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"This is why museums are really powerful and can be quite dangerous places because they have that power to spread a particular truth...Why would museums lie to us?" says Mariko Smith, the Manager/First Nations Australian Museum. Watch the full film here: aje.io/NannyNellie

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There is no dignity in losing civil rights you hack scum

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

what if we just ... stopped giving money and power to failsons

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The reports “will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on "free and fair elections."”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Again: the most prominent use cases are some form of fraud or abuse, and it’s not even close.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 3 days ago • 8527 comments

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

This is not the end; it is only the beginning.

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"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 3 days ago • 1175 comments

You know the only reason he got out so fast was a reporter live posted about this for hours. And, a large amount of public pressure. Every time someone gets grabbed, there has to be a robust public response immediately.

submitted 3 days ago • 150 comments

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

تذكير للفلسطينيين: هذه القائمة المحظورة ستساعد في منع العديد من الأشخاص من الإبلاغ عنك.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

My latest —

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

submitted 4 days ago • 331 comments

Some would say "sneaky tactic" others would observe that odometer fraud is a federal felony. A creative prosecutor could probably tack on some conspiracy and mail or wire fraud charges too.

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT. Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

Medical sources tell our team on the ground in the Gaza Strip that at least 19 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ixal8c

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

It’s hard to know for sure until something solid is unearthed, but it certainly seems likely that the administration is working together or is at least informed by these organizations. And that is deeply disturbing. If it is the case, then they are giving these radical groups incredible power.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

This is how you do it. It really is “They can’t arrest us all” in action. Remember: as a community, you outnumber them.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Canary’s dead mate

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

“Woke with right wing characteristics” is a phrase someone actually wrote and some other people actually edited and published

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

This feels quite hollow when the court also decided they didn't need to hear from a single transgender person over the course of their case.

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i'm sorry but if you're falling for the "but they said their judgement doesn't mean trans people are still protected from discrimination" line you're thick as pigshit. the ruling means that treating trans women as men and vice versa is not only legally NOT discrimination but explicitly sanctioned

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

People will say trans women don’t know what it’s like to be women but here we are with our rights in the balance at a Supreme Court and we weren’t allowed in the room to have a say.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This protects nothing and harms so many.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

They want you to be ok with this shit. That's why they keep talking about "toxic empathy," the "sin of empathy." They want you to silence your own basic human morality and replace it with their violent, racist, cult ideology.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 6 days ago • 1338 comments

i support any action that leads to the people in this video being put in front of an international criminal tribunal

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

“what would you have done?” is no longer a hypothetical thought exercise. if you’re not doing anything, there’s your answer.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

The entire US is being turned into a company town whether we want it or not

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Wow. Necropolitics at its finest.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

submitted 10 days ago • 396 comments

You are completely fucked up as a newspaper if you think RFK Jr deserves praise for anything he has done so far in his new role- which is really nothing except pushing anti-medicine and anti-vaccine propaganda.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Things are so bad at the Krome immigration detention center in South Florida that people have to take turns sleeping because they are packed so tightly in their cells that some have to stand up so others can lie down.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

The reason you’re not just putting money in your mattress is about to get gutted by Elon Musk.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 10 days ago • 406 comments

"The government’s three main payroll processors have all surreptitiously ceased collecting union dues directly from employees’ paychecks." www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Who could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

🏫 Student visas are being canceled and international staff and students are being targeted -- and there's a lot we can do to defend our people on campus.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

“Once elected, Trump had ample grounds for attacking pro-Palestinian activists, knowing full well that Democratic Party leaders such as Senator Chuck Schumer would respond not with a full-throated defense of free speech but with mealy-mouthed equivocations.”

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“On February 24, Steven Donovan, 47, arrived at an apartment complex in Orlando carrying a gun while demanding entry. The man claimed he was conducting an immigration investigation and wanted to ensure there were “no Mexicans staying illegally” at the property, according to authorities.”

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments