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HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 56 days ago • 808 comments

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

submitted 60 days ago • 141 comments

Also, let's be clear: Having a criminal record also doesn't mean you should be deported to a torture camp in another country and effectively sentenced to death. Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.

submitted 61 days ago • 106 comments

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

submitted 61 days ago • 236 comments

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

submitted 61 days ago • 468 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 61 days ago • 1320 comments

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 63 days ago • 275 comments

Americans have changed their mind about nuclear power

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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued used underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

submitted 67 days ago • 180 comments

If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead

submitted 70 days ago • 168 comments

"Shame on you" -- Leavitt gets mad at @andrewfeinberg.com for asking her about a document indicating that tattoos are all it takes for migrants to get sent to a slave prison in El Salvador

submitted 75 days ago • 2262 comments

All Michigan Law students got this email today threatening to sue the school for, basically, discriminating against white men. Warns students applying to law review not to discuss their "race, sexual proclivities, or gender non-conforming behavior," or "FASORP will ensure that you live to regret it"

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

submitted 76 days ago • 552 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 78 days ago • 2512 comments

JFC, Fulbright scholar not accused of any crime, no immigration violation, no reason to expect any violence -- just Marco Rubio's whim -- and instead of summoning her first step is no-uniform / no-ID guys in masks and hoodies grabbing her off a public street.

submitted 80 days ago • 49 comments

World historical grifting and corruption

submitted 83 days ago • 287 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 85 days ago • 3454 comments

Due process “is how any of us can have confidence that the folks being packed onto airplanes and whisked off to El Salvador are members of TdA—as opposed to US citizens; political dissidents; or others whom the Trump administration would just as soon be rid of.” www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

submitted 87 days ago • 78 comments

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 89 days ago • 902 comments

there isn’t a big list of “likely criminals who are also here without proper visa/docs/whatever” with pics and addresses. there is however a big list of people who have tried to navigate our kafka-esque immigration system in good faith, and sometimes some of them have slipped up.

submitted 90 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

submitted 92 days ago • 705 comments

OK, a roundup response to the "they won't follow the court orders" people. First of all, you're wrong! The administration is following many of the court orders. What's more, they're showing their understanding of the validity of court orders by seeking stays pending appeal when they lose.

submitted 96 days ago • 286 comments

This should be read as a regime commitment to systematic First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment violations.

submitted 97 days ago • 22 comments

If Americans don't like the direction of the country, they should speak directly to power—either by taking a Supreme Court justice on an all-expenses-paid trip or by paying Donald Trump 5 million dollars to have dinner together.

submitted 98 days ago • 20 comments

We can quibble about the placement of each item but the original sin here is the very existence of this graph. Why on earth would a news organization rank social issues like they're weapons in an RPG?

submitted 105 days ago • 93 comments

Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.

submitted 107 days ago • 22 comments

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

submitted 108 days ago • 704 comments

Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."

submitted 108 days ago • 1502 comments

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

submitted 109 days ago • 28 comments

We love merit, don’t we folks?

submitted 110 days ago • 486 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 112 days ago • 277 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

submitted 113 days ago • 83 comments

The darkest predictions, the ones that could get you laughed out of polite conversations. Never going to happen. Ridiculous. TDS. It is February, and this is what’s happening.

submitted 114 days ago • 3 comments

i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real.

submitted 117 days ago • 412 comments

Final: Michigan 75, Purdue 73 Photo gallery: umhoops.com/2025/02/11/p... @umhoops.com

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Don’t look away from the needless death being inflicted around the world by the Trump/Musk shutdown of USAID. Even if the federal courts ultimately save the agency, thousands of people will have died in the meantime. Because of a billionaire’s spite, sadism, and paranoia. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 127 days ago • 44 comments

Regular reminder that this entirely comes down to retirements. I think it's good that old people are able to stop working, and that we have payroll-tax-paying-aged people coming here from around the world to keep things going

submitted 127 days ago • 82 comments

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

submitted 129 days ago • 103 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 130 days ago • 203 comments

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

submitted 130 days ago • 424 comments

Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit. By me at @wired.com:

submitted 130 days ago • 215 comments

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

submitted 131 days ago • 51 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 131 days ago • 728 comments

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

submitted 132 days ago • 64 comments

Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961? Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional? Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

submitted 131 days ago • 165 comments