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submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This article is about friends of mine, and this isn't even half of what they've gone through. Missouri CPS needs an overhaul. missouriindependent.com/2025/04/28/m...

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submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Democrats don’t have to win in rural America,” Johnson said. “They just have to get enough of the rural vote to allow their advantage in metropolitan areas to produce a majority. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024...

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

This thread is what comes from not pushing back on bigots when they say they don't want porn in libraries. There is no porn! It's all made up! Journalists need to force the issue rather than both sidesing it.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

This is a fascinating and detailed examination in @prospect.org of what happened to the buildings in Aurora that were taken over by "Tren de Aragua" - it is a complex story involving slumlords, actual criminal gangs, and right-wing lobbyists prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

A U.S. judge Thursday blocked federal agencies from carrying out key parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

When Trump appointed Ed Martin as interim U.S. attorney in D.C. in January, I did a double take. Ed Martin? The same Ed Martin I’d seen stir chaos through Missouri politics for years? And now he was suddenly holding one of the most powerful prosecutorial posts in the country? 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 599 comments

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

submitted 7 days ago • 3491 comments

DOGE's latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks. www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/p...

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 10 days ago • 1754 comments

This is: (a) correct; (b) a demonstration of Van Hollen's political skills, which are stronger than most of us realized; (c) a sign to other politicians that bold action will bring outsized attention, as it has with Booker and AOC.

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments

I coached at a school without one trans kid, but the girls had to be in the gym at 5:45 am and out by 7 am because our sport didn’t matter. If folks really cared about equity in girls sports, they’d fund them and give them the same access to gyms and fields and uniforms and coaches and busses.

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.

submitted 10 days ago • 298 comments

Not due process.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

It’s important to note this is not and was never about citizenship. It’s about removing diversity and dissent to authoritarian power. Every man denied due process deserves basic rights because they are human. But remember that they are just the first and no one is safe: www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...

submitted 10 days ago • 255 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 657 comments

For those unfamiliar with the trucking industry: 80 blank sailings means, give or take, about 1,000,000 cargo containers that had been scheduled and booked for delivery which just disappeared.

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

the US government is so hostile to immigrants and Palestine activism that they’re snatching students off campuses and deporting them—while radicalized white men like FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner, the son of a cop who used her gun, espouse Nazi ideology and ridicule protesters before killing. my latest

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 11 days ago • 912 comments