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I keep hearing from highly educated friends, including Ivy League attorneys, that I’m overreacting to the authoritarian onslaught of this era; I would ask them what they think they know that she does not

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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 185 comments

The assassination of a sitting congressperson and her husband should be headline news every day for the rest of this presidency. Every single fucking day.

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The authorities are investigating the death of a Canadian citizen who died Monday in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency said in a statement. The man, Johnny Noviello, 49, is the 10th person to die in ICE custody this year.

submitted 23 hours ago • 37 comments

This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Holy crap I missed this story a few weeks ago.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Every American who cares about democracy will want to spend some disconcerting moments with this.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

“Vote Blue No Matter Who” unless they think poor people deserve to live with dignity.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

The Pope has joined Team Anti Gen AI, fam! 💪 As a Jew I say, YAAAAAAS! Welcome to our fight, Pope Leo!! 🫶🫶🫶

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Big news! I'm heading to the National Humanities Center as the next president. I'm proud to be the first woman, the first Black person, and the first person of color to lead it. Honored to start this new chapter. #Humanities #BlackWomenLead #BlackSky

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Trump on his budget today: It reduces the deficit! (It raises the deficit by $3.4T) No tax on social security! (That’s not in the bill) No cuts to Medicaid! (Largest Medicaid cuts in history).

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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

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Mamdani wins the primary with hearty support from the Jewish left, cross-endorses with Brad Lander, wins the Upper West Side, wins Dan Goldman's district, gets Jerry Nadler's endorsement The NYT:

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"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

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I just blocked someone for the take "copyright should expire upon rhe creator's death" because I was going to feel compelled to explain why that's bad, he would then call me an idea landlord if history is anything to go by, and it would ruin both our evenings. So I'll explain it to you, instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

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"this is the future liberals want" and it's just some guy taking a free bus to buy a dozen eggs for $2.99

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Feeding auto-complete on the ashes of human knowledge and experience, so you won’t have to think about how to write an email. I hate what AI has done to us. I especially hate the chattering classes who pretend this resource-guzzling snake oil makes better humans. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

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Democratic Party hastily commissions a study to figure out why so many people preferred the attractive, energetic, charismatic guy with the fun name to the disgraced vampire

submitted 3 days ago • 279 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...

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In case you missed it: I wrote a piece for @therevelator.org about the Trump administration's proposal to eliminate funding for the Bird Banding Lab and Breeding Bird Survey and what this would mean for bird research and conservation in the U.S. therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

striking to see this from nearly a century ago related, paging @brandostarkey.bsky.social ballsandstrikes.org/guest-essay/...

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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 4 days ago • 84 comments

On this day in 1964, 30 Freedom Summer workers from Greenville, Mississippi, made the first effort to register Black voters in Drew.

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BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

this heat map study of gender differences of walking through urban environments at night is not surprising, but still sort of incredible to see news.byu.edu/intellect/st...

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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

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submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Congrats! Trump’s (illegal) air strikes on Iran energized and empowered the most hardline, nationalistic, anti-western, and belligerent folks in Iran.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

UN condemns Israel’s use of food in Gaza as a weapon of war - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-condemns-israels-use-food-gaza-weapon-war

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13 women risked their safety and livelihoods to reveal how Andrew Cuomo treated them. It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence. (and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

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“We're going to claim our moment in history. We're going to claim it. And one day it will be written that we did not bow. We did not bow. Instead, we chose to stand.” —Bishop William Barber open.substack.com/pub/america/...

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Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

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The illegal ban on trans people using the correct toilets in parliament imposed just two days before our mass lobby of MPs is basically Starmer saying to trans people; “You have fewer democratic democratic rights than cis people. We don’t want MPs to listen to you as constituents and voters.”… 1/4

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

submitted 5 days ago • 1137 comments

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

submitted 5 days ago • 673 comments

If you work in climate & need more reasons why you should also actively, energetically oppose military expansion & war, they are here.

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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

submitted 5 days ago • 839 comments

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

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