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For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Toxic to the rule of law, and yet another example of ICE/CBP deliberately not looking for all those supposed criminals, drug traffickers, terrorists, etc. They're going for literally the least dangerous, most law-abiding people they can find, the ones following every rule. The easiest targets.

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments

Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Posted this afternoon. Masked ICE agents arresting immigrants at their court hearings in Dallas.

submitted 27 days ago • 87 comments

Sure whatever. 25% tariff on eating ice cream on a hot day next. 50% tariff on petting a dog. 35% tariff on the sound of children laughing. 10% tariff on the smell of flowers. 15% tariff on the cold side of the pillow. And another 25% on China, why not.

submitted 45 days ago • 108 comments

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

submitted 45 days ago • 163 comments

Okay, so you only know about the first and the refund Signal chats that Pete was in, but you don’t know about the others so we good, ssh.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

submitted 66 days ago • 41 comments

Give this photo a Pulitzer

submitted 72 days ago • 58 comments

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

submitted 72 days ago • 84 comments

NEW: The Venezuelan military says it has raised its alert level following the discovery of an alleged U.S. plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict.

submitted 72 days ago • 616 comments

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like SCOTUS just said the government is allowed to disappear anyone it wants from the street and throw them into a Central American torture pit as long as they give the victims a chance to say "wait, what" before the most conservative district court in the system?

submitted 72 days ago • 98 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 72 days ago • 1237 comments

This decision includes a footnote criticizing DOJ for retaliating against the prosecutor who answered a federal judge's questions honestly and was then accused by the Trump admin of failing to "zealously" defend the government's indefensible position:

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?

submitted 81 days ago • 38 comments

#SignalGate #WhiskeyLeaks gift link to the Atlantic publication of the entirety of the Houthi Attack Plans Signal Group Chat FUBAR is accurate. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc....

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Zuckerberg: "return to that fundamental commitment to free expression"* * restrictions apply

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla stock crashing & burns. Tesla trucks crashing & burning. Space X Starship crashing & burns. Twitter is crashing & burning. The US Federal Government is crashing & burning.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Ruth was my editor when I contributed to the Post. She’s the best, as a human being and a journalist. I can’t imagine how painful to her the destruction of the institution to which she devoted her amazing career as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor must be. It’s heartbreaking.

submitted 100 days ago • 289 comments

Senator Mark Kelly went to Ukraine at the weekend and reported back. Elon Musk just replied “You are a traitor”. So there it is. The Trump-Musk regime supports Russia, America’s enemy against Ukraine, America’s ally. “Aid and comfort to the enemy” “Against all enemies foreign and domestic”

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

International Women’s Day hits different this year: actually large swathes of women can just fuck off. You voted for fascism. You torment trans women. You hate on refugees. You whine about victimhood. You failed the assignment. Happy Sunday to people who are fighting for a better world.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Like this. Do it like this

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

Governance by Magic 8 Ball...

submitted 106 days ago • 22 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 111 days ago • 431 comments

When I tell you there are vanishingly few decision-makers in journalism who do this and we're all the poorer because of it ... Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 113 days ago • 30 comments

Don’t @ me with this “land of the free, home of the brave” nonsense. Don’t @ me with “shining city on a hill” Don’t @ me with “leading the free world” Don’t @ me with “American democracy” We all fucking saw you today. Siding with Russia, Iran, N Korea. Axis of assholes.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 117 days ago • 107 comments

New: Trump and those around him aren't acting like they're testing the boundaries of criminal law. They seem to be crossing them whimsically. What do you suppose people like that will do if and when they start to think their impunity might be at risk?

submitted 117 days ago • 12 comments

If this doesn't give you Nazi vibes, please go back to school and take a few History classes. "Russell Vought, the newly confirmed head of OMB said of Federal employees "We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.” WHAT HAVE THESE PEOPLE DONE TO DESERVE THIS?

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 119 days ago • 565 comments

Released some tension by driving home past the tawdry McMansion owned by a local Mar-a-Lago member Trumpette and shouting “MAGA SCUM” at the top of my voice. Next, coffee ☕️

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

My 14 year old is reading Animal Farm this term at school and not a damn moment too soon. We discuss what is going on in the USA on the way in to school & what it means when leaders change the rules to suit themselves. He gets it. All of it. And he’s disgusted.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all know what to do.

submitted 119 days ago • 170 comments

Heartbreaking 💔 Happening over and over and over again: one fed worker’s story, pain pours off the page. Please share.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments