate description of Miller I've ever read. He eats his hate.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 1 day ago • 720 comments

Bernie Sanders: "We have a president who is moving this country rapidly toward authoritarianism...to a large degree the future of this country rests with a small number of Republicans in the House & Senate who know better, who do know what the Constitution is about, and it's high time they stood up"

submitted 1 day ago • 310 comments

Facts: - Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance. - Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 1 day ago • 785 comments

Elon Musk is singlehandedly responsible for millions of deaths across the world. He normalized hate speech. He is a union buster. Under no circumstance should he be allowed anywhere near the Democratic Party. He made his bed, he can lie in it.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

It was always about due process. Due process for all, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

submitted 2 days ago • 1496 comments

There is no bottom WTAF

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you are an NYC voter, write to her and tell her how her betrayal could impact you: [email protected]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Note to Democrats hungry for Elon Musk's money: The answer isn't to suck up to him. If you suck up to him, all that will happen is that he'll take more money from American taxpayers. The answer is to tax the shit out of him.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The mission of the once-great ADL is no longer fighting actual anti-Semitism. It is now focused on helping endanger college kids, being a propaganda arm for Netanyahu, and sanitizing actual neo-Nazis. Not another dime in donations from this American Jew.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“Everything about the way the Department of Justice is operating now is different from how it’s worked in the past,” says Liz Oyer, DOJ’s former pardon attorney. “They’re treating the department as though it is President Trump’s personal law firm.” Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Not bad, New York Post, but come on—"ALIEN VS. PREDATOR" was right there!

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Thank goodness but he should never have been there in the first place.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Together for Redlands in CA is asking supporters to attend a school board meeting on June 10! If you can't make it to the meeting send a letter or postcard to Redlands United School District, 20 West Lugonia, Redlands, CA 92374. Apparently they're not checking email.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's the anniversary of D-Day which makes me nostalgic for the time when America fought Nazis instead of electing them.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The most pointed example of the administration’s slavish devotion to the president’s self-image is within the walls of the White House, which has been transformed into a veritable shrine to Trump’s visage. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign last month released a list with what it billed as endorsements from the heads of tenant associations at 27 NYCHA developments. But five tenant association presidents who appeared on the list say they have not endorsed Cuomo.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

And here’s what she said weeks ago to me:

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

My friend Tasneem sent me this message today on Eid, the Muslim holiday. It’s a particularly difficult day for the civilians trapped in Gaza. Please give to Tasneem, if you can, at the link. She and her family need direct aid to eat during the aid blockade. 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The enemy of my enemy still did two Nazi salutes.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Democrats — don’t even think about taking money from Elon Musk. It’s blood money.

submitted 3 days ago • 268 comments

"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately." My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book! buttondown.com/charliejane/...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This, a thousand times.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Trump v Musk: the two worst people in the world are finally having a big, beautiful breakup | Arwa Mahdawi

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

This is the MAGA version of Kendrick versus Drake except they're both Drake and both think they're Kendrick.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

i’m old enough to remember this

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 3 days ago • 1700 comments

Mood: A plague a' both your houses!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I hate that this is America because this petty small dick feud is fucking hilarious but both these guys are destroying democracy & it's important to remember how evil they both are. That being said, I feel like I can say this for the first time with my whole chest, what a day to be on the internet.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 3 days ago • 646 comments

I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

I don't want to get too excited but damn I want this to be the schadenfreude moment we've been waiting for. Not just petty barbs. I want receipts.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Sing it with me: 🎶 Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off that grin I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies And I can feel it coming in the air tonight Oh, Lord Well, I've been waiting for this moment for all my life Oh, Lord 🎶

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Yesterday was a lot. In our attempt to cover it all, some of the key details may have been missed or muddied by wrong information. We did our best to correct some of these details here: www.fftrp.org/addressing_s...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment