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Literally straight out of the authoritarian playbook. And no one should be calling it a "news distortion review" uncritically in a headline - that is Orwellian doublespeak

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

i think “abducted by ICE” is not at all editorializing and factually accurate.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

U.S. citizens cannot be deported, they’ve been renditioned: secretly or openly captured and forcibly transferred. Deportation is a process specifically for non-citizens. U.S. law does not provide any legal authority for the government to “deport” or forcibly remove citizens

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Some people feel its unfair to put left anti-alarmists with centrist ones, but they often are quite similar Robin's semi-apology, semi-defence has the same logic as the chud "what about the ozone layer?" - a threat being combatted is taken as proof it was exaggerated

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Excellent oped. The danger of dictatorship right in front of us.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trump administration has deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with no meaningful process and against the wishes of her father.

submitted 10 days ago • 140 comments

What makes a protest work? Size, diversity, discipline and shifting loyalties in power structures all help. Across countries, stolen elections or shocking abuses often spark action, but the U.S. may now be in uncharted territory. Lessons from @chenoweth.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/04/05/p...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I like to drive myself to despair but comparing what qualified as a front page story then and what qualifies as a B4 story now.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Illegally closing Federal programs harms real people

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

How many instances of “watergate-level impeachable misconduct” are they at now, anyway?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone out there was undecided on whether Trump is operationalizing a precise, coordinated plan to destroy our democracy so he can rule until he dies, the move to shut down Act Blue, the primary way Democrats’ campaigns are funded, should be the final proof point.

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments

Interesting to see the article suggest that Google, Meta, and Microsoft were training grounds for Israeli military on AI.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Biden handed them an economy that weathered COVID better than anyone else on the planet, one that was so primed for a boom this year that magazines like the Economist were writing glowing praise about it. This effort to pretend the opposite was true might work with the base, but not anyone normal.

submitted 12 days ago • 110 comments

Is it a pattern of Trump backing down? 1) Trump's tariff targets push back. Trump dropped many tariffs 2) Trump will solve war but Russia rejects concessions. Ukraine refuses to capitulate. Rubio says US may "move on" 3) Harvard says it will fight. Admin claims letter threatening Harvard was mistake

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The media narrative seems to be shifting. WSJ:

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

As a way to compensate for Federal cuts, are states starting to prep for a different distribution of State vs Federal tax burdens? "CT Senate leaders offer new plan to tax rich to mitigate federal cuts"

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

trump's attacks on higher ed, research, media, firms, individuals requires this caution: if you run a nonprofit touching any disfavored subject, be prepared to defend yourself -- your tax status, your funds, your security (digital & physical), & so on. all signs point to a broadening assault.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Van Hollen (trip + post-trip press conference), AOC, Sanders, others have clever idea. Get out of DC sometimes. Go to the problem. Showcase it. Speak to the people directly. Used their position to give voice to those under attack. In doing so, they set the agenda & circumvented the White House.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Great example - and explanation - of authoritarian propaganda here from Van Hollen, as he explains the lengths that the autocrat Bukele went to in order to influence public perception with those margarita glasses, and how Trump propagated it as well.

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

This is actually legitimately insane but also important

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

It would take about 30 Congressional Republicans to fully bolt from Trump to upend Washington and check the president's power. We are at about 2-6 on any given day.

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

idk, seems like a dodgy sentence from @nytimes.com: "Cuts to the federal government are affecting communities all over the country in ways that few Americans could have foreseen."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

key point

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If we still had a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, they’d be in Tallahassee helping the community access federal resources for survivors, families, & students. Then they’d take what was learned to help prevent it from ever happening again. Trump killed it on day 2.

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

Great news! This, for every single individual denied due process under the law. Grateful to everyone who put up a sustained fight. Don’t stop. Free them all. 👇🏼

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Bring Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia home. Bring them all home. The people demand #DueProcess

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

great coverage of our National Day of Action event at UConn. ctmirror.org/2025/04/17/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Some thoughts on DOGE/the Trump administration's destruction of USIP, the Wilson Center, and home-grown social science/area studies expertise about the rest of the world: paulstaniland.com/2025/04/16/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

submitted 19 days ago • 101 comments

"From 2010 to 2019, NIH funding contributed to 354 out of 356 new drug approvals."

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Other universities should follow Stanford's lead.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 917 comments

Where is Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia?

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

submitted 21 days ago • 173 comments

AGAIN: the kidnapping of students who engaged in protected speech or protest is THE ISSUE that should united universities, including and especially Columbia. It's immoral and illegal, it threatens their mission and their bottom line, and it harms US national security. UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SUE NOW!

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments