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We can learn an important lesson from the era of Joseph McCarthy. The danger of fear, the power of courage. And how to defeat a demagogue. youtu.be/OEaj2xlKaeU?...

submitted 4 hours ago • 113 comments

Here’s a preview of the coming clash with SCOTUS which has already confirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process. “Sudden deportation” violates the Constitution.

submitted 3 hours ago • 523 comments

This is super important: @alannavagianos.bsky.social interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home. Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

“I don’t know her” is often the signal that he’s willing to toss someone overboard

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Hopefully this data can be used to identify any additional people deported to El Salvador on March 15 whose identities are still unknown. Their family and loved ones have a right to know where they are and what happened to them; knowledge which Trump administration has so far denied them.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

DOGE was never about "efficiency."

submitted 10 hours ago • 206 comments

A federal judge ordered the release of Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, whose video-recorded detention by masked agents drew national scrutiny.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Busting up big corporations. Tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

submitted 2 days ago • 417 comments

A Trump-appointed judge refused to withdraw her order requiring the Trump administration to seek the return of a second man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Trump announced he wants to cut $163B that would've gone to health care, housing, child care, education, clean energy, nutrition, & research. But he wants $1 trillion for the Pentagon, which has never passed an audit. It was never about waste, fraud, and abuse. It's about making the rich richer.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

How does laying off FDA an this "make America health again"? Cartoon by Dennis Goris.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much? They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs. Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher. Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.” It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.

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My favorite passage from @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest essay. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.

submitted 7 days ago • 1605 comments

Trump is threatening to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status because the university refused to cave to his demands. Why is he so hell-bent on attacking universities? Because an educated and informed citizenry has always been the biggest threat to a dictator's power.

submitted 7 days ago • 144 comments

Both Rubio's tweet, and the response, are remarkable artifacts. You have a Secretary of State tweeting right wing talking points to defend Neo Nazis, and the country where Nazis originated telling him to sod off.

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

With all the talk of product shortages , I think it should be said that products will first find their way to densely populated areas first and everywhere else, last This certainly will hurt all those red counties. How they react to their shelves being everything will define the midterms

submitted 8 days ago • 2356 comments

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

submitted 9 days ago • 346 comments

Amazon planned to display cost of Trump's tariffs. Trump complained — Amazon backtracked. This of course comes after Bezos donated to Trump's inauguration and Amazon bought a Melania documentary. And remember that Amazon is being sued by FTC for antitrust violations. Hello?

submitted 10 days ago • 341 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 710 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 10 days ago • 518 comments

Confirmation that parents did not consent to deportation of their U.S. citizen children (they had other parents/caretakers in the U.S.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 11 days ago • 213 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 540 comments

Atlantic: What would happen if you accidentally got the wrong person (re: deportations) - a legal resident, or even an American citizen? Trump: Let me tell you that nothing will ever be perfect in this world. This should chill you to your core. We will not be acceptable casualties to fascism.

submitted 11 days ago • 123 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 11 days ago • 1027 comments

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

submitted 11 days ago • 1013 comments

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

submitted 11 days ago • 545 comments

If you want to understand the rationale and cruelty behind Trump's anti immigrant policies, just read up on Stephen Miller. This is all his doing. Trump is golfing most of the time. Miller is an avowed white nationalist. He doesn't hide any of it. It's all there.

submitted 13 days ago • 120 comments

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Are we still pretending this is about free speech?

submitted 13 days ago • 300 comments

The worst thing you can do right now is hide or go quiet. Stand up and talk back.

submitted 13 days ago • 292 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 14 days ago • 447 comments

The Attorney General is so unserious. If you’re a prosecutor who is serious about obtaining a conviction, you don’t go on Fox and talk about the (alleged) facts of the case like this. Has Bondi read the Justice Manual? Has Bondi heard of pretrial publicity motions? How about bar ethics rules?

submitted 14 days ago • 2137 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 14 days ago • 940 comments

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

submitted 14 days ago • 720 comments

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

submitted 14 days ago • 657 comments

NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

submitted 14 days ago • 588 comments

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

submitted 16 days ago • 1313 comments

Democrats, keep holding townhalls in red spaces. Our Republican Reps do not come home. They do not speak to us. They do not care about us. I know this, but I need my Republican neighbors to realize it. Come talk to them. Show them. Reach them. Rural Dem organizers on the ground can help.

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 17 days ago • 191 comments

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 22 days ago • 146 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 17 days ago • 267 comments

Bad for school kids, bad for farmers, and sure as hell won’t “make America healthy again.”

submitted 18 days ago • 767 comments

Congress literally created an Alien Terrorist Removal Court for the expeditious removal of aliens who are designated as terrorists, under a preponderance of evidence standard. I think problem isn’t the time it would take, but the fact that the government would have to produce actual evidence

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

NEW damning details on Pete Hegseth: Minutes before U.S. jets hit Yemen, Gen. Kurilla sent strike intel through a secure gov system. Hegseth turned around and dropped it in at least two Signal chats—on his personal phone. Jet timing. Target locations. And he still has the job.

submitted 17 days ago • 896 comments

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

submitted 17 days ago • 343 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 18 days ago • 251 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 18 days ago • 759 comments