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they do not.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 17 hours ago • 35 comments

Honestly this is disgusting and ignorant, I’m speechless.

submitted 17 hours ago • 106 comments

Resegregation

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Remembering when “abolish ICE” was too spicy for the Democratic Party establishment? Let’s just say here’s hoping David Hogg comes through.

submitted 17 hours ago • 28 comments

difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

Senator Chris Van Hollen says that he hasn’t been able to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia nor has he been able to have a phone call with him. He doesn’t know his health status. Unacceptable. El Salvador needs to show proof of life!!!!!

submitted 22 hours ago • 666 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

"The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA’s science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said, 'the search for life elsewhere would basically stop'.” Is there no good thing they cannot ruin?

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The cheapest and most environmentally-friendly kilowatt hour of electricity is the one that's never generated in the first place. But today, the Louisiana PSC abruptly and with little notice scrapped an energy efficiency program years in the making. I offered some thoughts yesterday here: (1/)

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Amazing that there are people going after David Hogg for running primary challenges to their favorite smol bean Democratic leaders. Like what are you hanging your hat on at this point, they are demonstrably failures on every front that actually matters, take the L. If they're so great, they'll win

submitted 17 hours ago • 181 comments

This was never ever about anti-semitism

submitted 19 hours ago • 133 comments

Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born. It's a eugenicist claim.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Literally every single school district I have worked with has or has had some kind of secretive list from the police gang unit alleging many of their students are gang involved, often based on things as out of their control as what street they live on.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

People keep comparing Trump to H*tler and while that's true, it misses a critical point. Everything Trump is doing to immigrants & minorities in America, Netanyahu is doing to Palestinians. We need solidarity, or it will get worse. Join up and let's get to work: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Not enough, but every day, more.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

If you leave school, and there is a fight across the street, and you go across the street to look at that fight, you can then be placed in the gang database.

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

submitted 1 day ago • 2106 comments

Ah, the state of emergency that we are told requires us to jettison due process & human rights. literally fascism & authoritarian regimes repeatedly in 20th century history & literally including Hitler. And USA in rendition, indefinite detention, & torturing people under George W. Bush.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

if you are a person who, in any part of your soul, believes that it is an inevitable condition of any human society for some people to have less (and, indeed, for some people to DESERVE less because they didn’t try hard enough), congratulations: you are a conservative and also an asshole

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

No elected leader should run unopposed. Voters should always have choices, and if people want to keep the incumbent they should show up.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The rollout of Direct File was a genuine unequivocally good thing (unless you’re a huge Intuit shareholder or something), and I know a few people who worked very hard on it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 54 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 19 hours ago • 795 comments

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Federal agencies now only exist to litigate the president's personal grievances

submitted 19 hours ago • 128 comments

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 19 hours ago • 379 comments

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 23 hours ago • 376 comments

If they’re arguing that Harvard hasn’t done enough “in the public interest” to deserve tax exempt status, wait until they get a look at evangelical megachurches!

submitted 20 hours ago • 169 comments

You're spot, on but again, people are refusing to process and respond to this in proprotion to its severity.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

They seem to be less willing to fire white men in government/military leadership, so white men, sounds like you need to make your voices heard on what these cuts to publicly-funded roles mean for America.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

There is a much too rarely mentioned but essential difference between Donald Trump and Abrego Garcia: Abrego Garcia is not a convicted felon.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

submitted 1 day ago • 541 comments

Today on Volts: Texas is [clears throat] a land of contradictions. On one hand, its relatively free electricity market has produced a nation-leading renewables boom. On the other hand, its conservative legislators remain ideologically committed to fossil fuels. I dig in with @douglewin.bsky.social.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

instructor: and what does the green light represent? me: the decadence and futility of the American dream instructor: this is a driver's exam

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 1007 comments

He kept it off his Senate questionnaire. That would be a disqualifying factor, even for an otherwise qualified and respected candidate, of which he is the opposite. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

Call your Rep and get them on board with this:

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🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments