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“Doctors have been clear that she will die within days” without this care, Lawyer Gina Amato said at a press. “Deporting this family under these conditions is not only unlawful, it constitutes a moral failure that violates the basic tenets of humanity and decency.”

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Congrats everyone: $14 billion in clean-energy projects have been canceled in the US, in this year alone.

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Wrote about YouGov's new measure of media trust, in which people are most likely to get info from social media and mostly don't trust social media sites. Gift link: wapo.st/43TBV55

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The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

submitted 5 hours ago • 503 comments

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 7 hours ago • 61 comments

It isn't a fucking game. When you elect right-wingers, millions of people die.

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Important. Well done, CDC. Glad doctors and scientists are keeping their oath to public health instead of MAGA. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Trump's eruption at Leonard Leo is deranged but the really bad part is where Trump basically says straight out that he should be allowed to disregard Congress when he decrees there's an emergency. He's laying the whole tyrant thing bare. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 4 hours ago • 36 comments

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

submitted 8 hours ago • 110 comments

I think letting a drug-addled lunatic and his crew of sociopathic incels randomly rip apart government agencies with no oversight may not have been as terrific an idea as it seemed

submitted 9 hours ago • 32 comments

Trump officials maintain that the administration is ensuring children are not abused or trafficked, but current/former agency employees, lawyers and advocates told @lomikriel.bsky.social & @micarosenberg.bsky.social that the resettlement agency is drifting from its humanitarian mandate.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

The Republican Party decided long ago that lying was a great political tactic, way better than yard signs, door-knocking and robo calls. The GOP realized its lies cost nothing to produce, and right-wing media would happily spread them, also for free.

submitted 7 hours ago • 78 comments

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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excited that my little niece lost her dream job at the EPA in one of the poorest areas in the country because this guy was out of his mind on cat tranquilizers and The Turner Diaries

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The State Department staffer who wrote the Substack manifesto in defense of "Western heritage" and European ultranationalist parties has ties to dark money groups, hidden Twitter poems, and a mom whose immigrant story turned him to the right. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

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Interesting piece on the Nazi junkie, strung out on a huge array of drugs seemingly at all times, who effectively destroyed huge sectors of the US government and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people so far. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 9 hours ago • 94 comments

TPM reached out to the State Department on Thursday to ask about the essay and the fact it echoes some of this white nationalist rhetoric. A spokesperson asked us to “extend” our deadline for comment until Friday, but did not reply to subsequent emails. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

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I hate when I try to repaginate a story in Word and it ends up adding citations to studies that don't exist www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 23 hours ago • 35 comments

In addition to calling your senators on the daily as we brace for the gutting of Medicaid and the ACA, I want to encourage people to start connecting with others about how to defend healthcare in an environment where every insurance carrier is rushing to shed as many types of coverage as possible. 🧵

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

I want the Trump White House to be more like a democratic institution and less like a fascist gang that shits on a state where 20 million Americans live.

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

An analysis of the Ohio House GOP budget shows it would result in more than $565 million lost funds for Appalachian school districts over the next two years and a loss of $2.75 billion for public schools statewide, compared to the Fair School Funding Plan buff.ly/7hN1MjH

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Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country. The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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In case this isn’t obvious: In a healthy political system, if officials released a hyped report on health policy, and the document relied on scientific sources that didn’t exist, those officials would be expected to resign — quickly. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us." https://theatln.tc/HxwwbaTF

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Amazing. RFK Jr's MAHA report cites studies that...don't exist www.notus.org/health-scien...

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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - Alice Walker #quotes #photography #animals #AnimalRights #veganism

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"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social‬ shares some of her favorite objects: “Your whole life is a research expedition, collecting specimens and building your pattern-recognition skills as you accumulate experiences and ideas about them, or at least mine has been.”

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By me: ‘Flooding could end southern Appalachia’: the earth scientists on an urgent mission to save communities where Trump's cuts will hit hardest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Then, it seemed like the country was ready to listen, understand and move toward a freer, fairer, more equal democracy. Five years later, many of these same Black women find themselves at the center of a backlash... @errinhaines.bsky.social's latest. 19thnews.org/2025/05/blac...

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these knobs are upset that they have to at least pretend to be doing work, which isn't as much fun as being a hateful trolling asshole all day on the internet most of these guys won't last a year

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Our institutions were never going to save us; they’ve just expanded the demographics of who they’re failing. I’m seeing a lot of people radicalized for the first time as the scales fall from their eyes. The key is not to become cynical, but to use that energy to liberate one another.

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This forest was logged 75–80 years ago. It looks wild, even pristine—but it’s not old growth. The original complexity is gone. Because we don’t remember what was lost, we assume what remains is natural. Shifting baselines shape what we protect—and what we forget.

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I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

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