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"Another officer, frustrated, says, 'They don’t need a warrant.' Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they’re concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing"—@billshaner.bsky.social in Worcester www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 309 comments

Let's be very clear: The Trump administration is not "defending" mifepristone against a legal challenge. They're pulling a calculated move that will allow them to restrict or ban abortion medication without pushback www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

submitted 11 days ago • 1167 comments

"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front, according to a source familiar with the government task force."

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

I love cycling. There used to be a significant Strava heatmap in Gaza, and a load of riders posting their rides up and down the coast road. Even the memory of ghosts: removed.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring. You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic

submitted 15 days ago • 103 comments

My ancestors crossed the Atlantic three centuries ago and I am an American in the exact same way as the infant child of undocumented immigrants born here yesterday. There is no difference between us, their right to this country no less than mine. We are entirely equal and I will accept nothing else.

submitted 15 days ago • 63 comments

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like you yearn for the good old days of “master bedrooms”. What other words do you, a self described ordinary person, wish you could say but no longer can? Go ahead, I’ll listen. Sounds like you might have a big list.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 31 days ago • 863 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 42 days ago • 670 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 65 days ago • 813 comments

In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort

submitted 74 days ago • 228 comments

This was always about cutting the federal government so the tax cuts for the very wealthy don’t expire. This was never about “efficacy.”

submitted 76 days ago • 565 comments

lol it's been about a month and what have we learned? - Everyone leading the effort is a scammer - Federal agencies and workers are priceless - They definitely love the evil guy with the mustache - The guy people elected isn't in charge - And the only people who can stop this are THE PEOPLE

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

"Hochul is dithering about whether to use her powers. AOC, in contrast, exercised her 1st Amendment rights to inform her constituents about their 4th Amendment rights. In doing so, she showed that the administration is tyrannical. She also showed that it’s weak — if you’re willing to confront it."

submitted 78 days ago • 151 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

submitted 82 days ago • 138 comments

New—The Food & Drug Administration (FDA), an agency that falls under RFK Jr.’s purview, just mass fired probationary employees via an email reviewed by me. They’re citing performance issues as the reason, even for employees who had great performance reviews. Don’t know how many people affected yet.

submitted 84 days ago • 95 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 87 days ago • 302 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 87 days ago • 750 comments

feels kind of quaint at this point

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

submitted 89 days ago • 237 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 90 days ago • 527 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 97 days ago • 1291 comments

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

submitted 100 days ago • 2876 comments

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 101 days ago • 981 comments

LOUDER

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

You’ll notice nowhere in these examples do I use ICE as a descriptor. That’s on purpose! Instead of assuming that something is ICE, say exactly what you’re seeing. There’s several different types of ICE & ICE-affiliated patches/badges/visuals — it can be confusing. “Keep it simple, stupid!”

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

What a ridiculous figure Robert Eggers is, making a series of beautiful, confrontationally uncompromising films about subjects in which he is deeply interested. Let's get him

submitted 107 days ago • 10 comments

There’s nothing like running into your favorite creatives to remind you why the world is good.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

New here! @jerkq.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia). Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for: WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

submitted 110 days ago • 221 comments

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

submitted 110 days ago • 616 comments

"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

submitted 111 days ago • 50 comments

Neumorphism was one of the most confounding, masturbatory, user-hostile aesthetic trends to crawl out of design Twitter, and I'm glad its basically dead. scribe.rip/the-rise-and...

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

submitted 122 days ago • 279 comments