The murder of Alex Pretti has dominated the media but no one is talking about the real root cause of the shooting. It wasn't his decision to bring a gun to a protest. That's legal. It was the officer's decision to escalate to the use of force and physically assault protesters.

Shortly after Trump's surrogates took over tick tock, the app now censors any private messages with the word "Epstein" in them. I shit you not.

That ICE agent had no right to get violent in the first place. His behavior is exactly the reason for the second amendment. Every protester should be armed. You will find ICE learning how to de-escalate real quick.

There's a very decent chance Democrats win both house and Senate this year. If they do, the first priority is to end the filibuster and shut Trump's administration down.

Are they really this stupid or are they just fuckin with us?

Tough pill to swallow. They never had any real principles... They merely held democratic principles hostage till they obtained the power and position to be able to meaningfully disregard them.

It's just facts.

The affordability crisis is caused by excessively available financing. Financing allows the demand for something to rise independently from wages. The purchases which are the most dominated by financing, have seen the greatest rises in price vs median income.

Something about history repeating itself.

Let me get this straight... You don't trust the government with your tax money... You don't trust them to administer welfare or healthcare... But you trust them with the power to execute their own citizens?

Maybe try eating a damn vegetable?

Conservatism = Ignorance + Audacity

You want to require ID to vote? Fine, but then the accepted forms of ID must be free to obtain or it's a poll tax and you're violating the 24th amendment.

A true American patriot who reveres the foundational principles of liberty enshrined in the constitution should become nauseated by the mere appearance of an executive branch that moves to punish dissent, disrespect, or disloyalty to itself.

Did anyone ever consider that perhaps congress should hold the authority to institute tariffs and not the president? This could be a winning issue in future congressional elections. Most corporate oligarchs would support that agenda like their lives depended on it.

"Due process" means that the government must take fair and objective efforts to find if someone is guilty, and give them a chance to defend themselves before you punish them on mere suspicion. If you don't understand why that's vitally important... Let's begin by teaching you how to tie your shoes.

If this doesn't scare the absolute shit out of you, you haven't thought it through... A totalitarian regime that can monitor every single person for ideological views using AI... Imagine if Hitler had that capability. fortune.com/2025/04/09/m...

Only having empathy for people who are the same nationality as you is the definition of inhumane, actually.

It's really something.

Here's a list of the ACTUAL tariff rates other countriea have charged the US vs what Trump claimed.

The only reason markets aren't down more than 15% right now is that some investors are still clinging to hope that Trump will reverse course on these tariffs before they are implemented. If he doesn't, the market has a long way to drop ahead.

Senator Cory Booker is filibustering the Senate. Looks like he will attempt to break the record. Support this. If you are able, open this live coverage up on as many screens as you can and leave it up. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Oh for fuck's sake.

If there's one thing signal gate has revealed, it's that Republicans are hilariously incapable of holding themselves accountable for their own mistakes. These ham-fisted, self-righteous toddlers can argue with a steel ball, But they can't be our leaders anymore.

Jasmine Crockett just figured out how to troll the right Trump-style. She's plastered allllll over Twitter and the media right now. She's never been more relevant in her life because she called Abbott hot wheels... Why didn't I think of it? Middle School insults to defeat middle school minds.

You need to understand that most social media is owned by the largest and wealthiest corporations on earth and they manipulate the algorithms to boost content favorable to them. What to do about it? Avoid X like the plague and flood this platform with content. www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/2...

This picture looks like what system of a down sounds like.

Pete Hegseth is such a woefully incompetent jackass and threat to national security that every senator who voted for his confirmation ought to be impeached. www.newsweek.com/trump-secret...

Happening now in protest of Erdogan's arrest of the major of Istanbul. "If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light." -Rumi For those who don't know, this fella is dressed as a Sufi whirling dervish, an order of mystics founded by Rumi about 600 years ago.

Both sides of the aisle believe in disregard for the law when the law is unjust, but the far right thinks that basically any social cooperation is coercive, they will ultimately reject any social contract as injustice.

A good ideological theme for liberalism might be: "Always punch up, never punch down."

At least 75% of violent crime And 93% of sexual abusers are male. Males should basically start off in prison and work their way out.

When I see a comment like this, it's like there is a Tesla crashing straight into a brick wall at full speed inside my head. It makes me really start rooting for a meteor to do it's thing.

There is only one reason Trump would steamroll this hard for such an unpopular agenda. ...He doesn't plan on future elections even taking place.

Please someone put some money into researching oppositional defiance disorder. ...Also for my 4 year old, LOL

I'm a militant, anti-corporate guy and borderline communist but also a huge Disney adult, and I don't give a rat's ass about the contradiction because without the joy and nostalgia I'd probably be dead anyway. ✌️

The ideal leader isn't something that exists in a vacuum. You can't look at the candidates alone to pick the best. The unmet needs of the society and the leaders familiarity with them are just as important. On that basis, the best possible leader right now can't be anyone other than a woman.

Look... By trade, I'm an engineer. I've always followed and acknowledged the accomplishments of Musk's businesses. But it's hard to overstate the monumental stupidity of politically alienating the only people who are capable of recognizing the value of EVs in the first place. Time for a new CEO.

Canada becoming the 51st state is an idea I could actually get behind... Because if that happened the GOP would never win another election. Unfortunately, I think the only way Canada becomes the 51st state is if elections are rendered irrelevant in the first place.

Why are egg prices more stable in Canada than the US? No, not because of illegal immigrants or social security. Because Canada regulations limit the size of farms so that the average farm has about 20,000 chickens. In America it's over 2,000,000. Corporations are the problem.

A defied court order is the only thing left standing in the way of a president becoming a dictator. There is no way to meaningfully punish or deal with that defiance. We see now that the entire structure of our democracy was based on a "gentleman's agreement." ...And the gentlemen are now extinct.

The would shut a lot of ̶P̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ incels up.

Be angry. Be dismayed. Be terrified. But don't you dare ever lose sight of what we fight for. The harder they hit us, the louder we become, Like the skin on the drum.

Most of our problems as a country can be traced back in one way or another to a lack of women leadership or a lack of respect for women.

These 3 men were disappeared into a maximun security prison in El Salvador where the guards wear masks and no visitors or recreation is allowed. (Against court orders.) No criminal records. No known ties to gangs. No due process. The administration confirmed this. SOS We are losing the Republic.

It's hard to imagine a more perfect indicator of a low IQ than the statement: "But these are people who don't deserve due process."

The GOP all looked up and shouted in unison... "We don't give a damn about due process, we trust the state!"