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🧪 The entire Fulbright Board resigned, citing the Trump administration's alleged usurpation of authority and denial of selected recipients. They assert these actions contradict the Fulbright-Hays Act and undermine the program's bipartisan mission. #AcademicSky

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 2 days ago • 331 comments

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

submitted 4 days ago • 2187 comments

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 4 days ago • 1153 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 12 days ago • 464 comments

This is the woman who just got promoted to press secretary for the Department of Defense “Proud to be an enemy of globalist Ukraine”

submitted 18 days ago • 357 comments

Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

Per Jose Olivares on X, here is a likely quid for the CECOT pro quo. Trump is dropping criminal charges against multiple serious MS-13 leaders we are currently trying to prosecute. Many of them are “inconvenient” to Bukele, as they previously admitted to working with him before the truce broke.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

“The Fed is different” is right up there with “only sec. 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment requires implementing legislation” in statements that really strain the notion that legal plausibility is any sort of constraint on the justices.

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

At a Buffalo Tom gig at Town & Country in London in the '90s, J Mascis was hanging w/us in the dressing room in his typically laconic way. But then George Wendt popped his head in to say hello, J rose out of his chair and exclaimed, “NORM!” I've never seen him as animated before or since. RIP NORM!

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

submitted 22 days ago • 5053 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 22 days ago • 794 comments

Axios’ editorial comms director who is relentlessly pushing the Axios/Tapper book about Biden was a literal Republican operative who did comms for Ron Johnson, Kevin Cramer, the RNC, the ND Republican Party, and worked on Rand Paul’s 2016 campaign.

submitted 26 days ago • 43 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 27 days ago • 362 comments

here's one of the South African "refugees" that Trump has brought into the country

submitted 28 days ago • 70 comments

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

submitted 28 days ago • 238 comments

an overview of the administration’s most egregious attacks on the constitution and some thoughts on why conservatives are perfectly fine with them www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 58 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 31 days ago • 1077 comments

NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

submitted 33 days ago • 69 comments

NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.

submitted 33 days ago • 142 comments

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

submitted 35 days ago • 68 comments

One specific reason this is illegal is that, after the 2013 "IRS targeting scandal," Rs led the bipartisan push to pass a bill that clarified why political targeting was illegal.

submitted 40 days ago • 31 comments

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

submitted 41 days ago • 144 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 41 days ago • 549 comments

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

submitted 43 days ago • 103 comments

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 43 days ago • 1237 comments

"This is not simply a change in enforcement priorities — the division has been turned on its head and is now being used as a weapon against the very communities it was established to protect." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment