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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

submitted 4 days ago • 2380 comments

The President is once again demanding a journalist be fired for reporting facts he doesn’t like. We can’t normalize this. I’ll say it again: the most ridiculous reason people gave for voting for Trump was “he supports free speech.”

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

submitted 4 days ago • 927 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 473 comments

The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

submitted 6 days ago • 215 comments

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

submitted 6 days ago • 1268 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 749 comments

As major U.S. cities brace for possible terror attacks in response to the strikes on Iran, just a reminder of who Trump put in charge of terror prevention God help us all

submitted 7 days ago • 148 comments

Anything to deny their own cognitive dissonance.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance this morning: We have no interest in regime change in Iran. Trump moments ago: Actually, we do.

submitted 7 days ago • 161 comments

Trump announces attack on Iran. No congressional approval. At the hands of the self-proclaimed "anti-war" president.

submitted 8 days ago • 363 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 8 days ago • 346 comments

Oh Canada 🇨🇦 Thoughts on this, folks?

submitted 10 days ago • 164 comments

It’s official. The US has lost face, worldwide.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit. India’s Foreign Secretary just shut down Trump’s claim he brokered peace between India and Pakistan. Modi told him: “There was never any discussion… about a trade deal or U.S. mediation… India has neither accepted mediation, nor does it do so—and never will.”

submitted 11 days ago • 507 comments

This is above and beyond a lack of compassion. The later I see everyday with analytically minded business leaders, and can be learned. This man is simply a despicable human being.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The editorial board of a publication in Sen. Mike Lee's home state of Utah called on him to apologize for his posts about the Minnesota shootings, writing that they “were unacceptable for anyone, let alone from a member of the Senate.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1304 comments

Outrageous: ICE agents arrested a former U.S. Army interpreter who risked his life aiding American troops in Afghanistan, right after his asylum hearing in San Diego. The interpreter legally entered the U.S. after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

submitted 11 days ago • 349 comments

Make America Healthy Again.

submitted 10 days ago • 198 comments

Oof. You knows it's bad when Tucker Carlson makes you look like the dumb one.

submitted 12 days ago • 374 comments

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 13 days ago • 2706 comments

Natinyahu is missing but deserves a dishonorable mention.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

💥 UPDATE: Shareholders of Alphabet / Google voted 99-0 percent (1% abstained) to reject two anti-DEI proposals at their annual shareholder meeting this month.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

When does the “great” part start?

submitted 13 days ago • 553 comments

I don’t agree with everything DEI, but older white privileged men implying that performance-based hiring is thrown out the window the moment you hire anyone else but a white male makes me want to fight for it. YOU my dear, have de facto been the only quota for centuries..

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

There are two Russian flags in this official Department of Defense post

submitted 14 days ago • 196 comments

The roommate of Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter, responding to MAGA lies that he’s a Democrat: “He would be offended if people called him a Democrat,” he told CBS News, adding that Boelter “was a Trump supporter, voted for Trump,” and was happy Trump won the 2024 election.

submitted 14 days ago • 114 comments

🚨 Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman was shot and killed early this morning in her home. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted, and White House retweeted a happy birthday message to Trump: “America is safer under your leadership.”

submitted 15 days ago • 79 comments

They told Minnesotans to stay home. After the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband—and the failed attempts on Senator Hoffman and his wife—fear was the official message. But the people came anyway. In defiance. In grief. In purpose. This was the #NoKings rally in MN. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

submitted 15 days ago • 2129 comments

💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

submitted 67 days ago • 1027 comments

“No Kings Day”: A compilation

submitted 15 days ago • 308 comments

A Native American woman to Border Patrol agents questioning her U.S. citizenship: “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!”

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments

Ocean Beach San Francisco today. #NoKings We were there

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

💥 BREAKING: Best Buy shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today (tally TBA), as recommended by Best Buy Board. Proposal asked Best Buy to end its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, a benchmarking tool for LGBTQ+ initiatives.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Trump is getting richer. Are you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vh...

submitted 16 days ago • 89 comments

Shameful.

submitted 16 days ago • 645 comments

UPDATE: By a tally of 98-2 percent, American Airlines shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI / LGBTQ+ proposal.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Tucker Carlson says in his newsletter that Trump is "complicit" in an "act of war"

submitted 16 days ago • 120 comments

Farmworkers are hiding because Trump made them targets. Without farmworkers, the crops that feed our nation rot and our tables go empty. This isn’t strong immigration policy — it’s economic sabotage fueled by hate. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 128 comments

More Pritzkers please ✊👊

submitted 17 days ago • 66 comments

They lie about everything

submitted 17 days ago • 1195 comments

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

submitted 17 days ago • 898 comments

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Federal Judge Breyer rules that Trump's federalization of the California National Guard was ILLEGAL and orders control of the Guard be RETURNED to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

submitted 17 days ago • 114 comments

💥 Walmart heiress took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Sunday calling on readers to “mobilize” on Saturday, June 14. NYT ad: NO KINGS JUNE 14 MOBILIZE

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

💥 BREAKING: Walmart shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting today (tally TBA). Proposal asked the company to explain why it took so long to "revise" its DEI programs. Proposal presenter claimed Walmart's DEI programs have been "repackaged rather than eliminated."

submitted 24 days ago • 28 comments

If a US Senator is not safe from being handcuffed and detained for free speech, none of us are safe.

submitted 17 days ago • 635 comments

Funded by your tax dollars.

submitted 17 days ago • 1608 comments