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these pieces are now a genre where the writer completely fucking missed what was going on while the photographer understood the assignment and was having an extremely good fucking time doing their job www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

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Something my mind cannot stop thinking about is that in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Trump admin ADMITTED that he was wrongfully deported and they they still are fighting as hard as they can to not bring an innocent man home because it will make them look bad.

submitted 8 hours ago • 374 comments

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

One President wildly exceeded his authority by forgiving some student loans; a different President barely scratched the surface of his authority by disappearing anyone he pleases without trial to a foreign gulag. Constitutional law is a serious intellectual enterprise.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

You want to know why Bluesky is great? Because the top 5 most blocked accounts are - Notorious Transphobe - Self-Hating Pick Me Trans Influencer - Trending Bot - Liberal Elon Musk - Brazilian Joe Rogan

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

CAMP OF THE SAINTS?!?!

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

A thing Dems should steal from Trump to keep stuff like this in the public consciousness is hammering nicknames to keep these things top of mind. He's not Pete Hegseth anymore he's "Signal Pete Hegseth" or "Signal Pete" or just "Signal"

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Remember what I said about there being a network of conservatives infiltrating mainstream news organizations, whose loyalty is to the conservative movement rather than to the news organizations

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

It’s just naked extortion right out in the open

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the key thing to understand is that the primary reason that venture capitalists turned hard right-wing is that MeToo removed the only thing they care about: the ability to rape their subordinates

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Since Republicans control all three branches, this seems like an important data point

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

What we're seeing is that they don't have to destroy Social Security in a direct way, they can just make it so unusable and clunky that people lose their benefits.

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Breaking: A judge demanded "daily updates" from the Trump administration on whether it’s complying with a court order to return a man who was illegally deported.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

I like how America is like a Scared Straight program for other countries around the world considering fascism

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Quietly shrugging off a military purge: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Kaine Kelly Kim Reed Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

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been wondering when people would start advocating for this. potential golden, once-in-a-century opportunity for the EU to fund a rearmament/investment program on the cheap as global investors start fleeing dollar assets www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

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"Apparently"? You should absolutely go arrest those very real 25,000 people right now. You have their addresses. Go! In fact, if you don't find every one of these absolutely real fraudsters and convict them all in court, then that's clearly a sign of your utter failure in office.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Reclaiming opposition to antisemitism is one of the most important fights that has barely begun. If they oppose antisemitism, then fire all the Nazi sympathizers in senior position in govt.

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Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

The dollar crashing is great news for all of us Brits who've found the US unaffordable since Brexit, except when we try to visit we're going to be turned away at the border because we liked a tweet saying slavery was bad

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

You ever notice how secret progressives never run as Republicans and then yank the rug out from their constituents?

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Weird take given that public opinion is where it is now because organized forces set out to reverse it from what it used to be

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I covered myself in my own feces and screamed at my next door neighbor after banging on his door really loudly. Now he won't talk to me because of the USD/CAD exchange rate.

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My son and daughter got social Security payments because their mother died at 35. Jen earned that money and the family needed that little extra boost each month having lost a breadwinner. These people trying to shame recipients are monstrous.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

More pain, no gain

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

With Yoon removed from office today, by my count that makes 34 democratic leaders convicted since 2010. Only one—Trump—faced no real consequences. Trump's actions weren't uncommon. What was exceptional was how our institutions failed to hold him accountable.

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

The US deports a foreign national to South Sudan, a country that he does not come from. When South Sudan refuses, US cancels ALL VISAS from South Sudan. South Sudan relents, accepts non-citizen in an attempt to calm the US, but visas are still in limbo. GOT IT. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

one of the most interesting history-of-theology observations ive ever heard was that periods of time when confucianism and daoism fall out of favour in imperial china in favour of buddhism seem to line up pretty neatly with when life was just a bit horrible compared to other periods

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The Trump administration is now canceling people's Social Security Numbers, treating them as if they are legally dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the administration admits it mistakenly deported to Venezuela but refused to bring back.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

"The U.S. is in the middle of two economic crises. One is being caused directly by tariffs. The other is a crisis of confidence being driven by a crisis of competence."

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It finally happened. The first documented case of a public school teacher being fired for referring to a student by their chosen name, instead of their dead name, as required by a law signed by Ron DeSantis in 2023: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

You know what Jesus said right? Fuck them kids

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is so important— my younger siblings got the Canadian version, it’s horrible.

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Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin

submitted 3 days ago • 467 comments

Shortly after its IPO last week, Newsmax stock soared as high as $279. It closed today at $34.71

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

The upshot of this article is less what is reported than the fairly clear message that every source in the White House is telling reporters that this fiasco was 100% the fault of Donald Trump. With the exception of Peter Navarro who everyone says is a moron. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

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NEW: NY federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issues his written opinion forbidding the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen held in the Southern District of NY (of which, he says, "there appear to be many") without bilingual notice and hearing with the option of a Spanish interpreter.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

every once in awhile, i think about how the story of both donald trump and elon musk are stories of generational crime and corruption going totally ignored and unpunished

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments