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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

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🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Cannot think of a better thing to do on Mother’s Day than help this mama. (Info on the currency in the replies to quoted post)

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I’m serious about this. They say they have actual footage of lawmakers body slamming ICE officers. Show that footage or shut up.

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

This is my family last call! 🚨 I don't know what to say, but the agony of getting food and water became very tiring, Support us!! Please RETWEET, SHARE and COMMENT with 🍉🇵🇸 gofund.me/2187a94c @mommunism.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that debating Stephen Miller — who is not a lawyer and is not making legal arguments, he is spouting propaganda — is a win for him.

submitted 8 days ago • 349 comments

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

if Congress does not seize its powers back Trump will fly the American economy straight into the side of a mountain.

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.

submitted 7 days ago • 93 comments

About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

People have internalized the climate disaster enough to deform their morals and laws against other people desperately wanting to get in, but not yet enough to imagine that they themselves might someday desperately want to get out

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🎯 🤯 I felt a little bad for how much I loathed Clippy because it was vaguely cute. AI doesn’t even have that going for it.

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Oh I’m glad to hear this sweet boy survived but god this is awful

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

The Trump administration is now trying to use the FBI to go after judges they don’t like. Make no mistake: this is an administration relentlessly attacking the judicial system to stifle opposition and get their way. This is a red-alert moment.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

submitted 21 days ago • 809 comments

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/main... #Palestine #Israel

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Please share or donate, if you’re able: gofund.me/e44adcbf

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

oh hey welcome to your trial, blackshirts

submitted 24 days ago • 72 comments

12 House GOPers Wrote to Speaker Johnson Demanding He Protect Medicaid. Brian Fitzpatrick Was Not 1 of Them | "If there are $880 billion of Medicaid cuts being proposed, you would not have had to ask me to sign onto the letter, I would have written it myself,” said Democratic challenger Bob Harvie.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

submitted 28 days ago • 1002 comments

There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.

submitted 28 days ago • 27 comments

I’ve said this before but older men are the ones I have the hardest time raising for and also the ones who wait the longest to ask for help 💔

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you aren’t outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

submitted 28 days ago • 85 comments

So funny—I don’t watch much comedy but I stumbled on this last night when I couldn’t sleep and I’ve watched it 3 times already: youtu.be/4VtlKFyha4I?...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

submitted 30 days ago • 108 comments

Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Supports the GOP Budget Which Will Decimate Nursing Homes & Home Care in Bucks County | From Richlandtown to Bristol, Bucks County nursing home patients, home care patients, and the staff who care for them will be directly impacted by expected massive cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 31 days ago • 650 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 31 days ago • 108 comments

idk who needs to hear this but HRT injections can be bought online for less than $100 for a year supply

submitted 31 days ago • 98 comments

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 32 days ago • 610 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 34 days ago • 1997 comments

Classic abuser move: create a crisis and then position yourself as its solution. After the abuser “solves” the crisis, he will expect gratitude and adoration.

submitted 34 days ago • 76 comments

I read this very quickly and thought it was commentary on JD Vance.

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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 35 days ago • 152 comments

HUGE turnout! There were _at least_ 1,500 people, I’d have guessed closer to 3,000.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Get it out of your head that we are having free and fair elections in 2026. Texas is the model. This right here is tyranny. That's not an exaggeration. They won't do this everywhere, but they'll do it in enough places to ensure they win a majority.

submitted 39 days ago • 37 comments