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If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

submitted 7 hours ago • 55 comments

• CEO Tim Cook personally gives $1M donation to Trump • Nvidia CEO attends Trump dinner with $1M admission fee • Microsoft donated $1M to Trump Inaugural fund ! All are now exempt from tariffs for the low price of a $million ! Who in congress and which Trump insiders bought stock and made $?

submitted 12 hours ago • 40 comments

What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison. Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee Police Sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ideas

submitted 2 days ago • 573 comments

Tonight Trump also revoked the clearances of the law firm Susman Godfrey, which helped Dominion win a $787 million defamation settlement against Fox (the election wasn’t stolen; Fox lied about that) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 3 days ago • 1944 comments

I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

an angry, twitching Stephen Miller yells on Fox News that Trump will "make American the manufacturing capital of the world"

submitted 4 days ago • 927 comments

I mean, to answer this jackass' question, Japan has more than 200 million fewer people than the US. So they literally can't buy as many cars or whatever from us as we can from them. This is really not that hard.

submitted 4 days ago • 120 comments

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

submitted 4 days ago • 1109 comments

🚨 NEWS: The IRS and DHS have signed an agreement to share confidential tax data for suspected undocumented immigrants. Follows our reporting that this deal was imminent — and would cover **7 million** suspected undocumented folks. More to come… www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 5 days ago • 257 comments

This is why tonight's decision is an absolute joke. The five justices had the gall to suggest that they were somehow charting a middle ground by holding (in THIS procedural posture?) that people must be given a "reasonable time" to file a habeas lawsuit - AS IF EVERYONE IN DETENTION CAN DO THAT?

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

BREAKING: The federal appeals court in DC has *unfired* members of the NLRB and MSPB that Donald Trump has been trying to remove despite laws protecting them from removal without cause. Panel was divided 7-4. Supreme Court could be next. Details TK www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

BREAKING: The D.C. Appeals Court’s 7-4 vote reverses a separate court decision that upheld Trump’s dismissal of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) member Cathy Harris. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 6 days ago • 533 comments