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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

submitted 2 days ago • 1075 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 1673 comments

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 2 days ago • 593 comments

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

submitted 3 days ago • 1981 comments

Chicago. #HandsOff

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submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Here are a few of the amendments @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty and Senate Republicans just rejected:

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

WHAT THE F**K!

submitted 4 days ago • 918 comments

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

submitted 4 days ago • 1220 comments

"The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday that it will end a mortgage-rescue program designed to help veterans who have fallen behind on their mortgages keep their homes."

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

And that’s if you believe the $600b figure. Some economists believe it could be half that.

submitted 5 days ago • 55 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 6 days ago • 1682 comments

Just no words for this level of cruelty and enthusiasm for inflicting suffering on the poorest in our society

submitted 7 days ago • 284 comments

The Trump Administration admits to an “oversight” in the deportation to the mega-prison in El Salvador an immigrant who has PROTECTED LEGAL STATUS since 2019… But now claims: “Oops, we can’t bring him back.”

submitted 7 days ago • 170 comments

New: New wave of terminations today at FDA. People arrived this morning and found out while waiting in line to go through security that they no longer worked there. A common pattern with DOGE: planning to maximize humiliation/disrespect.

submitted 7 days ago • 278 comments

Goldman devotes a report to foreign boycotts of US goods. 🇺🇸 “.. this headwind provides an additional reason why US GDP growth will likely underperform consensus expectations in 2025. “.. Foreign Sentiment Towards the US Has Declined Sharply”

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USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

submitted 9 days ago • 2479 comments

We are better than this. We used to be, anyway.

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submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Just keeps getting worse

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

It seems ICE had a quota for Venezuelan gang members & filled it by picking up people with tattoos. Rose, hummingbird, soccer, mother, Autism awareness. For that people are taken from their families & sent to spend the rest of their lives in horrifying conditions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 117 comments

In Feb, a Pentagon agency issued guidance that Signal is "NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information (e.g. Protected, FOUO, CUI, etc.). Any use or application must abide by DoD and NSA/CSS policy." The Sec. of Defense violated that guidance. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 2105 comments

ICE has essentially kidnapped a fulbright scholar. the administration is out of control, malicious, using terror to silence speakers & blare, 'you are not welcome here.' hardly anything more 'unamerican' than this.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Credit to @npr.org for this detailed look at how Elon Musk & the backpack boys have stolen all of our private information. ALL OF IT. Add this to the Signal security breach and the incompetence takes your breath away.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.” So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.

submitted 13 days ago • 1195 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 13 days ago • 514 comments

Is America great yet? amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

WOW: @miamiherald.com reveals that a person imprisoned in El Salvador had LEGAL REFUGEE STATUS. He entered the USA legally in January and was detained because of his tattoos, EVEN THOUGH he had previously passed a full background check. Without warning, he was sent to El Salvador on March 15.

submitted 14 days ago • 204 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 14 days ago • 1518 comments

Trump Policies Could Send International Talent Elsewhere, Hobbling U.S. Science www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 15 days ago • 373 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100B in taxes and receive no benefits or representation. Trump is about to explode the deficit by using the SSA to find and deport them. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

submitted 17 days ago • 285 comments

We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

submitted 18 days ago • 497 comments

“Efficiency”

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Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

submitted 18 days ago • 615 comments

Just arrived from Berlin to an empty Dulles airport in DC. Assumed because Heathrow outage. “No,” says my WashFlyer cabbie, the past month has been super slow. “Fewer tourists, fewer business people. This is not normal, believe me.” Says he’s looking for a new job because he needs to pay his bills.

submitted 18 days ago • 555 comments

Trump’s Commerce Secretary just said seniors shouldn’t “call and complain” if they stop getting their Social Security checks: “A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and complaining.”

submitted 18 days ago • 1475 comments

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

submitted 19 days ago • 727 comments

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 210 comments

This is very bad.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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submitted 25 days ago • 88 comments

Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.

submitted 25 days ago • 458 comments

...topics such as the Civil War..."??? It literally became a national cemetery *because of the Civil War. We're not a serious country. Or, more accurately, this isn't a serious government

submitted 25 days ago • 56 comments