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Judge Wilkinson is an appointee of Ronald Reagan and has been on the shortlist for previous Republican presidents for nominations to #scotus. This is as emphatic of a warning it gets for everyone and a notice for Roberts SCOTUS.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

god I love this bit and I agree with it on the merits

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually” — Destroying universities — “You don’t need so many things” — Elites attacking elitism — Hate/contempt for cities — “Suck it up for the greater good” Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?

submitted 22 days ago • 109 comments

An alternate news universe.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

“Trade wars are good and easy to win” -famous (non) economist

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

High-efficiency geothermal heat pumps are as cheap as gas or electric heating alternatives when built into homes from the ground up, say startup Dandelion Energy and homebuilder Lennar. They're building 1,500 homes in Colorado to prove the proposition: www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo... #energysky

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

There are pages and pages of this stuff. Hard to overstate how badly the White House is torching potential for economic activity rn. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

The officials involved in this must be held accountable. You can't just send a guy with valid status to a foreign prison and then say "oopsies, we shouldn't have deported him. oh well!"

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I especially appreciate this argument because: “they can do it but they shouldn’t” is a line people are going to need to get used to re actions against noncitizens. Law gives the exec branch a LOT of power. The converse is that exec gets to choose when to use it.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Not to be all woke, but I don't think this is the way our justice system should work

submitted 31 days ago • 32 comments

If I was intentionally trying to create the aesthetic of bragging about a concentration camp I established, I don’t know what I’d do differently than this.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 35 days ago • 813 comments

Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 48 days ago • 613 comments

seems pretty clear that the US has not just cut off Ukraine but is switching sides

submitted 49 days ago • 52 comments

A disgusting and abject betrayal by the US. A decision that will save the US approximately zero dollars and will very directly kill countless Ukrainians

submitted 54 days ago • 24 comments

Sounds like life under Mao. Folks should read up on the Cultural Revolution.

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments