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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

The resignation of a federal employee must be voluntary. I highly doubt failure to respond to this email---sent on a Saturday---would be understood by any court to be a voluntary resignation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 262 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 23 days ago • 246 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 16 hours ago • 184 comments

The bipartisan efforts to demonize and criminalize pro-Palestinian protestors have also contributed to the lack of mobilization of civil society against Trump, and this was EXACTLY what the right wanted when they cynically exploited Democrats' racism/desires to suppress any dissent.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 982 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Take my tax dollars and help people dammit

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

This is THE definition of a dictatorship. Full stop.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

"I don't think you can work from a home. Nobody is gonna work from home. They are gonna be going out, they're gonna play tennis, they're gonna play golf, they're gonna do a lot of things. They're not working." -- Trump, last week

submitted 4 days ago • 467 comments

A reminder: 1. Elon Musk's wealth is mostly in Tesla stock 2. Tesla is successful because at a key moment in 2009 the federal government gave it a $465 million loan so it could make sedans 3. Musk is now firing thousands of government workers and slashing every service ordinary people depend on

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

When the dismantlists talk about "trimming the fat" or "bloated" whatever relating to the federal government, remind them that there have been about the same number of federal employees since the 1960s. Meanwhile US population has increased by ~70% and GDP has increased 29-fold.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 5 days ago • 451 comments

I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 7 days ago • 273 comments

I think it's worth reminding people that project 2025 was mostly ignored until Taraji P Henson shouted it out on the bet awards. That's a specific audience.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

How about Blue states introduce a new ripple? Impose criminal penalties/stiff fines on those who seek to effect in some other state any criminal/civil penalties upon a doctor or pharmacist in the Democratic run state for providing legal abortion medication to someone in the US. Make the bums sweat.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 543 comments

I would not characterize this as “a major diplomatic breakthrough.” I would instead call it human trafficking. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 678 comments

Jaw droppingly racist even for 2025 standards

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

you do have to wonder if mitch mcconnell, as he votes again and again against these nominees, is reckoning at all with the fact that he is more responsible for all of this than most

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 239 comments

Trump and his drug-addled ultra-billionaire Daddy are rampaging lawlessly. Rank and file Democrats are furious about the feckless response and failing strategies from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @chuckschumer.com. So Dem leaders do the only thing they know how: punch down and left.

submitted 11 days ago • 54 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments

Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

the founders of this country were slaveowners whose original intent is irrelevant to most modern issues but one thing they got absolutely right at the time was their warning about No Trumps they just badly overestimated how well the guardrails they tried to put in place would hold

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Stanford has so much to answer for. Scott Atlas is responsible for literally hundreds of thousands of excess deaths. Bhattacharya appears bent on destroying the NIH and scientific and academic supremacy of the US. Elizabeth Holmes at this point is looking like their least harmful product.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

slate.com/podcasts/wha... I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

No one has tried this before, let's see how it plays out.

submitted 14 days ago • 939 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 14 days ago • 890 comments

I wish people on the left would stop conflating DEI with unqualified. Stop adopting the framing of racists

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I’m being told that this is what the good guys do, but I have no choice but to accept it. And I’m the problem if I don’t.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Once upon a time, we complained that "ethnic cleansing" was too sterile a euphemism to describe the forced removal and often violent expulsion of a racial or religious minority from a region. And now the press can't even bring itself to use that term.

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

The real problem with this shit is that the Democrats in Congress are treating this like an election they need to win* instead of a crisis they need to stop. *and they aren't doing a good job even at that

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 17 days ago • 202 comments