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Probably not relevant to anything, but most of Germany's concentration camps were not in Germany

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Take a minute to read this whole deep-dive on Brad Schimel's no-holds-barred loyalty to Donald Trump. This link is paywall-free. And then share it with anyone you know in Wisconsin—or who could donate or volunteer to help Susan Crawford in the April 1 Wi Sup Ct race. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

I hope people enjoy their tax cuts.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

Office of Justice Programs has taken down its clearinghouse of effective anti-crime programs: crimesolutions.ojp.gov

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Help us build out our rapidly growing list of townhalls where GOPs got rocked last week over people who hate the Elon and DOGE crime spree talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ye-ol...

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

If you live in LA go to Union Station at 9AM to protest this criminal administration

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

submitted 34 days ago • 247 comments

Move fast and break things!

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

People who genuinely believe in colorblind government policy should be more upset that the Trump administration is using that language to do clear racism

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

All hands on deck red alert, please share broadly: Senate GOP budget resolution calls to cut Ag & Finance. This means they’re coming after SNAP & Medicaid. They are trying to take away nutrition & health care. The reconciliation bill is filibuster proof & so can be passed w/ their slim majority.

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

As explicitly racist a statement as you will ever hear and it's not obviously disqualifying for this administration. Unreal.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Subject matter experts posting valuable information!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Ah meritocracy

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Violent crime in 2024 was lower than in 2019 but no one will ever know counciloncj.org/crime-trends...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus Christ, this fucking country. www.localmemphis.com/article/news...

submitted 61 days ago • 36 comments

Having spent the past few hours pulling together AI summaries of the Trump admin executive orders I can say with high confidence there is no way Trump has read them all

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Many of Trump's announced executive actions are likely to be illegal abuses of power, especially some on border/immigration. In this piece, I go over several examples, explaining why they are illegal/dangerous: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 64 days ago • 28 comments

The unfortunate failure of a number of Biden initiatives to result in political benefit are going to echo for a long time.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoyed @jerusalem.bsky.social's recent Good on Paper podcast about AI and productivity and during work hours I had DALL-E make this

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump team has been very quiet the last few weeks, which usually means they are plotting some crazy shit

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Bravo, @anntelnaes.bsky.social. I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be: “Newspapers die in cowardice.” anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 80 days ago • 651 comments

Fascinating chart. I’d love to see a version that only included out-of-state votes

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments