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News Analysis: For all the insults that President Trump and Elon Musk traded on Thursday, don’t be surprised if they make up again days from now. In the meantime, they both benefit.

submitted 21 days ago • 79 comments

I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.

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Everyone’s focus at #SCOTUS is (understandably) on the birthright citizenship cases. But in two other pending applications, the Trump admin. is asking the justices to let it immediately subject more than one million additional immigrants to arrest, detention, and removal. More, via “One First”:

submitted 43 days ago • 16 comments

The VP of El Salvador repeatedly told me "the ball is in your court" when it comes to bringing Abrego Garcia home — making clear Trump is violating a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling to “facilitate” his return. I said this in my recent letter to Trump, and here's the video to back it up:

submitted 43 days ago • 38 comments

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

submitted 43 days ago • 165 comments

It would be stupid not to accept a gift of a free plane? Donold, let me tell you a story about a wooden horse...

submitted 44 days ago • 305 comments

STYLE GUIDE: groceries (define on first usage)

submitted 43 days ago • 489 comments

Remember when Republicans pretended to care about deficits? I'm sure you do since it was literally six months ago and for four years before that.  Now they're perfectly fine adding $2.5 trillion to the deficit to pay for their billionaire tax giveaway — while gutting Medicaid. Sadly predictable.

submitted 43 days ago • 32 comments

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

If only this were true. Alas, I think it’s the Chief Justice. In the cases that matter, Barrett is increasingly to his left.

submitted 43 days ago • 33 comments

This is bleak reading

submitted 45 days ago • 1575 comments

My next book will just be photographs of plants and the title will be, "A Hummingbird Was Here 1/10th of a Second Ago"

submitted 43 days ago • 78 comments

*crab-walked

submitted 44 days ago • 406 comments

Yeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com

submitted 44 days ago • 843 comments

The president went on a hateful rant as SCOTUS prepares to hear arguments over his unconstitutional executive order ending birthright citizenship: “We are, for the sake of being politically correct, a STUPID Country." But what makes him so angry is the very Constitution he swore to uphold.

submitted 43 days ago • 20 comments

DeLAURO: Are you planning to break the law by impounding appropriated funds? RFK Jr: If you appropriate the funds, I'm going to spend them D: We have! You're cutting the NIH by $18b. Congress appropriated those funds. How can you justify cutting billions from the biomedical research budget?

submitted 44 days ago • 741 comments

Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6 year old, and 3 year old. I have a bullshit detector. I’m just asking you a question

submitted 44 days ago • 1551 comments

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

submitted 44 days ago • 1579 comments

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

submitted 44 days ago • 2464 comments

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

submitted 44 days ago • 2891 comments

ART OF THE FOLD........

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submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.

submitted 47 days ago • 476 comments

marx rotating in his grave like a rotisserie chicken upon the utterance of the phrase "marxist pope"

submitted 50 days ago • 107 comments

So what? The literary world is always in the first detonation blast zone. Run towards the searing light. You don't want to live in the world without the arts. Become a writer.

submitted 49 days ago • 35 comments

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

submitted 50 days ago • 1993 comments

“NSF watchers fear that a smaller, restructured agency could be more vulnerable to pressure from the White House to fund research that suits its ideological bent.” www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 49 days ago • 46 comments

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

submitted 50 days ago • 445 comments

Additionally, MTG was given $180,000 in PPP funds because of COVID, a topic she likes to fabricate, but she had no problem accepting free money over it. She belongs behind bars.

submitted 49 days ago • 110 comments

Oops.

submitted 49 days ago • 4050 comments

Bouncing around with 5 books: The Nightmare Years -William Shirer (1930s) Origins of Totalitarianism- Hannah Arendt Munich 1938 Windall (a good mining stock scandal) and for the new US Surgeon General I picked up Conspirituality. It is freaking the s-t out of me. www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

submitted 50 days ago • 29 comments

Great news, working Americans! Rolls Royces and Bentleys will only have a 10% tariff. What a deal-maker, right?

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Well, well, well. The Acting FEMA Administrator said eliminating FEMA wasn’t in the best interest of the American people — and guess what?!?! They FIRED him. I guess that’s what happens when you stand up to your power-hungry “boss”.

submitted 50 days ago • 480 comments

I'm here to apologize for my poor forecast. I predicted that Trump's trade deal would be just "a single piece of paper with a few bullet points on it." It's actually a page and half, and it has three headings, each with about half a dozen bullet points.

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

Staking this claim now: should we be so fortunate as to get another Democratic trifecta, it should be judged a failure if it does not 1) jail the people responsible for this, 2) abolish or in some other way dismantle and disarm ICE

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

the body and blood of christ

submitted 50 days ago • 74 comments

This is an incredible story. Extremely well written deep dive into an entire generation captured by generative AI. Even professors are using AI to grade AI written papers. Wild.

submitted 51 days ago • 75 comments

The idea that immigrants in the U.S. could be deported to a country like Libya, where “open slave markets” exist and people are detained in conditions described as a “hellscape” by Amnesty International, is shocking. More shocking is that neither of the entities who control Libya agreed to a plan.

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

Another message from this "deal": kids don't need more than 3 dolls, but you can never have too many Rolls-Royces, which will now enter tariff-free.

submitted 50 days ago • 142 comments

Those are the only two sources for medical experts

submitted 51 days ago • 252 comments

I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously].

submitted 50 days ago • 57 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 51 days ago • 118 comments

I respectfully disagree. Giving the government a week before it would have to return Ms. Öztürk to Vermont takes away any argument that it would need an “administrative” stay from Justice Sotomayor if it were to seek emergency relief from #SCOTUS. It’s rather clever on the panel’s part, in my view.

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

A 90-second failure of Newark Airport’s air-traffic safety systems, which blacked out communication to planes carrying thousands of passengers, has exposed a new level of crisis in U.S. air travel. Listen to "The Daily."

submitted 50 days ago • 157 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia needs to come back to the U.S. The Regime keeps trying to convince us that he’s a “bad hombre”. He’s not, but it would not matter if he were. Their personal attacks on him reveal their utter disregard for the Constitution. Due process: Everybody counts or nobody counts.

submitted 51 days ago • 221 comments

Woke Pope is such a perfect brainrot phrase.

submitted 50 days ago • 222 comments