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Saltier than cinema popcorn. Views, boosts, etc. my own, don't blame them on anyone else.
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The President intends to tell the US military to murder US civilians, and is using the FBI to threaten anyone who wants to stop him.
The FBI has requested interviews with Democrats who appeared in a controversial video reminding U.S. service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders, deepening the Trump administration’s campaign to punish some of its fiercest critics.
FBI seeks interviews with Democrats whom Trump called ‘traitors’
The Trump administration has aggressively sought to punish lawmakers who encouraged service members to disobey unlawful orders.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Exactly. For example this gem from 1999 is now returning as Starmer policy.

Imagine Winston Churchill suggesting Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis need to hand over all their jewellery so Winston can give tax cuts to Henry Ford, an American billionaire white supremacist.
Taking asylum seekers jewellery is a hardy Labour trope.

In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.

Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Release the Epstein files. In full.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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We wanted a Labour PM not another Tory one pandering to Reform
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“The targeting of non-citizens is only really a way to normalize the targeting…of everybody.”

-Jason Stanley, Professor, University of Toronto, speaking to @velshi.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Trying to appease people that wouldn’t vote Labour under any circumstances, while throwing away votes from anyone to the left of the Tories. Make it make sense.
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.

That's it.

That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The proposal is “not a deal," says Democratic U.S. House Rep. Ritchie Torres.

"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
buff.ly/9aW3zLz
Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
buff.ly
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Compromising with fascists is compliance.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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There's one central rule in working against autocrats - if they see you as weak, if you attempt to appease, you are creating a permission structure for them to escalate, to take more.

Ds are strong right now, and he is weak. We need to use our strength to get more for the American people, not less
With our big election win last week, and Trump's clear political and physical decline, Dems should be more ambitious now, and fight even harder, for the country and the American people. Voters saw us fighting for them & we were rewarded across the country 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
Trump's Government Has Failed, His Powers Are Ebbing And For The Good Of The Country Democrats Must Become More Ambitious Now
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future.
Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!!
Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you
Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Of note, Durbin's office is going STRAIGHT to voicemail except lmao they don't take messages

Call anyway. Maybe it'll annoy someone; who knows.
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Potato. The best.
i needed cheering up so i drew a potato
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I haven’t said anything about Sudan because I don’t really have anything to say about Sudan, just sadness.

maybe the old world order would have prevented this; maybe not.

the new one certainly won’t.
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is the actual thing that the right-wing have been doing for decades, not just years, ad multiple scholars of fascism have been trying to pount thus out.

The sad thing is, there are huge numbers of people who are manipulated this way because they equate cynicism with intelligence.
“Totalitarianism today begins not with the suppression of speech but with the systematic degradation of meaning…

Its goal isn’t to convince anyone of one story over another; it is to make people stop believing that any story could really be true.”
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This is the same thing I say to anyone on the left willing to leave trans people behind: once you make some people's rights negotiable, every other non-cishet, non-white, non-able bodied demographic is fair game, because YOU SAID HUMANITY HAD A GRAY SCALE.

Liberty means for all.
October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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personally I take great solace from trying to stick to a “if I die it’ll be with my teeth in their throats” kinda approach to life
dooming accomplishes nothing for nobody other than for your enemies
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The people in Arizona’s 7th congressional district have been without representation in Congress for over 7 months.

Mike Johnson continues to deny them representation because their duly elected representative has pledged to sign the petition to release the Epstein files.
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM