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submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Has Trump said anything critical about the Minnesota assassin since he found out he was a supporter?

submitted 4 hours ago • 17 comments

Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Sen. Alex Padilla, and now NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. The feds keep detaining and prosecuting elected officials who get in Trump's way.

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Donald Trump suggested he will not hit Russia with more sanctions at the G7 summit, saying Europeans should "do it first" and that "sanctions cost us a lot of money."

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 1 day ago • 830 comments

Orwellian www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 5 days ago • 192 comments

The Trump tax cut is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Contrast that with Build Back Better, which helped those at the bottom of the income distribution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: House approves President Trump's request to cancel $9.4 billion in previously approved foreign aid and funding for NPR and PBS.

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

submitted 5 days ago • 524 comments

A brazen new form of corrupt giveaway by Trump’s DOJ: Bondi’s decision to cave in to meritless big money lawsuits by criminals pursued by the Biden administration will transfer $100M or more from us as taxpayers to those who tried to overthrow the U.S. Constitution. Ugh www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom attacked President Trump's decision to federalize California's National Guard, and said that "Democracy is in the balance." Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon agreed that it's in the balance, but said that democracy must "fall." angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/11/j...

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

US power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating gases under new regulatory rollbacks.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Good for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social. He is free now and his legacy is secure. He will be remembered for speaking out and not bending the knee. Also he will make more money now and have a bigger platform and influence. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 536 comments

“A nation where investors must pay bribes and possibly risk later being charged with crimes as a routine ‘cost of doing business’ cannot remain the thriving financial center of the world for long.” @davidrlurie.bsky.social on the coming cost of “making crime legal.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

Hitler had Reichstag fire. Darth had Moscow apartment bombings. Trump has ICE protests.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

submitted 9 days ago • 56 comments

Journalists use "extreme caution" when reporting on unfolding events. But regarding a US officer shooting an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet, one journalism expert says it's “strange that the language has been so guarded”.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Musk's Twitter is now running paid advertising calling for the extrajudicial execution of protesters in Los Angeles. In most countries around the world, this is a criminal act.

submitted 7 days ago • 148 comments

AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok are falsely claiming that two photos shared by Gavin Newsom, which he claimed to show National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in LA, were from 2021 in Afghanistan. In fact, both photos were published in an exclusive report by the San Francisco Chronicle today.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

JUST IN: Health Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. He says replacing them with new members will help restore 'public trust' in vaccines.

submitted 8 days ago • 235 comments

Notable clip today👇 in light of the news that the Trump administration successfully pressured ABC into suspending Moran

submitted 9 days ago • 425 comments

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

submitted 9 days ago • 172 comments

Anderson Cooper & Scott Pelley talk about how corporate news orgs don’t have the support of their corporate overlords to speak truth to power. This is why independent outlets like us exist. Would be great if we didn’t have to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 9 days ago • 312 comments

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

submitted 9 days ago • 788 comments

The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

Slovenia has asked Brussels to intervene after the US targeted one of its nationals, Judge Beti Hohler, as part of new sanctions against the ICC. #EuropeNews

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

Your Prez called it.

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

submitted 13 days ago • 170 comments

⚡️ For the first time, Pentagon chief to reportedly skip Ramstein-format meeting of Ukraine's allies. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not arrive in Brussels until the conference is over and will not participate in the event online either, the AP reported.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments