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Okay, cards on the table: I refuse to be concerned. Because I believe, in the pit of my soul, that being concerned creates a permission structure not to express one’s views to protect oneself. I don’t think we’re there, but even if I did, I wouldn’t act like it.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

for regular prisoners in CECOT there is zero contact with their families. families have to deposit money in an account every month for basic necessities like food and toilet paper. they can do care packages but it's not clear what happens to those.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this administration is the closest thing to pure evil that the world has witnessed in generations

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

All the norms of this profession's mainstream are aligned against speaking straightforwardly about what is happening to this country. That's not just true today. It has always been true.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

got into a discussion with a guy from Palantir's PCL team and found out that their "privacy" organization effectively reports up through marketing rather than legal or engineering

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Russiagate is a theory like gravity is a theory

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

(through clenched teeth) issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding conservative columnists david brooks and bret stephens. you do, under some circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

being unable to win elections without the votes of people who are constantly threatening to kill you has done bizarre things to the psychology of Republican electeds

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Observe that the one that complied and the one that didn't comply are treated exactly the same way.

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

really think that AIPAC targeting an extremely popular normie democrat who is most prominently standing up to Trump will backfire big time

submitted 15 hours ago • 21 comments

One thing that stands out to me about the Trump administration is how gleefully evil they are, how much they love to do the most fucked up shit and rub it in our face because they hate everyone. Probably a great idea to let them take charge of the most powerful country in human history.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 205 comments

by comparison, the number of people who are likely to die due to the illegal suspension of PEPFAR is about 60% larger than the number of Africans trafficked during the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Teamsters are pro-tariff for reasons I frankly do not understand and never have

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

on immigration salience: we are going to have to put on our big kid pants and talk honestly about what the immigration status quo is and what we want it to be. there is currently disagreement about both of those prongs and we need to get it down to just disagreement about the latter

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

absolutely stellar senatoring, no snark, good work

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Van Holen should receive an enormous amount of credit for this, because we need to summon an elemental force more powerful than anything Trump wields: the ego of US senators.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

it’s not the beginning of the end, but it might be the end of the beginning, call your senators and demand they bring them all home

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

THEY BREAK UPON US

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Holy shit, this person is brave storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

feels like an actual sitting house rep from the state kilmar garcia was taken from would have been a better quote than a longshot primary candidate from a totally unrelated state

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

this is at least the third or fourth time i've seen him do some version of "this is just what people are telling me", i cannot wait for him to underbus one — any, really, just pick one — of these fucking ghouls for this, which i think he genuinely doesn't actually know much about

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

the thing is, the boyars really are bad

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

i want to note that there isn't even a single anonymous democratic party strategist or consultant or elected quoted here, every quoted democrat here is praising van hollen and bashing trump, actual elected dems are a lot tighter together on this than people want to believe

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

the trump administration have posted themselves into basically the worst possible position they could be in if you assume this is headed back to the supremes

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

I want a 5,000 word oral history of the Fox producers room in deciding to cover this, how they thought it could get spinned, and then realizing what a horrible mistake it was

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

i could be convinced that fox news did this on purpose because they think trump's losing the public on this and they know that no one inside the administration will tell him that

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

"ratings guys vs propaganda guys" describes an awful lot of the second trump admin so far

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

taping an M-80 to the industrial-sized can of worms and lighting the fuse

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

the DOJ is going to be three political appointees in a trench coat trying to appear in 175 different courts at once by the time we're done with this

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

lmao, this is clever as shit

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments