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submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I have a feeling this is the case for a vast range of political issues that are just trickier to measure than migrant flows.

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

Morbidly curious if Iran could come up with a gift to Trump big enough to get him to “it’s fine if they have nukes. Big deal.”

submitted 20 days ago • 327 comments

Ok. But even if it’s not a done deal yet, the fact giving Trump a jet is “under consideration” tells you all you need to know about what countries are being told they need to do to be an ally with America under Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 20 days ago • 105 comments

Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.

submitted 21 days ago • 2110 comments

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 21 days ago • 1027 comments

@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social This Alt Whitehouse Press Briefing needs to be put in the rotation at least weekly! Loved it

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

ChatGPG...

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submitted 23 days ago • 147 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

submitted 23 days ago • 217 comments

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

submitted 24 days ago • 686 comments

Red smoke means a new Word of the Year has been chosen.

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

I lied to a guy on national TV. So I decided to track him down and say I was sorry. This is the story of my search. www.cjr.org/analysis/pol...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

*fewer

submitted 26 days ago • 94 comments

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 25 days ago • 659 comments

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

submitted 26 days ago • 410 comments

The Qatar Economic Forum is hosting a public session on how to make money off of Trump’s bribery and corruption schemes. This is where we are.

submitted 27 days ago • 104 comments

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

submitted 30 days ago • 606 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 30 days ago • 552 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 31 days ago • 1968 comments

"The president of the United States launching his own cryptocurrency....It almost breaks the brain when you actually read the facts of it." The corruption is no less shocking for being out in the open. Joe Weisenthal joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today’s Bulwark Podcast:

submitted 32 days ago • 56 comments

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

submitted 33 days ago • 491 comments

Pritzker: And we have a president who claims to love America but hates our military so much that can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers.

submitted 33 days ago • 362 comments

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

submitted 33 days ago • 1024 comments

Prof McBride, USNA 1974, PhD Johns Hopkins, went on to say, “Your acquiescence was a repudiation of the Naval Academy’s historic mission. You may take some solace that the removal of these books was a lawful order. However, such an interpretation runs contrary to larger Constitutional issues ..

submitted 35 days ago • 33 comments

Arresting judges. Threatening allies. Lying about trade deals. Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House. Floating a 2028 run. Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic. We must retake our democracy.

submitted 36 days ago • 934 comments

Harvard can end the war with our administration if they’ll simply reject special status and bring back the meritocracy. by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

submitted 37 days ago • 110 comments

China has returned two Boeing jets, each valued at $55 million. With $69 million in tariffs applied, the cost per plane increased to $124 million. Orders for an additional 130 jets have been indefinitely suspended.

submitted 37 days ago • 2218 comments

In case you hadn't noticed:

submitted 38 days ago • 821 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 38 days ago • 861 comments

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

submitted 38 days ago • 807 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 38 days ago • 601 comments

Journalist need to start finding and interviewing the parents of our elected officials to find out what the fuck went wrong.

submitted 40 days ago • 129 comments

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 40 days ago • 137 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 41 days ago • 1229 comments

I designed and had these made for me and my friends for when we protest in little, dark red Fremont, Ohio. I hope something like this takes off as the protesting continues. @maddow.msnbc.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @sanduskycodems.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Reminds me of all the Republicans in Congress who celebrated the Fourth of July in Moscow. Except they were there to celebrate Putin and never updated their plaques. Chris Van Hollen traveled to save a constituent. These assholes won’t even show up at a townhall in their district

submitted 42 days ago • 316 comments

JD Vance keeps saying "the left" won't engage his arguments on Abrego Garcia. Here is a piece that attempts to directly and systematically challenge one of Vance's core assertions: That Abrego Garcia already got due process and was deemed eligible for deportation: newrepublic.com/article/1941...

submitted 42 days ago • 26 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 42 days ago • 643 comments

I'm attending 50501 Fremont Ohio's event, “Rally Heard Round the World” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Holy fucking shit Bill Kristol is substantially to the left of the entire Senate Democratic Caucus

submitted 44 days ago • 40 comments

U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g...

submitted 44 days ago • 134 comments

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 46 days ago • 124 comments