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A Reagan-appointed judge today blocked the Trump admin's cuts to NIH funding diversity and gender. The judge called the cuts "arbitrary and capricious" and said he "had never seen such discrimination in 40 years on the bench."

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1169 comments

NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 13-16 % who approve | disapprove of Trump U.S. adult citizens 41% | 54% (-13) Last week 43% | 52% Start of term 49% | 43% Democrats 5% | 93% Independents 29% | 60% Republicans 87% | 11% Men 45% | 48% Women 37% | 59% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Sean Duffy warns he will withhold infrastructure repair money from states that don’t help in ICE raids

submitted 3 days ago • 177 comments

Missed this, Dems+8 in the Generic Ballot

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Competitive Authoritarianism (Dean Moses, 2025). Oil on canvas.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

hey remember this

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Imagine if the headline were, "Trump refuses to show most basic decency" or "Trump continues to ratchet up tensions in wake of assassination" rather than "we hang on Trump's every word."

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

Lot of great signs here in Love Park

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

As soon as Christy Noem’s goons saw a brown person, their next logical move was to arrest him.

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: A federal court ruled there's no legitimate basis for Mahmoud Khalil's continued detention, and that it's unconstitutional for the Trump administration to use vague foreign policy grounds to deport people. This is a win for free speech. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is released.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

COVID vaccines prevented 20 million deaths worldwide in the first year that they became available. RKF Jr just appointed a bunch of guys to the ACIP that think these vaccines were a mistake.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

submitted 8 days ago • 2312 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 9 days ago • 1465 comments

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

submitted 9 days ago • 361 comments

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

Good reporting here from @swin24.bsky.social and company -->

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

House and Senate leaders should demand resignations from both Major General Pat Work, the 82nd Airborne Division commander, and Colonel Chad Mixon, the Fort Bragg garrison commander. This was possibly the most partisan speech ever delivered by a commander-in-chief to U.S. troops.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

This is not a good sign.

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

submitted 11 days ago • 413 comments

“The idea that immigration enforcement is the most significant national security and public safety concern that we as a country face is deeply unserious.” https://trib.al/NlZyqwr

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 139 days ago • 399 comments

Stephen Miller calls protests against ICE raids an "insurrection," yet cheers for paramilitary tactics tearing apart LA communities. Funny how sovereignty sounds like brutality when it’s his playbook. Hypocrisy in riot gear. #3E

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

Chancellor Merz on the need to put more pressure on Russia: "Only strength brings peace. If you are weak,you invite aggression.So #Ukraine has to be strong.And that's the reason why we are giving support militarily,financially,politically for itself," he said.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

This is an old script. Just speed-running the worst parts of the late-nineteenth century.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Correct. If this moves forward, it's a major further escalation of the fascist coup.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 14 days ago • 162 comments

Here is your statistic of the day: Nine out of 10 federal employees laid off by DOGE since March worked in liberal-leaning agencies. All proposed budget increases go to conservative agencies, with the bulk going to the most conservative agencies.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

This is not a denial

submitted 14 days ago • 430 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 14 days ago • 126 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 14 days ago • 3029 comments

Dean: When did we have a trade surplus? Lutnick: About 100 years ago Dean: It was the Great Depression.

submitted 14 days ago • 363 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

submitted 14 days ago • 430 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 14 days ago • 1695 comments

Her 12 yr old daughter screams and runs after him. Ambar wails in agony and collapses onto the sidewalk. As the SUVs pull away Ambar leans over a nearby fence sobbing, “My love, my love.” — via @gwynnefitz.bsky.social @fractenberg.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

How much salt? It doesn’t matter, you’re not putting enough. It makes a difference.

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

“.. empty containers have been piling up at the Los Angeles-area seaports .. the idea that a sudden reversal in tariff policy or even a spate of framework agreements to work towards eventual trade deals will instantly put the global supply chain back on track is mistaken.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 57 comments

Imagining Steven Miller seeing this and shrieking in a higher pitch than humans can hear

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion. McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion McMahon: Okay

submitted 16 days ago • 537 comments

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

submitted 16 days ago • 169 comments

The U.S. government is breaking up families without an ounce of compassion. ICE is detaining migrants at court—asking judges to dismiss cases so they can arrest people as they leave & shove them into fast-track deportation. Word’s out: Show up, risk deportation. Stay home, lose your case.

submitted 16 days ago • 352 comments