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Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

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President Trump's new pardon attorney, Ed Martin, described the men convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer as "victims just like January 6" and said that "on the pardon front, we can't leave these guys behind." www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of “O.C.G.,” an immigrant deported without a credible fear assessment to Mexico, where he had previously been raped and targeted for being gay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

The White House admits that DOGE employees were responsible for cutting hundreds of NIH projects. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“Trying to preserve something”… whiteness? Oh, and that’s junk social science.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Horrified to learn that two Israeli Embassy staffers were gunned down in D.C. last night in an act of anti-Semitic violence. Hope the new interim U.S. attorney for D.C. is paying attention.

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Breaking news: The Supreme Court deadlocked over the constitutionality of the nation’s first public religious charter school, blocking the creation of the controversial Catholic online academy in Oklahoma.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

This is a spectacular account of the self-dealing and outright corruption that is enriching the Trump crime family (to borrow a phrase from the Republicans). www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Suspension Clause: 1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session; 2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and 3) Even then, applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

submitted 19 days ago • 261 comments

We are living in the dumbest timeline

submitted 20 days ago • 2657 comments

www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

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On TRIO and GEAR UP, which help low-income students get to college, the administration said those programs were a “relic of the past …Today, the pendulum has swung and access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Some Good News: It’s Working: Ed Martin is out, National Parks are in, Trump is being contradicted by the Intelligence Community & the NC Sup Ct race from last November finally gets decided. Democracy wins. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 22 days ago • 73 comments

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

submitted 24 days ago • 1120 comments

It's not about bringing a viable criminal case. It's about manufacturing a negative image of judges.

submitted 32 days ago • 144 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 50 days ago • 194 comments

our problem as people not infected by the authoritarian mind virus is that we are trying too hard to make sense of Trump’s tariffs as economic policy. Instead it is primarily symbolic, an attempt to reassert the fantasy of a racial colonial patriarchal family romance onto the world.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

submitted 54 days ago • 1477 comments

The guy at the frame shop said, “What good is it, him running his mouth? Me, I’m taking care of business.” “That’s what Cory Booker is doing, too,” I said. #goodtrouble

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. —George Orwell

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Sums up in a nutshell what it means to be governed by a selfish, clueless billionaire class. Apparently Lutnick can’t imagine how a missed Social Security check might affect an elderly person who does not have a wealthy son.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This isn’t the usual DC parlor game of figuring out who’s in and who’s out. More like rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

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Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor’s response to interim US Attorney Ed Martin’s letter calling the school’s curriculum “unacceptable.” Bravo.

submitted 83 days ago • 50 comments

Hey @axios.com if Medicaid is a “progressive” program, then I’m the Queen of Sheba

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What happened to “Democracy dies in darkness”?

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submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

[Silence.]

submitted 93 days ago • 308 comments

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A school board in Louisiana has stripped the shelves of books over a panic that "material harmful to minors" — in other words, descriptions of sex or sexuality — might be present in one of the 30,000 (!) books aimed at young adults. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

submitted 93 days ago • 15 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 96 days ago • 130 comments

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 97 days ago • 2545 comments

V is for vendetta, and it looks like the Revenge Tour team is almost complete.

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These guys are just trolling us now, right? newrepublic.com/post/191750/...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

This goes well beyond the SCOTUS ruling. If enforced, it would be an ironic and shameful reversal of civil rights gains: it would punish institutions for their efforts to help marginalized students enter and succeed in college.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 103 days ago • 256 comments

This is a dangerous (and deeply embarrassing) moment for our country. Republicans just put a conspiracy theorist in charge of one of the most important federal agencies for safeguarding public health and guiding the nation through health crises.

submitted 104 days ago • 93 comments

A federal judge in Boston has extended the pause on the Trump administration’s deferred resignation “buyout,”pending his ruling on the case brought by federal employee unions. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the FBI will have to release documents related to Trump's mishandling of classified documents in a FOIA case brought by Jason Leopold. From Kyle Cheney: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 107 days ago • 447 comments

NEW: A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration was violating his order to lift the blanket spending freeze on federal programs, ordering immediate release of funds and hinting at possibility of contempt. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 107 days ago • 84 comments

Is DOGE Digging Around in Student Data? Elon Musk’s government efficiency office may have access to sensitive student information, raising alarms about privacy and threatening to throw the federal aid system into crisis. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/419JDqD

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Having trouble keeping up with the litigation to curb Trump and Musk? Here’s a useful summary.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

A federal judge early Saturday temporarily restricted access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems, saying there was a risk of “irreparable harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: President Trump's hiring freeze has stopped the onboarding of seasonal federal firefighters, including those who work for agencies called on to help battle the devastating L.A. fires, creating a potential shortfall ahead of the next fire season. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 111 days ago • 100 comments

Second judge issues temporary block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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