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Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

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no lies detected. #civilrights

submitted 32 days ago • 32 comments

Voters wanted to LOWER the cost of living Trump and Republicans promised they would Now instead they're RAISING costs -- through tariffs (national sales taxes of 10-50% on EVERYTHING) and now by cutting the ACA and Medicaid (raising healthcare costs) 100% BAIT-AND-SWITCH

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icymi, from last month The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

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Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 16 days ago • 1140 comments

Cory Booker for minority leader. then majority leader. then president

submitted 21 days ago • 304 comments

This. Is. Who. Cory. Is.

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Democracy is great but we are giving it away

submitted 24 days ago • 44 comments

A friend sends:

submitted 26 days ago • 307 comments

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

submitted 26 days ago • 1155 comments

I never imagined that the most dangerous moment in America's democracy would also be its stupidest.

submitted 26 days ago • 2408 comments

Wow -- Fox News abruptly cuts away from the hearing right as Crow is castigating administration officials for not taking responsibility for their failures

submitted 27 days ago • 583 comments

ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."

submitted 27 days ago • 825 comments

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

submitted 27 days ago • 676 comments

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

submitted 27 days ago • 1163 comments

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

submitted 32 days ago • 1041 comments

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

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💥 BREAKING: Walt Disney Company shareholders voted today 99-1 percent to reject an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal, requesting that the company sever its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and HRC's Corporate Equality Index. Disney Board recommended shareholders vote against the proposal.

submitted 33 days ago • 584 comments

shoutout to my children for ending their oreo ice cream phase the day we bought three months' worth of it at costco

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Boycott Airbnb! They’re DOGE!

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these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 38 days ago • 2898 comments

I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

submitted 39 days ago • 631 comments

Republicans destroy the economy and explode the debt. Democrats fix the economy and reduce the debt. Rinse. Repeat.

submitted 40 days ago • 35 comments

The Trump Administration removed the 10-year old girl with brain cancer and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

submitted 40 days ago • 264 comments

We're a global joke and a national disaster.

submitted 41 days ago • 1286 comments

N.Y. Times, June 8, 1939.

submitted 42 days ago • 297 comments

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."

submitted 43 days ago • 1727 comments

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

submitted 43 days ago • 1096 comments

We need more people like Frankie in the world.

submitted 45 days ago • 848 comments

After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this. Musk. Owns. Trump. Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison. Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.

submitted 67 days ago • 136 comments

I told y’all Ken doesn’t play

submitted 48 days ago • 92 comments

Nothing Zelensky could have done would change the fact that Trump is Putin's groveling vassal and has been as long as he's been in political life. And Ukraine was one of the reasons why defeating Trump was really important, but of course the 10,000 reasons are now on full display.

submitted 49 days ago • 16 comments

The best word to describe what's happening in Washington is vandalism. Vandalism. The Trump-Musk fascists are trashing our government so it can't stand in the way of their grand theft.

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The UN vote breakdown today That our fearless leader when questioned about siding with Russia “I don’t want to talk about that” Shadow Pres Donald Trump 02/24/2025

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

submitted 57 days ago • 713 comments

Folks are asking, “what should I do in this moment?” One of the most passionate, progressive voices in Congress for 30 years, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden answers that question. Here’s our conversation, inside a replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute: youtu.be/n_nQ-Moa9fI?...

submitted 59 days ago • 210 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 60 days ago • 1324 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 61 days ago • 1192 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 63 days ago • 112 comments