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A congressional plan to bar states from regulating AI is dangerous because the technology poses serious risks to elections.

submitted 21 minutes ago • 1 comment

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 1 hour ago • 249 comments

Weird how the “we’re broke” crowd goes quiet whenever war is on the table But we have to throw 11 million off health care, cut food stamps, etc right?

submitted 16 hours ago • 215 comments

ICE has become the secret police - anonymous, held to no laws, wielded as a political weapon, answering to no one, disappearing people with no due process.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 3 hours ago • 981 comments

I was literally taught my whole life that if someone in plain clothes and a mask tries to detain you and refuses to identify themselves, you call 911 and you’re absolutely within your rights to not comply for safety reasons. What’s happening is kidnapping. Full stop.

submitted 4 hours ago • 72 comments

One of our leading citywide elected leaders and candidates for mayor peacefully asks masked ICE agents to see a warrant and is violently arrested. Horrifying and disturbing for what it is and what it represents. Fascism. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

submitted 3 hours ago • 56 comments

"Blank page. Flubbed lines. Fumbled prop. Repeated assurances of deals that never come. All Starmer has to hold onto is Trump’s proclamation that the UK is “very well protected … because I like ’em,” a personalist assurance perhaps valid only so long as Starmer will pick up Trump’s papers for him."

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submitted 14 hours ago • 662 comments

Ten years ago, it would have been inconceivable that a president would fail to divest from his businesses, much less that his business would continue to launch new products like a phone service during his presidency. This is yet another ethics outrage.

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

Good to see that our country’s trade policies are grounded in solid economic principles and are not remotely subject to the fluttering whims of a mercurial leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

Tennessee Nazi that threatened No Kings protest had gun with designs mimicking Christchurch mass murderer’s gun AND his hat had patch referencing Curtis Yarvin’s “dark enlightenment” theory, which calls for an end to democracy www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

The Trump Org is currently looking to hire 31 foreign temporary workers for its winery, working from February through mid-October, per a listing with the Labor Dept.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

"Concerned about the discriminatory message it sent to LGBTQ+ staff and patrons, Andrus respectfully vocally objected to the decision and engaged in “protected activity” — wearing a crocheted rainbow lanyard that she’d made the previous year, the suit said." www.postandcourier.com/greenville/n...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Tennessee Nazi that threatened No Kings protest had gun with designs mimicking Christchurch mass murderer’s gun AND his hat had patch referencing Curtis Yarvin’s “dark enlightenment” theory, which calls for an end to democracy www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

I don't think I would call this post that was on a Pennsylvania's sheriff's personal facebook page of a truck with the idea that the person driving is killing protesters a "meme," but that's just me. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

77% are right-wing violence. if you add domestic Islamist extremism (which, if you believe Gambetta and Herzog, are also right-wing), then we're at 95% ninety five percent is right-wing violence

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

One month apart.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

They should just call Nextdoor Blackwatch.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

After threatening additional sanctions multiple times over several months, Trump just decided he will just throw a lame excuse out and be done with it. Our foreign policy is an absolute joke and nobody except Israel and Russia can count on us.

submitted 8 hours ago • 178 comments

Republican lawmakers in Ohio to propose total abortion and IVF ban ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/r...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 9 hours ago • 432 comments

This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.

submitted 18 hours ago • 127 comments

Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!

submitted 20 hours ago • 577 comments

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

LEFT: The fake picture of the Department of Defense just posted. RIGHT: The reality. So now the military is not just arresting us on street corners illegally but spreading disinformation. And it's only Monday.

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 1 day ago • 881 comments

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments