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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

The real question is how many other people have died under ICE who were not citizens of fancy ally countries. They will never report the true numbers. May all their memories be for a revolution. We need Canada to make a BIG FORKING DEAL over this and get it to be the scandal that ends ICE plz

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I love how the right is trying to scare us by saying the United States is turning into one of those European countries with great mass transit and free healthcare.

submitted 2 days ago • 783 comments

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

submitted 6 days ago • 1803 comments

Do correct me if i’m wrong, but hasn’t tRump already been impeached twice? Adding a third impeachment will be worthless unless the Senate and/or House and/or Judiciary actually DOES SOMETHING about him.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 7 days ago • 1868 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 7 days ago • 2774 comments

Something I can't understand: when someone sees a guy in a police uniform doing violent, ridiculously stupid things and they say "No way that's law enforcement. That's a J6 rioter working as a bounty hunter" Have you SEEN cops? This is how they always act. It's not new behavior.

submitted 7 days ago • 182 comments

Approaching a priest and seeking absolution in the bathroom cuz you feel bad about doing a fascism is wild

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Who'd have thought Germany was standing up to dictatorship when the United States is failing?

submitted 9 days ago • 635 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 10 days ago • 447 comments

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

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One thing about Climate Change we need to change our language on is referring to it as something in the future tense. It's not something that "might happen." It's something that IS HAPPENING, and WILL get worse without action. Actions we aren't taking.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Of course asking someone what genitals they had at birth is a breach of the right to privacy. They’re called “private parts” not “private unless you suspect the person is transgender and then be as invasive as you want parts”

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

submitted 11 days ago • 164 comments

I was literally taught my whole life that if someone in plain clothes and a mask tries to detain you and refuses to identify themselves, you call 911 and you’re absolutely within your rights to not comply for safety reasons. What’s happening is kidnapping. Full stop.

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

It would be so great if Democratic Party elected officials would start acting as if they’re living under a government that will lawlessly kill or arrest them for the crime of political opposition.

submitted 11 days ago • 207 comments

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re not really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 11 days ago • 205 comments

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 11 days ago • 1158 comments

#booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 11 days ago • 177 comments

You can't arrest people without warrants, you can't arrest people for asking to see a warrant and you can't bar reporters you don't like from City Hall press conferences This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City

submitted 11 days ago • 135 comments

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

submitted 11 days ago • 141 comments

Pay attention, grandpas.

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

The common trend in the arrests of Sen Padilla, or Comptroller Lander, or Marcos Leao, or any other US citizen, is that they are immediately released. The admin knows they have no legal standing. They know a legal challenge would create a bright line bar. It’s about the chilling effect. Full stop.

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

submitted 12 days ago • 271 comments

Breaking News: Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, calling him a “visionary” leader.

submitted 11 days ago • 357 comments

If New Yorkers are wondering who will fight back against Federal overreach, we have visible evidence today that Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander are the candidates that you should rank 1 or 2 Lander literally resisted federal overreach and Mamdani showed up immediately to have his back Fuck Cuomo

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

submitted 11 days ago • 134 comments

Secret police forces typically meet 5 criteria: targeting political opponents & dissidents answer directly to dictator the identity of members / operations are secret surveillance operations arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture. So yeah: ICE= Gestapo

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 11 days ago • 738 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 11 days ago • 197 comments

She was briefly exposed to kindness.

submitted 11 days ago • 83 comments

If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

June 17, 2025

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 11 days ago • 541 comments

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

submitted 11 days ago • 499 comments

Anyone who looks like a cop but won’t give you their badge number and name is an assassin

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

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"Sheriff has history of cop-like behavior"

submitted 14 days ago • 1095 comments

I wrote about the birthday boy and his tank parade, and the great weakness inherent in fascist shows of power. And about how the people of the country are the country. As a bonus tie-in, my answer to the standard terf question "what is a woman." www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-wea...

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments