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“I hate how Zionists have re-defined ‘antisemitism’ to mean any criticism of Israel,” say the people who have re-defined “criticism” to mean “unvarnished, murderous hatred.”

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so much of the french revolution is just various people going "surely committing THIS act of violence/murder will end all the suffering and bloodshed and usher in peace!" followed by a summary of how everything immediately escalated and got even worse afterward. and somehow this website's takeaway is "clearly acts of violence and murder are the only way to end suffering and usher in peace!"

I don't know guys I think we might actually have to actually put in effort and not conflate working toward a better society with seeking personal catharsis.

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« Many observers have noted Trump’s seeming fondness for a regal conception of the presidency, or at least his gilded presidency. Just last weekend, this drove millions of American citizens into the streets in what were called “No Kings” rallies.

Nothing says imperial more than a president following his own gut or whim in deciding on war. The American presidency was never designed this way. The Constitution clearly limits its powers in this area and requires the country’s elected executive to obtain congressional authorization before launching into conflict overseas. Trump would merely be the latest in a string of American presidents who have ignored this requirement, if he goes to war with Iran. However one feels about Israel, Iran, and the Middle East, giving him a pass on this will powerfully ratify Trump’s sense of the regal dimensions of his authority, and will further weaken democracy in the United States and the ideals that inspired its creation. »

— Howard W. French in a column at Foreign Policy. (archived)

It's bad enough that Trump wants to start another Republican forever war. But doing so will just get him juiced up about assaulting democracy at home.

He likes having people think he's very powerful. But he's basically just a ho for foreign authoritarians.

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Decided this deserved it’s own post because it bothers me that there’s so little in the media about these successfully racially mixed spaces in the 19th century.  I feel like this needs to be common knowledge.  This article is about Longtown, Ohio, a racially mixed town, with white, black, and Native Americans who lived a good life, intermixing from the mid 1850′s without racial violence or issues, until WW2. I think the closest I have seen to any coverage of something similar, was the movie The Free State of Jones… which is AWFUL and has that heavy-handed patronizing preciousness around race, that I hate. Not to mention it’s boring af and hella white saviory.  I honestly don’t think a white male filmmaker could get this right.  It’s on Netflix, but I don’t recommend it. There are better docs on youtube about him… A white man who deserted the Confederates and formed his own mixed raced territory within Mississippi.  He was an intimidating figure who basically kept the peace until his death. I feel like a lot of the lazy hand-wavey bullshit modern bigots like to pull comes from this idea that humans just weren’t meant to mix and it’s some kind of inevitability (on ALL SIDES of course, because they always feel weirdly implicated when we talk about the horrifically demonic shit white people did, I think because THEY KNOW they would do it too) that people will always hate each other because they are different. And these hidden histories prove that’s bullshit. I think a lot of these histories… and, there are quite a few, have been in a way ignored and suppressed because it doesn’t fit that narrative of constant oppression of the other (with a token white savior to romanticize our pain and make white people cry). I think seeing successes like this from even those so-called extra-racist days (don’t believe that bullshit either, time passage doesn’t magically lessen racism, no matter what time you exist in, a conscience works, some just ignore it for their own greed… as a lot folks should definitely see these days, given Trumpism). I remember the Smithsonian putting on a festival some years back, which spotlit the mix of cultures and pockets of mixed raced towns that birthed bluegrass in Appalachia.  That had tents for Scotland (with Scots) and Mali (with people from Mali).  And I wish more people knew about The Carolina Chocolate Drops with Rhiannon Giddens who has done SO MUCH to spread that history and culture through her musical artistry. All this to say… I really wish more period stuff dealt with POC successfully and happily existing those times, without the constant spectre of racial violence and abuse, even in the U.S. because that was a reality for some too.

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Ice is cracking down on Trump’s own supporters. Will they change their minds?

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it's insane how often the leftist analysis on here is like the system is on the verge of collapsing and the democratic party is about to fall apart. You guys predict revolutions like state department guys predict iranian nukes

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We need to deliver real progress.

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Dude this one customer was like MY SON HAS TO GET A JOB AND STOP MOOCHING OFF MY MONEY. And I was like “how old is he?” And she was like “17” and I was like. Holy shit you’re a freak! Lmao. Like teens can get jobs sure but he’s still a child you’re responsible for acting like he’s mooching off you when it’s YOUR responsibility to take care of him. What a fucking freak I hate capitalism lmao

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Arresting people when they arrive for their asylum hearing proves Republicans don’t want LEGAL immigration, either…

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This post is my attempt to track what’s going on with US politics. This post is constantly being updated so if you see this on your dash, check my blog (this post will be pinned) to see the latest version. If there’s anything I miss that you think should be included on this list, please let me know.

January-May 2025

June 2025

National News

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) has a bleak message for us all [x]

Trump has asked Congress to cut funding for public broadcasting [x]

Trump wants to deny visas to foreign students coming to study at Harvard [x]

Trump has issued a travel ban for 12 countries [x]

White House revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions [x]

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data [x]

Pete Hegseth orders the removal of the name of the USS Harvey Milk [x]

RFK Jr has gotten rid of the CDC’s panel of vaccine experts [x]

Trump says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season [x]

Trump says he's restoring the original Confederate names of several Army bases [x]

Trump is considering adding 36 more countries to travel ban [x]

Judge deems Trump's cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal [x]

The EPA is telling staff to stop policing oil and gas companies [x]

Trump is granting another extension on the TikTok ban [x]

Appeals court says Trump can keep control of California National Guard troops [x]

State News

Trump is cutting federal funding for California [x]

Trump deployed the National Guard after unrest in Los Angeles [x]

Democratic state politician and husband shot dead in targeted attack in Minnesota [x]

Other News

The legacy of DOGE [x]

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was handcuffed and forcibly removed during a news conference with Kristi Noem [x]

CORRUPDATE: Trump has created a mobile phone company [x]

Alright I know that we’re all tired. We’re 5 months into this now and it can be really tempting to just check out. To be honest, I did that a lot in May. And what I realized from doing that is, yeah, checking out felt nice, but the bad things still kept happening.

Remember, Trump and his cronies want us to stop paying attention. Because if we’re not paying attention, then we’re not fighting back and they can keep getting away with destroying our country and enriching themselves in the process.

You don’t need to spend every waking second of your day thinking about the news. But what I do ask is that, if you see a story from a credible news source about the corruption or more cuts to programs or problems that are starting to reverberate out from previous actions, please share it. Don’t just look at it and move on. Share it.

Fighting back only works if we all do it together. Remember that our communities are our strength.

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what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

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"If you're not american, why do you even care-"

US-based company YouTube just nuked the government funded channel for HIV prevention in Germany. The channel is purely educational and had no prior (or current) violations.

Assuming you guys get elections again; if I see a single person telling non-US-americans to stay out of it, it's on sight.

(german source) As of writing, the channel has been reinstated due to public backlash, but is missing several videos.

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George “Dubya” Bush tried this after 9/11 but it never got off the ground because it was deemed too Orwellian. He called it the Total Information Awareness Project.

Now we have a paranoid orange dictator who plans on being in office for life and wants to punish 60% of the country. What’s scary is that he owns the entire Republican Party which controls both houses of Congress and the SCOTUS. He’s already proved himself to be lawless and unstoppable and he’s going to make this nightmare into a reality. Edolph Musk already downloaded every scrap of information about you onto private servers so this is well underway.

All the paranoid Qanons and right-wing conspiracy theorists will remain silent because the orange tyrant is their guy and their in his cult and paying him to drink his Kool Aid. This will be a dystopian nightmare and there will be no stopping it.

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If your activism calls for ending a people, a nation, or a culture, that's not actually activism.

That's what activists used to fight.