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Ah yes, the “bigotry is good actually” lawsuit. Trying to strong-arm people into hatred may be one of the more disturbing legal trends of our time.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

NEW: Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader granted clemency by President Trump, was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol and charged with allegedly assaulting a female protester. Trump previously cut short Tarrio's sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

submitted 11 hours ago • 102 comments

BREAKING NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 11 hours ago • 117 comments

The Trump administration is planning to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites across the U.S. It's a significant expansion of efforts by the White House to use wartime resources to make good on the president’s promised mass deportations.

submitted 11 hours ago • 50 comments

NEW: DOGE has operated in relative darkness even as it appears to be behind an explosive — and legally disputed — overhaul of the government. But details about the Musk-led agency teams have emerged in court. We review (and link to docs) here: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

The Trump administration has deported more than 400 migrants — from as far as China and Vietnam — back to some of these shelters, leaving them in legal limbo.

submitted 12 hours ago • 25 comments

Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct

submitted 15 hours ago • 215 comments

When you’re too much of a Nazi for other Nazis… 🤦🏻

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING Judge Daniel Ho has declined to dismiss the federal criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. He has, however, postponed his trial indefinitely and appointed Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to argue against the government’s case for dismissal.

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

1. Alabama, in a rush to pass an anti-trans law defining sex, may have also just formally greenlit sex-based segregation in many settings. The law, recently signed, ends legal recognition of transgender people. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 14 hours ago • 27 comments

The IRS said it was firing people they deemed not "critical" to tax filing season. Employees said the cuts will impact tax returns and enforcement.

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NEW: We spoke with federal workers grappling with symptoms of paranoia around technology due to DOGE's incursion, including some fearful of their own home networks, and take a hard look at the range of tools the government currently uses to monitor its workforce: www.wired.com/story/survei...

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After learning she was being shadowbanned by Twitter, Grimes deleted her tweet asking Elon Musk to get in touch with her to discuss a medical crises involving one of their children. Meanwhile, Elon was on stage at CPAC playing with a chainsaw.

submitted 15 hours ago • 59 comments

Musk went straight to the slurs after being called out yet again for saying that astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station by the Biden administration for “political reasons”—a lie that astronauts themselves have repeatedly debunked.

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on Sunday, pointing to likely tricky coalition building that could drag on for months reut.rs/4ib95BJ

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

NEW: Trump's DOJ is threatening to prosecute a central New York sheriff. Why? The sheriff released a man ICE wanted to arrest, after the man completed his sentence. A constitutional scholar told us "there's no basis in the law" for such charges. But the DOJ wants to spook local officials. More:

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

Ultimately, denying women the right to vote or even voice a differing opinion is nothing new among Christian patriarchs. Their churches treat disempowering women as foundational theology.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

If you live in the NYC Metro Area, help spread the word about the S_onewall Action. Download, Print and Post the Action Flyer everyone in the NYC Metro Area (and don't forget LI, Jersey, Westchester and.. and...) #Stonewall See you on Saturday.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

submitted 20 hours ago • 789 comments

“USAID is not a perfect agency,” writes @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social, the president of Refugees International. “No government institution is. But from the Green Revolution to humanitarian relief to the fight against HIV, it has built a more stable world while advancing U.S. interests.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

The only thing more batshit crazy than the President and his fascist personality cult is that no one is trying to remove him from power. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

So, ridicule Americans who want to flee abroad all you want. But remember, there’s a reason why Germany produced the most Nobel laureates before World War II, but the U.S. took the lead afterward.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Our look at how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling the government teams that have stopped Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others from meddling in US elections: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b... With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @stevenleemyers.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

New accusations emerged that Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia during a gathering of conservatives.

submitted 1 day ago • 222 comments

Mark your calendars: March 4 Liberty mass protest in DC, on March 4th starting at noon. “We are stronger together” #3E #USprotests #NoKings #march4liberty #Mar4

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

I was fortunate to visit the Anne Frank House when in Amsterdam. It’s an unbelievably moving experience connecting her writing with the feeling in the house. If you have a chance you really should check out this exhibit in NYC.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A prosecutor who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Dallas, Texas. has been outed as running a racist, white supremacist X account.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The DOGE website claims it was last updated on February 17. But in the past 24 hours, they apparently quietly removed two USAID contracts worth $655M a piece. The site still claims $55B in savings. Contracts: www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_I... www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_I...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments