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Pam Bondi fires two more Jan. 6 prosecutors. This administration is destroying the professional, apolitical federal workforce over Trump‘s hunger for revenge and disinformation about an imaginary deep state. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 17 hours ago • 95 comments

Just feels real bad to be told your existence is too controversial to allow children to know about it

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

submitted 18 hours ago • 112 comments

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

submitted 23 hours ago • 441 comments

In a class I taught last year (not a Latin class) I had the kids read Eco's "Ur-Fascism" on a whim. There's a question on the final exam where all you really have to know is that fascists are not socialists, so every time someone misses it I privately call it "the 'believed the Nazis' penalty".

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Consider donating to Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity. They’ve filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court to try and stop “Alligator Alcatraz” before it opens.

submitted 16 hours ago • 151 comments

If you ever see John Roberts in person and don’t tell him to go fuck himself, you’ll regret it forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u... I was a proud US Navy veteran. Now I'm just a US Navy veteran. I don't recall this level of senior brass ass-kissing when I served.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

No, seriously, fuck you. The legal community has its share of assholes - show me a community that doesn't. But there are countless lawyers who are down in the goddamn trenches every single day, working their asses off way too hard, for way too little pay, to protect real people from real harm.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The heterodox academy must be appalled at this naked political disregard for academic freedom

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

Hey John Roberts, you see what you signed off on here?

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

BREAKING President Trump says he is ending all trade discussions with Canada. (And the tariff will not be paid by Canada, it will be paid for by American companies and consumers)

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

100% what Roth says here www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

🔥🙃

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I was wondering how long it was gonna take them to do this. And I think this is actually a very really danger.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Does anyone still need to be convinced that we need a strong, academic-led, equitable Diamond OA scholarly communication system that is immune to commercial capture and political pressure? www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t...

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This is a shockingly racist call by a House Republican for Zohran Mamdani to be denaturalized and deported. But instead of being viewed as unserious, it's now being promoted and circulated by LibsOfTikTok, Benny Johnson and MAGA regulars. Democrats need to understand that Republicans are serious.

submitted 1 day ago • 207 comments

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Three years ago, a corrupt Supreme Court seized our rights and overturned Roe v. Wade. The resulted is just what we predicted. Women dying because they can't get basic healthcare. Doctors afraid to treat patients. We will not stop fighting until abortion rights are restored.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Let’s have a lawsuit @historians.org @oah.org

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Hey remember when the one of the most prominent Democrats in Minnesota and her husband were assassinated

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The US Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act both make it clear that the president can only send the military into hostilities if Congress declares war or authorizes force, or in an emergency after an attack on the US. The bombing of Iran does not meet any of those conditions, and it is illegal.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

This is because the parade flopped, isn't it?

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

submitted 7 days ago • 191 comments

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna calls for all members of Congress to immediately return to DC and vote on his bill to strip Trump of the ability to drag America into war with Iran.

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

This was a real post from 47 on Juneteenth.

submitted 7 days ago • 230 comments

One of the many awful effects of this is that this doesn't just affect this year's yield for a lot of crops- it makes it so much harder for future years. We could be in for a lot of famine, compounded by climate collapse, and enabled by greed and racism.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 10 days ago • 541 comments

I’m watching the Panama v Guadeloupe Gold Cup game on TV as we speak. It is being played in Los Angeles. And the stadium is almost completely empty. A sport that in the U.S. is highly dependent on Latino audiences is no longer viable. The World Cup cannot come here.

submitted 11 days ago • 157 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 11 days ago • 746 comments

This is continued journalistic malpractice from the @startribune.com normalizing a violent white male suspect. He owned a private security company called Praetorian Guard, traveled overseas to preach against abortion and LGBTQ+ people, and attended a bible college that preaches "violent prayer."

submitted 12 days ago • 168 comments