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If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, third in line to become President of the United States, tacitly endorses a national secret police force, in the same vein as the Gestapo, KGB, or Stasi. We are well beyond a constitutional crisis.

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

remember, this guy ran illegal medical experiments on autistic children using castration drugs and lost his medical license because of it

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

🧪

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It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

“AESC has informed the state of South Carolina and our local partners that due to policy and market uncertainty, we are pausing construction at our South Carolina facility at this time... We anticipate being able to resume construction once circumstances stabilize.”

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

It's been overtaken by the Musk-Trump feud, but this session with Merz continues Trump's streak of the most embarrassing/appalling Oval Office meetings with foreign leaders in modern U.S. history.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

Omfg

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Disgusting man newrepublic.com/article/1961...

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NYT Fact-check: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Washington Post fact check: "What the White House calls a verifiable fact is, in fact, a nonsense fact, delivered in service of a false claim." wapo.st/441mRT2

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He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

submitted 6 days ago • 247 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 7 days ago • 245 comments

Margaret Chase Smith was a hero of mine.

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I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much? The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months. Here's how:

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

The Republican extreme assault on vaccines, the most important health advance in human history (after clean water), accelerates. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

North Carolina’s Lawrence Academy has never reported Black enrollment higher than 3% in a county whose population hovers around 60% Black. It received $518,240 in vouchers in the 2023-2024 school year to fund 86 of its over 200 students. (Published Nov. 2024)

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

Re-upping: If anyone anywhere in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

Maybe a post-presidential job opportunity for Trump

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"Is that it?" -- Trump did that thing again today where he signs a bunch of executive orders but doesn't seem to know what he's signing and needs to have it explained to him

submitted 17 days ago • 866 comments

Gonna try this next time I lose at pickup.

submitted 17 days ago • 47 comments

Masking of law enforcement is wildly unethical and should be illegal. If you’re on the side of right and good, show your face.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

you can contact @propublica.org securely. www.propublica.org/tips/

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

27% of the student body is international, per this story. I’m guessing higher for graduate students—at the university I attended that figure was 40% (and was a huge part of the magic of that body—brilliant people from all over the world)

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Terrible news

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It’s ok to bribe the president when he’s on a break

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Not a parody. wapo.st/4mxCyZy

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Re this CNN chyron ( h/t www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-... ) : Are you kidding me???? The actually more newsworthy headlines write themselves: "Can Repubs regain voters' trust after ignoring Trump [lies, corruption, threats, illegality, ec damage, fury from allies, criticism from Pope, etc]

submitted 20 days ago • 148 comments

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

submitted 19 days ago • 223 comments

I am really astounded at how calm everyone is about the GOP putting a 500 billion dollar cut for Medicare in the new tax bill.

submitted 19 days ago • 152 comments

The buck ultimately stops with Senate Democratic Leadership including but not limited to @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social along w/ guys like @gallego.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov et al who shilled for a shady crypto bill that will line up Trump's pockets.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Devastating. The cowardice and the betrayal of an incomparable news brand.

submitted 21 days ago • 313 comments

I'm sure Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson will be reporting on this clear case of presidential cognitive decline, right? Right?

submitted 21 days ago • 537 comments

Vance, speaking about Biden, but oblivious to the fact his words will come back to haunt him when Trump's gross mental & physical decay comes to light: "This is not child's play... if you're not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

What's this, good news??? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

as a resident of syracuse, ny, a rust belt town that used to be an economic epicenter for the nation: syracuse university is our largest local employer now and if it goes under, so does my town, which has the largest concentration of child poverty in the nation.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 22 days ago • 70 comments

"We do a lot of stuff on behalf of the public that the public doesn’t necessarily see. We run the whole backup infrastructure for the emergency alert system because we have broadcast stations everywhere."

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Yes, the media’s Biden coverage was flawed. But its reporting on Trump was far worse | Margaret Sullivan

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