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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 2 days ago • 249 comments

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

UN General Assembly, US votes with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Niger, and Sudan, against a big majority of 105 countries (plus 33 abstentions) because the resolution on UN-Europe human rights cooperation says Russia attacked Ukraine. That's who America's friends are now.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Whitmer and Newsom have tanked their larger aspirations all for the sake of giving the other side a chance.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The lesson: this is what bipartisanship with fascists gets you. Fascist do not care about bipartisanship. If you pursue it with them, they will make a fool of you. There is only defiance and opposition. That’s all any decent people want from their leaders anyway. Those who won’t can gtfo.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Reminder: this is the same plan Russian operatives offered to Paul Manafort in exchange for their help getting Trump elected in 2016. (See Manafort’s testimony in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report.)

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 12 days ago • 202 comments

This shit seems low stakes, but it isn’t. It’s what they do in North Korea.

submitted 12 days ago • 110 comments

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

submitted 14 days ago • 98 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 13 days ago • 882 comments

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

submitted 13 days ago • 354 comments

There's definitely a national emergency that requires the imposition of tariffs, but also those tariffs can be turned on and off based on how panicked Maria Bartiromo seems to be on the tee-vee ...

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

I'd add that the portrayal of Lee as a military genius is also completely dishonest. Lee was directly responsible for the strategic decision that lost the war for the Confederacy (1863 invasion of the north) and made that decision for dumb and foolish reasons.

submitted 14 days ago • 65 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 16 days ago • 314 comments

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

submitted 18 days ago • 101 comments

So Israel killed 15 emergency workers who were in clearly marked ambulances. Then it literally buried the vehicles and lied about the encounter. Now, it says that many of the emergency workers were Hamas. It cited no evidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”

submitted 17 days ago • 59 comments

Democrats, Progressives, and Leftists need to embrace a healthy patriotism that holds multiple things to be true: That the United States has made many mistakes and has not lived up to its ideals, but that its ideals are great and worth fighting for.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Convinced that defeating the other side on displays of proud patriotism is necessary. It’s completely correct to disagree with historical (and recent!) decisions this country’s made. But we’re fighting for its ideals, and in that fight, we get to define what patriotism means to us

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Bruce Pearl is both a cheater and a bigot. I love to see him lose.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

The apprentice is now the master.

submitted 28 days ago • 89 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 25 days ago • 179 comments

So the $15 million Disney “donated” to our criminal president’s library fund didn’t stop him from coming after them again. If you think you can appease an autocrat…

submitted 26 days ago • 209 comments

It appears that the official policy of the Trump Administration is that “race [] is a biological reality.” This is a classically racist position to take. Unambiguously racist. Race is, of course, NOT a biological reality. Race is, of course, a human cultural invention.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

submitted 27 days ago • 288 comments

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

submitted 30 days ago • 94 comments

If ever there was a time for Democrats to ask what Republicans would do if the shoe were on the other foot, this is it.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is already defying the courts. He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court. Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.

submitted 31 days ago • 288 comments

Free speech absolutists indeed

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a long “memorandum,” but it’s essentially telling Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to go after lawyers who challenge the federal government — which is many lawyer’s jobs. It’s basically a catch-all “let’s Paul Weiss whoever pisses us off” memo.

submitted 32 days ago • 252 comments

There needs to be a full academic boycott of Columbia. It's an institution not worth saving. No one should speak there, go there, or collaborate with academics there. Let it crumble into irrelevance.

submitted 33 days ago • 44 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 34 days ago • 1078 comments

abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views

submitted 34 days ago • 89 comments

The Commerce Secretary is promoting a company’s stock on live TV, and not just any company’s - the company owned by a ‘special government employee’ and the president’s biggest donor. The corruption is the point.

submitted 34 days ago • 433 comments

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

submitted 35 days ago • 872 comments

Erdogan in Turkey and Orban in Hungary are laying the roadmap for Republicans to follow here.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Today was Biden debate levels of bad for @schumer.senate.gov ... and he should be treated in kind.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

To be clear: this is another attack on the LGBTQIA+ community. They want us to get sick and die off.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is all just awful, a clear and enormous human rights violation. Labor camps. We sent them to labor camps in another country, in defiance of court order, without any due process.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments