the democratic base
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Lol right
We should have punished the bush admin but it's not like evil people who don't care about laws just forget these methods exist
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.

This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It is humiliating to see people sell out and sell our country out to appease the President — we’re supposed to represent something better.
December 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
bsky must love this guy! what a bold and strong position

...hold on, getting a report that posters actually hate this guy
GOV. @gavinnewsom tells @jdcocchiarella he’s saying no to AIPAC money: “I don’t take tobacco money, oil money, and I’ve never taken AIPAC money. There are certain absolutes that are the lines that have been drawn for decades for me.”
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
i thought you had charmed the president and he'd hold off on terrorizing NYC, what was the point of all that then
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The "hard mode" qualifier here means you are all absolute basic dorks
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Thank you, Sean Duffy! You continue to deliver for the people!
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Immigration demand is basically based on the economy. The Democratic position is that we need clear and reasonable immigration laws that provide pathways to citizenship. In the absence of that there is going to be "chaos at the border" when the US economy is good.
Anger over illegal migration helped return Donald Trump to the presidency. A New York Times review of former President Joe Biden’s actions on immigration found that Biden and his advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations to stem that migration. Here are key takeaways.
4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Record
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Getting polarized into being a Gavin Newsom stan because no one else actually listens to the full clip / context of what he says or does because they made up their minds that they hated him alread. Kinda like buttigieg
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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It’s important to remember there are two scandals here:

1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.

2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?

TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized

BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?

COTTON: No, I didn't
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Posters need something to do that feels like they're helping and this probably isn't harmful, but there is no way any kind of reform is going to be neat and predictable. We have about even odds that the country will even have its current boundaries in 2029
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end moo, the other milk
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.

"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.

www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I was told that the mayor-elect smiling with the president and praising him on affordability would prevent this from happening in NYC
NYC: “I’m born here! Kings County Hospital! Suck my d*ck!”

Trump’s ICE goons grabbing brown and black people. Bounty hunters. Racial profiling is all they do.
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
How's this one holding up
When you have a strong argument, you don't need to start it with a paragraph full of so many caveats.
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New New England must secede
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Primary everyone is a more or less ok idea, in theory it may make stronger candidates but it doesn't just happen through posting the words. We exist in a realm of people doing things and this stuff takes resources. If someone is actually not that unpopular outside of this website, well.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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To applause and tears, Joe Biden today urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Trump’s efforts to demonize this community.

“This is no time to give up. Get up!"

"There’s nothing more American than the notion of equality. Nothing, nothing, nothing." www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...
Joe Biden Lashes Trump For ‘Trying To Distort’ Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality
“Get up and fight back!” the former president said to applause and tears as he accepted an award honoring his record of advancing LGBTQ+ rights.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Today, @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom held productive meetings to secure funding for LA's recovery.

Trump turned his back on survivors by refusing to even meet with us.

His promise to ‘take care’ of survivors was clearly a lie.
December 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Rest in piss Frank Gehry
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hey if any national FAs or star players wanted to boycott the world cup in solildarity with players and fans from Iran or Haiti who technically aren't allowed to even enter the USA, today would be a good day to announce that
December 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
No one posting this kind of thing listens to what he actually said here lol

Anyway bsky essentially knows no ball so we will see. I think since he's term limited and this is a ballot question it's essentially free for him to say he doesn't support the ballot q to position himself for pres
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
if he is talking about kei trucks then a big problem is that they can't be registered in many places, which is going to be a state-by-state issue. also like 5 weirdos will actually buy them, but
Chairman Mao announces his new state-run transportation plan
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM