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Look at the trade line - I take it back, I don't think we've made enough contact with the stove

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BREAKING: The RNC intervenes in federal court to defend Trump’s anti-voting executive order. The RNC argues that more accessible voting hurts Republican candidates, attempting to justify limiting mail-in ballots and purging voter rolls.

submitted 12 hours ago • 74 comments

What a difference a day makes!

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

An 81-year-old Reagan appointee born during World War II has been protecting trans people in federal prison in the face of Trump admin efforts. Today, Judge Royce Lamberth sided with challengers who sought a class-wide preliminary injunction protecting hormone therapy and social accommodations.

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Ticket sales and subscription revenue at the Kennedy Center have fallen sharply since Trump made himself chairman. Single-ticket sales were down roughly 50%. Subscriptions revenue down 82% for theater and 57% for dance. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say reut.rs/3SxBvuL

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

🧾"it’s important for those who are going to criticize the behavior of district courts over the last 4.5 months not only to do so in good faith, but to bring receipts when they do." — Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social

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New paper in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Well, actually, not "new". We first put this paper online way back Dec 2022... in any case, we think it's really cool! We find that conspiracy believers tend to be overconfident & really don't seem to realize that most disagree with them

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

“I’m looking for a place to stand, or a way to go, where the behavior of those I oppose will not control my behavior.” Julie Phillips Considers a Beloved Author’s Lifetime of Helping With the Housework of Democracy By Julie Phillips January 3, 2025

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"There is no trust in them, because there is no truth in them." Le Guin, Worlds of Exile and Illusion, page 228

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“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

This is bullshit! The separation code is malicious and purposeful — there are several other separation codes available that would do less harm to these veterans. Will not only negatively affect those wishing to work in the federal govt but will make civilian employers take a second look.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Neurosky #immunosky #publichealth The study has shown, in #Parkinsonsdisease cases who go on to develop cognitive impairment such as #Dementia , an increase in memory B cells in CSF, an increased CSF:blood memory B cell ratio, alongside a reduction in memory B cells in blood.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Doubling steel & aluminum tariffs increases overall US tariff rates by roughly 1.4%, meaning Trump will have more than septupled tariffs since he took office It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 5 days ago • 1125 comments

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

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"This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship." — David Frum, The Atlantic

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"After a career of high-profile mediocrity, punctuated by flamboyant failures, the selling of the presidency is the most successful business venture of his career.' By David A. Graham

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

submitted 6 days ago • 158 comments

Dude was born in Cambridge and went to Harvard.

submitted 6 days ago • 153 comments

BREAKING: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case, Judge Xinis denies DOJ’s request for an extension of the discovery deadline after plaintiffs say the Trump administration has only turned over one document during this period. The May 30 deadline will stand. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 6 days ago • 430 comments

⚠️ For those unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it does not only mean deportation of undocumented immigrants but also the expulsion of non-white people to the country of their racial or ethnic ancestral origin without regard to their citizenship, legal status, or place of birth.

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's trade war has cost companies more than $34 billion in lost sales and higher costs, according to a Reuters analysis of corporate disclosures, a toll that is expected to rise. www.reuters.com/business/tru...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

New summary alert for H.R. 722 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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"This is not a new idea.¹ Trump was Biff long before he descended the golden escalator." — Charlie Sykes, To the Contrary

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

95% of stock market commentary right now consists of people trying to convince themselves that he doesn't mean what he keeps saying - and doing - so everything's going to be fine.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Shocking that a white nationalist administration would downplay the threat from their base. Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Johns Hopkins University’s latest diversity initiative, however, has managed to put a new spin on a familiar concept: The minority group in question is conservative professors."

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Blue books are back! Although I never left them behind.... In the past year, sales are up 30% at Texas A & M, 50% at U-Florida, and 80% at Cal Berkeley. gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-...

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Accidentally watched a minute of CNN and they were talking about Trump selling pardons (so good) and then saying that unlike other presidents this won’t hurt him. The guy isn’t popular! He’s never been popular! All sorts of things hurt him in lots of ways! Stop doing this!

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Republican lawmakers do not do the business of the people. They do the business of the oligarchs.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

Fuckers.

submitted 8 days ago • 134 comments

Hey, Democratic policy makers: most rural people aren’t farmers. We need policies to reflect that fact.

submitted 8 days ago • 139 comments

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

submitted 9 days ago • 331 comments

A legal resident of New Hampshire was “violently interrogated” for hours, stripped naked, and forced into a cold shower. Given little food or water and prevented from taking medication, he collapsed and was hospitalized.

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

We love to see it.

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

submitted 9 days ago • 582 comments

NEW: Judge Murphy, sounding MAD, rejects the Trump admin's request to reverse his order to give due process to deportees on their way to South Sudan, saying that they are "manufacturing the very chaos they decry." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated.

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

“Northwestern, UIC [University of Illinois at Chicago] medical researchers reeling from Trump’s funding cuts *** Researchers have spent years digging into solutions, including on HIV prevention & for healing diabetic wounds, but are now scrambling to find money to continue critical work.” 5/25/25

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

It’s so funny that anyone thinks they can port their entire following on one social network to another seamlessly.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments