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«To say that the verbiage and phrasing of this ad functions as a dog whistle for White supremacy and White nationalism would be an insult to dog whistles ... it is a bullhorn—and a sign that Palantir isn’t just willing to openly signal allegiance to fascism, they aim to leverage and recruit on it.»

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

If the bargain the Democratic Party leadership wants to make to the left is, the left should compete in primaries and then support the Democrat in the general, even if it isn't their favored candidate, it has to go both ways: When leftist candidates win primaries, the party needs to get behind them.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

Effectively, this is the GOP plan for poor people who need healthcare and food.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Maybe don’t grant them absolute immunity.

submitted 16 hours ago • 95 comments

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

submitted 21 hours ago • 647 comments

journalistic objectivity is a tool that is useful for certain things. it's been turned into an ideology by bad faith actors and cowardly, self-interested hacks with family money. like all cults, it gradually destroys its adherents.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

The symbolism is terrible

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"...There’s no sidestepping a president deploying the military in an American city based on ludicrous falsehoods about a foreign invasion. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a clearer signpost on the road to dictatorship." @michelleinbklyn www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Honestly, this is my #1 objection to yesterday’s decision. SCOTUS had many, many opportunities to curb universal injunctions against the Biden administration. For four years, it refused. Then, almost as soon as Trump returned to office, it changed the rules to take away universal injunctions. Why?

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

The Bezos- Sanchez wedding. God doesn’t approve.

submitted 1 day ago • 549 comments

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 3066 comments

Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

NYT is doing RFK Jr's promotional work for him. He's just a wary "skeptic" who's listening to "experts" who think the flu vaccine causes autism, you see

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.

submitted 2 days ago • 517 comments

Everything awful the fascist majority on the Supreme Court is doing will be well worth it to their corporate sponsors once they overturn West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish and return us to the Lochner era. That has been the goal for nearly 80 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Great. Just great. Scopes trials for everyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

First, SCOTUS issued a sweeping grant of immunity to a president who committed unprecedented crimes in office Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law Democracy and the rule of law are on the line www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 2 days ago • 433 comments

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

submitted 2 days ago • 366 comments

Your boarding pass. Your face scan. Your payment trail. It all feeds a surveillance machine powered by Palantir, fed by airlines & stored for 75 years...all while Stephen Miller apparently profits from it.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

remember when Elon Musk straight up performed a Nazi salute, twice, on stage, and the NYT was like "hmm, huh, what can this mean, who can say"

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Kind of seems like a problem when US citizens are getting disappeared off the street?

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

That sentence is so insane

submitted 3 days ago • 227 comments

Text doesn't do it justice, you have to watch the video. This man is a cartoon villain

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

schadenfreudescrolling

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Cuomo has conceded “I’m very proud of the campaign that we ran … but tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night, and he put together a great campaign and he touched young people and inspired them. I called him, I congratulated him.”

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Mamdani Mayor, Lander Senator. Let’s go.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

cringe is dead, GENUINE EMOTION RULES THE NIGHT

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 5 days ago • 313 comments

Emil Bove is a nominee for a lifetime seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and his confirmation hearing is TOMORROW. Call your Senators and tell them to stop Emil Bove: 202-224-3121

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

submitted 5 days ago • 332 comments

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

submitted 5 days ago • 196 comments

It’s outrageous that a masked ICE thug can punch a man in the face and escape consequences anonymously. That’s not America. America is for the thug cop to be identified and THEN escape all significant consequences for lawless brutality after a brief period of paid leave bsky.app/profile/news...

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

That this SCOTUS stay comes on the day this story dropped….Is it comforting to know that you’ll get due process in South Sudan? ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Trying to do the whole half-decade Iraq War discourse in 72 hours.

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments