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Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

US at tipping point for return of endemic measles www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

The story actually gets WORSE ICE knew this 2 year old girl was a US citizen And knew there was a guardian who’d keep her in the US Yet they held her in detention anyway Using her AS BAIT to get to her father Only after that failed did they then deport her-without meaningful process Despicable

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

submitted 4 days ago • 723 comments

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant). She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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DOJ canceled the training for law enforcement that helps prevent online child predators from getting at our children. Doesn’t make us safer. Doesn’t make govt more efficient.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 4 days ago • 363 comments

BREAKING: Early this moring in Ypsi, Michigan the FBI/police raided the homes of Univ. of Mich. Pro-palestinian protestors, including a @CommunityMvt Builders member. They refused to show warrants, seized electronics & personal items. Temporarily holding 8 people. Updates to come

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.

submitted 7 days ago • 160 comments

NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

submitted 7 days ago • 319 comments

i think people are missing the forest for the trees with this one. RFK Jr wants complete centralized knowledge of every American's health in order to exact control on what medications are allowed and in order to fabricate "evidence" for each and all of his nonsense theories.

submitted 7 days ago • 184 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 8 days ago • 195 comments

Somehow the Times managed to get four sources on a group chat that had twelve of the people closest to Hegseth. Literally everyone must hate this guy.

submitted 8 days ago • 161 comments

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

submitted 9 days ago • 486 comments

Turning Point member who was asked to leave a debate club. Fellow student said that the gunman “was a big part of it as to why I felt unsafe post-election to come back to the club. He was sort of like the MAGA ringleader in the group.” In another context this would be presented as cancel culture.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Absolute clown behavior. The “margaritas” Abrego Garcia & Van Hollen have been criticized for having weren’t actually margaritas. They were props put there by a Bukele aide to make them look bad. Will the right-wingers who took the bait delete those tweets?

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

On CNBC today, Elizabeth Warren had to explain to anchor Sara Eisen that Congress can in fact take away Trump's tariffs authority, and also that America is not ruled by a king who can make laws by decree.

submitted 11 days ago • 711 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 11 days ago • 1178 comments

HOW DO INVESTIGATIONS LOWER COSTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES? WE'RE HERE TO LOWER COSTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES. DEMOCRATS LOWER COSTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES ASIAN STEPSISTER

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American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

With all the truly outrageous assaults on democracy occurring, it was oddly refreshing to report on old-school industry capture. But yes, Trump put out an executive order on drug prices whose main feature would raise drug prices, because Big Pharma wanted it that way. prospect.org/health/2025-...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

Oh baby, Musk's trying to build a breeding cult 'before the apocalypse' www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 13 days ago • 1499 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

submitted 13 days ago • 4268 comments

Man films and confronts two suspected undercover ICE officers (potentially NYPD) after they racially profiled and handcuffed a random civilian. Keep doing this shit. Make these fuckers famous. Make all police and immigration officers fear having their faces known to the masses.

submitted 14 days ago • 217 comments

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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(Reuters) - One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 14 days ago • 565 comments

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

submitted 15 days ago • 276 comments

they can come for any of us. an absolutely intolerable situation for a free people. trump is now promising the same treatment for us citizens. a plot to enslave america

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments