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I wrote the definitive book on “continuity of government” and let me tell you: The idea of the US commander-in-chief flying on a plane from a foreign govt is a literal security nightmare. There’s a reason the US is the only country in the world that provides its leader his own helicopters overseas.

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🚨 A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro following an interview with two former gang leaders on their years-long relationship to Bukele. elfaro.net/en/202515/el...

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

submitted 34 days ago • 99 comments

Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in shock—and who could blame him? Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens. This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬 Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.

submitted 35 days ago • 377 comments

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 35 days ago • 779 comments

Dom Lucre, who is known for sharing misleading information and was once banned from X for sharing child sexual abuse material, was at the White House today. Lucre said he was among the invited guests for a briefing dedicated to "members of the new media" by Karoline Leavitt.

submitted 35 days ago • 150 comments

Shorter summary: You can’t hate Israel but you can hate all the American Jews you want.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

BIG NEWS! We're taking on the bird shooting industry! @endbirdshooting.bsky.social youtu.be/adHIPzovnVs

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THIS IS WILD‼️ Florida got $67M from a Medicaid fraud settlement. Instead of using it for actual health care, Casey DeSantis funneled $10M to a “charity” she controls. That “charity” passed it to anti-abortion and anti-marijuana groups—who then helped fund GOP campaigns. Both measures lost!

submitted 42 days ago • 1125 comments

I’m going to keep banging this drum but this happened on March 6, to someone with connections, and we’re just hearing about it now. What’s happening that we haven’t heard about yet, or might not ever know?

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 43 days ago • 268 comments

Who withdraws 3 grand in cash for this?

submitted 44 days ago • 2811 comments

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

submitted 44 days ago • 707 comments

Absolutely outrageous. 😡

submitted 45 days ago • 217 comments

An hour after the Russian dictator announced that 6pm "Easter truce" was scheduled to take effect, Russians haven't stopped bombing Kherson.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

Congrats @bluesky on 35m !

submitted 47 days ago • 506 comments

Apparently not a joke x.com/Stef4NewYork... Endless numbers of white nationalists in senior positions. Tell me again how concerned you are about antisemitism.

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

submitted 47 days ago • 231 comments

😂😂

submitted 47 days ago • 597 comments

It's this kind of garbage that gives healthy Honest Graft a bad name. Plunkitt would have been disgusted.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

This is some sick shit

submitted 47 days ago • 5411 comments

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

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I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.

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If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

submitted 49 days ago • 651 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 49 days ago • 3466 comments

I don't know zoe rose bryant; but, I'd like to send her a hug.

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I put a hold on Ed Martin’s nomination. He’s denied elections. Fired quality public servants. Attempted to chill free speech. Turns out he’s also carrying water for the Kremlin. So wholly unfit to be a U.S. Attorney.

submitted 49 days ago • 1925 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 50 days ago • 1485 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 50 days ago • 989 comments

Yesterday the Oval Office.

submitted 56 days ago • 237 comments

“Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion voting systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.” 4/9/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

Not sure how these people sleep at night

submitted 56 days ago • 1232 comments

"Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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After “careful consideration” Microsoft has canceled plans to build 3 new data centers worth $1 billion in Ohio. The company did not further elaborate on the reason behind their decision.

submitted 57 days ago • 74 comments

Nice try.

submitted 57 days ago • 926 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 58 days ago • 523 comments

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

submitted 58 days ago • 543 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 60 days ago • 286 comments

Someone got called into the principals office

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Today shall be known as ORANGE MONDAY.( I can't take credit for being original, but it fits so well)

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Russian state tv: “Trump deserves some type of a monument for his buffoonery and delivering such a fundamental blow to the capitalist system” youtu.be/hHvGfIqBi6w?...

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

Trump calls for Europe to pay reparations to the US: "We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table. They want to talk, but there's no talk unless they pay us a lot of money on a yearly basis number one for president but also for past."

submitted 59 days ago • 521 comments