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@aoc.bsky.social today attacked how harassment allegations are used at times as a knock-out "political football" but without lasting consequences. As an assault survivor herself, she said, "We want no part of that." Real consequences matter.

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Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies

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What roles are local police, private companies and federal agencies playing in immigration enforcement? Tomorrow, join our virtual discussion at 4 p.m. ET to hear from ProPublica journalists investigating the system. RSVP and submit your questions 👇

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

This sounds... needed!

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What is the argument that this isn’t driving up energy use again? Enough to power a million homes. Millions of gallons of water used per year. All for one company, Anthropic. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t...

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One more reason only constitutional option was to get Congressional approval: "In the days before Trump gave the final order for the attack... Iran sent a private message to the president that it would respond to such a move by unleashing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil carried out by sleeper cells"

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The Senate bill puts rural hospitals more at risk with their bigger cuts to Medicaid.

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I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

submitted 8 days ago • 159 comments

Look, everyone, including Trump, can have butterfingers, it happens. But let’s be honest, if Biden had done this (as with the tripping or walking the wrong way or whatever) there would have been multiple news stories and calls for medical examinations. It’s the double standard that annoys me

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Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, according to a new investigation by ProPublica and @azluminaria.org.

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Reminder: the Trump admin put a 22-year-old in charge of the country’s domestic terrorism prevention office. He graduated college last year. And has no known national security expertise. But he did work for the Trump campaign. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

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Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

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The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent" bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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The deals Musk cut with foreign governments while they were facing Trump's tariff threats. A new report by ‪@warren.senate.gov‬ staffers compiles these and other disturbing facts about Musk's 130-day stint in the administration

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Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

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If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

submitted 18 days ago • 78 comments

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A police stop is enough to make someone less likely to vote, recent research has found. "Voting is a reflection of our belief that we’re part of the system, that our voice matters." boltsmag.org/a-polic...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

submitted 32 days ago • 44 comments

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Tucked into the congressional budget bill is a preemption provision that, if passed, would ban all state regulation on AI for the next 10 years. ‪@katiefryhester.bsky.social‬ and ‪@garymarcus.bsky.social‬ argue that this provision would tie the hands of the only political actors positioned to lead.

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

submitted 36 days ago • 261 comments

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

submitted 40 days ago • 166 comments

all right everybody, here we go links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

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I just ran into someone doing the whole “don’t eat a thing if your great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize it as food” and I’m begging people to know a little food history and understand how far back you have to go to find food without additives.

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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over." Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it

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DOGE has repeatedly tried to get around a court order restricting access to sensitive social security data and systems. News flash: court orders are not optional.

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NEWS: In the midst of it all, groups allege in an ongoing suit that the Trump admin is trying to make it harder for immigrants, including in detention, by terminating congressionally-funded programs that provide them legal info. A preliminary injunction hearing is set for 2:30p Tuesday (tomorrow).

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

On my birthday, I am not sending you to a fundraiser button. But you know what to do. Inside and outside the US, please support your favourite immigrant-owned businesses.

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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."

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Lessons from history for higher ed institutions facing crackdowns, by @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... (gift link)

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Once again, it’s critical to say here that Republicans in Congress endorse this with their silence

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A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

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Yet even if this case now unfolds in the ideal way, Trump’s aspirations toward unchecked power mean that the nation will never veer too far from the “path of perfect lawlessness,” at least not as long as he remains in office." @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 23 comments

Can we Americans still spell C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N? And why did this story break today in the Financial Times, a London newspaper?

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

The closure of the CDC's entire FOIA office violates FOIA and the Administrative Procedures Act. Americans deserve to have transparency into the CDC’s operations. That's why we sued.

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If RFK Jr. wants public health agencies to be transparent, why would he gut the teams at the CDC and FDA that handle FOIA requests — a key way the public gains access to government information?

submitted 82 days ago • 56 comments