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Has Mr. Free Speech Absolutist commented on the State Department using social media (xitter) posts to block foreign nationals entry into the use for criticizing Israel?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"In investigating the case, agents believe the person may have been involved in sending these letters, claiming to be from Reyes, in an attempt to have Reyes deported before the case could go to trial, sources said."

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Asset tests should not be reinstated. They are a predictably ineffective and cruel administrative burden that make it impossible for the very poor to have basic dignity. From @pamherd.bsky.social and I in the @aeajournals.bsky.social‬ Journal of Economic Perspectives www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Democrats remain vulnerable to the right's framing on an endless series of ginned-up moral panics. Dems' instinct is always to meet the right halfway on whatever bullshit they've cooked up. This is a result of not have their own policy platform beyond diet fascism and slightly less corruption.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Wikipedia labors to stay up as tens of millions of dudes look up the U.S. Court of International Trade in order to explain it

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

“Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use—and he got arrested anyway…”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The updated total is that TACO Trump has now pardoned NINE former Republican members of Congress convicted of crimes.

submitted 4 days ago • 165 comments

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

submitted 6 days ago • 300 comments

100 years ago today a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

submitted 8 days ago • 241 comments

Glad this is finally getting attention from mainstream outlets. I wrote about it over a month ago on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god

submitted 9 days ago • 1226 comments

this timeline is fucking wild

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Trump’s tariff foolishness tanked the Oregon shrimp industry. So in the name of efficiency he’s having the government buy it, to, I don’t know, serve at White House functions where he entertains Jews who keep kosher? www.opb.org/article/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments