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Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

Trump's State Dept collects data on alleged critics, with the intention of smearing them www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

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The chair of the Election Assistance Commission says states should stop counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, echoing Trump’s anti-voting order to withhold funds from states that don’t comply. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

1. The UK has announced autism tests for all transgender youth. In the United States, RFK Jr. is pushing autism registries. Fearmongering is spreading about autistic trans people. S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written. @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Ya’ll no longer means “All” in TX! Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause. # MomSky

submitted 19 days ago • 124 comments

Lots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided. www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. It is openly fraudulent what they’re doing.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

submitted 32 days ago • 829 comments

Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it. Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history. This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.

submitted 36 days ago • 415 comments

In 1992 there was an "America First" party that bucked mainstream politics by calling for the reimposition of tariffs, eliminating income taxes, eliminating foreign aid, stopping immigration, restoring our balance of trade with other nations, returning education to the states, and banning abortion.

submitted 36 days ago • 34 comments

my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI” Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 41 days ago • 1426 comments

Fox News today

submitted 48 days ago • 239 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 49 days ago • 329 comments

This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief. Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs. What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?

submitted 49 days ago • 364 comments

To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today: - Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats - IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations

submitted 51 days ago • 64 comments

"I’m talking about the moment when the Trump administration announces that it outright refuses to comply with court orders. Such an event would trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis — one we are simply unequipped to handle right now."

submitted 53 days ago • 39 comments

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

submitted 55 days ago • 93 comments

Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the Texas correctional system.

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments

The Times defense of higher education, while welcome, still engages in a lot of the tropes that Trump is using. I would love if there was some reflection on the role the Times has played, especially on its opinion page, which has been blasting higher ed for a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

submitted 58 days ago • 25 comments

These are problems but the problem, which dwarfs all others, is that they’re totally swamped by the right’s sprawling propaganda infrastructure. Their inability to withstand the flood of bullshit contributes to their lack of spine. These things are intertwined.

submitted 59 days ago • 22 comments

Trump’s moves to curb independent media look familiar to the Hungarian journalist András Pethő: “The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán's lessons well.” theatln.tc/VlZjD1iB

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

submitted 73 days ago • 444 comments

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

submitted 73 days ago • 1106 comments

Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed

submitted 74 days ago • 9 comments

Trump surrounds himself with men who make his own misogyny seem tame by comparison. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

submitted 74 days ago • 9 comments

We’re all-in on electing @crawfordforwi.bsky.social and stopping Elon Musk from buying a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. @ezralevin.bsky.social explains why this upcoming election is a big deal for anybody who cares about our democracy. Let’s get to work: indivisible.org/scowis2025

submitted 75 days ago • 14 comments

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

submitted 75 days ago • 172 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 76 days ago • 1607 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 76 days ago • 2662 comments