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NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.

submitted 5 days ago • 176 comments

Japanese netizens are shocked by a tweet from the US Embassy declaring that Japanese people applying for non-immigrant visas must provide information on all social media accounts they have used in the last 5 years [or their visas could be rejected]. Some are comparing it to China & North Korea.

submitted 7 days ago • 143 comments

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

submitted 15 days ago • 57 comments

Trump calling for the impeachment of a judge who ruled against him. Calling him “crooked.” If this isn’t fascistic, what is? (Also, the media will sanewash this but anyone else who talks or writes like this would be sent to one of the mental asylums Trump thinks migrants are coming from!)

submitted 43 days ago • 239 comments

This morning’s @NPR coverage included a common misconception about Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport 137 alleged members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, where they are now being held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses. 1/11

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

She's lucky this didn't happen a decade ago. They didn't even get a mat. They just had to sleep on the cold concrete floor. Here's 2016 surveillance footage from one of the cells in the Tucson Sector Border Patrol that we joined several other organizations to sue over in 2015.

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 44 days ago • 713 comments

A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist

submitted 48 days ago • 56 comments

This is *exactly* step one of the same strategy Russia and Hungary used to criminalize dissent. After that, they began to label nonprofit and political organizations as foreign agents, then started to restrict and ban on that basis.

submitted 53 days ago • 32 comments

That is exactly true.

submitted 53 days ago • 1279 comments

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

submitted 53 days ago • 411 comments

After World War I, Germany had to fork over billions to cover damages. After World War II, Japan was forced to pay reparations. But with Ukraine, Trump is flipping history upside down by demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

submitted 60 days ago • 34 comments

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

submitted 60 days ago • 661 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 61 days ago • 1169 comments

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"Russia used the first round of talks with the US over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of Nato forces from the alliance’s eastern flank, triggering concern in European capitals that the Trump administration could acquiesce to seal a peace deal." www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments

This sums it up, yes.

submitted 129 days ago • 724 comments

To my followers abroad: this is where we are now in America. A member of Congress is getting ready for authoritarian measures long used abroad against the political opposition, NGOs, dissenters.

submitted 157 days ago • 67 comments

BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that male Republicans neutered by Donald Trump may continue to use the men's bathrooms.

submitted 160 days ago • 491 comments