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the moderate position is “people need to go to prison” for the deportation of people to el salvadoran concentration camps. the radical position is something akin to guillotines on the washington mall

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive. www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

submitted 10 hours ago • 97 comments

Darth Vader being “gracious” and “not fake.” Everything we’ve ever not liked about him is absent in this scene.

submitted 10 hours ago • 213 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 10 hours ago • 393 comments

It's so funny how they rant and rave against Marxists and what not, but man, do they sound like failed Soviet leaders. "You have been reassigned from hospital doctor to toaster maker. Please go to factory at 5 a.m. for shift."

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

submitted 1 day ago • 1537 comments

Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and retry him for deportation in a lawful way. That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

submitted 20 hours ago • 162 comments

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

submitted 1 day ago • 1125 comments

There's not enough backlash. They shouldn't have a moment's peace.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

It is also worth noting that Gamergate started in 2014. So someone who is 30 now was about 19 at the time, and has spent their entire adult life swimming in the most toxic internet environment. It seems that women saw that and fought against it, and men embraced it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Hernandez: This administration wants you to believe that the reason you can't buy eggs is because of your immigrant neighbor, they want you to blame trans folks for your troubles, blame unhoused people for the housing crisis. You know what I say to that? Bullshit.

submitted 13 hours ago • 45 comments

I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."

submitted 1 day ago • 330 comments

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

submitted 13 hours ago • 169 comments

"Whoever is elected the 48th president won’t be able to easily rebuild what Donald Trump is busy destroying. Countries can and will move on without the United States. Their firms will establish new supply chains and pursue other markets." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 50 comments

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Am reading a non-fiction book about the language of fascism/authoritarianism and Trump is definitely using the fascist playbook. The book is Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite History to Control the Future by Jason Stanley. Highly recommend.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1041 comments

They’ll do it in a few high profile cases to set examples. People will say, “No way this holds up in court.” Maybe. But we now know the plan: they’ll do it first, then dare the courts to stop them. And this too will be very difficult for courts to undo. This is end of democracy stuff.

submitted 15 hours ago • 69 comments

Yes, contractors cost more, perform worse, and are harder to manage. But they can be fired at will without collecting benefits, and most importantly this will allow them to sell off these government agencies to the private sector for nothing like they wanted all along (like Russia did in the 1990s).

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

Absolutely one helluva cover. 😀

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Today it’s on The Onion. Next week it’ll be on WaPo and won’t be funny anymore.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

“they were polite to me so they can’t be a monster” is the most consistent failure of elite society

submitted 13 hours ago • 96 comments

We begin our coverage of USS Enterprise bridge overhead displays in season 3 of #StarTrekTOS with these images from the season's first episode (production order!): "The Spectre of the Gun". The displays are generally very dark this season, that blue display, as shall be seen, being a real exception.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

submitted 12 hours ago • 141 comments

On Friday, April 11, traders placed large, aggressive bets that Apple’s stock would jump within days. They bought contracts that would only be profitable if the stock moved up fast. Hours later, the White House quietly announced a major policy shift. data-and-politics.ghost.io/173-returns-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 comments

AOC is calling out colleagues for stock trades before tariffs were paused: “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hrs should probably disclose that now … It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.” AOC is absolutely right. More here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/saturdays-...

submitted 17 hours ago • 42 comments

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Do this! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I just want democrats who hate republicans as much as they hate us

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

Extraordinary institutional failure across the board. Legislature, judiciary, parties, media… American institutions were weaker than I could have guessed.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Hey remember when we found out that top national security officials were using commercial messaging apps to plan operations, rather than secure government channels, so they could illegally sidestep official records acts? So long ago, lost in the mists of time.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Remember: algorithms are never your friends.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Surely the "donations" to Trump’s inauguration by Apple, Nvidia and Dell had nothing to do with them getting tariff exemptions www.barrons.com/articles/tar...

submitted 15 hours ago • 31 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 2 days ago • 839 comments

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

submitted 1 day ago • 504 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 1 day ago • 297 comments

My copies for Space Usagi arrived ✨💙 I like how it printed

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk’s Doge fired self-drive car safety experts at agency that regulates Tesla www.ft.com/content/ede5...

submitted 17 hours ago • 55 comments

THREAD: Some folks have asked why Donald doesn’t just pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back. Besides the cruelty, what’s the point of defying the lower court’s order? Basically, he wants to see if he can get away with it. 1/

submitted 15 hours ago • 330 comments