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Happy Appomattox Day to all who celebrate and I expect each and every one of you to celebrate.

submitted 22 minutes ago • 4 comments

something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?

submitted 18 hours ago • 238 comments

HAPPY (?) STOVE TOUCHING DAY EVERYONE

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

wow the three month orgy of breaking long-standing agreements, abrogating contracts and shredding the constitution has damaged the full faith and credit of the united states that the entire global financial system rests on? might've been a bigger deal that Tim Walz' national guard retirement idk

submitted 8 hours ago • 76 comments

It's very possible that the second trump presidency will be measured in months

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments

this all feels like high crimes and misdemeanors doesn't it

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

submitted 3 hours ago • 53 comments

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

submitted 2 hours ago • 62 comments

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

Hail to the thief. And "fuck you" to every journalist who printed the risible lie that DOGE was a "cost cutting" or "efficiency" effort as if it were a truth everyone acknowledged. Don't print lies in the newspaper

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 14 hours ago • 131 comments

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

submitted 14 hours ago • 36 comments

💯 Dems should also commit to a specific position: Trump has not honored the promises and agreements of his predecessors and we will not honor his. If you're gullible enough to trust an assurance from Trump, understand that it is gone the moment he is.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

The idea that prison conditions needed to be harsh to punish crime was always a sick fantasy that eroded our collective rights. Now that due process is officially being abandoned, it’s another demonstration that all those supposedly far-left radical ideas were common sense and necessary.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Update from the Mahmoud Khalil case; at his first immigration court hearing, it appears that the government didn’t even have any evidence ready and the judge is giving them until Friday to submit it or she will terminate the case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 13 hours ago • 48 comments

Another day wasted when university presidents & chancellors could have been in front of microphones. The total lack of loud public collective action condemning this & explaining to Americans why this is a complete disaster is utterly maddening. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 13 hours ago • 42 comments

The courts should put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the people of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

submitted 16 hours ago • 102 comments

In the Nuremberg judges trial, the judges who helped grease the wheels of Nazi atrocities argued that they were just applying the horrific law, and should not be held accountable. Roberts, Gorsuch, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas don’t even have that excuse. They’re making up their own horrific law.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I will go to my grave believing that Obama deciding to give the entire Bush admin and everyone responsible for the 08 crash a big pass was a pivot point for this country and led more or less directly to the predicament we are in now and will be in for quite some time.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

this one is bad

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Future generations will be baffled (as I was baffled at the time) that the Dem trifecta in 2021 did so little to stabilize democracy or repair the courts. The "radical" 14th amendment plan was much less radical than the alternative of doing nothing, it turns out. Constitution now in shreds.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The government is snatching people off the streets and shipping them to foreign prisons from which, the government claims, they can never be extracted. All with no due process. It’s as bad as it gets. And this court is again avoiding the reality of what’s happening at all costs.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

In my view Trump’s desire for Congress to give ICE $54b for immigration enforcement, paired with this Supreme Court ruling and Trump’s public comments about sending US citizens to a slave labor camp in El Salvador, spells serious danger. Congressional Dems must deny them the money to do this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

say it with me folks!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.

submitted 1 day ago • 507 comments

roughly once a day at the moment I think of the guy I spoke to in Maryland before the election who was still undecided because "one of them's a felon and the other one's a woman! whatever happens no one will take us seriously again!"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Wall Street remembers the 2020 stock market quickly bouncing back up and attributed it to some kind of Trumpian magic when what actually happened was Democrats in Congress bailed Trump out with massive, massive Keynesian stimulus. They won't get that this time!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

probably not the entire Neo-fascist moment, but large parts of it, could have been strangled in it's crib by taking the law seriously when it came to rich people and right wing politicians, rather than pearl-clutching about slippery slopes or the appearance of impropriety.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

We elected a man everyone who matters in this country knew was an idiot. The bulk of them refused to say so openly and directly — either because they thought he could do something for them or because there are political and journalistic norms against speaking that way.

submitted 2 days ago • 373 comments

This is why I went after Zuck on threads about his pivot from “we’re going to cure all disease” to “we’re backing the guy who’s cutting funding for the cancer cures”. They all need to own their culpability.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is just the estimated figure for lost tax revenue, I think. It doesn't include: 1) the cost of firing and then rehiring a bunch of workers, 2) the increased cost of contracting out needed services that were in-house, 3) the cost of contracts being non-competitively awarded to Musk and cronies.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.

submitted 2 days ago • 386 comments

This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers. Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers.

submitted 2 days ago • 192 comments

This book is a fantastic vision-building tool for organizing and ways that coalition building can work and has worked. Reading it was one of the best exercises for expanding my imagination for what is possible.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Does the Privacy Act not exist anymore? It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

Every interview I’ve done with international media has included the question: “Why are there no mass protests?” - with the assumption being that Americans are either all on board or just too lazy. Really important to push back hard against such notions. The failure is on the institutional level.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Protests are critical to resistance to authoritarianism - they help facilitate collective action and overcome preference falsification. There are lots of people who will stand up if others do too.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 3 days ago • 290 comments

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Yes there will be people who are not the exact type of lefty as you at a protest. a lot of it will be cringe perhaps. No it will not solve all of the real problems. Do it anyway. You will be glad you did.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation. It’s an essential step in the process.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

#HandsOff in Fayetteville, AR today, despite the cold and wet.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

This is the most detailed guide I’ve found for the 65,000 voters in NC whose votes might be thrown out. Tells them step by step what to do.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

To me, this is the easiest layup for DC Democrats. Go to the IRS, chain yourselves there and raise the alarm about this so that USians understand what they are doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments