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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 21 hours ago • 535 comments

If the Supreme Court - especially THIS Supreme Court - no longer takes DHS at its word, corporate media probably shouldn’t either. Just sayin.

submitted 17 hours ago • 84 comments

Two-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported 'with no meaningful process' reut.rs/3Gq3t8S

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Keri Heintzeman Spoke Out Against Condoms, IUDs, and Birth Control Implants in 2017 The Republican candidate hopes to win the Minnesota Senate District 6 special election on Tuesday meidasnews.com/news/keri-he...

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

This seems ominous.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

terrible people are attracted to other terrible people www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 222 comments

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

submitted 8 days ago • 399 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

Trump’s Individual Claims about Immigrant Targets Are False–But So Is the Larger Premise www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/18/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Can states withhold the tax revenue we would otherwise send to the feds so we can inspect our own goddamned food? www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

submitted 9 days ago • 567 comments

I'm going to memorize this thread.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: This Supreme Court Ruling could have been better, too. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/is-the-abr...

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 23 days ago • 340 comments

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

submitted 25 days ago • 673 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 31 days ago • 670 comments

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 31 days ago • 2766 comments

The president of El Salvador doesn’t want our judiciary cutting off his newfound supply of slaves.

submitted 39 days ago • 198 comments

We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished. This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.

submitted 41 days ago • 179 comments

@govevers.wisconsin.gov

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

submitted 42 days ago • 273 comments

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

submitted 43 days ago • 63 comments

I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

submitted 44 days ago • 631 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 44 days ago • 1060 comments

It’s the Tesla Spring Sell-a-Thon! 🎉 @forbes.com $TSLA www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

submitted 44 days ago • 281 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 44 days ago • 2320 comments

I'm adding my small voice to this.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

[School gives a child a book with a black character in it without asking the parents first.] PARENTS: "This is OUTRAGEOUS! A TOTAL violation of my parental rights!" [School inspects a child's genitals without asking the parents first.] PARENTS: "This is fine." www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-...

submitted 44 days ago • 1033 comments

This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

submitted 46 days ago • 179 comments

A dear friend of mine just had all her funding pulled. All she has ever done is work exceptionally hard to do excellent science and help others do great science. This is heartbreaking

submitted 47 days ago • 36 comments

Seeing folks who were silent about Palestine now posting the “When they came for the [x] I did not speak out” poem, without a shred of self-awareness. Just…wow

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 48 days ago • 466 comments

Good morning! #TaxDollars

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

We are pleased to launch “Tracking the Crisis,” our news aggregator and once-weekly round-up, which tracks the Trump Administration’s administrative, legislative and other actions, as well as an array of movement responses. The link for subscribing is www.democracycollaborative.org/tracking-the...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Committed to the Amazon boycott long term so I moved my entire extremely long Amazon wishlist which was really just a lot of books I want to read to Thrift Books. You can create and share wishlists there and then people can buy you used books, some of which benefit libraries. www.thriftbooks.com

submitted 50 days ago • 186 comments

Email list for all DOGE employees Please ReSkeet!

submitted 51 days ago • 698 comments

And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments