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A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 461 comments

I would hope that, by this point, university leaders who are still "negotiating" with the administration have their eyes wide open about the fact that these negotiations are all in bad faith.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Just a reminder that the "Fox News Channel" is just a name— it does not describe an actual news channel. The FNC's own description of its services is here, from its terms of use:

submitted 12 days ago • 245 comments

For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

“Faced with a president who seemingly has no concern for constitutional limitations, the carefully crafted restrictions of the Constitution appear to be unenforceable; the courts are ineffective, and Congress doesn’t seem to care,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social writes:

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

We’re living through Trump’s conversion of the presidency into a global business operation—one in which family enrichment drives national policy. Foreign influence. Secret deals. Cryptocurrency grifts. Worse than just corruption, this is a blueprint for authoritarian kleptocracy.

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Kamala: we’re going to stop grocery stores from price gouging MAGA: COMMUNISM!!! Trump: Walmart better not raise prices because of the stupid thing I did MAGA: MAGA!!

submitted 15 days ago • 233 comments

This. 1000x this.

submitted 16 days ago • 86 comments

Rahm/Newsom/Cuomo: Dems spend too much time talking about what bathroom people use or what sport team they play on The GOP:

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

What is happening in this country? The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly considering a reality show where immigrants compete in challenges for a shot at U.S. citizenship. Officials claim, “This isn’t The Hunger Games for immigrants.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1409 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 17 days ago • 361 comments

Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is seeking to dismiss the federal charges brought against her by the Trump admin, arguing that the "government has no basis in law to prosecute her," given her judicial immunity, calling the attempt "virtually unprecedented and entirely unconstitutional."

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

Poland is preparing to repel a Russian invasion, including a plan to train every adult male in the country to be ready for war. We go to Poland to see what the preparations look like.

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

TWO 'special election' results tonight: Democrats defend a Massachusetts seat. Republicans defend an Oklahoma seat. Both margins were big. But the margin shifted by 19% toward Dems compared to 2024 in Oklahoma, & by 13% in Massachusetts, via @the-downballot.com: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 20 days ago • 301 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 762 comments

Republicans aren't throwing out their principles to support Trump, those principles were never real. They were cudgels. The core of Right Wing ideology is that there is a natural hierarchy of power. There are those who deserve everything and those who need to be penned in by laws and oppression.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

The highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally

submitted 21 days ago • 106 comments

Hungarian spies were caught in Western Ukraine, looking for defense vulnerabilities. Either they are planning to occupy a piece of territory themselves, or they intend to help Putin edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/w...

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments

So many videos are circulating of ICE agents acting with cruelty and aggression. Behavior that eerily mirrors the “domestic terrorism” they claim to oppose. No one is forcing them to act this way; it’s a choice.

submitted 21 days ago • 875 comments

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 23 days ago • 705 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 23 days ago • 631 comments

Another federal judge has rebuked Trump’s assault on due process. We're relieved for Rümeysa and grateful that one branch of our government is defending the right to dissent.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.

submitted 23 days ago • 467 comments

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

submitted 23 days ago • 3026 comments

I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

submitted 23 days ago • 180 comments

Report from @science.org: • NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced. • Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9. • Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn) www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 1,000 openly identifying transgender troops will be moved out of the military immediately under new Pentagon order.

submitted 24 days ago • 300 comments

BREAKING: Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin concedes the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, ending his six-month legal battle to overturn the election. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 164 comments

The Trump administration is pulling back from enforcing long-established fair housing protections for transgender people — but federal law still protects us against discrimination.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

submitted 25 days ago • 740 comments

1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️

submitted 64 days ago • 211 comments

“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Ah, once again it is the right’s abusive “look what you made me do” theory of racism. Abusers always paints themself the victim.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

European leaders knock Trump’s war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’ and seek to woo American researchers with a new program called “Choose Europe for Science.”

submitted 27 days ago • 22 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 30 days ago • 221 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 30 days ago • 2342 comments

I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/

submitted 32 days ago • 79 comments

Musk is destroying AmeriCorps. It looks like it’s RIP for AmeriCorps. The nonprofit that represents AmeriCorps’ state commissions which organize state-level community service programs funded by the federal agency announced that commissions in all 50 states,

submitted 36 days ago • 152 comments

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

submitted 37 days ago • 39 comments

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

submitted 37 days ago • 215 comments

To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest

submitted 37 days ago • 118 comments

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 177 comments

This left wing political correctness is getting out of control www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

The Interior Department announced late yesterday that it will fast-track approvals for coal, gas, oil, and mineral projects on public lands.

submitted 38 days ago • 694 comments

47's efforts to wipe out federal subsidies for clean power created by Biden's admin are quickly having an impact on that industry. Since January, investments totalling $7.9B for 16 large-scale factories & other projects have been cancelled, closed or downsized. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 #EarthDay #EarthDay2025

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments