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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

submitted 2 days ago • 1733 comments

In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

The Court’s guiding principle now seems to be that when the Trump administration’s conduct is so glaringly & indisputably unconstitutional that even this shameless majority can’t bless it, they will at least find procedural excuses to enable the illegal policy for as long as possible.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Don’t need satellites when we got sharpies!

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

New York City's homicide rate is lower than the nation's as a whole. In Trump-friendly Alabama, the homicide rate is triple the rate in NYC. But Stephen Miller spreads fear of big cities and immigrants because he's a disgusting racist.

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi. On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

I know media literacy won’t save us, but also, everyone needs media literacy

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Our nation and planet cannot survive four years of this. It is not sustainable.

submitted 7 days ago • 537 comments

So, if any Member of Congress is feeling frustrated that they have no voice, they can always move to Iran, where the Parliament votes on acts of war. www.newsweek.com/iran-parliam...

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Also, surely this should be the core media narrative about this war - they’re not doing it for any reason they can articulate! There’s no intelligence supporting their claims, Trump himself seemed to think it was a bad idea a week ago, but no one’s in charge and Trump is an easily-pressured fool

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

A single person — Donald Trump — has released the dogs of war and done it without the consent of Congress, our allies, or even a clear explanation to the American people. Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace our democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused.

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

No strategy, no intelligence, no quality advisors, no national security process. No problem. If you're Donald Trump. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-e...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Anyone who’s upset that Trump put this 22-year-old kid in charge of terrorism prevention — despite the fact that he previously worked as a gardener and grocery store clerk, and has ZERO experience in counter-terrorism — is clearly just jealous they can’t do that eyebrow thing. 🤨

submitted 7 days ago • 105 comments

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 7 days ago • 1800 comments

Trump will soon speak to the nation about the unprovoked war crime of unilateral war that he just illegally ordered. Every word out of his mouth will be a lie. He will lie about history, about intel, about Israel, and about his own interests. He will lie to ALL our faces. 🤬

submitted 7 days ago • 358 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 7 days ago • 2087 comments

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

submitted 7 days ago • 211 comments

Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

submitted 7 days ago • 232 comments

Hey look! MORE grift. #USsteel

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Are we so weak and cowardly that we can't allow people to enter the U.S. who might not share the same views as us? Talk about safe spaces...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Something to watch: before Stephen Miller's orders to start arresting people before their hearings at immigration courts: 98.5% of people attended their hearings. They are trying to undermine the courts.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings?u...

submitted 11 days ago • 75 comments

i’ve never resonated with a video as much as this one

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

submitted 11 days ago • 2425 comments

New in PN: What happened to "states' rights"? "Republicans are realizing the dystopian fantasy they daydreamed about not long ago. They act as if government exists only to advance their own interests, and they dismiss any law or court ruling that hinders their far-right agenda."

submitted 12 days ago • 115 comments

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

submitted 12 days ago • 150 comments

There’s really no imaginable reason for this other than spite

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

I guess I must have dreamt it because I could have sworn the U.S. and Iran spent like two years negotiating a nuclear agreement

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Brawndo: It’s What Plants Crave

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

We were promised peace through strength and we got wars from incompetence.

submitted 12 days ago • 422 comments

It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

submitted 12 days ago • 264 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 12 days ago • 141 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 • 2697 comments

Facts matter.

submitted 13 days ago • 673 comments

I understand why Democrats are being restrained about this but the right's effort to lie about what happened here is incredibly disrespectful to the victims and requires vociferous pushback. The shooter appears to have been an anti-abortion zealot and a Trump voter. Don't let them avoid this.

submitted 14 days ago • 146 comments

Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

submitted 15 days ago • 889 comments

🥹 Millions of Americans are coming together on this #NoKings Day to reject authoritarian overreach, defend democracy, and stand up for their communities.

submitted 15 days ago • 207 comments

I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments