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submitted 24 days ago • 275 comments

Donald Trump has lost nearly 10% of voters—almost 20% of his support—since his election last year. He’s done so largely because he’s pursued the policies he ran on, and most people hate them. Who is at fault for voters not understanding what he ran on? I’d say the press is largely culpable.

submitted 24 days ago • 183 comments

A New Mexico judge and his wife have also been arrested, for allegedly hiding a TdA gang member in their home. Given recent history, it’s probably best to take the “hiding” and “gang member” allegations with a fistful of salt. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 26 days ago • 185 comments

related, as I pointed out in @ballsandstrikes.org, that's just not how due process works "people shouldn't get due process if they broke the law" ok but it's through due process that a judge determines whether anyone actually broke the law so where are we now ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States despite a U.S. Supreme Court order that says the Trump administration should facilitate his return.

submitted 37 days ago • 37 comments

In a meeting with Trump, El Salvador's president refused to return a man the U.S. illegally deported. Attorney General Pam Bondi also insisted "that's not up to us."

submitted 37 days ago • 78 comments

It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

submitted 39 days ago • 192 comments

www.marketwatch.com/story/social...

submitted 39 days ago • 66 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 40 days ago • 858 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 39 days ago • 222 comments

Bill Maher is the Chuck Schumer of comedy.

submitted 39 days ago • 41 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 41 days ago • 202 comments

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

submitted 39 days ago • 1119 comments

I tell my undergrads that my 20th c lecture course revolves around two big questions — what is America and who counts as American?

submitted 39 days ago • 31 comments

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for punishment in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

submitted 41 days ago • 518 comments

The administration's stalling is probably due to the condition of the detained.😞

submitted 41 days ago • 17 comments

Where have I heard that before

submitted 40 days ago • 49 comments

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.

submitted 40 days ago • 137 comments

Ten bucks says El Salvador can’t “find” him?

submitted 41 days ago • 110 comments

Marco Rubio must resign.

submitted 41 days ago • 38 comments

🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)

submitted 42 days ago • 132 comments

Thanks, Fox “News.”

submitted 42 days ago • 116 comments

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

submitted 42 days ago • 1406 comments

Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

submitted 42 days ago • 36 comments

how america is to everybody

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

‘We are nearly there’: UK and India agree 90% of free trade agreement

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 42 days ago • 430 comments

White House Revokes Biden’s Veneers

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

Sony seemingly bakes tariff penalty into its new US TV pricing

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

Warren: Companies will use tariffs as excuse for 'price gouging'

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Who better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?

submitted 42 days ago • 235 comments

To make their point, the clergy built an interfaith altar at ICE’s doorstep and offered to break bread with ICE agents, appealing to their shared humanity and values.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee who alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company in a memoir, will testify before Congress that Meta executives undermined national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies.

submitted 43 days ago • 61 comments

The New College of Florida on Saturday will host actor, comedian and right-wing wellness influencer Russell Brand, days after he was charged with rape and sexual assault in the U.K.

submitted 43 days ago • 41 comments

What’s even keeping Trump at a 43% approval rating? At this point, it’s the right-wing media that’s doing the heavy lifting.

submitted 43 days ago • 41 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 45 days ago • 927 comments

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

submitted 45 days ago • 587 comments

Sotomayor is right. According to this Supreme Court, the US can now kidnap, detain, and fly legal immigrants and citizens to a foreign country's prison, even if it's a whoopsie. America, people. Freedom and stuff.

submitted 44 days ago • 798 comments

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

submitted 44 days ago • 60 comments

NEWS: Chief Justice John Roberts has issued an administrative stay pausing the court order requiring Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a man wrongfully sent to an El Salvadoran prison camp, to be returned by midnight tonight.

submitted 44 days ago • 813 comments

submitted 44 days ago • 17 comments

Unknown numbers of Ukrainians received emails by mistake from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security saying their humanitarian protected status was being revoked and they would have to leave the United States within days, the agency said Friday.

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

A judge on Friday ruled wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for emergency intervention to KEEP HIM THERE even though they admitted they made a mistake deporting him. This is Trump's new rule of law.

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments