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A major update yesterday that I admit to having missed (was getting work done and having in-person meetings and not spending as much time online): the ACLU amended its complaint in front of Judge Boasberg and, in a filing today, is seeking the RETURN of everyone deported under the Alien Enemies Act.

submitted 11 hours ago • 63 comments

🚨 Texas HB 1106 would make it legal for parents to reject their LGBTQ+ child’s identity without it being considered abuse. This is state-sanctioned harm. 💙🏳️‍⚧️ #ProtectTransKids #TxLege #VoteNoOnHB1106

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

How did I know they would completely defund Headstart? They wrote it down in Project 2025 .

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l.smartnews.com/p-knHZFva/Q9... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a contract worth $73 million with a firm whose executives are accused of taking part in a scheme to manufacture evidence against a co-worker during their time working at the Department of Homeland Security.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Maryland Senator Van Hollen says when he tried to check on the health of Kilmar Abrego Garcia his car was stopped and he was denied entry to the prison. apnews.com/article/abre...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Let's be abundantly clear: Federal law prohibits Trump from doing this- mandating local curriculum or withholding federal funds for schools that don't obey him. We must keep fighting for this school funding & to #ProtectOurKids. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

A Trump ally has told CNN’s parent company that they could avoid future lawsuits from the Trump administration if they make a documentary about Melania Trump or a TV show about Donald Trump Jr., which would involve paying the Trump family large amounts of money.

submitted 9 days ago • 1020 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 14 days ago • 872 comments

Trump asserts EOs allow him to rewrite federal laws—and now he's trying to use them to "stop the enforcement" of state clean energy laws as well (so long as the AG "determines" they're illegal). The order specifically mentions California's cap-and-trade law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1471 comments

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

submitted 18 days ago • 183 comments

Remember this… 👇

submitted 18 days ago • 195 comments

Trump, who was found liable for sexual abuse in 2023, issued a proclamation recognizing National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month that erroneously blamed undocumented immigrants for “a dramatic increase of sexual violence in our neighborhoods and communities." bit.ly/4liRc6g

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

AMERICA IS NOT FOR SALE YOU FUCKING LOSER

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Trump shutting down the Voice of America (VOA) will actually embolden and empower autocrats in other countries. VOA was actually promoting factual news to foreign countries, and it was supposed to help bolster pro-democracy content and efforts.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

NEW! The Trump administration appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD in any country to rot in a prison in El Salvador because of a PAPERWORK ERROR. This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has two different peoples’ ID numbers listed and the wrong last name!

submitted 29 days ago • 331 comments

These “authorities” at first approach her unmasked and then, I think, cover their faces when they realize they’re being observed or filmed.

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

Leavitt confirms that Elon Musk's team is investigating SignalGate 🙃

submitted 30 days ago • 458 comments

SCOOP: From the beginning of Trump’s administration, DOGE had a plan to monitor USAID payments and was preparing to use US Treasury systems to halt them, according to new court documents, emails, and affidavits obtained by WIRED.

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

So America bombed civilian housing in a foriegn country? To kill one unnamed man for some made up narrative and coordinated through unofficial text group app?

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Ossoff: This is what happens when you have Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.

submitted 31 days ago • 491 comments

There's no gaslighting your way out of this.

submitted 30 days ago • 835 comments

Ossoff: Trump’s cabinet is worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

submitted 34 days ago • 199 comments

The Texas parents of a 6-year-old child who died of measles have given an interview in which they describe the disease that killed their little girl as “not that bad.” The propaganda-laden interview was conducted by leaders of a notorious anti-vaccine group — Children’s Health Defense —…

submitted 34 days ago • 479 comments

FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU

submitted 36 days ago • 120 comments

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 38 days ago • 1100 comments

Ah yes, I too have fond memories of the last time a gop president started talking about WMDs and pointing at foreign countries 🤦

submitted 38 days ago • 51 comments

Judge Chuang calling out how blatantly obvious it is that Musk is the one actually running DOGE...

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

While the Trump administration is modeling its shift of the United States from democracy to authoritarianism after Victor Orban's Hungary, they would do well to notice how that's going over with Hungarians.

submitted 38 days ago • 35 comments

Mhm

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

NEW from Columbia: the school has issued multi-year suspensions, “temporary” degree revocations, and expulsions related to the student occupation of Hamilton Hall (Hind’s Hall). The school often invokes its history of student demonstration—including the 1968 occupation of the same hall.

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb

submitted 43 days ago • 524 comments

My favorite fragrance of his is leave us the FuCologne

submitted 45 days ago • 13 comments

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

submitted 45 days ago • 193 comments

The outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

submitted 46 days ago • 81 comments

this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.

submitted 46 days ago • 76 comments

The federal government’s main housing agency has just one management-level employee in its New York City field office as President Trump has targeted the department for large-scale cuts as part of his push for massive spending reductions. www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/10/h...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 47 days ago • 248 comments