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"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 2 days ago • 627 comments

ok I swear I wasn’t planning on posting but I just realized “woke marxist pope” scans perfectly to Pink Pony Club and now I CANNOT get it out of my head.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

This brand of “soft eugenics” is usually just called “eugenics”. They’re not trying to have the “clever” breed, they’re focusing on white people while RFK Jr. and friends actively cancel grants focusing on diseases that disproportionately affect Black people

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

submitted 7 days ago • 320 comments

DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system—the likes of which we have never seen in the US. Trump could soon have the tools to satisfy his many grievances by swiftly locating compromising information about anyone he doesn't like. Our privacy laws aren't protecting us! Gift link.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

submitted 15 days ago • 315 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 29 days ago • 177 comments

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

submitted 31 days ago • 352 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 285 comments

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

submitted 34 days ago • 64 comments

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

submitted 36 days ago • 149 comments

BREAKING from The Atlantic: Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released the Signal war plans text thread: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal. tinyurl.com/f4f6mnb8

submitted 46 days ago • 147 comments

Read this entire thread.

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@timothysnyder.bsky.social on the deportation act as regime change. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

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Via "One First," I take a quick look at (some of) the legal questions arising out of the arrest, detention, and potential removal of Mahmoud Kahlil; why the government might have at least a bit of a leg to stand on; and why that's deeply troubling unto itself: www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...

submitted 61 days ago • 36 comments

SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education. I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”. Here is a portion:

submitted 69 days ago • 727 comments

Not yet titled, acrylic & bleach on linen, 30x26”, 2025. Fast phone shots but you get the gist.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

New from me — “What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

submitted 85 days ago • 78 comments

Führerprinzip.

submitted 85 days ago • 69 comments

Detail of work in progress. Acrylic and bleach on linen. (First post using the beta Flashes app!)

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BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 97 days ago • 209 comments

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 98 days ago • 529 comments

Essential reading by @timothysnyder.bsky.social Musk has access to treasury’s payment system & confidential info: Soc Sec Security, Medicare, tax refunds, etc. Call your reps, raise hell. We are moving at lightening speed into autocracy. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Indivisible organizing call Sunday 2/2 8-9 ET mobilize.us/s/bcwIXu

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Work in progress. Bleached and now drip-drying.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 100 days ago • 586 comments

Lots of datasets are disappearing from data.gov. This is a good time to preserve critical data stored with the .gov. This piece focuses on climate and environmental research and data, as well as diversity-related data. I've also talked to people who are worried about COVID data.

submitted 100 days ago • 6 comments

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 102 days ago • 709 comments

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 103 days ago • 65 comments

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 103 days ago • 367 comments

The White House didn't say "stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen when you do US history." The White House said "stop doing DEI and wokeness," and the military interpreted it as "stop saying the Tuskegee Airmen were heroes, and maybe stop teaching about them altogether." Yeah, that's bad.

submitted 106 days ago • 202 comments

Drawing. Trying to think about painting and not (waves hands) everything else.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.

submitted 106 days ago • 15 comments

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

submitted 109 days ago • 151 comments

techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

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So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/

submitted 129 days ago • 125 comments