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FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

submitted 13 hours ago • 184 comments

NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 3 days ago • 326 comments

The boomers were out in force in Bethesda. Don’t underestimate the fury of Montgomery County’s legion of retired civil servants. Probably a few thousand people lining Wisconsin Ave.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Good doggie

submitted 4 days ago • 574 comments

Good morning, I am at the ghost town that is the Army Birthday Celebration, excited to experience what promises to be an incredibly stupid day The Army Strength Competition is about to begin Let's do this 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Oh my god

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

#NoKings

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submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.

submitted 7 days ago • 499 comments

Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court has given him the Fort Knox of Americans’ most personal and private information. This reckless decision leaves millions of seniors exposed if and when this information falls into the wrong hands, inside or outside of our government.

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments

Over and over again Trump tells us that he thinks the Nazis were the good guys in the story.

submitted 11 days ago • 151 comments

MAJOR UPDATE: The Supreme Court just handed DOGE the keys to all the sensitive personal information Social Security has on file — your income, benefits, health records, and more. Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.

submitted 12 days ago • 246 comments

US Supreme Court keeps DOGE records blocked in watchdog group's challenge reut.rs/4ky72Jw

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

If you're not familiar with Carl Schmitt & Leo Strauss--or, in the present, Vermeule & Vought--this is a good quick intro to the vision now fueling Trumpism--the movement, not the man. If you're telling yourself it's all just knucklehead stumbling, this is some bad news you should contend with.

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

JUST IN: The order, for now, overturns actions that limited DOGE's access to sensitive private information. In a separate case, the court said DOGE did not have to share internal records with a watchdog group.

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

The other new bad part of the moratorium is that it also changes the BEAD program to be an AI subsidy program. BEAD is meant for broadband deployment to low income and rural areas. Cruz added the option for states to spend the money instead on AI deployment. It’s a giveaway to Silicon Valley.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent defense conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

The White House is lying about the GOP budget bill. This is a tactic to manufacture opinion for people trapped in the bubble of the right-wing information ecosystem www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-white-...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

And by the way, Congress made the point explicit when it came back to amend the Privacy Act in 1988: no national data bank.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 20 days ago • 932 comments

"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

submitted 22 days ago • 40 comments

ICYMI, The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. @mtredden.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Another building block in the American Panopticon — combining all private data with all government data

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term. This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.

submitted 33 days ago • 93 comments

This whole thread is worth a read for anyone that cares about the state of due process in America.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Why has right-wing media been so incredibly effective? I sat down with the @meidastouch.com brothers to dig deeper into how right-wing news outlets weaponize the American people’s suffering to influence opinions. Listen now or watch on my YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 34 days ago • 104 comments

This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.

submitted 34 days ago • 197 comments

Trump's SG just confirmed this is its agenda during Sotomayor's questioning. The SG then said, well, a judge could certify a class action...but also remember that one of the Roberts Court's other projects is to destroy class actions as well.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

I successfully pushed the Biden administration to clamp down on how data brokers use your private data. Now it's the latest casualty in the Trump administration's efforts to help companies turn a profit at the expense of consumers.

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

This “sense of moral superiority as a reward” principle has substantial explanatory power with regard to political alignment.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Not those states rights.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their economic model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

submitted 37 days ago • 40 comments

NEW: CBP tells @wired.com that it plans to expand its face recognition system at the US border to photograph every person exiting the US by vehicle, potentially aiding Trump admin self-deportation efforts. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-fa...

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

Amber Thurman Candi Miller Josseli Barnica Porsha Ngumezi Nevaeh Crain Their deaths could've been prevented. Their lives should not be forgotten.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Notice that Senator Klobuchar never responds to anyone who points out that this bill (1) is blatantly unconstitutional (there were fixes offered to her, which she ignored) and (2) that Trump has promised to abuse her bill to remove content that is "not nice" to him. Why won't she respond?

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Going to suggest that the "Antisemitism Awareness Act" is pretty fucking antisemitic.

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 50 days ago • 1233 comments

Worth a read: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve been warning about this on @pivotpod.bsky.social for 6 months now.

submitted 52 days ago • 52 comments

Kind of incredible that it's judge Doughty who is speaking up about this also. Doughty is one of that group of Trump judges often willing to give the MAGA world everything they want. He issued the crazy July 4th ruling that banned the federal gov't from talking to ANY social media company.

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

When you've radicalized XKCD.....

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it.

submitted 56 days ago • 119 comments