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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

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The Oregonian says Portland “can’t afford” to shift $1.9M from the $300M+ police budget to maintain parks. What we really can’t afford? Another year of rotting restrooms, trash-filled playgrounds, and fear-based spins on public safety. 🧵 www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

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Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

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One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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@catgyoung.bsky.social

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Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

submitted 3 days ago • 368 comments

A cladogram of the Arteebus genus, according to the latest research in scrungology. This includes some updates to species names and links in light of the latest fossil expeditions to the wretched medieval hellhole of Birmingham

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

every time i get an e-mail like that from some company's mailing list that's like "try our new AI bullshit!" i hit the unsubscribe button on that e-mail specifically, because i know they see the metrics on which e-mails lead to people unsubscribing. it is a small thing but we could do it together

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

lawfare is of course when you try to hold political figures accountable for crimes they commit

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

A very good place to make your voice heard about public health (especially over the anti-vaxxers who have found this and are disseminating it to try to sway the outcome) uscatholic.org/articles/202...

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

the amount of discrimination that OF artists (and all sex workers tbh) get is ridiculous - they can get locked out of financial services, travel, sometimes other forms of employment, payment processors, now elite sports apparently? It’s WILD, and it can follow you even when you retire!

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

submitted 4 days ago • 746 comments

🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.

submitted 5 days ago • 1725 comments

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Border czar Tom Homan, captain of the "zero tolerance" policy that split migrant parents from their kids, was paid money by the private-prison company that profits off detaining immigrants. Drain the swamp www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 7 days ago • 762 comments

'BuT wHaT aBoUt ThE aFriCaN sLaVeRs?!' - is the immediate response of those uneducated on the transatlantic trade in enslaved people from Africa (see, also: racists & imperial apologists). So let's do a bit of an examination on the relationship between Britain and Africans🧵 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 7 days ago • 1151 comments

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

submitted 7 days ago • 332 comments

Never put up with anyone who looks down on your little hobbies. Few things are better for the soul than dropping the worry & leaning into whatever you love with full-throated enthusiasm. We don't have to love the same things but the wonder in me can fistbump the wonder in you.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

My goal has been to make Illinois the best state to raise a family — that starts with kids having access to what they need so they can focus on learning and growing. Illinois was among the first states to implement SUN Bucks, and this year is no exception.

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Love this from The Happy Urbanist - we really should reject these "conversation killers" for the logical traps that they are. I hear these alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the time about 13th Ave. thehappyurbanist.substack.com/p/politicize...

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The FBI just visited me for publishing the Elias Rodriguez manifesto. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-visits...

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments