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If we know where they were sent, but it isn’t to detention: exile. If we know where they are & it’s in detention: extraordinary rendition. If we don’t know where they are, but we know someone’s holding them: kidnapping. Otherwise, if we don’t know where they are: disappearance.

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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

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Lately I’ve been having a lot of weird moments of anxiety, making bizarre impulse purchases, overbuying groceries — I realized the looming tariff chaos is triggering some “what did I wish I’d known before COVID lockdowns”latent-trauma area of my brain.

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Are we really just going to forget the insider trading?

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nygroove.nyc/the-subway-s...

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As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 6 days ago • 1250 comments

“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection... But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The guy who has talked about putting people with ADHD in camps is creating a centralized database of Americans with autism. Fuck. This. Shit. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 9 days ago • 507 comments

Precisely what I'm going for! Thank you! We can rebuild the web for humans if everyone just makes a stupid website for fun and links to other stupid websites.

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My brain right now: “This is not normal 🎶Steve le🎶 The crisis is here 🎶le poisson Steve le🎶 the constitution itself is under threat 🎶poisoooon steeEeEEeve🎶 we will resist together or apart but we will resist.

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 1752 comments

lol my autistic family members have PhDs, beautiful families, great personalities and diverse hobbies. having ~fewer cases of autism~ is only a goal if you resent neurodivergent people.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 10 days ago • 160 comments

took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

submitted 13 days ago • 161 comments

These two posts: * “We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations,” said Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead counter-terrorism efforts. * Trump to Bukele (president of El Salvador): “Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough.” 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 99 comments

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 20 days ago • 253 comments

Hello fellow New York City dwellers! I made a mayoral primary zine letting you know who to rank on your ballot, important dates, why ranked choice voting is good, and who NOT to rank. I posted a free download so you can print and assemble your own here: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fo...

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 21 days ago • 313 comments

Wow, 60 Minutes did this story

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Nobody should have been sent there, period. Not the ones with no record, not the ones with a record. Nobody.

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

even just as an ostensibly home town paper I feel like fifth ave full of protesters for 20 blocks is kind of an interesting home town story

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

The reason the IRS has no data-leaking API is not because they don't know how to schedule a "hackathon." Instead it's because the API: 1. Likely violates the Privacy Act of 1974 2. Is not within the IRS's mandate 3. Would be a huge target for attacks against the privacy of all Americans

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

submitted 23 days ago • 544 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 23 days ago • 614 comments

Amazing turnout for #handsoff in NYC, with the streets packed for 20 blocks, from Bryant Park to Madison Square

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Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers! At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why. Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛

submitted 24 days ago • 91 comments

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2025 School Board Elections is NOW LIVE! Please share & use this doc to inform yourself about these crucial races coming up in Tx! And, as always, follow me and check back--I'll be updating and adding races up to election day! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

submitted 24 days ago • 683 comments

"NY Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public libraries and museums, workers, and minority-owned businesses nationwide"

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“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

I don't care much what these people do, but firing a black queer woman because you're worried that she's going to embrace "the politics of division" says all you need to know about who they think is expendable and who they think requires constant and dutiful placating.

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

It’s important that people from all walks of life and background, and all rational political perspectives, show unity in support of democracy and the rule of law on April 5, somewhere near you. Show your love for your country and for what it should—must—stand for: handsoff2025.com/

submitted 30 days ago • 281 comments

The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts. El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT. #HumanRights #USpol

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Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

submitted 32 days ago • 51 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 36 days ago • 1167 comments

mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Our HHS Secretary recently repeated that he believes Lyme disease (caused by a bacteria we have proof has been around for thousands of years) was “man made” as a “military weapon.” This was also repeated by Joe Rogan this week. In 2002, antivaxxers got the previous Lyme vaccine pulled from market…

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If anyone on here works at Politics & Prose or other bookstores that are scheduled to host Chuck Schumer, I have a proposal—if you cancel his event, I would pledge to buy a book of equal value or make a donation to make sure you didn’t lose revenue—and I bet a lot of others would too.

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