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Pro-democracy groups like @ohagainstextremism.bsky.social have warned that #SenateBill63 is a "disappointing bipartisan power grab" to "insulate a political duopoly and preempt local control." #SB63 will likely be rushed through the Ohio Senate this week.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This criminal complaint seems pretty thin on the statutes charged. She allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom by a different door in her courtroom. The arresting agents literally saw him in the hallway right after going to elevator 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 200 comments

The worst form of addiction that this country now faces is the greed of the oligarchy.

submitted 8 days ago • 425 comments

A friend of mine has coined the term “Pinocheting” to describe what the government is doing to these prisoners.

submitted 13 days ago • 319 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 14 days ago • 1753 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 13 days ago • 646 comments

It was important to visit @cloverparktech.bsky.social and hear from students & instructors about how vital federal funding is to helping them train students for in-demand jobs—and how Trump's attacks on education threaten that work.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

I am advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. You should too.

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

Rolling Stone understood the assignment, this is how you report it.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 17 days ago • 1271 comments

Correct.

submitted 17 days ago • 104 comments

By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens. Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak. We are on a path towards dictatorship.

submitted 17 days ago • 332 comments

People are pushing back even in the deepest red districts possible

submitted 16 days ago • 228 comments

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submitted 17 days ago • 48 comments

Trump threatens to send Americans to notorious prison in El Salvador, asking President Nayib Bukele to "build about five more places" www.axios.com/2025/04/14/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Analogies are never perfect, but this one is instructive. If you’ll indulge me: What would you call it if a German government ordered books from Jewish authors removed for being “subversive” and “anti-German” while having no problem with white supremacist literature? Because that’s what this is.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Rep. Baumgartner isn’t showing up for all his constituents, just the ones who agree with him and Trump. But we’re listening to everyone. Join WA Dems and Rep. Emily Randall for The People’s Town Hall, where real conversations make a real difference.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

The year I was born there were there were 2.9 billion people on the planet. Today there are 8.2 billion. The rate of reproduction isn’t a threat to humanity. Notice the people who claim that it is a crisis don’t cite these facts. They seem especially focused on the birth rate of one specific race.🤔

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: Blue Cross authorized mastectomies & breast reconstructions at one hospital, then refused to pay the full doctors' bills. BUT... The insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross execs signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans, including married women, to vote. (via @19thnews.org)

submitted 20 days ago • 26 comments

And it’s TRUE…👇

submitted 20 days ago • 57 comments

I have no info on the protests I just posted except that I had notice they are happening. I cannot answer questions about them. I just wanted to pass on what I had because events can be so darn hard to locate.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Ongoing protests around Spokane: MIKEY MONDAYS Rep. Mike Baumgartners office, 528 E Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane 4:30-5:30

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

oh, FUCK THIS! we're truely losing it here in this country... all the Jan 6ers get pardoned but no 1st ammendment for him.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

In: "Mein Kampf" Out: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Yes. Really. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 356 comments

"It was eight last week, 50 now," said Hayden Nguyen, the co-chair of SJP at ASU and a sophomore studying business policy and management. "We don't know where it's going to be next week, and we need to build a really strong movement." www.statepress.com/article/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 104 comments

Not one reporter asked about the Executive Orders targeting Chris Krebs & Miles Taylor during today’s Cabinet press conference. Not one. A president using DOJ to punish those who spoke out? That’s banana republic territory. I waited. The question never came. Why? Has the fear already taken hold?

submitted 22 days ago • 1223 comments

Federal officials said they were doing wellness checks on children who arrived unaccompanied at the border. School administrators turned them away. (via @laist.com)

submitted 22 days ago • 302 comments

BREAKING: The House passed the SAVE Act, which requires Americans to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Over half of all Americans do not have a passport. Millions more do not have access to their birth certificate. 21 MILLION citizens will be impacted.

submitted 22 days ago • 115 comments

This is disgraceful.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The House passed legislation to prohibit federal district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, marking a significant step in an escalating Republican campaign targeting judges who have blocked some of Trump’s executive orders.

submitted 23 days ago • 150 comments

"It is important to understand that there is no—none, zero—practical reason to imprison an American citizen abroad....The only reason America would need to use foreign prisons would be to get around the American legal system." And Trump has expressed interest in doing just that.

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

Protecting our public lands also protects our wildlife. This #WildlifeWeek and beyond, let’s be intentional about conserving our wildlife and the habitats they depend on for future generations.