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The Right​’s Baseless​ Project to ​Link Trans People​ With Extremism A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

25.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 1226    🔁 500    💬 24    📌 35
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision

It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

24.09.2025 20:48 — 👍 694    🔁 457    💬 37    📌 59
Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

14.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 25176    🔁 10248    💬 92    📌 1351

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

13.09.2025 02:19 — 👍 24721    🔁 4179    💬 549    📌 247

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

10.09.2025 22:34 — 👍 20696    🔁 3270    💬 272    📌 105
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"The Clarifier," new art at @truthdig.bsky.social:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/the...

07.08.2025 20:19 — 👍 1846    🔁 438    💬 14    📌 6
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Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports “I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour.

www.them.us/story/pete-b...

07.08.2025 12:03 — 👍 3947    🔁 804    💬 209    📌 182
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"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

05.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 2332    🔁 964    💬 319    📌 886
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Guillermo del Toro - Studio Ghibli Masterclass (2013, TIFF festival) ❤️
Now online (80 minutes) >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Uo...

25.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 3485    🔁 824    💬 28    📌 50

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

23.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 7130    🔁 1268    💬 101    📌 51

Lotsa laughs over the years at Cubans driving '57 Chevys.
That's how it'll feel in the U.S. in a short period of time.

23.07.2025 17:48 — 👍 90    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Alright 79% of Americans believe in immigration, it’s time to talk about the good immigration does, it’s time to frame what is happening to asylum seekers and workers and the constant harassment and intimidation as unpopular and unamerican, the country is with you Democrats!

Elected Democrats:

11.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 495    🔁 67    💬 9    📌 7
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TBH this could be a problem for them

10.07.2025 20:42 — 👍 6187    🔁 657    💬 169    📌 117

If the AIPAC donations weren’t enough of a sign, then this should be. Completely disqualifying of any credibility. Hope you and Newsom get crushed in the presidential race

11.07.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey man, pop quiz. What administration was this?

ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/640/c...

07.07.2025 22:52 — 👍 83    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.

07.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 1937    🔁 815    💬 21    📌 13
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It's so funny how these guys say "import the third world, become the third world" and then their own policy preferences end up converging with the taliban

05.07.2025 15:29 — 👍 4990    🔁 820    💬 96    📌 69

Florence, Arizona never lost its prison vibe. To this day it’s a major hub for the carceral industry, with state and federal criminal detention centers and an ICE detention center.

Here’s the Google Maps, which features some questionable reviews.

24.06.2025 18:46 — 👍 193    🔁 63    💬 6    📌 4

Trying to do the whole half-decade Iraq War discourse in 72 hours.

23.06.2025 03:10 — 👍 4406    🔁 671    💬 85    📌 21
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The Splatoon kids still keeping it real

22.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 7710    🔁 1433    💬 24    📌 21

oh my god

18.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 6444    🔁 1072    💬 173    📌 145
Breaking News
now
Israel strikes Iran, braces for potential retaliation
Altitinatin harter

Breaking News now Israel strikes Iran, braces for potential retaliation Altitinatin harter

"Why can't you just be normal?" meme

"Why can't you just be normal?" meme

13.06.2025 00:45 — 👍 489    🔁 58    💬 4    📌 4

honestly the ADL is more or less just an anti-Arab hate group which is entirely neutral on the issue of antisemitism

06.06.2025 21:00 — 👍 1076    🔁 168    💬 14    📌 6
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

06.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 19362    🔁 10332    💬 948    📌 968
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

30.05.2025 16:20 — 👍 39980    🔁 13903    💬 1272    📌 823
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Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

30.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 4186    🔁 1214    💬 80    📌 68

lol fucking democrats in a nutshell right here

29.05.2025 19:03 — 👍 967    🔁 110    💬 50    📌 5

how can anyone claim The Bear is the best depiction of working at a restaurant when the Barratie Arc of One Piece is right there

29.05.2025 12:14 — 👍 1149    🔁 123    💬 43    📌 21

dems lost every swing state and i can't stop blaming the small muslim community in michigan i'm definitely not a bigot

28.05.2025 14:51 — 👍 629    🔁 111    💬 16    📌 3

This is a crime against humanity that I can’t believe anyone who has learned the lessons of the Holocaust would ever commit.

27.05.2025 03:36 — 👍 988    🔁 309    💬 29    📌 9

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