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ddeford.bsky.social
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This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

something significant here to understand is that russia’s cruelty paradoxically undermines its ability to threaten credible escalation

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

The Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee just posted this. Guessing this is a meme format that will be around for a while

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

😬 A hurricane is coming. FEMA’s not ready. Internal reports say FEMA lacks a plan—and their new chief just found out there's a hurricane season: bit.ly/4kiNrwE

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Get the sense that attack in Colorado was the work of a single individual and thus hard to prevent. But worth recalling how how many FBI have already been pulled off counterterrorism and other forms of crimes for immigrant round up duty.

submitted 2 days ago • 136 comments

I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.

submitted 28 days ago • 121 comments

Thinking of this @asrust.bsky.social piece today for no reason in particular ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is the ur-NYT column, the template, the holy mountain on which their ideal columnists are all born: of course we don’t endorse what these nasty fascists are doing but if you think about it they have a point and (inhales deeply, turns to camera) It’s Complicated.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

The biggest scandal in U.S. history is hiding in plain sight. The president and his family are boosting their wealth by $1 billion every month, selling the power and prestige of the White House. Giving this a name - Cryptogate - and a concise guide. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

me: the social contract is important and must be upheld crowd: [cheering and hollering] me: you, too, are obliged by the duties of civil virtue and that selfsame contract crowd: [jeering, becoming surly]

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It will be impossible to write the history of how something as insane and harmful as Trump happened in America without a heavy focus on legacy media sanewashing.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

No Tax on Tips is in many ways the most perfect Trump policy. Deceptively magnanimous to working people. Totally corrosive to the country’s finances and social fabric by being ripe for scamming. Stupid low-trust people allergic to thinking and bad with money will love it

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

The state of mainstream journalism today:

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like we have our answer.

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

1/ You think you're reading local news. Illinois Valley Times. Tucson Standard. Arizona Today. But these aren't newsrooms, they're AI-run disinfo & propaganda machines funded by billionaires to manipulate your vote. Welcome to pink slime media. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

submitted 22 days ago • 75 comments

Two brothers without criminal records, applying for permanent legal status, were deported by ICE anyway.

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 24 days ago • 1078 comments

I will block any arms sale to a nation that is doing direct personal business with Trump. We should have a full Senate debate and vote. UAE's investment in Trump crypto and Qatar's gifting of a plane is nuclear grade graft. An unacceptable corruption of our foreign policy.

submitted 23 days ago • 143 comments

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated. “Only very sick kids should die from measles.” No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die. Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

submitted 24 days ago • 1027 comments

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

submitted 29 days ago • 706 comments