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This seems right.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump's decision to bomb Iran had little to do with intelligence. For years, including when he was last in office, the public U.S. intel assessment has been the same: Iran was not trying to build a nuclear weapon.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

submitted 3 days ago • 443 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 5 days ago • 508 comments

True. And it really keeps you on your toes parsing what's meant to be funny and what isn't.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 5 days ago • 357 comments

In fact there were TWO MAGA Terrorist attacks Saturday: This guy INTENTIONALLY drove his SUV into No King protesters in Virginia. As police stated he "intentionally accelerated his car" into crowd. This MAGA terrorist attack deserves far more coverage! www.12onyourside.com/2025/06/14/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

The accused assassin allegedly used data brokers to track down the Democratic lawmakers he murdered. Congress doesn't need any more proof that selling data to anyone with a credit card is deadly. Every American's safety is at risk until Congress cracks down on data brokers.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 288 comments

I just keep going back to the under reaction when Trump pardoned over a thousand violent extremists as one of his first acts as President.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

submitted 9 days ago • 324 comments

This is all massively unpopular, and unlike some other unpopular stuff is neither a Trump or (for the most part) a GOP media priority. A handful of GOP Senators could put an end to it any time they want.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

submitted 10 days ago • 73 comments

Mary Harris is great. Lizzie O'Leary too. NPR outlets really oughta run "What Next" instead of the consistently pompous NYT "The Daily."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like the abolitionists are going to have to fight this war all over again.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I have a hard time mentally processing any claims that Los Angeles is a “distraction” given that deploying the military if he gets pissed off and also expansively cruel immigration crackdowns were like the top two things he ran on in 2024

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest and dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

From your mouth to .... well.....

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

the people who make this country unsafe aren’t immigrants. the people who make this country unsafe are cops.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

To the Dems who are all, sure we’d welcome Elon back, ah yes smart idea, welcoming into your tent the guy who you know turns on people on a dime and starts implicitly accusing his former best pal of being a maybe-pedo after ingratiating himself enough in your party’s inner circle to the point that…

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

What I've been saying since that big NYT article on the shocking govt dependence on satellites controlled by a wildly unreliable gigabillionaire.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Nationalize SpaceX!!!!

submitted 17 days ago • 52 comments

More than a nod to Kafka, a concise summary with quotes.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 19 days ago • 714 comments

While in principle we need a federal entity tasked to remove criminals unlawfully residing here, ICE as presently constituted is just a criminal gang. Best to burn it down and start over.

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 21 days ago • 1278 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

submitted 22 days ago • 79 comments

the president accusing joe biden of being a clone decanted in 2020 to assume the presidency is not going to make the news tomorrow

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

Have seen a lot of Harvard commencements. Usually the Harvard prez is greeted by brief pro-forma applause. Or nothing. Or in my era, waves of protests and boos. Never heard of anything like the sustained standing ovation Alan Garber got today. Deserved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiT0...

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it" by Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social), Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

Tinpot kleptocracies don't conduct their bribery and corruption this openly.

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

WE ARE RELIEVED TO HEAR A U.S. COURT HAS RULED THAT TARIFFS AGAINST OUR ISLAND WERE ILLEGAL AND A SPECTACULAR MISUNDERSTANDING OF GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY, AND REALITY. FLIPPERS UP UNTIL WE ARE PERMANENTLY SHOWN DUE RESPECT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER -PM Tuxley II

submitted 25 days ago • 186 comments