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submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

submitted 58 minutes ago • 9 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 1 hour ago • 41 comments

Republican events for a month now (including Inauguration Day!) have featured a prominent Nazi salute & legacy media outlets ignore it. Seems like a trend worth covering, no? Maybe access to the Nazi party shouldn't be prioritized??

submitted 2 hours ago • 20 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 22 days ago • 244 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1179 comments

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

Libertine reactionary degeneracy; that's what it is. These people are hedonists revelling in their own cruelty. The flagrant violation of moral principles exhilarates them. Their existence is incompatible with civilisation. Let all woke individuals of firm conviction recognise what must be done.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 128 comments

One aspect of doing a political purge of the military and civil service is you can't come back in afterwards and just revert to status quo ante policies. A counter-purge becomes a necessity before you can then restore usual norms and protections. The people he's installing can't be left in place.

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

No matter how preposterous, the Times headlines nearly every Trump story as if it were written by the White House comms team.

submitted 13 hours ago • 88 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 195 comments

An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Illinois looks very different in 2025 than it did in 2019. We've passed six balanced budgets with nine credit upgrades, invested in education, driven economic growth, strengthened our social safety network, reformed the criminal justice system, and rebuilt our infrastructure.

submitted 17 hours ago • 113 comments

The speed the universities have moved to comply with this stuff is astonishing. These are not fast moving orgs so embracing the erasure of inclusion and equity this quickly tells you about their leadership’s commitment.

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

i diDn'T kNoW

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

MORE OF THIS the US is corrupted and unreliable now, the world needs to understand this and act accordingly

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

When people cheer Mangione, watch for tons of pearl-clutching about norms from people who absolutely reject and ignore both norms and actual laws. They seek to impose standards they don’t follow. They’d never apply those norms and standards to Trumpism.

submitted 21 hours ago • 57 comments

This may be obvious but giving in to extortion is only going to invite MORE extortion. There will be never ending demands for compliance in order to receive federal funds that citizens paid into. If you give Trump an inch, he'll take your life!! Fight!!! Fight!! Fight!!

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Absolutely fuck this Sending love to anyone on the shitty end of this in the states Any cunt who's "just following orders"with this shit, your card is marked as far as I'm concerned, don't matter if it's your job, you are going to your grave as a piece of shit

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

i think there are a couple of things here: - the idea that Dems should have just brazenly broken the law like Trump is (dumb) - the idea that Dems were far too beholden to norms that don't exist anymore (seems right)

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 21 hours ago • 75 comments

One might even draw conclusions about corporate leadership and data-driven decision-making from this dynamic!

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the guy who is manufacturing torture porn for the White House featuring the pain and anguish of immigrants being forcefully deported. Billy McLaughlin. Formerly heading digital for the NRA.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

It is so weird living in a new reality that most people can't even see. Million of people think they're still living in a world that no longer exists. Wildly disconcerting times.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

If you’re going to force me to look at Nazi salutes by using them as the images for the articles you publish, have the fucking decency to call it what it is. Provocative gesture? Literally what the fuck is wrong with you.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Yes, the constitution says that. But I am a constitutional law scholar at an Ivy League school who always wanted to be published in the New York Times.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Anyone else find it weird that Delaware Democrats are tripping over themselves to rewrite state law so Elon Musk can get his $55 billion pay package? Bueller? prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

exactly right, and very well-put

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Yes, and Nate Silver in particular becoming an online gambling addict over the last few years and spending time in online gambling spaces which are full of that garbage is the missing piece

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

at what point does the media acknowledge these guys are actively doing the nazi salute specifically bc they enjoy the media contorting themselves into ways that don’t call it a nazi salute. it’s trolling, like the 👌🏼 thing was. but it’s also, quite clearly, a nazi salute!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

“We see it in the vengeful nature of Trumpism, the fantasies of executing opponents, of the violent purification of a land returned to its rightful owners.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-the-re...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

one of the major problems with liberal revolutionary states is that the willingness to kill the president under some circumstances is a load-bearing pillar of the ideology and they cannot make it legal to say that perhaps we should kill the preaident

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

this piece is very good

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Save us, woke jock masculinity. Put toxic nerd masculinity back in the lockers where it belongs.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment