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"Our leaders need to be louder, angrier, and more difficult, instead of being stuck in old rules and norms of politeness." @katmabu.bsky.social is right and she should say it. This is not a situation we can manners our way out of

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My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

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Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

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Trump says the U.S. and China are 'actively' discussing tariffs. Beijing says that's false. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/t...

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

submitted 15 hours ago • 239 comments

The number of ways that this administration is actively working to cause death is simply staggering

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Trump appears to tell his sons to fire his company’s lawyer who went to Harvard

submitted 15 hours ago • 88 comments

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

submitted 3 days ago • 177 comments

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

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Trump's view that Ukraine is doomed "is more than misinformation. It is a view that distorts the battlefield reality and the critical strategic interests of the United States and our allies." Victory for Ukraine is still possible. New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

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A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

#OnThisDay in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” about the lynchings of Black Americans — 6,400+ between 1865 & 1950. The song reminded her of her father, who died when a hospital refused to treat him because of his color. The song sold 1M+. #History mississippitoday.org/2025/04/20/o...

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Ukraine's Zelenskiy says Easter ceasefire has not halted Russian activity on front line reut.rs/4jl3SrW

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ONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 798 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 6 days ago • 1750 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 6 days ago • 1055 comments

in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption. i love how people think they just now made superheroes woke superman, woke since 1938

submitted 6 days ago • 189 comments

Guess that Columbia v Harvard rivalry has been put to bed. Forever.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 336 comments

I have three bottles of champagne set aside. One for her, one for the oligarch, and one for the dictator. And I intend to live to drink all three.

submitted 7 days ago • 1363 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 7 days ago • 1180 comments

Nothing is more cynical than using the passing of people who have died from an overdose as an excuse to launch trade wars while at the same time gutting agencies that support people who use drugs or who are addicted. New from @jackshuler.bsky.social. matternews.org/voices/the-h...

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“I’m going to tell people exactly what I care about and what I believe in,” says Abughazaleh. “And if they don’t like it—well, that’s democracy, baby.” www.gq.com/story/kat-ab...

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The comments from non-Americans… 😥

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Ed Martin, Trump's chief prosecutor for DC, appeared on Russian state television propaganda organs more than 150 times, sometimes amplifying false Russian claims, and did not initially disclose the appearances to the Senate. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

I think we need to have a semi-public and transparent conversation about this as saying "prison" is clearly inaccurate and inadequate.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Well, Abbott finally got his wish (or really, his billionaire benefactors got their wish). Texas is actually going to destroy its own public school system.

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Texas senators voted 20-11 on Wednesday to approve a bill that would drastically limit how the state's public universities teach their students about history, race and inequality.

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If you'd run this headline as a joke in 2015 people would've thought it was laughably insane.

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

@marisakabas.bsky.social identifies seven GOP reps who were welcomed to tour Trump's concentration camp the day before they refused Van Hollen entry: Ron Estes (KS) Kevin Hern (OK) Mike Kennedy (UT) Carol Miller (WV) Riley Moore (WV) Jason Smith (MO) Claudia Tenney (NY)

submitted 7 days ago • 66 comments

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

submitted 8 days ago • 384 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 1203 comments

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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Author of project 2025 is the author of a well-circulated pro-abuse tweet

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In 2022, President Bukele “announced a state of emergency…” Per the State Dept, “‘Security forces were empowered to arrest anyone suspected of belonging to a gang or providing support to gangs,’” & “the state of exception suspended the rights to be informed immediately of the reason 4 detention…” 1/

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“Over 60K people were detained under the state of emergency” implemented by Nayib Bukele. “Many arrests appear to have been based on the appearance or social background of the detainees,” & “human rights groups have documented that hundreds of people w/ no connection to gangs have been detained” 1/

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