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MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.

submitted 20 hours ago • 150 comments

Scroll up. Trust me.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

submitted 16 hours ago • 61 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

The DGA used to call its Lifetime Achievement Award the D.W. Griffith Award. It changed the name in 1999 in a move the National Society of Film Critics described as "a depressing example of political correctness." (which is was what they said instead of DEI, CRT or woke in those days) 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

Straddles the line here but I think “people on Bluesky were right but extremely annoying” is too accurate of a take about all of us to be upset about

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

submitted 18 hours ago • 414 comments

I don't really buy the cybersecurity experts claim of "while it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion" this is something cybercriminals do all the time. I personally used to do this. 🧵 1/?

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

submitted 22 hours ago • 55 comments

Just updated this timeline to fix a typo and address an error in the last box where I'd gotten the manner of arrest wrong. I present the full version Mr. Abrego's time in the United States, using court documents to explain the allegations of gang membership and what actually happened in his case.

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

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Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

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A lot of people begin the Passover story around Moses' birth. He's the protagonist. But the real beginning of the story is when a new leader takes over Egypt, who fosters a belief that immigrants are an invading force. His solution is to send them to work camps. The story starts with the bad guy.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 2 days ago • 1181 comments

This is a great video for the people who think Trump is manipulating the stock market

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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 383 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

submitted 4 days ago • 311 comments

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform: "Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is this the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

What if a eulogy, but 80% funny (I hope)? If you want to skip the potentially sad parts, just click through and scroll to the bottom - and rather than condolences, please consider a donation to the tiny no-kill shelter in Tennessee where we met Greyson as a pup. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-wei...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

They go to another school. You wouldn't know them anyway...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 8 days ago • 372 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 8 days ago • 263 comments

Reconstruction historians to Great Depression historians:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Some good news: These three kids and their mom were just released.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

As protests gain momentum, it's important to recognize and call out COINTELPRO-style behavior Many people who engage in this type of behavior aren't feds. They probably mean well. They are also engaging in behaviors that are so good at disrupting movements that the FBI literally weaponized them

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

Boy did this tweet age poorly.

submitted 10 days ago • 132 comments

Almost exactly 500 years since the last time a world power pulled a move this staggeringly stupid. In 1525 the Ming Emperor burned the entire Chinese fleet, taking China from being the greatest naval power in the world, to having NO fleet. And leaving tens of thousands of unemployed sailors. 1/2

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Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

Hoover of course ran in 1932 on sticking with the high tariffs Warned that if FDR were elected and lowered tariffs, civilization would collapse and “grass would grow in the streets” Roosevelt’s first inaugural parade featured a squad of lawnmowers

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

With your help earlier this year, we sponsored the surgery Flipper needed to fix her badly broken legs. She’s ALL healed up, and yes, the zoomies are ✨ strong ✨

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

Fred Rogers was born on this day in 1928. In 2017, writer Anthony Breznican shared how the late television icon and host of "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" comforted him during a difficult period in his own life. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments