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NEW: I analyzed nearly 300 federal cases involving the Trump administration. Federal judges—across the political spectrum—are using language I’ve never seen before. One called government actions “unconscionable.” Another quoted Kafka. They’re begging us to pay attention.

submitted 14 hours ago • 38 comments

NBC story because of the current threat to the #Madleen . Despicable. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Hi, certified Oleoresin capsicum instructor here. Cold running water. That’s it. Everything else is a wives tale. And for fuck’s sake don’t degrease your eyeballs with dish soap.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

submitted 1 day ago • 392 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 84 days ago • 1180 comments

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows: Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Ireland is providing support for the US government to deport people to third countries via Shannon airport. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia. The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

and a happy new year

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

An ICE agent sporting a valknut tattoo (commonly associated with white supremacist "Odinist" groups in the US) was spotted during an immigration raid in Massachusetts last week.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 9 days ago • 603 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 10 days ago • 76 comments

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 15 days ago • 109 comments

Well it finally happened. Someone took my art, fed it into AI, and is selling a shitty facsimile of it. I’m so tired. Worse yet my painting still hasn’t sold. So just feeling super shitty right now

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submitted 14 days ago • 149 comments

The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

submitted 18 days ago • 911 comments

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

submitted 18 days ago • 235 comments

Also: Roth's wife Arielle Roth--the nominee to head the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Admin--was a Ted Cruz advisor. Cruz is one of the main conduits for the extremist groups like Betar targeting students to give names to the Trump admin to be arrested.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

most places burying the lead but BACK ON PBS running day and date!!!

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment