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“They merely fall at different places on the same spectrum of impulses… toward making our society a less egalitarian, more unequal, meaner, crueler, and much more savage place.” https://trib.al/OSJd6ZK

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BREAKING: The House Budget Committee votes to reject a massive bill for President Trump's agenda, dealing a major setback to GOP leaders.

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The U.S. agreed on Tuesday to sell Saudi Arabia an arms package worth nearly $142 billion, according to a White House fact sheet that called it "the largest defense cooperation agreement" Washington has ever done. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

NEWS: Trump moved to block the use of the one law that could actually reduce medicine prices - and RFK flip-flopped & promised senators he wouldn't use that law. This might explain why Trump's exec order today coincided with pharma stock prices rising. www.levernews.com/trump-alread...

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

The allegations that the leaders of France, Germany and the UK took drugs while on a train on their way to Kyiv are part of a wider Russian disinformation campaign. #EuroVerify

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President Donald Trump says US movie production is “dying.” There’s something that could help, but it isn’t a 100 percent tariff on foreign-produced films. www.wired.com/story/trumps...

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Trump Ally Bukele Set to Arrest Journalists Who Revealed His Secret Pact With Gangs One critic said the Salvadoran president "wants to silence" the acclaimed digital news site El Faro "because they're shattering the myths of the Bukele administration." www.commondreams.org/news/el-faro...

submitted 41 days ago • 41 comments

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 1010 comments

Dear Donald, they’re guaranteed due process rights before you throw them in Alcatraz too. Just sayin.

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30 influencers on a sinking $4.5 million luxury yacht made for 5 people, rescued and still partying while watching it sink is a great metaphor for how wealthy Americans are acting during the Trump presidency.

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Conservative superlawyer Paul Clement joins yet another case challenging the Trump administration. This time he's representing Judge Hannah Dugan, who was was arrested after the FBI said she tried to shield an illegal immigrant from arrest. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

submitted 48 days ago • 61 comments

The College of Cardinals has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

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This is chilling!!! Trump gave the Pentagon control of 170 square miles of U.S. land—now a militarized zone called the “New Mexico National Defense Area.” This move walks the line of Posse Comitatus and edges toward the Insurrection Act—to go after migrants. But it doesn’t have to stop there.

submitted 48 days ago • 171 comments

⚡️Ukraine offers assistance as Spain, Portugal recover from blackouts. "Over the years of war and Russian attacks on our energy system, Ukraine has gained significant experience in overcoming any energy challenges, including blackouts," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

submitted 49 days ago • 539 comments

👇👇

submitted 51 days ago • 590 comments

Pope Francis: 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 is a toxic combination of self-interest and apathy in the face of the violence and suffering of the world. 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 is a virus that is dangerously contagious, particularly in our modern world where we are connected but also increasingly disconnected

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

WISCONSIN: The chair of the elections commission, a lawyer, breaks down what actually happened using the actual complaint. Arresting judges like this is a wild fast-forwarding of our plunge into authoritarianism.

submitted 51 days ago • 248 comments

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

submitted 53 days ago • 987 comments

District Judge Kollar-Kotelly has blocked portions of Trump’s EO to overhaul elections 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "….And no statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the president to short-circuit Congress's deliberative process by executive order." 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #SheShed

submitted 53 days ago • 331 comments

IOW, Ukraine must surrender?

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Vlad has been grinning ear-to-ear lately. 😑

submitted 60 days ago • 69 comments

Look at this shit Google is pulling with Abrego-Garcia search results of the documents released by the DOJ. The results summary is completely misleading:

submitted 60 days ago • 54 comments

Co-signed!

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Yep, I’m going to “politicize” the FSU shooting because gun violence is political. The reason America has a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation is because politicians care more about pandering to gun lobbyists than protecting their constituents.

submitted 60 days ago • 65 comments

youtu.be/qitHXoQ91As I did a thing Ignore the cheesy images & music. (AI generated free vs $150) The script is sourced for accuracy.

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jd vance just tweeted this "What process is due" the fucking constitution

submitted 61 days ago • 471 comments

"The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing by demanding Harvard accede to 'viewpoint diversity.'" 🎁🔗

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per Van Hollen, El Salvador wouldn't let him into CECOT, which seems notable given that multiple House Republicans have photos of themselves inside grinning and giving a thumbs-up Abu Ghraib-style

submitted 61 days ago • 55 comments

🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 61 days ago • 128 comments

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

submitted 61 days ago • 274 comments

I'm exhausted just contemplating the coming fight over the meaning of "facilitate." DOJ has previously argued that in immigration law, "facilitating" "does not require [the US to take] any affirmative steps." By DOJ's reading, it means permitting the person to return, not enabling it.

submitted 65 days ago • 59 comments

The United States Supreme Court, as packed by the Federalist Society, as supported by the Randy Barretts and Ilya Shapiros and Jonathan Turleys of America, is suited to squabble over what “facilitate” means but not to achieve justice or protect or defend the United States Constitution.

submitted 65 days ago • 57 comments

👏 🔧 Ukraine is now fully capable of producing FrankenSAM air defence systems – photos, video

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Dollar down after US tariffs suspended: experts, ‘Damage is now done by Trump’ 🔊 Listen to the article - The US currency is losing ground against the euro, pound, yen and Swiss franc. The slowdown is linked to the volatility of the Trump

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

Exactly, fraudulent asshole.

submitted 67 days ago • 307 comments

All this "fraud" and yet still not a single fraud charge filed.

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What would it take to make iPhones in America? (Hint: A lot of cooperation. A lot of money. A lot of people. And a lot of time. And maybe a magic wand.)

submitted 68 days ago • 14 comments

Elections have consequences

submitted 68 days ago • 2490 comments

A trade deficit doesn’t mean the U.S. is losing money. It simply means foreigners are sending the U.S. more goods than the U.S. is sending them. Americans get cheap goods, and sell foreigners financial assets, like bonds and tech company stocks. An economist explains: buff.ly/ydSPvIL

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 72 days ago • 2148 comments

1 more #econsky. What about #tariff-buyouts to foreign countries. Let them buy down their tariff rate with a one time payment = to their tariff receipts from USA goods ? That goes right to deficit and debt reduction. Just spit balling along for feedback. Good or bad

submitted 72 days ago • 1682 comments

The question isn’t whether a federal court can order the Salvadoran government to release Garcia; it can’t. It’s whether the U.S. government has the ability to secure Garcia’s release. If so, then it can be ordered to do so, because then Garcia is in the “constructive” custody of the United States.

submitted 73 days ago • 368 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 73 days ago • 3254 comments