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We spent the last ten years criticizing the American left for undermining free speech. Now that the America has a right-wing dictator, we plan to focus more on free speech issues in Europe.

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

RIP David Souter, who dared to betray the Republican president who nominated him to the court by being a more or less decent human being, a mistake they made damn sure never to make again.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 62 days ago • 536 comments

New: Though the Rabbis & later commentators crafted a narrative in which the Exodus was one of "just us,"-- for, by Israelites-- a closer look reveals that this was never the case. Our liberation has always been collective, has always been about who else comes with us. On solidarity in the seder:

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 69 days ago • 840 comments

Vladimir Putin is the most successful investor in the history of the world.

submitted 69 days ago • 181 comments

Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.

submitted 71 days ago • 2096 comments

The Signal group chat included Pete Hegseth saying “we will bomb their main compound at exactly 3 PM on Friday because that is a time when they won’t be expecting it,” but there was nothing on the chat that could be considered classified or top secret b

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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 81 days ago • 165 comments

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

submitted 82 days ago • 196 comments

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

submitted 82 days ago • 582 comments

I take my good and joyful news wherever I can find it, and this is GREAT. Just need to increase those negativity ratings!

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

I appreciate Josh's elevation of the term "anti-constitutional," which is different from "unconstitutional." Deciding not to spend appropriations because you don't feel like it isn't some outré theory of the Constitution. It's just an assertion of power, a rejection of constitutionalism altogether.

submitted 95 days ago • 23 comments

Trump has long boasted about the market's performance under him. But now he seems to have other priorities.

submitted 95 days ago • 71 comments

The Constitution conflicts with his power. We told you he wanted to be a dictator.

submitted 98 days ago • 121 comments

Gender self-identification is the only way to maintain human dignity in a gender segregated society. Anyone who claims otherwise is either falsely assuming the genital police will never come for them or their friends or their children, or lying.

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq. No one gave Kyiv any minerals open.substack.com/pub/countero...

submitted 98 days ago • 45 comments

@anntelnaes.bsky.social National Women’s Day

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.

submitted 98 days ago • 1116 comments

What accounts for phrasing like this? If any other president in modern times had signed an executive order libelling a DC law firm as an enemy of the state, the headlines would be about how he’s a fucking lunatic, the courts were sure to slap him down, and his cabinet was reacting with horror.

submitted 99 days ago • 200 comments

Trump Outlines Bold Vision For Golden Age Of China

submitted 101 days ago • 66 comments

it really seems like a lot of dudes formulate their theories on what's popular with the American public based off a candidate winning an election and it's hard to overstate how incorrect of a way to understand the world that is

submitted 101 days ago • 31 comments

RFK Jr should not be recommending steroids or antibiotics for measles - a virus. He is not a doctor. Don’t listen to his garbage. Get your advice from doctors & get kids vaccinated.

submitted 101 days ago • 126 comments

I used to have to scroll on twitter for a solid 5 minutes before I found some really crazy shit being proposed by an elected Republican. Now it’s every other post.

submitted 101 days ago • 538 comments

Peter Navarro: “Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels” Big if true

submitted 101 days ago • 5231 comments

The new head of the FDA division that regulates infant formula was in recent months a corporate lawyer defending a top formula maker from claims that its product gave rise to debilitating harm to premature babies.

submitted 101 days ago • 55 comments

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG: Plaintiffs in one lawsuit against DOGE have alerted the court to President Trump's remarks tonight calling Elon Musk the "head" of the office.

submitted 102 days ago • 308 comments

Mayor of LA: someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my city is dying

submitted 101 days ago • 117 comments

The Trump administration is setting out to destroy biomedical research in America www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 101 days ago • 48 comments

I guess drinking sewage is part of that new manliness thing being promoted now?

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

For Lent I’m going to give up being right all the time

submitted 102 days ago • 12 comments

Across the country, workers who were just ordered back to the office have now learned that their agencies will no longer occupy the buildings they once were in, leaving them scrambling to figure out how to honor Trump’s return-to-office mandate with vastly fewer offices.

submitted 102 days ago • 24 comments

It is difficult to appreciate just how badly JD Vance’s comments are going down with military leaders, families of fallen soldiers & citizens across Europe. This is the UK’s most popular independent radio station, LBC. “Wow. A Vice-President who is as dumb as he is aggressive.” @lbc.co.uk

submitted 102 days ago • 86 comments

Democrats Invite Fired Federal Workers to Trump’s Congressional Address www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

submitted 102 days ago • 30 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 102 days ago • 1068 comments

today in metaphor:

submitted 102 days ago • 12 comments

I continue to speak out against every bill that attempts to remove trans people from public life. And I will continue to do so for as long as I draw breath. I hope one day the government will leave my people alone.

submitted 104 days ago • 64 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 112 days ago • 85 comments