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oof, yikes www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-go...

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

One of the aspects of "Donald Trump is actually an incredibly good political candidate" and his appeal to morons is his ability to come up with stupid nicknames and slogans that he repeats endlessly so the message actually breaks through

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

I was writing a short item about the OBBB barring any Medicaid funds for trans healthcare, and reached out to Cowan (author of piece) about it. Response from him:

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

For the first hundred years of this country tariffs were the primary federal tax! When the framers say 'revenue', they are thinking tariffs first and foremost! This is extremely easy

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

America has been flung into a constitutional crisis in the most massive and fundamental way imaginable, ruled by a regime which is not merely doing unconstitutional things but is anti-constitutional at its very core. @andycraig.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Despite repeatedly raising concerns about labor rights, Nike has grown its presence in Cambodia from about 16,000 factory workers in May 2013 to more than 57,000 as of March. Read more: propub.li/4kIhjCC

submitted 8 hours ago • 189 comments

SCOOP: Sahil Lavingia, who says he was fired from DOGE after speaking out about his experiences there, told WIRED about how he communicated with the group, who appears to be in charge, and what might be coming next.

submitted 8 hours ago • 28 comments

Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s new “merit hiring plan.” buff.ly/XAs9UPN

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

After NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani asked his supporters to donate to fellow candidate Adrienne Adams, about 370 Zohran donors donated a total of $18,000 to her – which will result in over $100,000 for her campaign thanks to public matching funds. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump announces a press conference with Elon Musk and says “he will, always, be with us, helping all the way.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

Recently finished watching the first Gundam, it holds up really well.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Republicans are retooling the $42.5 billion infrastructure bill broadband grant program so they can hand billions of dollars in new subsidies to Elon Musk's congested, expensive, ozone-layer depleting satellite broadband service. Which means redirecting it away from better, cheaper, faster options:

submitted 12 hours ago • 18 comments

NEW: @cnn.com confirms that hundreds of FBI agents have been reassigned away from criminal and counterterrorism investigations to instead work with ICE to round up migrants. The security impacts are clear — and may be why the FBI is alleged to be hiding any paper trail.

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant, arguing that it violates the right to personal autonomy and equal protection under the state constitution.

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

“merit-based”

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

This is a real bill

submitted 16 hours ago • 22 comments

The following are the eight working groups which will convene from June 17th to June 20th in New York City at the "High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution". Each working group is led by two states.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I’m sorry, but this is false It relies entirely on an article by Erin Reed that took a decision in one sports league to claim the entire state banned trans athletes from competing. That’s like saying Trump rejected a solar farm and so all solar is banned now.

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submitted 12 hours ago • 42 comments

If I had my way, we'd have open borders. And if I had my way, we'd have no restrictions on building housing save for building codes. In both cases, the near-universal status quo globally is very restrictive, especially in rich countries. Here I articulate why I think both are connected.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

By firing IRS auditors who went after wealthy tax cheats, Elon Musk's DOGE could cost up to $323 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. It was never about being efficient or effective. www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-dog...

submitted 15 hours ago • 62 comments

Immigration control and the logic of the totalitarian state. "As Kukathas makes clear, a large and at best modestly accountable enforcement apparatus engaged in the surveillance, regulation, and intimidation of citizens is a logical necessity for immigration enforcement per se. It is the price.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

A point I wish had been hammered harder during the campaign is that, whatever you think the ideal policy would be if you could implement it by waving a magic wand, in practice deportations on the scale Trump was promising require a police state.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

How long will the DOGE cuts persist inside the government? “No one I spoke to seemed to believe a future president could reverse the damage in a single four-year term,” reports @jeva.bsky.social: heatmap.news/politics/civ...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

DC Circuit steps in - kinda surprised that they overruled a summary judgement like this tbh! APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY HALTS RULING AGAINST TRUMP TARIFFS FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT SAYS IT NEEDS TIME TO CONSIDER FILINGS

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks present "This Is Animation", a free-to-access online course designed to introduce learners of all ages to the art and industry of animated filmmaking. yellowbrick.co/sony variety.com/2025/artisan...

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

In July 2020, then-16-year-old Kevin Bui was robbed of his cash, iPhone, and shoes. That night, he wanted to get even, pulling up Find My iPhone on his iPad, watching as it pinged his phone to a residence in a Denver suburb called Green Valley Ranch.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Fed Chair Powell met with Trump today. Official Fed statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

submitted 16 hours ago • 34 comments

The HHS is now telling medical centers to adhere to their latest sham report on transgender healthcare which literally says is not a treatment guideline. They’re sending this letter to hospitals in blue states and threatening them unless they stop trans care. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

NEW: Judge extends block on Trump bid to boot out Harvard's foreign students. This after DHS basically issued Harvard a 30-day reprieve, while not conceding Noem erred by "immediately" revoking school's status last week. w/@kellygarrity3 @biancaquilan www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

The "Jerusalem Post" has a column today openly arguing that "Christian Zionists understand antisemitism better than Diaspora Jews." This is the logical endpoint of the way the Israeli right and the Trump admin talk about right-wing Christians as the real Israel supporters, and hence the real Jews.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

i know nothing else about this guy except that he should be free to have an onlyfans to fund his olympic dream!!! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing...

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 840 comments

In addition to this being appalling from Sen. Gallego, the fact that the senior editor at The Dispatch frames it as coming from a "rising star" Dem and in opposition to "progressives" — as opposed to in opposition to virtually every elected Dem except Suozzi, Moulton, and Newsom — is trash.

submitted 16 hours ago • 116 comments

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 17 hours ago • 156 comments

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

BREAKING: Judge Contreras has blocked Trump's tariffs as unlawful. This is a separate injunction by a federal judge in D.C., unrelated to the block issued yesterday by judges on the federal tr de court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

35-year-old Dem Harry Jarin launches primary challenge to Rep. Steny Hoyer, who's 50 years older: "I'm not trying to be cruel or callous, but I want Democrats to win, and there are consequences for having this gerontocracy, and we have to reckon with that."

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

The Supreme Court embraces "substantial deference" for federal agencies in determining the depth and breadth of a NEPA environmental impact statement. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

The 17-person team of statisticians and scientists at the National Survey on Drug Use and Health are all out of jobs. Researchers around the country use the data to understand behavioral health.

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

Trump administration reverses course, giving Harvard 30 days to challenge its bid to strip university of the ability to host international students

submitted 19 hours ago • 121 comments

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, opened a probe into the private dinner that President Trump hosted for top investors in his meme coin, seeking to highlight the ethical and legal concerns raised by the president’s willingness to profit while in office.

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

RASKIN: ".. Publication of this [dinner guest] list will also let the American people know who is putting tens of millions of dollars into our President’s pocket so we can start to figure out what — beyond virtually worthless memecoins — they are getting in exchange .." @washingtonpost.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

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Kevin Hassett on tariffs: "President Trump has a hat which is the accurate response to what that person said, which is 'Trump always wins.' A lot of people are wearing that hat, and 'Trump was always right.' But Trump does always win these negotiations."

submitted 19 hours ago • 336 comments

Constitutional amendment to rebalance the separation of powers: Remove the president from the lawmaking process entirely Sec. 1: Abolish the veto; Sec.2: Executive orders are now executive requests that must pass Congress first. 1/5

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

struck by how similar the george fitzhugh, infamous apologist for chattel slavery, sounds to the postliberals. this, from “sociology for the south” is almost indistinguishable from vermuele

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

Big problem for Abundance/YIMBY liberal types who want to turn building more stuff into a political program is that they're pitching positive sum arrangements to American swing voters, who are complete morons who think that anything non zero sum is a pyramid scheme (which they like)

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments