watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

I never want to read the hackneyed phrase authoritarian playbook ever again please for the love of god come up with something better

a pol with some actual jokes huh

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

"I thought ICE was only going after Mexicans" When have you ever known any type of militia that is targeting a non-white group to not also attack Black people!? They treat us like they get extra credit for beating our ass all the time. HOW ARE YOU SHOCKED!?

enshallah

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock." "But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." "We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think." #Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

My hot take is that if does not actually matter to Palestine, or to any Indigenous population, what DNA tests show. I'm obviously not an Indigenous person but if my DNA showed I was 96% donkey and 4% tardigrade, it still wouldn't be okay to kill me and take my house.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

"Energy dominance," you say? As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*. The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

If you automatically assume that anything any media outlet reports is a lie if a cop is the source you’re likely to be far better informed than someone who automatically assumes it’s all true.

We are at a very real juncture where the onion is the fundamentally free news source left & that’s what you call suboptimal

A naked descent into authoritarianism is weirdly boring because what’s being debated is fundamentally uninteresting. Is the antifa legion burning down Portlan real or not? Well, let’s have someone look out the window over there. No? Okay. Facts are settled. It either matters or it doesn’t.

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

this is sick. hell yeah

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

These nasty little ICE skirmishes are all leading up to some big and likely deadly confrontation, aren’t they? I have such a feeling of dread.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Red card know your rights cards can be printed from here, ordered from here (for free) or you can pay to have a union shop print them to you: www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta... FOURTY-NINE languages available. (I know someone last night was asking about additional languages)

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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

The reason every elite institution in the country is propping up pampered millionaire Ezra Klein is that his overarching response to the country’s plunge into tyranny is “Don’t fight the fascists, become a little more like them.”

ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.

absolutely no one on this site predicted this would happen

The average liberal pundit acts like you're Hitler incarnate for agreeing with Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN, B'Tselem,, Yesh Din, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The average liberal voter is confused as to why we fund apartheid and genocide.

www.wbez.org/immigration/... [people are in motion everywhere]

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

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

I think this is the best piece I've read so far about the large number of elites who basically can't deal with the situation we are in. it doesn't compute and they keep hunting for an exit that doesn't exist

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

OPINION: America has never been richer. But the gains are so lopsided that the top 10% controls 69% of all wealth in the country, while the bottom half controls just 3%, writes Nathan Meyers.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

does anyone have an exact date for when Nate Silver went horribly horribly wrong

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap