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Call your reps. I know you’re going to say “but mine don’t care” and let me tell you yes, they will actually care, because you don’t just call. After you call, you tell three friends who aren’t online, and ask them to call. Posting is useless. Pick up the phone and tell them not to sell your land.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry, but if the French now also start intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, then what the fuck is our excuse again for not doing the same to Russian missiles coming down on Ukraine every fucking night?

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there. Forget background check or reference calls, they aren’t even doing a simple Google search it seems. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

assuming we have 2028 elections, only voting for someone who promises to arrest everyone involved in DOGE

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Painting Zohran Mamdani as antisemitic is straight-up racism and islamophobia.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 6 hours ago • 52 comments

But if militarized police are under no one's control but their own, they're not exactly agents of the state. Severing the authority relation with democracy transforms them into what you call a "state within a state"—state-like orgs in a territory that aren't controlled by the legitimate authorities

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

It's really wild to see some people get negatively polarized into becoming libs in real time

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

we're def gonna see another paramount Home Depot style incident

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

It’s kinda funny to watch the alt-reactionary outlets not know how to respond to the 1977 Star Wars screening.

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

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Trump announces a mass deportation mission in a long post on Truth Social, and of course, just randomly throws trans people in there because why not?

submitted 6 hours ago • 104 comments

I love the defiance by the younger gen!!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I do think the great firewall is such a shame because the shenanigans that we would cook up together would be beyond all belief

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

Gotta love how terrified the New York Dem establishment is right now that they are willing to excuse sexual harassment

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

The fact that civilian leadership understands it can’t rein in the police without having their families physically threatened really is a democratic crisis.

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

submitted 14 hours ago • 19 comments

I think it's really bad that Republicans will not condemn murder.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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The reason the right argues for "the marketplace of ideas" is not dedication to intellectual discourse, but because their ideology depends on the ability to freely bully other people into staying "in their place" and, if they can't do that, it turns out their whole desired culture is unsustainable.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

It is basically impossible to overstate how parochial the American political press is.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Losing air superiority over your capital is a death sentence for a regime as highly centralized as Iran's.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

A lot of people questioned whether or not the Resistance TM still had the juice but this is the third-largest protest day behind BLM and then the Women’s March.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

submitted 16 hours ago • 33 comments

"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters. The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

There's an alternate timeline where he tripped on that escalator and none of this shit ever happened.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

It's always interesting to compare the numbers to the Tea Party protests and the respective coverage of them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 46 comments

Vance Boelter was an anti-transgender Christian Nationalist who delivered anti-queer sermons in the DRC, in case anyone was confused as to his political slant.

submitted 18 hours ago • 95 comments

The issue w/ current discourse of resistance is the focus on who the “real criminals” are instead of the process of criminalization by which certain people, groups & actions will always be framed as threats/violent while enabling others to engage in extreme forms of violence w/ absolute impunity.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

I often have to remind myself that the median voter basically has no clue what’s going on but come on.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

These people are the enemy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 653 comments

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

submitted 17 hours ago • 285 comments

So this is how they got the shooter apparently

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Fight the Empire.

submitted 6 days ago • 248 comments

"Well if we mention that he's a neo-Nazi we might have to talk about why so many Republican apparatchiks were into him and his beliefs and also we can't pretend he was just a Complicated Traumatized Libertarian War Hero Smol Bean"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There’s a great Mitchell and Webb skit that alludes to this but it’s funny how emergency medicine completely breaks crank epistemology, when you have an open fracture you let your medicine be morphine and doxycycline, not colloidal silver or whatever.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

this man is realizing what the reaction is going to be when he dies

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

"I say, they should go down with the ship!"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is useful to be precise in our language about the Democratic party. There is an institutional Democratic party establishment that is lost and failing us right now. But when we use "Democrats" as a catch-all, there are whole swaths of activated everyday folks we alienate.

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 18 hours ago • 142 comments

My dad told me he loved me every day. He, my mom, and grandparents did a pretty equal share of the work in raising me, and both my parents both worked. I just thought that was normal until around college.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

They decided to fuck with the city full of all the prop and set design people.

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