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We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

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Beyond parody

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if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

submitted 4 days ago • 261 comments

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

submitted 4 days ago • 686 comments

Neguse was grilling Jim Jordan so hard this morning over language in the reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce court penalties that Jordan had to consult with his lawyers

submitted 8 days ago • 920 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 402 comments

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 8 days ago • 964 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 9 days ago • 694 comments

WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!

submitted 9 days ago • 1392 comments

By 2025, the term "habeas corpus" became much like the term "woke" in contemporary America: meaning whatever Republicans want it to mean.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

ecological catastrophe in florida but no worries they are focusing on the real threats: fluoridated water project.tampabay.com/investigatio...

submitted 13 days ago • 120 comments

The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

submitted 15 days ago • 157 comments

Horace Peterson has been freed after 52 years of maintaining his innocence

submitted 15 days ago • 146 comments

the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible”

submitted 16 days ago • 142 comments

Worried about bare shelves and widespread retail shortages? This slow-cooker cabbage with vodka will make you feel like you’re in the 1970s Soviet Union.

submitted 21 days ago • 49 comments

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

submitted 21 days ago • 407 comments

I lost my job, my son has measles, and my pregnant wife died of sepsis when doctors refused to treat her. But at least I know those kids at Oberlin are gonna have to start eating banh mi again.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

There it is…

submitted 22 days ago • 366 comments

Ah, but of course. #OligarchEra 🤡 @washingtonpost.com @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 358 comments

This is pretty dystopian futurism.com/facebook-bea...

submitted 22 days ago • 225 comments

CBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."

submitted 22 days ago • 1332 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 25 days ago • 397 comments

Best feeling is when you meow at a random cat and they meow back and walk over to get pets

submitted 25 days ago • 169 comments

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

submitted 30 days ago • 325 comments

A White House executive order called on prosecutors to vigorously pursue death sentences, particularly for 37 federal death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by former President Biden. Now, a Louisiana district attorney is following suit.

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

submitted 31 days ago • 97 comments

But the more immediate threat to ballot access may be in the states, many of which are trying to pass their own version of the measure — or take similar steps to impose proof of citizenship requirements, potentially disenfranchising a large number of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 30 days ago • 97 comments

Breaking News: The Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on the government’s premiere report on the effects of climate change in the U.S.

submitted 30 days ago • 123 comments

Hey Paul Weiss associates—meet your new pro bono clients. It’s ok, the Skadden associates are getting the coal companies.

submitted 30 days ago • 393 comments

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

submitted 31 days ago • 1015 comments

A 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with U.S. citizenship were deported alongside their mother to Honduras last week, the family’s lawyer said, adding to the recent string of American citizens caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan. "Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."

submitted 34 days ago • 586 comments

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

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RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

submitted 43 days ago • 2047 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 43 days ago • 1369 comments

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

submitted 43 days ago • 136 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

submitted 43 days ago • 4235 comments

Jewish classmates of Mohsen Mahdawi speak out— One, an IDF refuser, recalls how Mohsen met with Zionists, including those cruel to him—or how, while seeking to heal campus, he even expressed sympathy for administrators (the same who ignored his pleas for help). "Most profound person I've ever met"

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

submitted 44 days ago • 308 comments

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

submitted 43 days ago • 867 comments

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of detainees being removed from the United States to foreign prisons until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

submitted 45 days ago • 526 comments

Breaking News: The White House is said to be planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from public media, including NPR and PBS.

submitted 45 days ago • 91 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 44 days ago • 714 comments

There we go. Support this man.

submitted 45 days ago • 1024 comments

Yes, he is judging you. #Niles #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #rescuecats #caturday

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

The human race is perpetuating itself just fine; natalist anxieties only make sense if you’re concerned about the growth of certain demographics relative to others, which of course is the far right’s entire concern.

submitted 47 days ago • 51 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

submitted 47 days ago • 202 comments

Who could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act? ❌69M women who changed their name after marriage ❌21.3M Americans who don't readily have access to proof of citizenship documents ❌3.8M Americans who don't have proof of citizenship documents at all www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 47 days ago • 177 comments