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I’ve said DS9 is the best Star Trek series for so long that sometimes it’s like ‘is it really that good or am I just used to saying it?’. Then I watch an episode and find myself pausing every 10min or so to exclaim loudly to absolutely nobody “UGH THIS IS SO GOOD!!”

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Plot line: Dehumanize migrants, making it acceptable to terrorize them. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 1329 comments

President Trump is quite literally selling seats to a private dinner and White House tours to foreign nationals for $4 million+ a piece. Much of the money goes into his own pocket. This is corruption to the highest degree.

submitted 9 days ago • 115 comments

Started / Going

submitted 12 days ago • 323 comments

Tim Qatar

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

"We now have a president ditching essential scientific data at a fast clip, sending 'move fast and break things' saboteurs to collect other data—private, personal data—at an equally fast clip." ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social:

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 138 comments

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

submitted 24 days ago • 145 comments

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order seeking to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing them of producing biased coverage. Follow live updates.

submitted 24 days ago • 93 comments

Trump ends the VA mortgage program leaving veterans on the streets. The VA Servicing Purchase, or VASP, was enacted by President Biden to help veterans avoid foreclosure by rolling their missed mortgage payments into low-interest loans. #MomSky #Voices4Victory share.newsbreak.com/cvxiqu4s?s=i16

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

Off the scale dangerous.

submitted 26 days ago • 136 comments

Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation. It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.

submitted 28 days ago • 188 comments

DOJ canceled the training for law enforcement that helps prevent online child predators from getting at our children. Doesn’t make us safer. Doesn’t make govt more efficient.

submitted 31 days ago • 68 comments

i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.

submitted 30 days ago • 58 comments

President Trump today requested Attorney General Pam Bondi open an investigation into ActBlue, the main online donations platform for Democrats.

submitted 31 days ago • 93 comments

Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

submitted 33 days ago • 305 comments

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

submitted 33 days ago • 252 comments

Hegseth is treating our national security like a joke. His actions are incredibly reckless and endanger the lives of our troops. He must resign now. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 121 comments

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 33 days ago • 142 comments

You know this is true

submitted 34 days ago • 77 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 34 days ago • 759 comments

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

submitted 34 days ago • 842 comments

‘…behind Advance’s propaganda machine – and its deluge of disinformation – are links to the far right in the US.’

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

submitted 41 days ago • 80 comments

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 42 days ago • 245 comments

Purging wrongthink

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

Rare to hear global companies having any ethical standards, so this is lovely. I’m lucky to have an IKEA near me so this will encourage me to shop there. www.smh.com.au/business/com...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.” www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...

submitted 49 days ago • 82 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 49 days ago • 154 comments

Add this war crime to the stack of things to deal with Monday

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

6 months ago

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BREAKING: 60 Minutes just exposed the lie. Over 75% of those deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison are innocent. No crimes. No charges. No justice. This is manufactured fear and state-sanctioned abuse. www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-c...

submitted 48 days ago • 376 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 49 days ago • 1113 comments

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 51 days ago • 218 comments

"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."

submitted 51 days ago • 153 comments

DOD is apparently ending military education for Army personnel

submitted 51 days ago • 151 comments

“He was worth every penny” - V. Putin

submitted 58 days ago • 12 comments

This is almost certainly not specific to France, so it's logical to assume for the time being that Australian companies have also received similar letters and neither they nor the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade have either disagreed enough or had enough guts to say anything about it

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

submitted 53 days ago • 69 comments

You know we had a deal with Iran that kept them from getting nukes until he tore it up in 2018.

submitted 56 days ago • 123 comments

IT IS A NON-GOV, NON-PROFIT ORG

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans. meidasnews.com/news/republi...

submitted 55 days ago • 314 comments

🧵 Step right up, folks! For the low, LOW price of just $1,000, Pastor Paula White-Cain—Special Government Employee and Senior Advisor of the OFFICIAL White House Faith Office—will send you seven divine Easter blessings! 🙏🏻 That’s right! /1

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

The devastating cost of forfeiting excellence in medicine for allegiance to Trump-OUR HEALTH! ⬇️ “Leaders at the CDC & Prevention ordered staff not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging”

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

1/ The GOP isn’t just lying—they’re executing a disinfo strategy. It’s designed to flood media with outrage, drown the truth, & make public doubt what’s real. Until we start naming the tactic—not just correcting the lie—we’ll keep losing ground. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 55 days ago • 26 comments