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NBC News: The info Pete Hegseth shared with his wife and brother on that second Signal chat came from the secure messages of a top general: Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, who leads U.S. Central Command. Kurilla used a secure U.S. government system to send the info. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 22 hours ago • 130 comments

Scott Bessent is easily Trump's most grown-up cabinet member (as low a bar as that is). And yet he committed a grave ethical lapse yesterday, as @pkrugman.bsky.social notes. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-c...

submitted 3 hours ago • 33 comments

Bravo, @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

submitted 18 hours ago • 143 comments

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1199 comments

Enforced disappearances have come to the United States. Hear from people who have fought them in Latin America. A week from Wednesday. Happening online. Join the discussion 4/30 at 2pm Eastern. Or bookmark it and watch later. Announcement: bit.ly/apr-30-disap... Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

submitted 20 hours ago • 92 comments

Conservatives since let’s say Reagan onward have been demonstrated to be antithetical to reality. The policies have failed miserably. Trickle down. Tough on crime. Just say no. And every social policy. Nothing has worked and it’s all garbage. Facts/reality are diametrically opposed to conservatism.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Vance and the pope, Hegseth's signal groups, Rubio unraveling the state department, RFK Jr.'s antics—it's a lot. Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process. 278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared. Gift link.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Nearly 200 uni presidents sign statement opposing "undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses" and "coercive use of public research funding." If your US institution is not among them (Columbia, NYU, UM), that's a giant 🚩. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

I'll say it again: if Trump were trying to destroy the country, how would he be acting any differently?

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Disturbed to see that my alma mater, @notredame.bsky.social, is not a signatory to this.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 746 comments

On repeat: You don’t have to agree with a single thing Mahmoud Khalil said, did, or thought, you might, vehemently, disagree, find it repellent.. fine, but it is his right- he is charged with no crime but some fabricated ideations the thought police concocted out of thin air. Release him, NOW!

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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

Since Trump took office: Dow: DOWN 13.8% Nasdaq: DOWN 20.5% S&P: DOWN 15.5%

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

BREAKING: Harvard University sued the Trump administration after the federal government said it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants and sought what university officials described as "unprecedented and improper" control over the Ivy League institution.

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NEW: Sens. @padilla.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov lead six other Senate Democrats in a letter opposing Trump admin calls to fold what Congress set up to be an independent postal service into the Commerce Department and potentially privatize USPS services www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

New — FDIC to cut more than 1,200 jobs in the agency

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

"U.S. President Donald Trump holds a collectors card depicting the assassination attempt during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC."

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

submitted 1 day ago • 915 comments

This administration has repeatedly shown disdain for women as full human beings. Now they want us all to be "trad" wives, baby incubators, & care takers. Sorry boys. That's a pipe dream. Gifted maddening article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... #usDemocracy #DemVoice1 #OurBodies

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

Trump is killing our economy. "The concurrent slump in stocks, the USD, and Treasuries suggests Trump's trade war has set in motion an exodus from American financial assets that no amount of negotiating can reverse," www.cnbc.com/2025/04/20/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

There are people in this country who would benefit from menstual cycle classes, but it's not the women

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This morning we learned that the US will have no formal representation at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in DC this week, further embarrassing this country as the world descends upon Washington.

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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 1 day ago • 3483 comments

Staffers fleeing. Classified leaks. Elon Musk almost got a top-secret briefing. And Pete Hegseth is texting war plans to his wife and accidentally a journalist. This is national security in Trump’s America.

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This morning we learned that the US will have no formal representation at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings in DC this week, further embarrassing this country as the world descends upon Washington.

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Among other things, please notice the extremely brazen lies DHS told the media about this American citizen: McLaughlin said Hermosillo…wanted to turn himself in and complete "a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully." L I E www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

This isn’t a plan to raise birthrates, it’s a plan to give money to people already having lots of kids, primarily religious families. A singles and small families to big families transfer. A plan to help people who want kids have them would address healthcare, not give a one-time $5k check per baby.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Wouldn’t carrying that much cash typically be a pretext for cops to call someone a drug dealer?

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Been saying this since his first term. Trump is legit a back of the napkin moron. He doesn’t have plans. He has no ideas. He isn’t a hard worker. He is just a blow hard.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments