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So let me get this straight, in the span of two days, federal agents blocked a reporter from accessing public immigration courts, barged into a congressman’s office and arrested a staff member for trying to block them, and raided a restaurant in military gear, tossing flashbangs, to arrest workers?

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This ain’t good, folks… Why are we hearing about this, days later?

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The use of inappropriate clothing and weaponry that makes them look more like military cosplay terrorists than actual government agents performing a garden-variety low-risk domestic police action is both intentional and incredibly dangerous.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

I mean to set expectations: I spent about a month writing code, parsing documents, crunching data, and working with my colleagues at STAT to do a deep dive into a fraction of the damage done so far by one type of cut at one agency. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much? The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months. Here's how:

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 3 days ago • 450 comments

Emil Bove cannot become a federal judge. At Law Dork:

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

There is no bottom

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"The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

A Bronx high school student was abducted by ICE at his immigration court date and has since been disappeared across four states in five days in order to evade contact with his lawyer. The US is now undeniably a rogue state. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

submitted 4 days ago • 255 comments

Jesus Christ - buying a pardon should be cause for immediate removal from office

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 5 days ago • 69 comments

I put much work into this. DOJ is trying to block courts' access to info in #AbregoGarcia and Alien Enemies Act cases by asserting it is a "state secret." I walk through the clear case law on this topic. I provide a Table of senior officials' statements that preclude the state secret privilege.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

A 30% tariff is insanely high and a stupid trade war for nothing.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

25% tax on Apple products while singling out the CEO by name for retribution, 50% tax on European goods, expulsion of foreign students, bill passed with most debt in history, while hosting a dinner for people who gave you $300+ million. All in the last 24 hours. The Golden Age.

submitted 9 days ago • 416 comments

Chairman Mao announces that he’s increasing the price of iPhones

submitted 9 days ago • 2293 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 9 days ago • 416 comments

The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America. 15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of: West Virginia Hawaii New Hampshire Wyoming Vermont DC Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Rhode Island Montana Maine

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

submitted 11 days ago • 485 comments

You can tell it's a Republican bill because if it was a Democratic bill the headline would highlight the $3.8 capital-T Trillion it is adding to the federal deficit in the most breathless terms imaginable, and the entire article would be devoted to wondering how it would ever be paid for.

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

submitted 10 days ago • 118 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 10 days ago • 403 comments

Trump and Rubio are enabling far worse conditions in Gaza than Biden and Blinken did. But as a dedicated Leftist podcaster, I never talk about this because they're neither Democrats nor Jewish.

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 11 days ago • 306 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 12 days ago • 1236 comments

When we add to this the Cato Institute report showing how many migrants sent to El Salvador had in fact entered the country legally, THIS is the top story of the night. The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process. An actual nightmare.

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

You want to know why Thompson, Tapper, et al. spend their days hassling Dems? Because Dems care. Dems react. Dems make them feel like they have agenda-setting power. Dems beg & scrape for their approval. Republicans don't give a shit. Writing about GOP crimes doesn't bring the same ego boost.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

NEWS: These filings allege the Trump administration has already sent flights to South Sudan in violation of an existing preliminary injunction.

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

How is 35% no?! He admits to it! He’s openly giving away dinner at the WH to the highest bidders of a crypto coin. The deals with foreign governments and the Trump Org are in the news just before his trip to those countries. Now ask that same 35% what they think about the Clintons

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.

submitted 12 days ago • 269 comments

Trump’s efforts to withhold military and intelligence support to Ukraine did not force that country to surrender, thank God for that. His threat to impose vigorous sanctions on Russia if it did not make peace proved as insubstantial as air. Now he wants to walk away. The art of the incompetent.

submitted 11 days ago • 108 comments

Fascists have upended the Justice Department and are making a mockery of our democracy. America will survive this moment but this gross abuse of power must be accounted for

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

While refusing to criticize the Gulf monarchies, Trump "depicted America as a phony democracy. In Saudi Arabia, he blamed his defeat on ‘a rigged election.’ In Qatar, he insisted again that ‘the election was rigged.’" “His whole trip... was about badmouthing America and renouncing American values.”

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

it’s remarkable how Trump is like actually senile but the media doesn’t care

submitted 12 days ago • 109 comments