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Andrew Cuomo is an amazing candidate if you want NYC's next mayor to be a white guy who says the n-word "slowly and with a hard r."

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

submitted 12 days ago • 170 comments

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

submitted 18 days ago • 80 comments

NEW: A fund backed by Abu Dhabi will be making a $2 BILLION business deal using cryptocurrency from the Trump family's venture, World Liberty Financial, according to Zach Witkoff. That transaction would be a major contribution by a foreign government to President Trump’s private venture.

submitted 20 days ago • 76 comments

New York and the country can do better than Jeffries

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill House chairman overseeing health policy says they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion (ie FMAP). BFD, if it happens 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 22 days ago • 1340 comments

“Eight very strong questions”

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

an aptly plaintive headline in @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's always-fantastic Law Dork tonight

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

submitted 29 days ago • 155 comments

Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

submitted 30 days ago • 202 comments

He has been out to destroy Bennett, to crush her into oblivion, to bankrupt her through invasive lawsuits. And too many people forgot. But it isn’t too late.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Going through US citizens’ phones at the border with no warrant and no probable cause

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

Policy wonk: So is the goal of the tariffs to bring manufacturing back or is it an opening to negotiate better trade deals? EU trade representative: we do not understand what the US objectives are? Vietnam: 💡

submitted 34 days ago • 88 comments

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

submitted 34 days ago • 590 comments

Newsome exists to answer the age old 2015 question: what if Patrick Bateman got cast as Aaron Burr

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 37 days ago • 166 comments

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

submitted 36 days ago • 642 comments

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

submitted 37 days ago • 63 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 37 days ago • 691 comments

If NYC elects Cuomo, he would 100% go along with this. You can hear it in how Cuomo talks about the people of NYC right now.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 38 days ago • 246 comments

Don't let up. Don't look away. This is a crisis. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

"The categories of information shown here are drawn from 23 data systems holding personal information about the public across eight agencies ... In all, The New York Times identified more than 300 separate fields of data about people who live in the U.S. contained in these data systems."

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally untrustworthy this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 124 comments

submitted 45 days ago • 43 comments

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com

submitted 46 days ago • 89 comments

Top officials at the Department of the Interior were placed on leave late last month after declining to immediately give affiliates of DOGE access to a payroll system that would in theory allow them to stop individual Supreme Court justices’ paychecks.

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.

submitted 49 days ago • 94 comments

Here's the evidence ICE submitted in his case: a "gang worksheet" filled out by local cops in 2019 saying: 1) he had on Chicago Bulls gear 2) a confidential information said he was part of an MS-13 clique in a state he'd never lived in. ICE agreed they had nothing else. Read the full context here:

submitted 50 days ago • 166 comments

If “protected status” is no protection against extra-judicial imprisonment, what do the laws mean? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams. Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!

submitted 52 days ago • 48 comments

The white supremacist gunman who murdered 23 people at an El Paso WalMart in 2019 believed he was acting at the direction of President Trump, his defense lawyers say. "“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him."

submitted 51 days ago • 91 comments

Elon Musk advertises his blatantly corrupt attempt to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court:

submitted 55 days ago • 317 comments

“To cure cancer or whatever”

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

submitted 56 days ago • 1072 comments

A President who disregards Congressional appropriations unifying all federal payments under a single department run by his appointees alone would have total control of the federal purse, capable of punishing or rewarding individuals at will. "Anti-constitutional," as @jamellebouie.net says.

submitted 57 days ago • 48 comments

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

submitted 57 days ago • 200 comments

Introducing the $20 Dinner Map, an interactive guide to @scoboco.bsky.social's $20 Dinner column. Whether you're planning an eating adventure or just find yourself thinking 'where the hell can I eat around here that's good and doesn't cost $700?,' we've got you.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”

submitted 60 days ago • 167 comments

NEW: According to the @nytimes.com, the Trump administration is planning to argue that its invocation of the Alien Enemies Act allows it to enter the homes of any person who they believe are subject to the declaration WITHOUT A WARRANT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 62 days ago • 262 comments