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Elon Musk is trying to buy his own Supreme Court Justice in Tuesday's election in Wisconsin! We need to crush him! My article explains more on that race and Florida's special elections for Congress this Tuesday. Let's win these!! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-just-wo...

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Valley Hospital, for those unfamiliar, is the main hospital in Renton, Wash., which also is home to the factory where #Boeing workers assemble 737s. Great #union medical benefits are only so good, when the local care system is devastated by federal funding cuts on this scale.

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The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers. The reason those guys are standing silently shirtless behind Noem is that they’ve been asked to do it again and again, it’s part of the whole ride

submitted 15 hours ago • 118 comments

We've just updated the @wired.com guide for how to better protect your privacy when you cross the US border: www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg orders agencies of participants in now-famous Signal chat about Yemen attacks to preserve all Signal records from March 11 to 15. Acts in suit brought by @weareoversight

submitted 15 hours ago • 194 comments

RFK Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

submitted 18 hours ago • 22 comments

This morning, in the DOGE/Social Security Admin case before Judge Hollander, DOJ reported to the court, essentially, that several SSA DOGE team employees have met the requirements to start being allowed access to personally identifiable information. Among the tasks they are focusing on was this:

submitted 16 hours ago • 47 comments

BREAKING: Nineteen Trump-branded real estate projects will be developed in foreign countries during Trump’s presidency, a new CREW analysis shows

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

She is a consummate lickspittle. The odds that any other administration, R or D, would not immediately open a criminal investigation under espionage act 793 (f) are roughly zero. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

submitted 16 hours ago • 225 comments

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

submitted 20 hours ago • 412 comments

NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email

submitted 20 hours ago • 96 comments

The Onion is aggressively on sale. Subscribing helps us hire comedy writers who get health insurance and even food to eat, with their mouths. That food is converted into energy which allows them to make sentences that make the government sad. Sign up to let this continue: membership.theonion.com

submitted 18 hours ago • 92 comments

Trump DOJ lawyers making it clear that you should never trust a word they say. They'll renege on deals over and over again. (This is the AP WH access case, doc here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Funnily enough, I accidentally predicted this - wondering why such accidents aren't being reported - over supper when the Texas measles outbreak started being reported. Well, I got my answer and I'll have bragging rights at supper today 😬

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

🇮🇪 “Ireland has issued a travel warning for the US, highlighting potential risks for its citizens traveling abroad.” www.visaverge.com/news/ireland...

submitted 22 hours ago • 69 comments

I won't be able to listen in to the American Oversight v. Hegseth TRO hearing over the Signal chat records at 4p before Chief Judge Boasberg, but here are the docs: - memo for the TRO: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... - DOJ's opposition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

This isn't that complicated but to be clear 1. Signal is a very good app based on secure encryption technology. 2. Putting sensitive national security information on your regular phone creates vast new security risks unrelated to whether signal is a good app or not

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

I just saw two damn posts in a row about AI things stealing my friends' work. It is so deeply fucking enraging that people who don't think everyone has a right to healthcare or a home or food feel they have the right to repurpose other people's creativity & knowledge as their own.

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Rümeysa Öztürk is a Fulbright Scholar and a doctoral student. The government must immediately release her from custody. The First Amendment protects all of us — regardless of citizenship status. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

Packed house in Minocqua today. Judge Crawford is meeting with voters across the state about what’s at stake in this race.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Breaking: The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it will dramatically reduce its workforce, close regional offices, and dissolve agencies that help older adults and people with disabilities. 🧵 Thread and our full statement below👇

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

After more than four decades of calling Utah and Park City home, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving in 2027. via @utahnewsdispatch.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sund...

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Dr. Jill Underly fights for investments in schools to reduce class sizes. Her opponent, Brittany Kinser, supports Trump’s dismantling of the Dept. of Education & wants to drain $ from public schools to use for private school tuition. Vote Jill Underly on April 1. www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Still in awe over this comment: Steve Witkoff to Tucker Carlson, related to Witkoff's meeting with Putin, as Witkoff and Putin talked re war in Ukraine. No Hollywood director would propose such a scene. As Putin tries to soften US posture by offering Trump a "beautiful portrait" & supposed prayers

submitted 16 hours ago • 62 comments

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

Get 'em.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Today I'm releasing new findings in my ongoing investigation into big pharma's tax dodging schemes. Pfizer has been engaged in what I believe to be the largest tax dodging scheme in the history of big pharma, avoiding billions in taxes on US drug sales.

submitted 17 hours ago • 53 comments

Someone remind Rubio: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

President Trump withdraws the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik as his ambassador to the UN amid amid Republican concerns her vote is vital to pass tax cuts in the House where the party has only a slim majority.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes opens her hearing on fired IGs saying that even if she sides with them, she sees no path to actually reinstating them. Her remedies are limited, she thinks, to backpay.

submitted 17 hours ago • 49 comments

"In Lubbock, Texas, public health officials have received orders to stop work supported by three grants that helped fund the response to the widening measles outbreak there" State health departments are crucial for public health and were already underfunded. These cuts are catastrophic.

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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: The chairman and ranking member on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee asked the Defense Department inspector general Thursday to open an investigation into top officials’ use of the Signal chat app to discuss plans for bombing Yemen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.

submitted 17 hours ago • 293 comments

Billionaires lately are like “won’t it be great when it’s just us and our money and you’re all dead?” And then they’re like “why don’t people like me?”

submitted 17 hours ago • 93 comments

A mythical spike in organized retail theft led states to OK a taxpayer-funded police shopping spree for electronic surveillance technology - mission creep at its worst, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @theappeal.org.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

This week word leaked that #HHS was hiring David Geier, a long-time vaccines critic who was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license to do a new study on vaccines & autism. Sen. Cassidy met RFK Jr. for breakfast today. Geier's hiring didn't come up. www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/r...

submitted 17 hours ago • 130 comments

“For decades, [FEMA] has carried the significant responsibility of helping states and local communities recover from hurricanes, wildfires and other weather-related disasters. That includes funding immediate needs such as short-term housing and basic repairs.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 17 hours ago • 113 comments

Weird how the jobs that AI-boosters say AI is going to replace never seems to include the management or executive class.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

This is absolutely horrendous. Millions of children will die. On a side note, there will be more disease here in the U.S. too, contagious diseases don't stay in one place. www.reuters.com/business/hea... @doritreiss.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @apha.org

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Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

The Signal chat's fallout expands as @WSJ.com reports Israel provided sensitive intel from a human source about a Houthi operative targeted in the strike. "Israeli officials complained privately to U.S. officials that Waltz’s texts became public," per the report. 🎁🔗

submitted 16 hours ago • 14 comments

(Reuters) - The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters. #BigBalls

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"The White House has pulled back from this resolution just now" Added fireworks in today's hearing in AP suit v. White House Per AM filing, White House won't send witnesses and won't pull back Taylor Budowich written statement to court -- even though AP complains they can't cross-examine Budowich

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If you only believe in democracy when it delivers the results you like, you don’t believe in democracy. Nebraskans voted for paid sick leave. It passed. Our job is to honor that—not to quietly walk it back. #NELeg

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

I've been unable to think of little else since watching the video of masked secret police from ICE whisking away Rumeysa Ozturk - a shocking scene of police state repression I never hoped to see in America What's even worse is why she was disappeared. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/rume...

submitted 19 hours ago • 60 comments