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Anyone surprised that this could happen in the US needs to read up on their history. Specifically: - Trail of Tears - Japanese Internment Camps - Tuskegee Experiments - Project MKUltra That's just some of what we do to ourselves. Look up what we do to our "enemies" if you don't want to sleep well.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 55 days ago • 476 comments

Clean opsec y'all.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election. Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.

submitted 54 days ago • 322 comments

Even Trump has got to be surprised by how much of the media has defaulted to, "Trump posted a long tweet that is the law now," and reality gets filed under "however, critics say..."

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submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

The page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address.

submitted 65 days ago • 8 comments

I searched this and just wow, there are tons of stories of Rogers' heroism & service but now the official DoD site not only says "not found" but the text is "deimedal" | see Congressional Medal of Honor list www.cmohs.org/recipients/c...

submitted 67 days ago • 27 comments

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

submitted 67 days ago • 1378 comments

"The Trump administration has not been shy in asserting that Khalil’s political expression is at the root of efforts to deport him," writes author and scholar Sarah McLaughlin. "You don’t need to hold any sympathy for Khalil’s views to see why this is an immense threat to free expression."

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Indeed.

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submitted 69 days ago • 497 comments

Mahmoud Khalil must be released, the Trump Administration must answer for his detention, and these attacks on First Amendment rights must end.

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers write in new filing

submitted 68 days ago • 20 comments

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

submitted 70 days ago • 556 comments

This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.

submitted 70 days ago • 66 comments

WaPo readers need to realize that every opinion piece they read is now the product of Bezos' rightwing censorship rules. Whether the author self censors or Post management does it after review, the result is the same. This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.

submitted 70 days ago • 131 comments

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

submitted 70 days ago • 1728 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

submitted 74 days ago • 279 comments

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

submitted 73 days ago • 338 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 72 days ago • 227 comments

If this doesn’t scare you, you aren’t paying attention. Free Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

ICE just DETAINED a lawful permanent resident and recent grad student in the middle of the night… because Mahmoud exercised his First Amendment rights in a way Donald Trump didn’t like. Straight up authoritarianism.

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Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen has ordered the complete cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza, threatening the functioning of the enclave’s desalination plants amid an ongoing aid shortage in the holy month of Ramadan.

submitted 73 days ago • 37 comments

Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says

submitted 73 days ago • 17 comments

So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.

submitted 77 days ago • 153 comments

"Today the U.S. launched a trade war against Canada, their closest ally and their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working … with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin: a lying, murderous dictator. Make that make sense," Trudeau said during a Tues morning news conference in Ottawa.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Please make time for this one. And when next you call your reps, tell them Amy sent you. "Until last Friday, Amy Paris worked as a deputy digital services lead in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a fancy title for overseeing the safety of organ donations in the United States."

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

And now this…👇 Angry yet?! This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨

submitted 78 days ago • 2394 comments