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“This inital use of federal troops in a blue city should be understood as an effort to build pressure to help pass the bill. It should also be used as an example of the danger of passing the bill — the kind of authoritarianism that Miller intends to wield if the bill does pass.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

If you live in a GOP district in CA, start calling your Rep about how Trump's Big Ugly Bill aims to invade California, and they MUST vote against giving up CA's sovereignty bc Stephen Miller ordered the invasion of Home Depot.

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

If you live in LA and you need a reminder of why voting matters Just imagine if Robert Luna wasn’t our sheriff, and instead alex villanueva had won another term Most people probably don’t think of the importance of voting for sheriff on their ballot, but you are seeing it right now

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The Miami Herald has an investigation into FDC Miami echoing my reporting from the past couple weeks: harsh conditions, crumbling infrastructure, use of force and lack of access to legal counsel www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 23 hours ago • 113 comments

Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Ghislaine Maxwell also operated a fraudulent ocean conservation nonprofit called the TerraMar project And she plagiarized one of my articles And threatened to sue me for defamation for criticizing this.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

submitted 3 days ago • 310 comments

DOGE is a sabotage risk to any administration and likely already did irreversible damage.

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NY City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is an avatar of the decline of America — the triumph of proudly ignorant and bigoted trash empty of any value that ever helped us thrive. An America that elects people like her — and Trump — deserves to collapse.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Senate GOP are lying. Full stop. Not “misinformation”. Not “misleading”. It is a lie. Knowing, intentional, from Senators who are aware of the law. Undocumented do not receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

submitted 5 days ago • 407 comments

Elon Musk may say that he no longer works for the government, but the government is definitely working for him!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I tried to do a version of this report that @warren.senate.gov did, but gave up. The task was too overwhelming!! Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.) www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

infrastructure is beautiful.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

I am reading that New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin and I cannot overemphasize how much he is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like. I resent having to know who this man is. I wish to wipe him from my memory.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 173 comments

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Even the mods of a pro-AI subreddit tell me they are having to ban an uptick of unwell users who think ChatGPT is letting them talk to god, or turning them into a god, etc www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Jonathan Joss's murder & the media's erasure of the anti-queer, racist violence that preceded it reminds me of what @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote about Nex Benedict's death & the media's erasure of the anti-queer violence that caused it. www.thehandbasket.co/p/nex-benedi...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 245 comments

The entire thing is a grift. It's all one big grift. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

In light of CNN’s recent reporting that the administration has cut back access to the President’s Daily Brief, I trace here the evolution of a dozen presidents’ choices about the PDB’s dissemination—a 60 year “who’s who” of intelligence-policy relations: engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...

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NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

All across the country, this is what is happening. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!

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@gregsargent.bsky.social interviews Carol Hui, the woman whose detention by ICE has mobilized Kennett, MO. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Pride Month has fallen.

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”

submitted 8 days ago • 139 comments

I’m not saying this story is false but I am saying it is totally in the interest of the Trump White House to have a story out there suggesting that some universities are looking to acquiesce.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

It is very obvious to me, as a person who knows my own family history, that the reason the government is targeting Palestinians and their advocates is because they would very, very much like to have people blame The Jews for all this instead of blaming the Christian Nationalist fascists.

submitted 91 days ago • 19 comments

With the degradation of the FBI and other national security institutions, we are sitting ducks for a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil. I gifted this article to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 52 comments

As I note here, really zero reason to believe Elon is stepping away from anything. This is all a crisis comms campaign. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

I keep seeing people say Musk “failed” in his government takeover. No, he did not fail. He shut down investigations into his businesses, he garnered huge contracts, and he stole the personal data of everyone in the US. That’s not a “failure.” This motherfucker won, and won big.

submitted 8 days ago • 85 comments