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you’re telling me that yet another one of these guys is a degenerate sex criminal? i’m shocked

submitted 10 hours ago • 229 comments

The news media gave more coverage to the idea Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 20 years was scandalous than to Trump's promise to destroy the department of education

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

submitted 18 hours ago • 892 comments

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

submitted 17 hours ago • 97 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

an acquaintance is running for congress, and politics aside I will not be voting for her because she dumped her phone contacts into her fundraising list. every day I get another robotext asking if I'd support this "woman and small business owner" for congress. no before, but especially no, now

submitted 226 days ago • 1 comment

For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States. Vaccines prevent measles. Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

DELETE. YOUR. TWITTER.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Russian state media openly says what I and others warned about, which Trump/Vance/Musk and fans—along with Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, and their end of the horseshoe—get badly wrong: Russia is after conquest, not peace. US weakening Ukraine encourages more Russian attacks, not Russian negotiations.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

If you find yourself parsing which victims of state speech repression are worth defending, you've already taken a wrong turn.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Uses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence. If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Armed government agents went to the home of a lawful resident of the United States without a warrant and arrested him over the content of his speech. This is a five-alarm fire for civil liberties.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

The comments saying this man deserves this treatment because he (or other Palestinians) didn't vote for Harris are infuriating because (a) HE CANNOT VOTE, HE'S NOT A CITIZEN; (b) collective punishment is morally repugnant; (c) genocide is wrong; (d) human rights aren't transactional;

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Sorry I didn’t have time to listen to the new lady gogo album bc I’m busy living through a global pandemic

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Both Sandler and Bauman are no longer alive and hence can not possibly be involved. They do share one cultural characteristic with George Soros, however, which surely wasn’t on Musk’s mind when he wrote this.

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

The number of protests that are gonna happen in the coming months just because it’s finally getting warm outside is going to be nuts

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

A U.S. citizen living in Northern Virginia is reconsidering his support for Trump after he said he was handcuffed by ICE agents

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

I do not listen to him. In fact I have him blocked. I had him blocked on the old site for years. He is not published in any major newspapers I read or on news stations I watch. He exists to me solely through angry screencaps taken from web forums I am no longer on. It is time to break the cycle

submitted 102 days ago • 110 comments

AOC was right. It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

I’ll bet some Democratic strategist told Newsom that Dems need to engage more like this to counter the right wing echo chamber. Nah. You wind up platforming a racist and worse, you’ll wind up saying some shit that make a bunch of white supremacists go, see Newsom likes/agrees with Charlie Kirk!

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Best part: McKinley was eventually murdered by a guy who was radicalized by the 1893 Depression his policies created. Whoops! bsky.app/profile/jess...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Being a samizdat publication feels cool as hell. This is from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

warner is 72 and has been serving in the senate since 2009. get him out

submitted 8 days ago • 1323 comments

STOP DOING TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM. STOP CONCEDING HE CAN DO ILLEGAL SHIT VIA EO. STOP SAYING THE EQUIVALENT OF, "OH WELL, NO ONE WILL STOP HIM, WE MIGHT AS WELL GIVE UP." STOP IT. DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW. ALWAYS.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will. I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.

submitted 9 days ago • 714 comments

A thing I wish more people knew is that measles is basically the most contagious disease in the world

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

I've been writing about Russia's invasion of Ukraine since 2016 (it did not begin in 2022) and have yet to talk to a Ukrainian who wants to accept peace on Putin's terms. So if you're an American pushing for that, please just admit it's because you don't care about Ukrainians.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

A meaningful powerful speech a most needed speech.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

"No Other Land," a documentary about the Israeli-occupied West Bank, won Best Documentary Feature Film at Sunday's awards.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Every accusation is an intention.

submitted 10 days ago • 493 comments

A child in the U.S. has died from measles. In another administration, the death and growing outbreak would likely have been met with urgent calls from the president and Health and Human Services secretary for parents to vaccinate their children. But this is public health in the Kennedy era.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

I mean Musk released a bunch of nothingburger Twitter Files to him and other fash-adjacent influencers so he couldn’t have been that mad about it

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

submitted 12 days ago • 155 comments

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later. 9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine" 1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

submitted 12 days ago • 278 comments

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 13 days ago • 145 comments

It’s so funny that MAGA has suddenly decided that the immediate release of the Epstein list is their #1 issue. Like, everyone on earth saw all the photos of him and Trump together. How are they this dense?? Astonishing.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I'm sure some folks out there are tired of being reminded, but: If you're a Gen-Xer or elder Millennial, there's a non-zero chance your MMR vaccine has worn off. You may not be protected. Talk to your PCP about a titer test and re-up if you need to, cuz the raw milk moms are trying to kill us all.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

this is the face of a man who is about to end the bird flu epidemic by eating every infected bird

submitted 15 days ago • 882 comments

Hmmm.

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 19 days ago • 366 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

submitted 19 days ago • 118 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 19 days ago • 251 comments

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

submitted 19 days ago • 253 comments

The Maine Governor standing up for trans rights in front of Donald Trump and threatening legal action. She is actually fighting for trans rights and by extension, for all of our rights.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 19 days ago • 301 comments