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didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

submitted 4 hours ago • 701 comments

Today @vanhollen.senate.gov was denied entry to the same prison.

submitted 9 hours ago • 106 comments

Rep. Dan Meuser is a classless moron. He should apologize immediately and every PA Republican should denounce his comments.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

submitted 15 hours ago • 81 comments

They spent the last four years telling us people who invaded the capital and beat police officers with flagpoles were unjustly persecuted civil rights heroes and now it’s taken about 45 minutes for them to be like “yeah if you write an op-ed you’re going to the blacksite that’s just common sense”

submitted 15 hours ago • 36 comments

They should be more concerned

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

They have never seen slavery as a bad thing. 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

just a reminder that trump's first term farmer bailout was literally a payoff to white america and barely anyone mentioned it like this --> www.ewg.org/news-insight...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Nazi shit. This is literally Nazi shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

When the conservatives and MAGAs yell, “We voted for this!,” believe them. They have always wanted to be ruled.

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Whether it's a right-winger trying to kill Democrat Josh Shapiro, a right-winger trying to kill Democrats Paul and Nancy Pelosi, or right-wingers trying to kidnap Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, it's time to renounce political violence from both sides.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

I hope there is a habeas petition already filed in Vermont.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 2 days ago • 1338 comments

this is the weakest an american president has ever looked on the world stage, just being proudly cucked by el salvador in an attempt to troll

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 2 days ago • 589 comments

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

I warned you.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

they'll admit that they make "mistakes" in sending people to the gulags then let Bukele call one of the men "mistakenly" sent there a terrorist. really sickening, these people have to be crushed.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

"immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than u.s. citizens" has gone missing from USG website. Archive.org version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250121225514/https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"Weaponize" and "retaliate" are often used in this context, but worth noting that China has no reason to keep holding/buying Treasuries if the U.S. wants to bring the trade deficit down to zero. Dumping Treasuries is the rational economic response. (Another reason this is all a bad idea.)

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I know I keep posting this but God Damn are the vibes exactly like 2002-2003. Guess we get to find out what happens when the media does the equivalent of going all in on the Iraq War with a president who actually wants to be dictator.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

you would not know it from listening to republican politicians or the news or trump himself, but to the extent that trump is in danger of assassination from anyone, it's pretty consistently coming from the far right or the conspiracy wing

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

i hate how accurate this has been

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Yesterday they refused to answer two of the three questions ordered. Today's refuses to address, in any way, all three. None of this has anything to do with the order. This is open defiance of a district court backed by a unanimous three-judge circuit ruling and a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

this is the no fucking shit of all no fucking shits and yet barely anyone anywhere is saying it.

submitted 3 days ago • 132 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 3 days ago • 1182 comments

Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration. It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

what must be understood is that once some people can be declared legally dead because they are undocumented, any people can be declared legally dead because … well for anything

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No matter what he said yesterday, I take this to mean Trump isn’t going to obey court orders to bring anybody back from El Salvador.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Yes

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Lol

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

“The reporter from MyPillow asked the White House press secretary why the president looks so healthy and robust” is a true sentence that exists in our current reality.

submitted 4 days ago • 344 comments

The reason you don’t see rallies in support of Trump administration policies is the price of lumber for burning cross, white linen for hoods, and kerosene for burning books.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The don’t just want absolute power, they want to be loved and respected, and it drives them crazy that their actions and beliefs make them fundamentally unlikeable and uncool to they very people they’re seeking approval from.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

For decades Putin’s Kremlin has fantasised about two things - destroying NATO and ending the primacy of the US dollar. After only 10 weeks back in office Trump is well on the way to delivering both these things. And congressional Republicans, who used to guarantee them, are too cowardly to stop him.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments