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Oh hellooo

submitted 4 hours ago • 105 comments

Nobody has earned more "fell for it again" badges than Greenwald

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

JUST IN: Three days after a judge awarded $6.6 million to whistleblowers fired for reporting him to the FBI for allegedly using his office to protect a prominent real estate developer in exchange for helping him cheat on his state senator wife, Ken Paxton announces he is running for US Senate.

submitted 1 hour ago • 109 comments

I don’t know if folks who haven’t spent time in / closely following Texas understand just how brazenly corrupt Ken Paxton really is. But here’s a thread, if you’re curious…

submitted 53 minutes ago • 48 comments

Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued used underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

submitted 3 hours ago • 93 comments

Donald Trump knows that he owns these cowardly law firms. Here are a few recommendations: Paul Weiss can litigate to bring children back in the mines. Milbank can challenge clean air rules. Willkie Farr can lead on spoiling the water. Skadden is perfect to break the unions. Shameful all.

submitted 3 hours ago • 167 comments

Absolutely nothing will surprise me, including this shit ass fascist government invoking the insurrection act and the troops enthusiastically supporting it.

submitted 40 minutes ago • 0 comments

Sedition and treachery is legal AND rewarded! It's a free for all in the furtherance and defense of fascism.

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Anecdotally, fucking spot on

submitted 13 hours ago • 58 comments

Nice try.

submitted 5 hours ago • 720 comments

Weird how the same party that insisted undocumented immigrants don't pay any taxes is now using the records of undocumented immigrants paying their taxes to find them. Of course they think it's great they won't be adding to our tax revenues anymore. Damn freeloaders, giving us money for nothing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 55 comments

Raskin: The basis for this most destructive trade war in the history of the world is the profound economic research and policy writings of one Ron Vera, a completely fictional economist conjured up by Peter Navarro, a real person who Elon Musk just called a moron

submitted 6 hours ago • 141 comments

this is a great example of trying to rationalize a fundamentally irrational decision. you’ll notice that at no point does cass ever articulate what the american public is supposed to get out of the deal here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

submitted 13 hours ago • 146 comments

I called this opinion a gimmick: A way to strip Boasberg of review while still giving the illusion of due process. @kovarsky.bsky.social lays out a bunch of legal evidence that's what's going on.

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

Ted Cruz might not be the Zodiac Killer, but the man is a serial murderer of sports dreams.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

This man is so bad for Texas sports that Oklahoma should give him an honorary degree

submitted 22 hours ago • 22 comments

Alright Houston Cougars fans. Please call Ted Cruz and leave a voicemail to tell him he should never attend a sporting event in the state of Texas again. I already did: (202) 224-5922

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

This man will eat your children and cause Texas teams to lose.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Kelvin Sampson: "Nerves. It's championship night, this isn't the middle of January against Sasquatch State" Ian: "What conference is Sasquatch State in???" Raf: "I was 5 and 0 against Sasquatch State"

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Lol Florida is scammin'. #gocoogs #houstoncougars

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In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.

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I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

This should’ve been the majority.

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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com really is just rotating sandwiches. TIL

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the law, in its magnanimous wisdom, forbids protests outside the homes of justices while blessing deportations with legality if conducted fast and sloppily enough

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“It took 75 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency for voters to hit the streets en masse. Millions of people showed up this weekend for more than 1,200 anti-Trump demonstrations—all of them peaceful—throughout all 50 states, from Alaska to Alabama to Arizona.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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In this Maryland town, it was tradition: Grab the Washington Times from the driveway, gasoline and breakfast at Royal Farms, then lace up the old jackboots and start randomly arresting people for rendition to a torture prison in El Salvador. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

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Acting by himself, Chief Justice Roberts has issued an "administrative" stay in Abrego Garcia, temporarily pausing Judge Xinis's order (which had required the U.S. to return Abrego Garcia by this evening). In a nutshell, it's a temporary pause to buy the full Court more time to rule on the dispute.

submitted 1 day ago • 229 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

Russell 2000 hit its circuit breaker in the overnight hours, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Japan halted trading after hitting their breaker. Tomorrow is gonna be ugly.

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

Has anyone done an explainer on why OPEC+, which includes Russia, decided to suddenly INCREASE production of oil at a time when global markets are predicting a decrease in demand for oil because of a crash?

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i always took it on relative faith that a diffuse collection of ruthless corporate interests more or less ran the world according to a certain understood ruleset but the fact that trump and these other dipshits haven't been michael claytoned yet is making me wonder

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Again, worth at the last considering the possibility that he’s a malevolent idiot who has no idea what he’s doing.

submitted 2 days ago • 2217 comments

An underrated factor in how we got ourselves into this mess is that Americans are increasingly relying on computers and the internet instead of their own critical thinking faculties (AI is making this even worse), and as a result are uninformed and easy to manipulate.

submitted 2 days ago • 354 comments

A story in two parts.

submitted 2 days ago • 354 comments

Do not look away.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

using insanely stupid methods to accomplish something they already failed at doing in the past

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Most infighting on the left in the US is simply due to the US government spending a century shooting any leftist leader in the head and strangling every organization with. You've never seen a healthy, thriving leftist movement in the US, a Pinkerton put a bullet in its head a century ago

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"I hear what people say. 'Duke this. Duke that.' Duke's great. Jon Scheyer is awesome. But don't sleep on Houston. Don't sleep on Houston. We weren't 34-4 playing in the Toy Poodle League." Kelvin Sampson after Houston's come-from-behind win over Duke.