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The Israeli military completely wiped out at least 1,200 Palestinian families in Gaza in its genocide, a new analysis finds, shedding more light on the staggering and permanent toll of Israel’s extermination campaign.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Heads up, Texas! HB 32, labeled the "squatters bill," is a major threat to renters. It's actually a radical eviction overhaul, NOT about squatters. Due process protections gone, legal aid defunded. This is bad. #txlege #housing #HB32

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I think about this, by @anandwrites.bsky.social, a lot. In October: "In a Trump admin, politics, government, persecution would become your life ... It’s not just an abstraction of fascism; it’s a political project where politics would eat your dreams, your plans." the.ink/p/a-video-to...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is ugly: Trump's DOJ has effectively informed immigration judges in a new memo that they can no longer rely on rules that protect against arbitrary firing. This lays groundwork for removing them if they rule the "wrong" way too often. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1923...

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7? My latest with @kylebazgo.bsky.social for @dailydot.com identifies the likely operator of the anonymous racist account as Geoffrey Martin, a Canadian. www.dailydot.com/debug/captiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

The Texas Lawbook published an article on HB 32, which is a shameless attempt to deny tenants basic due process rights. texaslawbook.net/and-justice-... #tenantsrights #housingjustice

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

What’s interesting about the Oval Office fiasco is that it was Trump who repeatedly claimed during the campaign that he would end the war in ‘24 hours’ and that he was a master negotiator. Did the guy sulking, then berating Zelensky, then kicking him out, look or sound like a master negotiator?

submitted 8 days ago • 404 comments

If you told me that Marco Rubio would end up washing the balls of the guy who called him "Little Marco" back in 2016 I would have believed you.

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 9 days ago • 440 comments

✨ Hey Bluesky! ✨ Organizing is at the heart of everything we do at TOP. It’s the lifeblood of our issue-based and electoral campaigns that champion people-centered policies and build progressive power in both our physical and digital streets.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

submitted 11 days ago • 1082 comments

New: A second federal judge is facing a long-shot bid by a Republican lawmaker to have him impeached as conservative members of the U.S. House of Representatives ramp up public criticism of judges who rule against U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

New York's congestion pricing toll has reduced traffic and sped up commutes. Now it's also hitting its revenue goals: $48 million raised in its first month. President Trump still wants to kill it. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/n...

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 13 days ago • 5189 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 15 days ago • 512 comments

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out that Musk is mixing business and gov by using the same cloudflare id across his PAC and DOGE.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

NEW on CNN: Marco Rubio spent years praising foreign aid and USAID as a vital part of American foreign policy according to a review of press releases and letters he sent as a Senator. Including arguing that the agency was needed to counter CCP influence www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

submitted 32 days ago • 62 comments

The ironic thing is that this just significantly strengthened every asylum case where Mexicans are seeking protection from the cartels, as it's now the official position of the US that the cartels are working directly with the government.

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 35 days ago • 4930 comments

Yeah. Look, posting is fine and all, but actually going to a meeting and engaging with local elected face to face and taking part in the process produces like a kajillion times more results than posting on average.

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 36 days ago • 4414 comments

Vaccine and 5G conspiracies. A dead bear in New York’s Central Park. A soft spot for heroin use. What do these things have in common? Yes, RFK Jr! Watch Zeteo's supercut of the 10 craziest comments & conspiracies from our potential next Secretary for Health and Human Services!

submitted 39 days ago • 66 comments

This person is _admitting on-air_ that she and her boss are violating a federal law that’s been in place for _a half-century_. That’s how stupid—and radical—these people are. They’re dangerous extremists and scofflaws and they should be referred to in that fashion by journalists because it’s a fact.

submitted 39 days ago • 312 comments

In his first term, Trump told Fox host Hegseth he couldn't make him his Secretary of Veterans Affairs because he wasn't seen as serious or qualified enough. In his second term, he just made Fox host Hegseth Secretary of Defense. Insane.

submitted 43 days ago • 99 comments

🧵 👋 I'm a political scientist who wrote a book about the recent collapse of two democracies (Egypt & Tunisia). Given the anxieties of today, let me present a 🧵 with thoughts & resources for: WHAT TO DO IF YOUR DEMOCRACY COLLAPSES:

submitted 48 days ago • 221 comments

The leaders of the nation's biggest technology companies got better positions at Trump's inauguration than many elected officials

submitted 47 days ago • 63 comments

False. Latest UT/TX Politics Project poll: only 2%!! OF REPUBLICANS cite vouchers as priority. But 100% of Pennsylvania TikTok billionaires support vouchers. Jeff Yass got what he paid for w/biggest contribution in TX history: a corrupt Governor Abbott who will do his bidding. #txlege

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

There is a difference between Texas Democrats that voted for Burrows for Speaker because they felt cornered by the options, and those who are openly celebrating his Speakership. It is a messaging failure that needs to be addressed and fast before we get to the real issues #txlege

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

You can be too smart to be a cop. Yes, really. Let’s talk about Jordan v. New London. youtube.com/shorts/2deWE...

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers available not just to the poor but to the wealthy. With @newyorker.com propub.li/3Py4xsB

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

This is also why the voucher lobby war-rooms any reports that today’s vouchers mostly fund already-private/wealthy kids. (Despite being the mathematical result of lifting income caps) It threatens the long-term, cynical strategy of marketing vouchers as an anti-poverty device.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty much. This from my paper on how CRT was made into propaganda by COVID messaging www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Mike Johnson was the leader of the election denier movement in the House. If they replace him as Speaker, who could the GOP possibly find who is less committed to free and fair elections? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-bi...

submitted 65 days ago • 100 comments

The problem with these MAGA people is that they would blame the "Biden open-border" for anything to include their own sexual dysfunctions...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

In 1974, Jimmy Carter gave an off-the-cuff speech at UGA, attacking the carceral state in front of a very uneasy audience of Georgia lawyers. Hunter S. Thompson wrote that "I have never heard a sustained piece of political oratory that impressed me any more." RIP 👑

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

Merry Christmas🎄 and happy holidays

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

This is journalism malpractice, full stop. @cnn.com should be ashamed.

submitted 75 days ago • 314 comments

Happy to chime in on this! Unfortunately, this is not an authority any president has. Simplifying things a bit, deportation is a civil penalty for violating immigration law. But the pardon power only extends to criminal violations, and immigration law is civil law, not criminal law. So, no pardon.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

The richest man in the world who is about to shutdown our government tweeting support for a German neo-nazi party in the middle of the night

submitted 79 days ago • 724 comments

Trump told NBC News he supports abolishing the debt ceiling and is prepared to "lead the charge" to make it happen.

submitted 80 days ago • 30 comments

In Texas, Bipartisanship Is on Life Support. Republicans Could Pull the Plug. thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/18/i...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Inside Disney decision to settle. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/b...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

In the previous transition, Trump officials at DHS actively worked to sabotage the incoming administration! In January 2021 Ken Cuccinelli had DHS sign "agreements" with multiple states giving them a putative (unlawful) veto power over DHS should the Biden admin change ANY immigration policy!

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Title 42 was one of the most significant contributors to border chaos of the past decade. Rapid expulsions to Mexico within hours incentivized repeat crossings for the nationalities most heavily affected. Meanwhile, those not expellable to Mexico became arguably less likely to be rapidly excluded.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI

submitted 82 days ago • 129 comments