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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

submitted 19 hours ago • 276 comments

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 14 hours ago • 192 comments

“.. Carney didn’t need to shout. .. He lined up the free world—Japan, the EU, Canada in lockstep—and showed Trump the cliff’s edge. .. “.. Little triggers and strategies you get when the world’s most respected economist is your PM.” @deanblundell.bsky.social 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

submitted 21 hours ago • 65 comments

NEW: The Trump administration, via a senior State Department official, says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. But they still won't say if they're doing anything to get him back. Details w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 14 hours ago • 125 comments

If the United States wanted him out of that prison, he would already be home, with or without El Salvadorian assistance.

submitted 15 hours ago • 32 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 15 hours ago • 423 comments

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

submitted 16 hours ago • 359 comments

the three of us are having a conversation

submitted 1 day ago • 802 comments

We stand by our reporting. So read it here:

submitted 21 hours ago • 158 comments

Khanna: You know what I think? Instead of giving $4 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk, how about in this country we start taxing the billionaires?

submitted 17 hours ago • 58 comments

NEWS: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia call for their client to be brought back to Maryland — and for the government to be held in contempt for its failure to comply with the court's orders in the case. They also ask for discovery into the gov't's actions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 35 comments

a better world is possible

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The government has filed a declaration in the Abrego Garcia case reiterating its assertions that he is detained by El Salvador on its own “sovereign, domestic authority” and implicitly not subject to recall by the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 hours ago • 105 comments

A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to unfreeze federal funding allocated to Maine from the Department of Agriculture — funds that had been withheld following Trump's clash with Gov. Janet Mills over transgender athletes.

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BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 514 comments

Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 1055 comments

“This is yet another example of a DOGE ‘report’ misunderstanding this data at best, blatantly mischaracterizing this data at worst.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 250 comments

"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 19 hours ago • 367 comments

Women were mostly absent, as well. Because it's a stalking horse for taking away women's rights. No one who actually cares about children wants people who don't want them to have them. Reluctant motherhood is not good for kids.

submitted 20 hours ago • 51 comments

Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 23 hours ago • 62 comments

this is quite the photo and caption www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 20 hours ago • 606 comments

I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.

submitted 21 hours ago • 50 comments

It’s surreal how fast the United States has fallen into a dictatorial regime. Checks and balances are gone, the president disappears innocent people into foreign prison camps, words get banned, and the Overton window shifts at light speed. I honestly wonder these days when they will come for me.

submitted 1 day ago • 598 comments

Cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."

submitted 22 hours ago • 122 comments

RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

submitted 22 hours ago • 929 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

submitted 23 hours ago • 200 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 21 hours ago • 207 comments

The dream is dead

submitted 22 hours ago • 1946 comments

U.S. President Donald Trump has inadvertently hit Russia’s economy after his "Liberation Day" tariffs caused oil prices to drop drastically on April 7, with potentially massive ramifications for the Kremlin's ability to fund its ongoing war in Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

"opt-out demands limit companies from targeting you with sneaker ads or setting car insurance rates from what they learn about your habits. But Consumer Reports found companies that do not appear to be complying with your opt-outs." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

"Nobody can trust us now" doesn't go away when he's eventually gone, it is a matter of generational turnover for everybody currently in any kind of position of power and influence in the United States. The entire power structure of our society and all of its elites are tainted by their acquiescence.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Good morning Bluesky !

submitted 1 day ago • 263 comments

Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and retry him for deportation in a lawful way. That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

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Murphy: When you see the 10-year bond exploding… when you see markets moving like a sine curve—that’s the opposite of stability. A strong dollar is in our national interest. What we’re seeing now is the opposite of that.

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NEW: Blue Cross authorized mastectomies & breast reconstructions at one hospital, then refused to pay the full doctors' bills. BUT... The insurer did make some exceptions. On several occasions, Blue Cross execs signed deals to pay for their wives’ treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 1639 comments

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 1 day ago • 849 comments

A judge has ruled that an abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman's death.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

The absolute ghouls over at Robert F. Kennedy Jr's Children's Health Defense are deflecting blame for spreading anti-science bullshit about the measles MMR vaccine by blaming the doctors for these kids' deaths.

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So we have the Times hiring Daily Caller reporters to profile Real America's Voice reporters. There are so many examples of major outlets elevating people from the right and relatively few instances of them doing this with any notably progressive voices

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U.S. #measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five others states with active outbreaks, Texas grew by another 60 cases and a third measles-related death was made public as Secretary Kennedy does little to contain the spread. apnews.com/article/meas...

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US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

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