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In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

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Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

submitted 37 days ago • 526 comments

Just since I left town on Friday: -Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus -ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext -DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress -Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he gets to keep -Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters

submitted 44 days ago • 25 comments

➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie. ➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact. ➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie. ➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true. 🔄 Repeat

submitted 71 days ago • 39 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 71 days ago • 685 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 78 days ago • 282 comments

Schitt’s Creek cast at The White Lotus … 🤯✨

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

submitted 84 days ago • 85 comments

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

submitted 92 days ago • 368 comments

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

submitted 99 days ago • 2757 comments

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

submitted 99 days ago • 750 comments

Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.

submitted 104 days ago • 469 comments

One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff

submitted 106 days ago • 2898 comments

🧐 “Donald Trump’s insistence on playing golf at his Florida courses has now cost American taxpayers more than $18 million since he regained the presidency, setting him on a pace to exceed the $151.5 million he spent in his first term, according to a HuffPost analysis.”

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington cnb.cx/3De2aJc by the definitive @lorak.bsky.social

submitted 109 days ago • 10 comments

“The vast majority of the Pentagon purge targets women and minorities, including notable milestones made in the military. And it also removes a large number of posts that mention various commemorative months — such as those for Black and Hispanic people and women.” apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 109 days ago • 151 comments

SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 109 days ago • 103 comments

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 109 days ago • 131 comments

NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error. "Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.

submitted 110 days ago • 60 comments

Study finds most men blind to fact that women make less money

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America's Richest Oligarch Wants to Privatize USPS and Amtrak https://gizmodo.com/americas-richest-oligarch-wants-to-privatize-usps-and-amtrak-2000572284

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

CIA officers hired within the last two years are being summoned to off-site locations, fired and forced to surrender their badges to security personnel, three people briefing on the layoffs told The New York Times buff.ly/eIFeAnY

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 111 days ago • 1565 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 112 days ago • 1072 comments

The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”

submitted 116 days ago • 92 comments

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

submitted 116 days ago • 189 comments

“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 125 days ago • 200 comments

.@bluesky - 3 important improvements to user experience will, I think, grow the user base significantly: 1. Improve direct messaging - super clunky at present 2. Views data - it was a good addition to Twitter, ljbh 3. Bookmarks - again, copy Twitter here. I don’t want to “heart” everything 🫶🏻

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 126 days ago • 177 comments

Here’s last night’s story about the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as well as some very upsetting statements about omelettes. You’ll see. youtu.be/cw0F8G4-dMw

submitted 127 days ago • 28 comments

As I said on my pod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social, one of the main reasons the industry is so vigorously pursuing self-driving is that it frees up the driver's attention, which means you can serve the driver ads. Self-driving cars are going to be ad-mobiles.

submitted 131 days ago • 22 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 152 days ago • 4337 comments

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submitted 155 days ago • 7096 comments

Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.

submitted 187 days ago • 303 comments

A few weeks ago EM, the richest man in the world who used his enormous wealth to influence information & sway an election, said my husband should be tried for treason & then @rokhanna.bsky.social said he looks forward to working w/ him to cut defense spending? GTFO. That’s where EM makes his money.

submitted 194 days ago • 101 comments

A majority of social media influencers don’t verify information before sharing it with their audiences, a study published Tuesday by the UN’s scientific and cultural arm found, underscoring concerns that some of the biggest online figures can uncritically spread misleading claims.

submitted 210 days ago • 80 comments

In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

submitted 214 days ago • 7 comments