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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

"We need a big tent to beat fascism!"

OK, who do you want to let into the tent?

"Fascists"

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Ok, yeah. Please do not attempt to coordinate with overhead drones on DC if you are looking to avoid drawing attention to yourself www.faa.gov/uas/resource...

Also, not for nothing, but I am pretty sure it is illegal to fly drones on the National Mall. DC has a lot of airspace regulations specifically for drones. I mean, most major cities do, but the US Capitol in particular.

YouTube video by Nanci Griffith - Topic Boots of Spanish Leather

youtu.be/Luo24b9D4vc?...

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

"For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News, "...but then I remembered that the Trump administration is cracking down on Antifa..."

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Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Not sure how anyone was supposed to know that the exact thing that they were repeatedly warned would happen was gonna happen

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

If you’re someone who can boycott Amazon, there’s no better time than during their Prime Day event.

Vote with your dollar and stand against billionaire oligarchs who bend a knee at every opportunity.

Shop local. Shop independent. Shop less.

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Ok, I want everything in this shop, and will definitely be placing an order on pay day ♥️

But also we’re terrified of the subway

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.