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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

submitted 27 days ago • 220 comments

great moments in book titles theatln.tc/HkXaLShD

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

“What Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than You Think…” Not so long ago, Peter Thiel “was reported to be courting influence among a nebulous art-adjacent constellation of downtown NY creative types.” 8/29/24 1/ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

submitted 60 days ago • 17 comments

Correct.

submitted 57 days ago • 252 comments

Lithuanian president & people paid their respects to 4 American servicemen who died during training exercise. When the soldier’s remains arrived at Dover Air force Base, no US president was there to honor them on behalf of a grateful nation. Trump was golfing & will dine with rich Saudis

submitted 60 days ago • 159 comments

The consistent message is "I will sacrifice nothing and you are not sacrificing yourselves enough for me"

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"

submitted 62 days ago • 215 comments

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

Every officer involved in these grabs knows what they are doing is illegal. It is absolutely essential that they be criminally prosecuted once possible, in order to restore basic rule of law. The correct response to an order you know to be unlawful is to refuse it and resign if necessary.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, a Claremont Institute alumnus, is throwing a misogynistic tantrum bc Justice Coney Barrett ruled against Trump in his bid to freeze congressionally approved USAID payments. 1/

submitted 90 days ago • 75 comments

I sometimes struggle to describe the radical shift in what’s happening given that, in fact, a lot of the shitty things happening are extensions of things that were long happening to certain groups of people.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 75 days ago • 110 comments

Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/

submitted 75 days ago • 72 comments

Trump’s Education Department layoffs will gut the Office for Civil Rights — the team that investigates racial and religious discrimination, sexual harassment in schools, and ensures students with disabilities get the accommodations they need. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 82 days ago • 6 comments

Our Democratic senators need to step up and call for new leadership. Send your senators an email and urge them to publicly demand that Sen. Schumer steps aside.

submitted 80 days ago • 84 comments

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 80 days ago • 103 comments

A must-read for everyone who thinks that things are fine because life is going on normally for most people

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