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But Of Course: The MAGA politician who introduced a bill classifying “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness has been arrested for allegedly soliciting a teen for sex. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-pol-jus...

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

House leaders have yet to appoint board members to an independent office designed to investigate ethics complaints against lawmakers and their staff members, leaving the entity powerless for the time being and sparking concerns among outside watchdogs.

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

I wonder if markets will respond to this, given implications for Fed governance and other potential firings. Someone attending Powell’s presser tomorrow afternoon should ask in any case

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...

submitted 23 hours ago • 284 comments

They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.

submitted 1 day ago • 820 comments

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 1316 comments

DOGE broke into the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening, the independent nonprofit’s CEO said.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Elon Musk’s staffers visited the U.S. Institute of Peace, accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by a lawyer who informed them that the institute holds “private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency.” Following this, the staffers left.

submitted 3 days ago • 176 comments

Good Lord. Latest from US Institute of Peace:

submitted 1 day ago • 231 comments

So weird! I was assured by the main political media that Project 2025 was DEFINITELY not something Trump would do….

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This piece from Ben Miller is a handy overview of what the US Department of Education does, day-in and day-out.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

More of this, please. A LOT more of this, please.

submitted 1 day ago • 1714 comments

DHS said she was a terrorist sympathizer and “involved in activities supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization." Revoked visa, but offered no evidence. Social media was pro-Gaza, but she said she did not attend any protest. Offered no due process.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

This is Chuck. Chuck is selling a book. Chuck also has a full-time job. I would consider buying Chuck’s book if he were doing that job, but he’s not. Don’t be like Chuck. And don’t buy Chuck’s book.

submitted 2 days ago • 2527 comments

Consumers across the world are boycotting American products in protest of literally everything Donald Trump is doing.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

The White House is now admitting it ignored Boasberg's order.

submitted 2 days ago • 454 comments

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...

submitted 2 days ago • 747 comments

The issue with people like Schumer and Carville is that they refuse to accept that politics is not the same as it was 20 years ago. They refuse to accept they are the remnants of a system that doesn’t exist anymore.

submitted 2 days ago • 397 comments

Not how it works. And they know it. The courts must come down on the Trump administration for this so hard that they do not dare disobey a court order again. I have seen judges do this with juveniles. Explain to me again why they cannot do it with DOJ or the FBI or Marco Rubio.

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 3 days ago • 2114 comments

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

submitted 3 days ago • 1493 comments

New profile cover...... (by me)

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

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@statisticurban.bsky.social: “The DoD has removed the article on Charles Roger's Medal of Honor. He served in Vietnam. Despite being wounded three times in battle, rallied his troops & led them to victory in defense of Support Base Rita. Nixon presented his Medal. The url is changed to "deimedal.”

submitted 2 days ago • 636 comments

Never back down, never go along with authoritarians.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

Wow -- even Fox News Sunday thinks Trump's promotional event for Tesla was a bad look

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

Attacking knowledge, information, learning, science, libraries, schools: to keep people clueless and compliant. Fight back: read, speak out, communicate, learn, and share with others.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun "Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 3 days ago • 200 comments

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and removed his savings from his bank account, cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

I've written about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Fun trivia: When the administration that signed it tried to stop what it xenophobically called an "invasion" of French immigrants, James Madison argued deportation was unconstitutional absent war: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol120/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Trump just invoked the Alien Enemies Act, so I’ll pass along this good explainer www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

Some kind of lack of representation I believe.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Within minutes of showing up at the IRS, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access to the tax collection agency’s most protected internal databases — including the one containing the personal and financial data for millions of American taxpayers.

submitted 3 days ago • 638 comments

“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

submitted 4 days ago • 100 comments

Early voting in person in Wisconsin starts March 18. Wisconsin, this is your first chance to fight back against Musk, Trump, and MAGA at the ballot box—by defeating Brad Schimel, and electing Judge Susan Crawford to the WI Supreme Court. Find your early vote location at: wisdems.org/vote

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

From banned books to banned words, Trump's no-no's include: "biased," "climate science," "women," "socioeconomic," "underprivileged," and "inequality." “Men” is not on the taboo list, in deference to the political ascendency of the Manosphere, of course.

submitted 3 days ago • 91 comments

Trump is dismantling democracy right in front of us. He operates on the principle that people will think that if he does it openly and in public, there can't be anything wrong with it. Do not be deceived.

submitted 3 days ago • 235 comments

This is criminal. Another $100 million for Trump’s Tesla ad. electrek.co/2025/03/13/e...

submitted 3 days ago • 191 comments

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

“The internal estimates are that more than a hundred and sixty thousand people will die from malaria per year, from the abandonment of these programs, if they’re not restored.”

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments