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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

submitted 17 hours ago • 81 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 1 day ago • 590 comments

I'm not often a hands-waving, jumping-up-and-down person, but I do think this is an essential piece of news while this application remains pending at SCOTUS. The SG's position before the justices was significantly undermined by a declaration filed Wednesday in another case that was unsealed today.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

At this point, the way market investors keep reacting to Trump's senile freestyling about tariffs as if it reveals some reliable path back to normal times is more alarming than Trump's own instability

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

I think we should call these periodic thousand point rallies based on like one heterodox truth social post ‘flights to complacency.’

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

submitted 7 days ago • 137 comments

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Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 9 days ago • 666 comments

Nothing to see here but Florida's royal family laundering public funds into the royal family's campaign slush fund. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

America, and Americans, are at our best when we recognize that citizenship is a set of duties we owe to ourselves, each other, the nation, and past and future generations. We are at our worst when we see citizenship as merely a source of privileges and benefits to be jealously hoarded.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.

submitted 13 days ago • 203 comments

My latest scoop:

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

This is high art

submitted 19 days ago • 542 comments

Correct

submitted 19 days ago • 86 comments

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far: 1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination 2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids 3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally 4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

submitted 20 days ago • 91 comments

I mean, this is where you can really see the horror. Forget the legal question of what a judge can order. Sane, reasonable people who admit they've made a mistake work to fix it, all on their own, no judicial intervention necessary.

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

The “don’t worry he can’t do that” to “don’t worry he’ll never do that” to “nobody thought he would do that” to “don’t worry here’s why doing that is no big deal” pipeline.

submitted 21 days ago • 66 comments

our problem as people not infected by the authoritarian mind virus is that we are trying too hard to make sense of Trump’s tariffs as economic policy. Instead it is primarily symbolic, an attempt to reassert the fantasy of a racial colonial patriarchal family romance onto the world.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 21 days ago • 260 comments

YOU GUYS.

submitted 22 days ago • 322 comments

It is really weird how all these people are saying this isn’t what they voted for when this is precisely what I voted against.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks... The math breaks down: the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening. Entire regions are becoming uninsurable.”

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

DEUTSCHE: “.. We are becoming increasingly concerned that the dollar is at risk of a broader confidence crisis. .. The safe haven properties of the dollar are being eroded and this is imposing a significant cost on unhedged dollar holdings.” 🇺🇸 @robinwigglesworth.ft.com www.ft.com/content/7664...

submitted 23 days ago • 46 comments

Listen, yeah maybe we might get into a world war or five and maybe everyone will get a disease that was almost eradicated years ago and maybe some people will die and maybe we will be poor unless we’re already rich, but the thing is i forgot where I was going with this.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Good thing people can eat, drink, wear, and drive white supremacy.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

submitted 23 days ago • 45 comments

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

submitted 24 days ago • 98 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 25 days ago • 934 comments

The Trump DOJ argues in this case of mistaken deportation is that the only claim anyone can bring seeking the wrongfully deported person’s return from the black pit of a Salvadoran prison is a habeas petition that the court has no jurisdiction to hear. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 25 days ago • 23 comments

Note the government is doing 2 separate things here: 1) Acknowledging it made a mistake (violated US law by deporting someone who was legally protected from deportation). 2) Refusing to fix the mistake by claiming it has no authority to do so.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

@tmbg.bsky.social I found this in Dallas, maybe a Factory Showroom fan out there?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

As I remember it, this wasn’t a significant part of the 2024 election. Congress has never held a vote on ending foreign aid, much less passed a bill. And the official responsible for eviscerating foreign aid and demolishing the agency that provided it was never confirmed to his made up position.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 27 days ago • 186 comments

Take the time to follow the link and read for yourself the list of cancelled grants. The combination of cruelty, shortsightedness, and absolute ignorance is astounding.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments