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submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 127 comments

A Trump-supporting podcaster who was allegedly paid massive sums by Russian state media used his time during Tuesday’s White House press briefing to slam the reporters surrounding him.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Powerful.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Americans: •Cancel student debt! •Cancel medical debt! •Make insulin free! Most of Developed World: •What is student debt? •What is medical debt? •Insulin is already free! What MAGAs (& some corporate Dems) calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

This is a must read by Liz Cheney. georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

submitted 2 days ago • 308 comments

At an investor dinner tonight and the talk was all around the downstream effects of the attack on universities. Universities are some of the biggest LPs in venture firms and they're trying to pull their money out of venture to preserve cash. JD Vance just fucked his SV friends.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported. “But where to?” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

One of 60 Minutes’ longest-serving correspondents claimed that CBS’ C-suite was interfering with the show’s independence shortly after executive producer Bill Owens resigned from the newsmagazine Tuesday.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Always baffles me when someone said “I didn’t hear about that when I was a kid.” Of course you didn’t. You were a child. You hadn’t heard of most things. I didn’t know who Paul Newman was when I was a kid, that doesn’t mean he didn’t exist.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Pete Hegseth needs his wife, brother, and lawyer to prevent him from drinking or abusing women. By demanding that they be removed from diplomatic meetings and chats about top secret battle plans, the Democrats are taking away his support system. So much for the tolerant left. by Marc Thiessen

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Masked men without identification abducting members of the population and throwing them into unmarked vans for non crimes This is fascism in practice and deed.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

The Justice Department on Tuesday canceled hundreds of grants to community organizations and local governments, including funding for gun-violence prevention programs, crime-victim advocacy and efforts to combat opioid addiction, according to an email obtained by The Post.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Trump knows he can’t break the seal on this and set the expectation that firings are possible. We gotta push this first domino down

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

My expert analysis of this order: Judge Xinis big mad

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.” He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.” Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up. Marriott still has my business.

submitted 2 days ago • 961 comments

Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

submitted 2 days ago • 308 comments

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Keep an eye on this. New York has a bill pending that would allow it to withhold payments to the federal government if the federal government withholds payments to NYS first. NY and CA alone send about $90 billion more a year to the feds than we get back. Nice work, @micahlasher.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

submitted 3 days ago • 2482 comments

How is a scientist who is helping cure cancer a threat to America? 🤔 🔹️30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Pertova arrested at Boston Airport 🔹️ Held by ICE for 2 months 🔹️ Fighting deportation to Russia, where she will be persecuted for protesting the war in Ukraine

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

✈️ Today, a Swedish Saab 340 AEW&C aircraft flew over Ukraine, Lviv Oblast. Equipped with the Erieye AESA radar, it can detect targets up to 400 km away and enhance Ukraine’s defense against cruise missiles. Integrated with Link 16, it can relay targeting data directly to F-16s.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

submitted 3 days ago • 719 comments

For people in the journalism business, and for people in general, this is the killer detail in latest Hegseth-dereliction-of-duty report: That four people on the call were willing to talk about it! Congrats to the reporters. And most obvious dead-man-walking of cabinet members perhaps ever.

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

Fascinating stuff here from an expert in MS-13, who explains in granular detail why many of the Abrego Garcia claims just don't add up. A big one: He came here at the age of 16 over a decade ago. Why isn't there any evidence of gang-related activity? Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/1941...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

🇬🇧 UK plans to increase production of 155mm artillery shells by 16 times to reduce dependence on US, — The Times

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oh what so now it's a crime to love your family. When you're on your deathbed you'll wish you had shared more classified military secrets with your loved ones

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 92 comments

Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

Put due process on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

The US human rights 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.’" www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is easily the worst first 100 days of any administration ever. Just a complete and total failure by all objective metrics. What a disaster.

submitted 6 days ago • 315 comments