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AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

submitted 2 days ago • 511 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 3 days ago • 306 comments

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 69 comments

it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 166 comments

many of the same journalists who spent 2024 soft-pedaling the horrors of Trumpism now want you to believe that Joe Biden's age was the decisive reason for Kamala Harris's loss

submitted 8 days ago • 236 comments

The media frenzy on this topic & this book, while the unprecedented corruption & fascism are happening right in front of us, is obscene. And this right here is ridiculous, not least because these media outlets are not demanding this of the GOP after thrice nominating a criminal fascist. Happy week.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide. In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care. It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

submitted 9 days ago • 348 comments

Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

submitted 12 days ago • 199 comments

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn't lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

I, for one, am glad that the ‘national security’ threat used to justify US tariffs on China has clearly been resolved so quickly.

submitted 12 days ago • 74 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 12 days ago • 1693 comments

"Truly insane that in 2025, [software] doesn't [task]." "...It does. Right here." "oh" (Leaves post up)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump, "We don't do much business with Canada" PM Mark Carney, "Canada is the largest client of the United States" Trump fact-checked in real time 👏

submitted 18 days ago • 124 comments

I think a lot about CJ Roberts writing this in 2024: "The dissents' positions in the end boil down to . . . fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President 'feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.'"

submitted 21 days ago • 77 comments

This is extremely disappointing, @npr.org. You should be ashamed.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 91 days ago • 2474 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 24 days ago • 612 comments

I suspect this slogan would not have been tremendously popular: "Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 24 days ago • 976 comments

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

submitted 25 days ago • 566 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 25 days ago • 1337 comments

Attn #kansascity food nerds: I have 2 tickets for this Friday's Alton Brown show at Midland Theater I can't use. Msg me if interested!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

submitted 27 days ago • 54 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 27 days ago • 314 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 29 days ago • 615 comments

"The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 394 comments

So, that new give Putin all he wants "peace" plan Rubio floated this week? It appears to be illegal under a 2022 American law Rubio himself helped pass. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 30 days ago • 129 comments

Trump on the steep drop in international tourism to the US: "It's not a big deal"

submitted 30 days ago • 623 comments

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

submitted 32 days ago • 2759 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 34 days ago • 811 comments

If you have a public platform & spent years calming everyone down, telling us Trump was not a danger,was not racist, & arguing that the best way to deal w/Trump was to laugh at him, berated ppl who used the word fascist, insisted that the two parties are the same, admit YOU WERE WRONG.

submitted 34 days ago • 97 comments

Remember when you were a kid, playing games with friends—there was always that one kid who tried to change the rules mid-game just to win… but still lost, and everyone knew they were cheating? That’s DOGE.

submitted 33 days ago • 102 comments

Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 35 days ago • 337 comments

My new piece in The Atlantic continues how to fight Putinization in America. Trump is accelerating his wide-spectrum attacks on the rule of law & on public & private institutions that might slow him. If legislators don’t fight now, they won’t be able to later. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 37 days ago • 37 comments

"This is a lesson into the lengths that President Bukele will go to deceive people about what's going on. And it also shows the lengths Trump will go to" -- Van Hollen details how the photos appearing to show him and Abrego Garcia with margaritas were staged by the government of El Salvador

submitted 35 days ago • 188 comments

“The Buck Stops Here” < “I’m Not Involved” 🇺🇸 @rollingstone.com #Garcia www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 36 days ago • 873 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 36 days ago • 8449 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 36 days ago • 95 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

Judge Boasberg finds that there is probable cause to find the government in CRIMINAL contempt over its non-compliance with his order prohibiting the removal of people to a prison in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 38 days ago • 57 comments

Breakdown of what just happened. Judge Boasberg 1) Finds probable cause of Trump officials' criminal contempt of his order to turn back flights. 2) Gives USG opportunity to "purge" the contempt. 3) If not and if DOJ will not prosecute, he "will appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt."

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

Today's Motion Design Hotline: @ecabrams.bsky.social & I take advantage of the new Null creation commands in After Effects, which make connecting layers, tracing paths and more easier than ever. @adobelive.bsky.social Live at Noon ET/9a PT! Behance.net/adobelive OR www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZW...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

“…members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access…” What kind of shady s**t is going on here?? www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 38 days ago • 167 comments