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Reup: As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/28/a...

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

submitted 5 days ago • 198 comments

Some stats on Ronald Acuña Jr.'s home run: 115.5 MPH off the bat 467 feet 1 EPIC moment

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

submitted 5 days ago • 268 comments

Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

“The physician looked at her and said: “Idaho is not a safe place to be pregnant right now.” Then, as the devastating truth sank in, he added: “If you were my daughter, I’d have told you not to get pregnant in this state.””

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

The GOP's big attack on Medicaid is coming. So I remind you: Medicaid is the glue that holds America together. If you're sick, aging, disabled, and/or poor—as we are all likely to be at some time—Medicaid is your best and often only hope. So of course, the GOP is going at it to fluff the richest.

submitted 18 days ago • 63 comments

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

submitted 22 days ago • 153 comments

Much fairer to say he's the greatest American popularizer of Nazism since Henry Ford and the greatest ever since Adolf Hitler.

submitted 24 days ago • 59 comments

A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude. This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔 As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying. 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 161 comments

The little video on the web site is so weird and good, too. www.eugen-x.com

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 29 days ago • 1354 comments

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

submitted 29 days ago • 3160 comments

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

submitted 32 days ago • 316 comments

Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

submitted 32 days ago • 819 comments

Intersection of sports/politics/stupidity: Pete Hegseth used his phone number, the same one used in a Signal chat, to join a fantasy football and sports betting site. His username: “PeteHegseth.” Oh, I totally want to go against this guy in Fantasy Football. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Chuck Grassley gets called out at a town hall… " Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥 #HandsOffMySocialSecurity

submitted 34 days ago • 626 comments

It’s incredible that now the best case scenario is basically Trump engaging in a humiliating climb-down, but having already inflicted permanent damage and uncertainty that never be undone.

submitted 34 days ago • 462 comments

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 35 days ago • 86 comments

Everybody's mad at this dude for this post, but are we not in exactly the kind of situation Jefferson described in the Declaration of Independence? That passage that dumbass right-wingers are always quoting?

submitted 36 days ago • 56 comments

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

submitted 37 days ago • 110 comments

50 Senate Republicans voted to confirm Pete Hegseth. 52 Senate Republicans voted to confirm RFK Jr. 53 Senate Republicans voted to confirm Pam Bondi. So far as I know: Having seen their performance, none has expressed regret for their vote. None has called for any of them to resign or be fired.

submitted 39 days ago • 120 comments

NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 41 days ago • 11 comments

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

submitted 40 days ago • 1070 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 40 days ago • 117 comments

Men who talk about children and sex all-day tend to be men who think about children and sex all-day

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments