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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 157 comments

Very proud to be a Mainer! I ♥️ ME

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Hern won 60-34 in November. www.newson6.com/story/67b7b1...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 964 comments

these clowns are genuinely not prepared for the violent backlash that's coming their way once the cascading failures from destroying government agencies and the social safety net start to manifest in concussive, very unsubtle waves

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Shakedown politics: obey or I end you

submitted 1 day ago • 134 comments

Translation: they want to privatize everything to enrich themselves and their friends. As we see in Tennessee, this hurts the most vulnerable. And it will exacerbate Gilded Age levels of inequality even further.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov!

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.

submitted 5 days ago • 3582 comments

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

New: Under immense pressure from Trump DOJ leadership, prosecutors from Washington have asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal corruption case against NY Mayor Eric Adams rather than see the entire public integrity office be fired @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Fact check: False. The FOP just said they were “deeply discouraged” by the pardons.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It has set up what promises to be a protracted and damaging battle over the integrity, independence and direction of a department that Mr. Trump views like a piece of captured battlefield artillery he is now able to turn against his attackers. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

There is an entire genre of subnormal people making variations on this argument, back to that weird-ass nerve-stapled SciFi writer saying “we could logistically expel all illegals, the Germans did it with the Jews.”

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 9 days ago • 1457 comments

This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

I won’t stop posting this.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

the Soy Right: "right-wingers who have adopted the sensitive, aggrieved victimhood pose and corny rhetorical and personal style that they have spent the last 10 years attributing to liberals" maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

submitted 11 days ago • 695 comments

"The enormity of Defendants’ actions cannot be overstated." Please read this paragraph in court case filed on Monday.⬇️ Details the devastating, immediate and far-reaching, real-world impacts of the #USAID funding freeze. From famine to counternarcotics and counter-terrorism programs, more.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Trump’s been arguing against this law for years, saying it puts US businesses at a disadvantage because they can’t pay bribes overseas

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 471 comments

Reupping from when you were all sleeping off Super Bowl. In DC, Treasury told Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Tom Krause and DOGE boy Marko Elez had read-only access to Treasury's systems. Now they confess that Elez had a copy of source code he had sandboxed. DOJ cites that to Tom Krause's declaration.

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

For those who do not know “5 CALLS” is an app that makes it easy to contact US house and senate members on issues. They even give suggested scripts if people want to use them. Here is the website link. Please repost if you would like 5calls.org 5calls.org

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments