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This is the cruelest of betrayals. But what could one expect from Trump, who speaks so fondly of his Taliban pal?

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The masked thugs are wantonly assaulting bystanders are they kidnap the union leader.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 2 comments

Unitary executive … sometimes www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 43 minutes ago • 2 comments

“I’m just a high agency alpha male, standing in front of a horrified nation, asking it to stop being mean to my nazi brownshirts.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 22 comments

We're no longer the leader of the free world. We're no longer a beacon of democracy and justice. We're no longer the land of opportunity. We're no longer a nation in which no one is above the law. Our myths about ourselves are killing us. What to do? davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

submitted 17 hours ago • 194 comments

Of course we were lying.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

👇🎯 These people will never stop trying to get rich by telling everyone they can learn & teach w/o doing the actual hard work of learning & teaching. They peddle fake alternatives to the hard daily grind of education because they're greedy & lazy. They're charlatans, & we should treat them as such.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

ah, yes, the ol' quickly developed spacecraft play ...

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX. He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

submitted 1 hour ago • 65 comments

It is so cool that, at the same moment that reactionary elites are making a massive frontal assault on the basic concept of education, there's a new fake university funded by those same elites that exists to teach briefcase-to-school kids how to say "that is so INTERESTING" to their future bosses.

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

insurance, but make believe

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 2 hours ago • 94 comments

My advice to Democrats would be to stop letting Republicans set the terms of debate, start making it clear you’re acting on principles instead of polls, and fire Rahm Emmanuel into the sun.

submitted 2 hours ago • 60 comments

When you protest these reactionaries and fascists, you bring your American flag and you wave it high. It does not belong to them.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Has any Democratic leader in Congress or Governor or anyone with aspirations for 2028 spoken out against this?

submitted 4 hours ago • 34 comments

His former secretary, his personal lawyer, the judge for whom he served as a campaign treasurer and a pallbearer of his wife’s casket all sat on the board over time as voting members. “He’s just been allowed to go unchecked.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump has a lot of "orders" - and is a constant source of distraction for an eager press - but he presides over an increasingly chaotic and utterly dysfunctional government. I wonder if there is a connection?

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Every reference to these guys should note that several remain adjudged terrorists. Even Trump didn’t disrupt that ruling from a Trump appointed judge.

submitted 5 hours ago • 23 comments

Expect a fixed “sue and settle” outcome with MAGA DOJ. Taxpayer resources to political allies is their specialty. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 hours ago • 104 comments

OpSec is clean.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk’s team at the U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House communications experts worried about potential security breaches when DOGE personnel installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

Russia doesn't have aerial superiority over its own airspace. Let that sink in.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

I make over $1600 per month eating eggs. The government actually pays you to eat them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 128 comments

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 214 comments

When Trump said "I love the poorly educated," it was not a joke. The underlying theme of the Trump Regime is: A mind is a terrible thing not to waste.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

“They shouldn’t be able to leave the dorm without a pass and a shining light.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

This is fascism. Being punished for who you associate with.

submitted 5 hours ago • 50 comments

“Unusual” 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ What is journalism, anyway?

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

These publicly funded apartments for the poor cost $1.2 million each to build www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

Musa al-Gharbi on Christopher Rufo, Richard Hanania, and "the cultural contradictions of the anti-woke"

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

Paramilitaries, you say? 🤔

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

submitted 7 hours ago • 916 comments

While govt moves to dismiss Abrego Garcia case, his own attys seek to pierce atty-client privilege invoking the "crime-fraud exception." "There is ample evidence that defendants have actively strategized to avoid compliance with court orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 16 hours ago • 301 comments

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments