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The Trump shutdown has already led to field trip cancellations at my kid's school. Now you KNOW I am pissed. #healthcareforall #endthetrumpshutdown
24.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!
21.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 21860 🔁 3319 💬 903 📌 299
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
07.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 56446 🔁 21215 💬 1746 📌 1253Serious question: do we watch the shit out of Colbert until next May and send his ratings *even higher* to underscore what a sham this is, or does that only wind up helping the corporate mofos who bowed to Voldemort?
19.07.2025 02:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Breaking news (lol): SCOTUS is a disgrace. Grateful to SS, KBJ and EK for their critical voices.
16.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”
Lander is a good egg
25.06.2025 02:51 — 👍 1957 🔁 277 💬 35 📌 20Yes, “disaster” is the correct word – this is a public health catastrophe. The pressure for him to resign should begin tonight, and continue until it happens. Nothing else should be in front of this. Go to a 19th century cemetery anywhere in this country to know why.
09.06.2025 22:37 — 👍 1828 🔁 648 💬 15 📌 6
Me. Me. Me. ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o... At least there's this. Thanks Tom Friedman.
19.05.2025 23:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history." #THISISMAGA
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Good illustration of GOP. They thought they had an agreement to take health care coverage from 10 million Americans. But hardliners killed the budget bill for now because they say that’s not nearly enough people www.axios.com/newsletters/...
16.05.2025 20:29 — 👍 1266 🔁 355 💬 36 📌 9To be fair I’d say maybe third grade-level.
13.05.2025 22:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
19.04.2025 00:05 — 👍 16667 🔁 3570 💬 320 📌 111Yes, which is why this isn’t deportation. It’s sending people to a concentration camp.
19.04.2025 02:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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!!!
18.04.2025 23:08 — 👍 86788 🔁 20300 💬 1702 📌 728spectacular! thank you for sharing.
17.04.2025 01:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
16.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 39690 🔁 7917 💬 801 📌 377Please repeat over and over:
“Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.”
—Gov. JB Pritzker
“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.
15.04.2025 09:47 — 👍 21439 🔁 6463 💬 779 📌 212
no criminal record
no gang ties
no tattoos
active pending asylum case
**19 years old**
sent by trump to prison (forever?) in el salvador
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)
15.04.2025 17:49 — 👍 6162 🔁 912 💬 157 📌 140
bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record
14.04.2025 19:12 — 👍 10105 🔁 3992 💬 228 📌 2268/ This is a watershed moment, as Trump thumbs his nose at a Supreme Court ruling, gaslighting the public by pretending his won 9-0 when he lost 9-0.
If we normalize this, there's no end. He can lock up or remove anyone. We will no longer exist in a democracy.
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
15.04.2025 01:13 — 👍 31357 🔁 11628 💬 700 📌 872
And another bright spot - after a House committee targeted one of Northwestern’s legal clinics, two professors sued to challenge the committee’s demands for information; on Thursday the committee folded & withdrew its demands
www.wbez.org/education/20...
Song for the moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmN2...
15.04.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Forget about the legal case.
A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.
Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
Passover’s evocation of Fannie Lou Hamer’s sentiment that nobody’s free until everybody’s free hits different this year. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...
14.04.2025 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
