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The question is whether these people would accept this formulation if the dominant voice belonged to another religion. The answer is no, of course they would not.

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

This is on Trump’s head. Should be headline in every paper

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

A Children’s Health Defense crony who just presented a loony deck on thimerosal in vaccines with fake citations has…been hired to study vaccine safety at the CDC. Lysenkoism. Incompetents failing up. And yes: this is how much of a zealot RFK Jr is. (CNN reported on the deck. CBS on the hiring.)

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Amid allegations of inhumane and unsanitary conditions in ICE facilities, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking further steps to continue skirting congressional oversight. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 1 day ago • 510 comments

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 2 days ago • 2606 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

@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.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

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 3 days 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...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

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"

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

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 11 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

submitted 11 days ago • 194 comments

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.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

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...

submitted 13 days ago • 67 comments

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.)

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

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...

submitted 15 days ago • 102 comments

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...

submitted 17 days ago • 92 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

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 21 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 30 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 35 days ago • 44 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

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 39 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 39 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 43 days ago • 165 comments

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submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

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.

submitted 58 days ago • 189 comments

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

submitted 71 days ago • 90 comments

"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

submitted 72 days ago • 1846 comments

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.

submitted 73 days ago • 6 comments

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 74 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.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment