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“The reporter from MyPillow asked the White House press secretary why the president looks so healthy and robust” is a true sentence that exists in our current reality.

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I love the America I was taught existed as a child. A melting pot where tired, poor, huddled masses across the world became Americans by force of will and a shared dream. The adult in me learned that America never really existed. The child in me demands its birth. Immediately.

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Marc Andreessen is what happens when someone who’s lucky starts to believe he’s actually brilliant, like thinking a winning streak at the slots means you earned it some how.

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

A bill moving through the Florida legislature would mandate that the names of officers who kill or maim civilians could not be disclosed for a minimum of 72 hours following an incident -- and would empower the police department in charge to extend the confidentiality period indefinitely. /1

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The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

“No consensus or even significant coalition exists for trying to force into existence a new American “golden age” with tariffs, which anyway is like asking a chicken to give birth to a lioness. He invented this mission out of his own confused intuition.” I guess we know what Rupert thinks

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It’s a small point and nobody behind this cares, for obvious reasons, but if what happened at Columbia were a response to something Columbia or anyone specific there did wrong, it would make no sense to treat it as a “prototype” to replicate across a “sector.” Faculty who leaned into this are fools.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Journalists in all ways need to start challenging people more. It's not biased to ask hard follow up questions, and to dig deeper, do actual journalism. If they think you're a bully because you want to nail them to the wall on specifics, it's probably because they don't have specifics, just rhetoric

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"A precedent has been set. Every international student in America today must accept that they may be abducted, detained and deported for attending a protest or expressing a view that upsets the White House or its allies." — #AJOpinion by @somdeepsen.bsky.social ⤵️

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Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

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I'd say this is a pretty important story. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Beyond inhumane and cruel - these are folks who helped US forces in Afghanistan.

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Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

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SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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It appears several religious colleges signed on to this, as well as the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities:

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Next time it’ll be FEMA money for a disaster because the blue state wont change its election laws. We’re deep in Mad King territory here, just a few months in.

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BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

submitted 1 day ago • 687 comments

State Department employees have been told to report on any colleagues who display "anti-Christian bias."

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Because he never stops lying about everything, money doubly so.

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Bryan has been an essential read during the GOP's long-running attempt to overturn last year's election for the NC Supreme Court, and he's often the first person to share important legal rulings. Follow him on here, and subscribe to his newsletter -->

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The chickens haven't really come home to roost yet (everything is about to double in price, tourists will no longer come to the U.S., much worse unintended consequences we don't have the imagination to conceive of) and people fucking hate this shit, generally loathe what's going on. Go on offense.

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UPDATE: The US Department of Education will move to cut off K-12 funding for Maine over Title IX policies on transgender athletes If it happens, it'd be the first time a school - let alone a state - loses all federal education funding since 1990 www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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You’re not supposed to grant anonymity to liars. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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“Fascists won’t leave you alone unless you’re actively assisting their vision, often demanding public pledges of submission or complicity in the regime’s crimes.” www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...

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Remember that faculty already have to share reports of their research to university management for routine performance evaluations. This is about something else.

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ICE is using military funds to build tent complexes at the border. This company stands to profit: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

submitted 2 days ago • 1363 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

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Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 2 days ago • 205 comments

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

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Trump “broke a core covenant of capitalism — stable and predictable regulatory environment.” — Fundstrat, this week www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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So, yes, the market meltdown was scary, but what we are left with is even scarier: A world dangling at the whim of a capricious, economically illiterate, megalomaniac. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

President Trump's popular vote victory was among the narrowest in modern U.S. history; it exceeds only the two elections (of Bush in 2000 and himself in 2016) in which the loser of the popular vote became the president.

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LEVINE: “.. the possibilities are: .. Trump believed, yesterday morning, that his tariffs were good for America and that this was a great time to buy ..” Or, b) “Trump knew .. that he was going to pause .. so he gave his followers on Truth Social a little preview.” @matt-levine.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The people who architected the financial and constitutional collapse of this country, for no reason than to torture immigrants on camera for likes and shares, should pay the penalty for their treason

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

As a 20 year communications professional I’d like to offer Democrats my most sophisticated advice: While Trump is punching himself in the nuts, you could choose to 1. Also punch him in the nuts; or 2. Punch yourself in the nuts. I strongly advise number 1.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

👇🎯 Today in “Article III cannot solve the problem of an unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis requiring immediate impeachment & removal”

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Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

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The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

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This is very noticeable among students as well. Especially international students are increasingly reluctant to speak, even inside the classroom, because they are - understandably! rightfully! - frightened they might get punished by the regime. It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.

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They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed

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This is a recipe for financially ruining U.S. research universities: 1) Vastly and rapidly reduce funding for research and infrastructure; 2) Scare international students, whose tuition helps fund PhD students (as TAs), away. These folks know exactly what they're doing.

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Now imagine if they fought back collectively

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This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

congratulations Campus Free Speechers, your guy made future thought crime a thing

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

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