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Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 34 days ago • 1582 comments

Quick story on this, no DOJ comment yet but it has appeared to have shut down the Consumer Protection Branch, which prosecutes cases involving tobacco marketing, fraud against seniors and servicemembers, and entities involved in the opioid crisis. prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 53 days ago • 99 comments

Maine voters are deeply concerned about Susan Collins: Only 21 percent of Mainers believe she deserves to be re-elected while 71 percent belives she does not deserve to be re-elected. #MESen scholars.unh.edu/survey_cente...

submitted 54 days ago • 168 comments

. NOAA scientists warn the agency is being pushed onto a ‘non-science trajectory’ with massive layoffs and defunding. Climate change? Never heard of her. Congrats this administration doesn’t even believe in science Just guns and grifting. .

submitted 54 days ago • 71 comments

god this shit is blood boiling

submitted 54 days ago • 801 comments

The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.

submitted 61 days ago • 2043 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 60 days ago • 8398 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 61 days ago • 94 comments

The time wasted on social media yelling at Democrats for not stopping Republicans would be better used to yell at Republicans and shame them for being cowards.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

So all the people who yelled at Democrats to go down to El Salvador and DO SOMETHING about Garcia are sobering up after Van Hollen’s trip right?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 62 days ago • 1480 comments

This is wild www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 62 days ago • 142 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 63 days ago • 988 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

submitted 62 days ago • 4221 comments

Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.

submitted 62 days ago • 429 comments

Trump: “inflation is down!” Coffee: [jumps 59%] ☕️ @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

"Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina...If they do, it could usher in a new era of election subversion in future contests across the country." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

submitted 62 days ago • 11 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 63 days ago • 165 comments

NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively."

submitted 62 days ago • 771 comments

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 62 days ago • 349 comments

🤣🤣

submitted 65 days ago • 457 comments

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fears Russia’s war could escalate into a world war. “There won’t be a safe place — there won't be a safe place for [anyone],” Zelenskyy says. https://cbsn.ws/4ibE9R9

submitted 64 days ago • 18 comments

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

submitted 65 days ago • 573 comments

Raskin: If they can just sweep someone off the street, put them on an airplane, and send them to a torturer’s prison in an authoritarian state like El Salvador without due process… then they could do it to anybody.

submitted 66 days ago • 721 comments

“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

submitted 68 days ago • 1095 comments

In a firmly paywalled subscribers-only article, CNN reports Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, voted in Hawaii last year after signing a sworn declaration of Texas residency and claiming a homestead exemption in that state. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/p...

submitted 68 days ago • 270 comments

JUST IN: After criticism, the National Park Service has restored an old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman.

submitted 70 days ago • 153 comments

NEWS: Tesla protests grow across the world on the Global Day of Action, the Wisconsin Appellate court allows Elon Musk's pay for vote scheme to move forward, and RFK Jr. fires HIV epidemic prevention staff. aaronparnas.substack.com/p/tesla-prot...

submitted 79 days ago • 30 comments

“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 82 days ago • 797 comments