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Never forget how Tapper first made a name for himself. Dude has always been an absolutely shameless publicity chaser first and foremost. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/2794...

From The Archives: I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back theonion.com/i-don-t...

The Trump administration has revoked permission for a 4-year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving medical care from a California hospital to stay in the country, attorneys for the family said on Wednesday.

Kohler Doing Damage Control After CEO Admits He Never Uses Toilets theonion.com/kohler-...

CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

Employee On Thin Ice After Taking Allotted Personal Day theonion.com/employe...

Like an old bigot pushing away the black paramedic trying to save his life

NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

there is literally no point to these press briefings other than maybe to give ilhan omar an actionable libel claim

The lower court ruling blocking Oklahoma from using public funds for a religious charter school STANDS. This is a huge win, and we need it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

Appalling. More fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

*crab-walked

This is bleak reading

Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...

Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Google Maps users in the United States, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday.

personally? I think it is absolutely insane to just start using “refugee” in whatever way the Trump administration decides it should be used

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

NEW: @nbcnews.com confirmed last night that the Trump admin almost sent a dozen men from Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Mexico to Libya, a country described as a “hellscape” for migrants where some have been SOLD INTO SLAVERY and many have been subjected to extraordinary horrors.

We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...

North America in three quotes by heads of state.

All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.

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.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Okay, get rid of everyone but AOC.

Picking on immigrants is the oldest play in the American book, it’s designed to work on the broken psyches of the sort of townie white mediocrity that loves Trump. It’s political bro country music, designed for the lowest common denominator, the 7/11 of sociopolitical dung.

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

This section of the NYT today is 16 full newspaper pages of horror.

Reup: The arrest of Judge Dugan is not unprecedented -- acting ICE Director Todd Lyons did this in 2019 too. What's new here is FBI didn't even bother finding or alleging the corrupt intent required by the obstruction statute. www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/27/s...

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

I think Newsom is trying to get back with Kimberly.