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Emolumental: A United Arab Emirates-based fund has bought $100 million worth of digital tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture of U.S. President Donald Trump's family, becoming its largest publicly known investor. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

I miss having a human president.

submitted 10 hours ago • 559 comments

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 11 hours ago • 80 comments

Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching? As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.

submitted 8 hours ago • 127 comments

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 896 comments

“Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper 𝘏𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘻 on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 106 comments

Bondi just said DHS is helping rid us of criminals from the Sinaloa Cartel, but she failed to mention the asylum she gave to family members of the Sinaloa Cartel. She also said we're ridding the country of MS-13, but failed to mention the asylum she's giving to MS-13 leaders in the Abrego case.

submitted 19 hours ago • 537 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 18 hours ago • 224 comments

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 1150 comments

"Hegseth’s take on the operation was a literal erasure of the woman involved, of course, but it was his doubling down that it’s fine to refer to a woman as 'a boy' that raised eyebrows."

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols. What you need to know 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

A great visionary who worked to realize a vision of this country that once seemed possible. An extraordinary human being & superb journalist who contributed to our shared understanding of our country and of one another. Rest in Peace Bill Moyers. @pbs www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

wat

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

It’s cruel to send Palestinians desperate for food into a death trap. And now, Trump wants to give the Netanyahu backed "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" $30 million. We should not send a single cent. We must stop the suffering in Gaza and fund real aid organizations.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred. In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

WTH

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

I think at least some of you follow because of NASA flavored things. And I am hearing some VERY bad things that are getting memory holed as quickly as they occur. Not only that, but significant chunks of leadership at NASA Centers have been taking early retirement offers, leaving staff unprotected

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

submitted 3 days ago • 261 comments

Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello?

submitted 3 days ago • 820 comments

The Supreme Court decided to let Trump violate an international human rights treaty and send immigrants to places where they are likely to be tortured. If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys. My latest in @thenation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Police say: If citizens encounter a matter where it appears that someone is impersonating law enforcement, they should call 911, but police also state they don't know who's ICE. So how the hell are we supposed to know if it’s ICE or a kidnapping? Solution: call 911 every time you see "ICE". #ICE

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

Trump DOJ official, Emil Bove, told colleagues to “fuck” the courts, says a whistleblower. Now Trump wants to make Bove a federal judge.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

This is extraordinarily corrupt. But I still think he’s far more malevolent and sociopathic than merely corrupt.

submitted 3 days ago • 262 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 3 days ago • 312 comments

Correct.

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

Big news for our public lands—Republican attempts to sell off our public lands using reconciliation do NOT pass the Byrd Rule. The Parliamentarian also finds their sneaky attempts to undermine NEPA and mandatory oil and gas leasing and permitting schemes don’t fly. This is a huge win!

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

submitted 4 days ago • 218 comments

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 207 comments

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

Damn right!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 829 comments

There is no ceasefire. Trump lied. Again. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

The same Donald Trump who Unconstitutionally bombed Iran – is the same Donald Trump who Unconstitutionally put American Marines and National Guard on American streets. Don't normalize Trump's pathology!

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The National Park Service is already underfunded and understaffed. To put its budget on the chopping block as we continue to see a rise in visitors at parks across the county is reckless and thoughtless. It's the worst idea for "America's Best Idea."

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

The very best people

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

This thread is very much worth reading, all the way through.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

A ProPublica investigation found that over a dozen years, a secretive group at the FDA granted exemptions to at least 22 foreign factories that had violated critical standards in drugmaking.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

The Trump team says this isn’t war. That’s a lie & they know all know it. Iran will respond. Troops are bracing. Oil prices are shifting. And the most dangerous part? The lack of civilian leadership & inexperience sitting at the table.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments