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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

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I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

submitted 2 days ago • 1317 comments

Trump just posted a new rant claiming the tariff exceptions on electronics announced late Friday aren’t actually exceptions and they’ll still get hit with tariffs.

submitted 4 hours ago • 217 comments

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

submitted 21 hours ago • 62 comments

Nothing will prevent them from going after U.S. scholars doing academic work on Christianity. Having written an academic book on Trump-supporting Pentecostals/Charismatics and working on these movements globally, I have no plan of going to the U.S. any time soon! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

Feels like Democrats should be running on a promise to imprison trump and his entire administration along with musk and the bribed conservatives on what was once the Supreme Court.

submitted 21 hours ago • 41 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 1 day ago • 237 comments

We stand by our reporting.

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

I do think that we are 100% dealing with people who DO have sinister evil overarching plans and are ALSO incredibly stupid and incompetent.

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Whenever you write something like this it should be antisemitism in quotes at bare minimum or in some form making clear that they’re aren’t actually cracking down on antisemitism

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The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

submitted 2 days ago • 326 comments

Trump’s 21% tariff on Ivory Coast cocoa is a trade disaster. Cocoa prices are likely to skyrocket, all thanks to his trade war. This is what happens when you put an unqualified egomaniacal bully in charge—global markets suffer, and ordinary people around the world are left footing the bill.

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they want jim crow history for a jim crow society

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In case you haven't been paying attention for the past two decades and some, Erik Prince is a threat to liberal democracy and human rights on a global scale.

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This is why I laughed when I heard Jared Issacman say the Trump administration was going to lead a new "Golden Age" in science during his confirmation hearing this week. NASA needs someone grounded in harsh realities, not someone with stars in their eyes.

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To continue to comply with the decadal planetary survey, NASA had preliminary plans to send a flagship-class orbiter to investigate this world and it's moon system. The Trump Administration's new budget proposal would terminate this and many other #NASA Science efforts.

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The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science. aas.org/press/aas-st...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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this is so fucking embarrassing.

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

we are living in fascism right now

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My 10 year old sister and I got Social Security payments after my father died from exposure to Agent Orange. It helped my widowed mom when the family lost his income. He paid into it his whole life. They even took it from his check while he was serving in Vietnam. Jeanine can go fuck herself.

submitted 2 days ago • 1152 comments

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 156 comments

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

submitted 9 days ago • 627 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 2 days ago • 839 comments

I realize this is over Donald Trump's head, but killing foreign tourism will increase the trade deficit.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

Incredible: ICE just deleted this post on Twitter, but not until after it got a ton of people drawing attention to how bad it was. My person theory remains that someone at Public Affairs used a stock image and didn't read carefully before posting, but that's because I believe in Hanlon's Razor.

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

Trump’s public health picks—Kennedy, Bhattacharya, Makary, Nesheiwat—were put in their roles to dismantle science. Because the American political right views it as a threat to business. That’s the lesson they have taken from COVID.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Ideas

submitted 3 days ago • 573 comments

CNN trying to normalize literal neo-Nazis and literal fascist propaganda.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

We frequently criticize headlines for not conveying what is happening, so lets this. Clear, concise, and does not use the authoritarian's frame. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 1166 comments

I think something that people outside (and inside) the US fail to understand is that ICE and Homeland Security are effectively extra-judicial War on Terror inventions outside of normal rule of law. Immigration law allows indefinite detention in the US.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.

submitted 3 days ago • 347 comments

Going out on a limb here to say that having purchased a couple of trips from SpaceX and conducted the "first private spacewalk" DOES NOT make Jared Isaacman a qualified candidate to run NASA. The way so many fans of human spaceflight have lionized this guy is seriously disturbing.

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

as we head another day into Oh He Really Means It, Huh, I would like to note that I, random guy with a Kronk avatar, have been much more correct about what Trump would do than our erstwhile Master of Business I have achieved this by listening to what he actually said, not what I wanted him to say

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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