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More than five million Americans in over 2,100 towns and cities joined us today to say we don't do kings in this country. Thank you for making it clear that we won't be ruled by fear.

submitted 7 days ago • 149 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 14 days ago • 896 comments

Been my ringtone for 7 years. Time to retire it? Nope.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 57 days ago • 313 comments

So the White House story is now: “We didn’t mean to threaten Harvard, because we didn’t mean to send the threatening letter we sent, but when Harvard rejected the threats we made but didn’t mean to make, we decided to threaten them twice more.” The country is now run by thugs and idiots.

submitted 64 days ago • 811 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 66 days ago • 282 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 67 days ago • 276 comments

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.

submitted 68 days ago • 56 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 68 days ago • 40 comments

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

submitted 74 days ago • 260 comments

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 73 days ago • 98 comments

A week ago, the Trump administration laid off thousands of people at HHS and its agencies. The cuts were so deep, and touched so much, we're still learning about the impacts. Here are a couple stories that have stood out to me. 1) @levfacher.bsky.social on the gutting of a pain-research office.

submitted 74 days ago • 7 comments

(The Telegraph) - Donald Trump is systematically purging every US government institution, a pattern familiar to anybody who has studied the caudillo regimes of Latin America, or the playbook of today’s Putin-Orbán-Erdoğan prototypes. @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 31 comments

I really do think we’re well beyond this point. If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.

submitted 77 days ago • 533 comments

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

submitted 79 days ago • 424 comments

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

submitted 80 days ago • 578 comments

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

submitted 81 days ago • 104 comments

JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”

submitted 83 days ago • 143 comments

Goldman's Q1 estimates in recent weeks have gone from 1.8% .. .. to 1.6% .. to 1.3% .. to 1.0% .. to 0.6%.

submitted 86 days ago • 88 comments

“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 107 days ago • 1283 comments

Whitehouse: "I see the VP and the president acting very directly as agents of Putin and Russia in these so-called negotiations. Imagine if FDR had told Winston Churchill, 'We're cutting off Lend-Lease, you have to negotiate with Hitler, and be prepared to give up some of your territory.'"

submitted 110 days ago • 121 comments

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

submitted 111 days ago • 73 comments

In the last two weeks: 1. biggest drop in retail sales in nearly two years 2. biggest drop in personal spending since Feb 2021 3. jobless claims, biggest gain in five months 4. ISM Mfg prices paid, highest since June 2022

submitted 111 days ago • 63 comments

“Today’s meeting gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 114 days ago • 19 comments

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

submitted 115 days ago • 113 comments

submitted 120 days ago • 746 comments

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submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn

submitted 138 days ago • 334 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 139 days ago • 510 comments

Started bodyboarding last June. Met a great crew of NorCal spongers (fun term!) when I got rolling. About 60 surfs in, was great to meetup again this weekend and see how far my skills had come…and how far they have to go. #Boogie

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments