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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

submitted 5 hours ago • 202 comments

Powell: "People look at the incidents of tariffs during the president's first term, but those were like 1/6 the size of what people are estimating now. And they do find some effects on inflation ... there really isn't a modern precedent."

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

submitted 6 hours ago • 239 comments

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

A breakthrough preventive drug that offers total protection from HIV was to be rolled out across parts of Africa this year. But the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts derailed those plans.

submitted 4 hours ago • 42 comments

he's right and he's right to say it

submitted 4 hours ago • 109 comments

Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

✋ Former State Department war powers lawyer here. Some problems with the Speaker's remarks: --executive branch (even under Trump 1.0) has long treated the WPR as constitutional --some of the post-WWII military actions he refers to (eg Iraq, Afghanistan) had congressional war authorizations 1/n

submitted 23 hours ago • 50 comments

"Instead of asking which future is coming, we should be asking which future we want: one in which humans are replaced or only augmented?" Good piece from @superwuster.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Alrighty everyone. We ALL know what to do. Here is Rep Crockett’s campaign page. www.jasmineforus.com MAKE IT RAIN!!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

We just had a political assassination in the United States last week. We CANNOT let this leave the news cycle and be forgotten.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Be warned: Trump will likely use his war with Iran as a pretext to further suppress dissent at home. We must resist his efforts to stifle freedom of speech, make warrantless searches and arrests of Americans, and put more military onto our streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

LAT posts a picture of Narciso Barranco, who was violently assaulted by ICE, with his 3 Marine sons. These are the proud Americans Stephen Miller is targeting. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

No explanation. None. It’s obscene. I keep remembering the 1679 habeas corpus act. It reacted to the king arresting people & without trial deporting them. It began: “for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas.” Without explanation, our current SCOTUS majority is undoing centuries of justice.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

LA is YouTube New York is TikTok DC is LinkedIn Chicago is Bluesky Miami is Instagram Phoenix is Facebook San Francisco is NextDoor Salt Lake City is Pornhub Berlin's Führerbunker in 1945 is Twitter

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

NEWS: Trump says a ceasefire has been agreed to between Israel and Iran, even as Israel continues its war effort, with explosions heard across multiple cities in Iran.

submitted 1 day ago • 441 comments

It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

This is a horrifying ruling that shows a disdain for basic human rights principles — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees did so with no reasoning and on the shadow docket.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

The Roberts court will be considered the most shameful in American history.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

I don't understand how this can be legal. I don't understand how this can be ethical.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Yes, this is valid! But also: the courts as a whole HAVE been trying to protect us. They've made stupendous rulings. But they, too, are up against SCOTUS. They've bought us five months so far, a window in which serious opposition has really begun to rise. As citizens, we now have to move faster.

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So im still working so i haven't been able to pay much attention to things, but did the Supreme Court just bring back the slave trade?

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Trump’s ICE Agents Are Arresting US Citizens. GOP Budget Would Hire 10,000 More.

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“FLORIDA is building a detention facility nicknamed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ on an airfield in the Everglades to help Trump with its immigration crackdown… large tents, etc. will cost around $450 million a year…” Their cruelty is big business. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Hard not to believe that the current moment will not completely poison many people's ability to trust the US government for a long time. No-one really believes that the masked men dishing out the kind of violence will ever face any sort of accountability.

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

submitted 3 days ago • 482 comments

This really is Congress eating its own institutional capacity to stifle any dissent to Trump. They accuse CBO of being Democrats, even though it is run by a Republican appointee. GAO has pointed out the illegality of impoundment. DOGE tried to take over GAO, and now House Republicans want to gut it.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Republican presidents are always dragging us into a war with the middle east. Bush Sr. -- Gulf Bush Jr. -- Iraq Bush Jr. -- Afghanistan Trump -- Iran Elections have consequences.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

But by all means, continue to listen to them screech about the unfairness of DEI.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It hasnt even been a year yet and Trump has done so much damage with everything he does. Im afraid to think of what will be left of the U.S by the time his term is over.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

submitted 2 days ago • 400 comments

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 241 comments

Beyond parody.

submitted 2 days ago • 1785 comments

1. Trump announces where he will bomb in Iran to destroy its nuclear inventory. 2. Iran moves its nuclear inventory from those locations. 3. Trump bombs those locations. 4. Trump: "Yay! Our strikes were a COMPLETE success! Mission accomplished!!!" 5. Iran rolls its eyes & jacks up US gas prices.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

"Lobbyists acting on behalf of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are urging the Senate to enact a decade-long moratorium on individual states introducing their own efforts to legislate AI."

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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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@vukosi.bsky.social you might enjoy this wonderful podcast by @baratunde.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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Tiberius— "There has never been a better time to watch this video"

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Trump’s plan to ban US states from AI regulation will ‘hold us back’, says Microsoft science chief

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Take note.

submitted 3 days ago • 918 comments

Yes, this is yet another obvious violation of international law by the US Government. However despicable the regime in Iran, you cannot just attack another country. Bombing civilian nuclear facilities is also illegal under several nuclear treaties to which US is Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments