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Good news that the parliamentarian has axed many of the most toxic poison additions to the Budget Bill: But our senators still need to hear from us: Phone, fax, use @resist.bot open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

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I scooped The Times and @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com about this. I’ll offer this further. Bove is a POS liar. Bove Denies Suggesting Justice Dept. Ignore Court Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump has gutted FOIA, Inspectors General, and will be curtailing sharing information with Congress. We rely on whistleblowers now more than ever. You can support them by donating: whistlebloweraid.org/beans

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

NEW: A federal judge denies the government's motion to block the release of Mr Abrego, reminding the DoJ it's actually up to them where he's held pending trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

submitted 9 hours ago • 47 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 18 hours ago • 276 comments

News media should ween itself off talking points political perspectives in favor of more research into practical applications and consequences

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

A provincial state of emergency in Manitoba for forest fires

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 24 states. The Supreme Court will issue orders tomorrow that could affect this number. Stay tuned.

submitted 3 days ago • 281 comments

Protecting Democracy from Dark Money, an in-depth interview with @brennancenter.org fellow and law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on exactly what is dark money? open.substack.com/pub/jflanaga...

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Economic policymaking needs to adapt to the climate emergency | Heather Stewart

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With a monthly pension barely sufficient to buy 15 eggs or a small bag of rice, Cuba's elderly struggle to make ends meet in one of Latin America's poorest and fastest-aging countries u.afp.com/Sx3Y

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Generative AI is slowly degrading the internet. More alarming is that before long, the technology’s unreliability may go unnoticed, writes Matteo Wong:

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Some people are illegal… … Refugees are not. 🕯️ On #WorldRefugeeDay we are reminded of the thousands of lives lost every year of people seeking safety while some (👀) people in power are trying their hardest to deny them their rights. We need more solidarity. More humanity.

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The sudden appearance of sudden colonels: fast-tracking defense contractors into top brass jobs in the U.S. military. taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

The Trump administration has been given two rulings that oppose immigration cases taken up by the government.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

submitted 6 days ago • 368 comments

Some good news for a change! www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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echoandtheclergymen.blogspot.com/2025/06/chat...

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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

submitted 13 days ago • 634 comments

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

New and damning school voucher data confirm worst fears ncnewsline.com/2025/06/12/n... (audio commentary)

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

Signed because this is the lowest hanging fruit on the transparency tree

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

submitted 13 days ago • 1190 comments

“our paper has largely shown that a strong local press is an important part of how society holds off public corruption” www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

submitted 13 days ago • 1097 comments

They lie about everything

submitted 13 days ago • 1195 comments

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CNN’s reporter on scene in Los Angeles: I’m being detained..

submitted 16 days ago • 869 comments

The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. As a result, the government is intensifying its hunt for more space — and local police are playing a bigger role.

submitted 18 days ago • 93 comments

Reminder that our Constitution guarantees due process to ALL persons — not just citizens — and enshrines habeas corpus as a fundamental right. Either everyone has due process — or no one does.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

The really important thing in ABC News' report is that the US attorney handling the matter submitted his resignation as the indictment of Abrego Garcia went forward, indicating that something seriously unethical has occurred... again. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Could president trump to repent? Dems could make a deal with him, work with him, let him off the hook if he turns on everyone starting with musk, thomas, alito, theil, etc. Clean the swamp for real, but let him stay a billionaire and avoid future prosecutions? Just a thought to save our democracy

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Cutting half a billion dollars of funding for cybersecurity is a recipe for disaster, and leaves Americans more vulnerable to attacks from Russia or China.

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

"This isn’t bureaucratic belt-tightening. It’s a strategic retreat in the middle of a war."

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Steve Bannon is urging Trump to cancel all of Musk's contracts, launch investigations into him, and deport him.

submitted 20 days ago • 579 comments

worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news. We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

submitted 21 days ago • 304 comments

NEW: Though Elon Musk is gone, DOGE is staying. Russell Vought, a Christian nationalist and Project 2025 architect, appears to be at the helm of the faux-agency — and the aggressive effort against the government may be on the cusp of an even darker turn.

submitted 21 days ago • 56 comments

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

submitted 21 days ago • 67 comments