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HAPPENING NOW: Bail hearing for Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts PhD student who remains in detention in Louisiana after she was taken from her home in Massachusetts by masked immigration authorities. The hearing is before a Vermont judge. Ozturk is appearing virtually from Louisiana.

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Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

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On this date in 2012, Maurice Sendak boarded his boat and sailed in and out of weeks and through a day into the next life. A masterful author of children's literature and relentless humanist, his last words declared that dinner would be waiting for him, and it was still hot. Or we like to think so.

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If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

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Genuinely has anyone ever been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

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Thank you to everyone who wrote to me to offer support about my appearance on 60 Minutes.🙏 I will never back down or go silent. I hope that what I write might help others, especially lawyers, speak out as well. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-t...

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Ok this album by Ken Pomeroy coming out next week is stunning. What a voice, what a writer. She’s 22. youtu.be/xMMejazFgoU?...

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NEW EPISODE: Michigan's Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson joins the LP Podcast to discuss her no-holds-barred style as she prepares to take on MAGA and become Michigan's next Governor youtu.be/X57hJ7XMvx8

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Some notions on branding and awareness around Amazon’s Kuiper.

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This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

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“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”

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And never mind the Kafkaesque absurdity of attempting to enforce a tariff on IP in this, our digital age of streaming and satellites. Does this gibbering submoron think foreign movies are going to be in film cannisters waiting to be offloaded from a Chinese container ship? Why yes, yes he does.

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And if we want a trade war on IP, we return to the days when bootleg copies of American films were on the streets of Beijing and no copyright was ever honored. I still have unlicensed Chinese DVDs of The Wire as a treasured souvenir. Tariffs on IP in an era of streaming is magical stupid.

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NEW: The intelligence community has released its assessment of Tren de Aragua, confirming its conclusion that Venezuela is likely NOT directing the gang. This completely undermines Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, which was premised on the idea.

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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "This does seem like a moment where you would think people who really do care about our national security...would be out here decrying what is going on...Mattis, Milley, anybody...Where is everybody?"

submitted 9 days ago • 153 comments

Elise Stefanik spotted on White House lawn.

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

Want to improve your day and feel better about yourself? Get some exercise. Also… sweating in London?? 🏃‍♂️🇬🇧☀️

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

in honor of the onion being under new management, here’s the Smartest Man In The World making another Wonderful Prediction a year ago

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I actually really like this messaging from McBride, making attacks on trans people a healthcare issue and tying it to attacks on Medicare & Medicaid

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BREAKING: Two sources tell NPR that DOGE employees have gained accounts on classified networks that hold nuclear secrets. The Department of Energy denies the story: "This reporting is false," a spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

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This whole clip is truly unbelievably great. I am genuinely astounded by how good this is.

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CNBC: "Trump’s first 100 days are the worst for the stock market since Nixon" www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...

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😂😂😂

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Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is not a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 15 days ago • 333 comments

Over 1,000 people here with us in the small rural town of Saxapahaw, North Carolina. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 143 comments

jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

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I will work on it. It is my mission tomorrow to work on it.

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This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

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Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality. Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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So we cut child tax credits just to turn around and give $5000 to new mothers? Never pro-life, only pro-birth.

submitted 17 days ago • 116 comments

Not serious people.

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

Pete Hegseth installed a make-up station at the Pentagon. JD Vance loves a smoky dark eyeliner. Trump cakes on orange base till he resembles an Oompa Loompa. And these guys say LGBTQs are threatening gender norms?

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Russia is conducting attacks in conjunction with U.S. pressure on Ukraine. It’s a coordinated effort. Trump’s accommodation drives Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities to compel Ukraine to capitulate. Trump may not realize… doesn’t care, but his embrace of Putin/Russia is fueling Russian attacks.

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Goldman Sachs and Harvard University, leading the resistance.

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Trump at Pope Francis’s funeral feels less like homage, more like trespass. One built bridges, the other walls. Jen Rubin writes: In a broken world, be a Francis—not a Trump.

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My eldest daughter Claudia once asked me why there isn’t a provision that says that convicted felons can’t be president and this was exactly my answer

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@radleybalko.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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House GOP leaders are telling the rank-and-file not to spill the beans about their plans to slash Medicaid. MAGA Republicans are constantly scrambling to deny their actual plans because we Americans reject their top-down warfare on the working-class majority.

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The Trump 'peace' plan for #Ukraine is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

Always liked Levi’s.

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A friend of mine has proposed coining a new verb. To “Pinochet” means to kidnap someone in violation of but under color of law, and to send them to a gulag in a foreign land. Sample sentence: “Masked agents of the Trump regime Pinocheted the prisoners to El Salvador in the middle of the night.”

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