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Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

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Taking bets on what the Elon executive order will be about: contracts? Citizenship? Just a bitching proclamation?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This checks.

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How close to 1 are the odds of 47 being kicked out of X? #polisci

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Stephen Miller said recently that American scientific achievement in the mid-20th century owed little to immigrants, given immigration quotas at the time. Someone should tell him that from 1945- 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel in physics were immigrants www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

submitted 7 days ago • 133 comments

Wtf?

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Caring for immigrants ' health is good for citizens, too. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

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This is well-meaning but what it proposes may well be counterproductive. Correctionof false narratives may actually strengthen said narratives.

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The GOP’s reconciliation bill plans to offset tax cuts for the wealthy with massive cuts to health-care programs that could result in 13M more uninsured individuals. @socio-steve.bsky.social outlines how these "savings" are merely another poor policy decision. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...

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President Trump wants to replace the income tax with tariffs. That’s not just bad economics—it’s a plan to defund the government and shift the burden to working families. In our essay collection, @dashching.bsky.social‬ tackles why this matters. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...

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A '22 report found that ~107M US adults carry some form of medical debt, and ~62M have medical debt that is past due. The medical debt crisis isn’t just bad luck or bad decisions—it’s the result of decades of policy decisions. We can choose to do better. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Our new article is out in Frontiers in Sociology! Are Immigrants Allowed to Criticize the Government? Ingroup Identity, Economic Threat, and Majority Group Support for Immigrant Civil Liberties in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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👇👇👇👇

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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

submitted 44 days ago • 70 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 64 days ago • 605 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 76 days ago • 329 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 80 days ago • 1653 comments

NEW: NJ federal judge Michael Farbiarz, a Biden appointee, is assigned to the Mahmoud Khalil case and immediately orders that Khalil "shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 81 days ago • 26 comments

Wait till I tell it about all the amazing things the DOGE of Venivpce has been doing and their long-term Implications for social equslity,prosperity, cohesion, peace, and environmental protection.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 83 days ago • 604 comments

Kind of quaint to remember that Trump’s big beef in 2016 was cyber security protocols.

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

“Citing the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and Rolling Stone, the Democrats said: ‘Reports indicate that some personnel of SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company, have already begun working at the FAA…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 83 days ago • 23 comments

There is a special discount for my book, Race, Rights, and Rifles (Univ of Chicago Press). It discusses the origins of American gun culture in the ideologies of the early Republic. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Canada put down an accent rug for lil Marco. 😭

submitted 85 days ago • 613 comments

A man at Republican House Rep. Chuck Edwards's town hall in Asheville, North Carolina is fired up about Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine. He's letting it rip on Chuck. Someone buy this guy a beer for me! We need more men like him standing up and asking these questions!

submitted 87 days ago • 61 comments

Thank you for stepping up, @governorwalz.mn.gov

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

🚨🚨🚨 ⬇️

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

A century ago, there was none of this woke food safety. Listeria and Cronobacter contamination was just a fact of life! Sure, way more people died horribly, but

submitted 91 days ago • 35 comments

We’re in an Austin Powers film

submitted 92 days ago • 7 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 92 days ago • 1276 comments

It continues to bother me that it’s possible for me to read newspapers from 100+ years ago and not data journalism from the 10 years ago (when I wrote about this back then, the main cause was technical breakage and not corporate malevolence)

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Fire!

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We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

submitted 93 days ago • 241 comments