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Are you serious? Have you been paying attention?

submitted 56 minutes ago • 1 comment

Trump: “I just signed an EO putting the flags of our country, all of them, all federal flags and state flags, at “half mast” in honor of Pope Francis.” Can someone inform the “commander in chief” that flags on land are flown at HALF STAFF and that America is not a ship with masts? Cringeworthy.

submitted 6 hours ago • 50 comments

The federal government is appealing a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

And yet, the Constitution persists!

submitted 59 minutes ago • 0 comments

The difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism is a Pope who advocated for our most marginalized and a woman who considers him evil for doing so.

submitted 1 day ago • 996 comments

A few weeks before the election, Kamala Harris announced a plan that wiped medical debt off credit reports. After a whole four years of Joe Biden trying to forgive every student loan he could. Because of the people who didn't vote for her, the loan payments are due and going on your credit report.

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

“i’ve always been an ignorant piece of shit my entire life guys”

submitted 5 hours ago • 449 comments

So? Why is that even remotely the criteria for what you're supposed to be doing?

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

POLITICO: “.. In the absence of full-fledged trade deals, administration officials are working to ink what three people close to the White House described as ‘memorandums of understanding’ ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 11 hours ago • 89 comments

"Extortion demands with protean requirements" sounds more accurate to me

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

We need to center accurate medical communications. Please share.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

White smoke from the Vatican CAN mean that there’s a new Pope but don’t overlook the possibility that it needs a new head gasket

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This deserves to be spread far and wide. The California State Bar acknowledges using untested AI generated questions on the February 2025 bar exam. The February 2025 bar exam was an unmitigated disaster before this news was came out. www.calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/New...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh, FFS!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Saw today that Elie Mystal referred to Alito and Thomas as "the Manchurian Justices." Appropriate.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

UPDATE: I just signed a discharge petition to force Republicans to bring this bill to the floor for a vote

submitted 14 hours ago • 21 comments

We are just one step from "put them somewhere for their own good."

submitted 12 hours ago • 87 comments

Arguments in this case today went horribly for the school board. The six Republican-appointed justices sound eager to craft a maximalist decision that effectively gives religious parents a sweeping new constitutional right to veto LGBTQ materials (and much more) in public school curricula.

submitted 12 hours ago • 46 comments

Remove him. Now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 258 comments

A few weeks ago, chemical lobbyists asked the Trump administration to shut down an EPA website showing the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities. The EPA just took it down.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

FUCK. THIS. All of this.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1066 comments

IMF says US will be hardest hit by its own tariffs as growth forecasts slashed…awkward www.itv.com/news/2025-04...

submitted 12 hours ago • 110 comments

"I've already stolen all of your private data so now i can leave politics"

submitted 15 hours ago • 64 comments

Thanks to @imillhiser.bsky.social, @mjsdc.bsky.social, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, and @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, I have a handle on what went down at SCOTUS over the weekend. To put it in layman's terms, the court told Trump "stop playing in my face." Latest in @thenation.com

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

made this argument last month but trump’s retribution campaign is very clearly against the entire american people.

submitted 16 hours ago • 138 comments

Nothing makes me feel more confident in our military leadership than a guy nervously bouncing from foot-to-foot while speed talking about the cocktail parties he missed

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Lawgeeks, here's a good piece on the folly of SCOTUS inviting parties, and the Trump administration in particular, to seek interlocutory review of every little decision district court judges make. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/21/r...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

DOJ-in-Exile, A Further Elaboration Josh Marshall's idea is a great one, similar to the idea of "shadow cabinets" in parliamentary systems. With Republicans ignoring Republican crimes, explaining exactly whom you'd indict, and why, could win us elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doj-i...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes futurism.com/tesla-engine...

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

Elected and appointed officials in America are actually questioning the merits of Due Process. Just needs pointing out where we are. Shocking.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

Just one step away from DOGE being the Stasi.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

NEW: Nadine Menendez is guilty on all counts in the same federal bribery scheme that got her husband, Sen. Robert Menendez, 11 years in jail. More TK @courthousenews.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

i dont really care about who the pope is because it has zero effect on my life BUT every time this happens i want them to finally make a black pope cause people would lose their fucking minds.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

In the new SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act case (AARP v Trump), dissenting Justices Alito & Thomas complained that @ACLU gave ND Texas Judge Hendrix less than "45 minutes" to rule. This timeline shows that Hendrix failed to act in the face of 14 hrs of dire warnings: 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

apparently these two are quite famous for this

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Larry David has no more f*cks to give with Bill Maher

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump and Hegseth are totally dug in. The media will eventually move on. Nothing will happen … until there is an actual disaster

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

You can't report on this garbage without informing readers of the literal identical policy under Hitler. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Wait -- did he need to go to the Egg Roll to get in front of a camera?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Rex Huppke admits that he has worn a Bulls hat. Which means, according to the MAGA mindset, that he's in MS-13. "I’m a middle-aged, non-Hispanic suburban man who’s whiter than ceiling primer, so I’m not sure how or when I became active in Hispanic gang culture." Sharp column by my friend Rex.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments