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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of NC Alliance for Retired Americans and VoteVets AF, my firm has filed an appeal to the Fourth Circuit to block the Republicans' efforts to steal a North Carolina state Supreme Court election. Follow Democracy Docket for full details. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 333 comments

Donald Trump wants corrupt foreign leaders to build concentration camps to hold US citizens in an attempt to circumvent the constitution and rule of law.

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1077 comments

Over an hour late, and noncompliant.

submitted 12 hours ago • 109 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student organizer at Columbia University, was invited to a citizenship interview. He was then arrested by ICE. During the fall semester of 2023, right after Oct. 7, we interviewed Mahdawi about his activism:

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

The whooping cough vaccination rate for Washington state kindergartners in 2023-2024 was 90.2%, slightly below the U.S. rate of 92.3%. But in 4 counties, the rate for children ages 19-35 months was around 30%. In one county, it was below 12%.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

a few thoughts on Harvard's No to the White House and the latters demands. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/harva...

submitted 11 hours ago • 47 comments

MF and cowards. Afraid to show your face?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Good background here from Politico's lobbying sheet on the lobbying w/r/t the law firms

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

Could be me. Could be you.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

As this reader (a law prof) explains, if you take them on their face the Big Law agreements with the White House since they are with Trump personally are pretty straightforward and public instances of bribery. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/about...

submitted 10 hours ago • 26 comments

The US' largest private prison operator, Geo Group, also runs one of its largest immigrant surveillance programs. Now, ICE is using the privately run system to track and deport growing numbers of people. 200k are currently in the system. Geo expects it to grow. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

This is wild, fascinating and genuinely important. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

President Zelensky: “It seems to me that the Vice President is somehow justifying Putin's actions”

submitted 21 hours ago • 184 comments

Sort of militant/feral Baghdad Bobism, high velocity bullshit

submitted 21 hours ago • 92 comments

Among the abrupt termination of #CDC programs was the shuttering of the agency's viral #hepatitis lab. Imagine cops being asked to solve crimes without the capacity to test for fingerprints or swab for DNA. That's what this does to hepatitis surveillance in the US. www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c...

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump is a liar but a very transparent liar. His attack on CBS and 60 minutes is an attempt to silence them and the reason is not the bullshit he’s spilling, it’s to keep them from continuing to air their interview with Zelenskyy which damns the Trump regime.

submitted 20 hours ago • 69 comments

Painfully spot-on

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I agree that this is the logical endpoint, but it is also likely its Kryptonite because then it makes our courts impotent. Courts don’t like giving up their power (see post 9/11). So the endgame, if the courts want to stay relevant, is to say the whole thing is unconstitutional from the jump

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

submitted 2 days ago • 308 comments

The Trump administration has cut funding and programs for HIV research, treatment, and prevention so deeply that “we’re watching the field burn to the ground,” one researcher told Katherine J. Wu.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Track the Trump administration's harmful funding cuts across the country with CAP's new DOGE cuts tracker:

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

CNN's David Culver reports from outside El Salvador's Center for Terrorism Confinement, better known as Cecot, after touring the mega-prison. It's where over 275 migrants deported from the US are being held. Culver's full reporting from El Salvador's Cecot mega-prison is only on CNN. cnn.it/4loZMAu

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

There's another issue here. Immigrants, legal and otherwise, pay huge sums into Social Security. So you're simply cutting off revenue for the Social Security system.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

It's a shake down. Asshole mad mob man.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"The Senate’s budget resolution is irresponsible: it hides the actual deficit impact of tax cuts and sets a dangerous precedent." More from Robert Pozen on the Senate's resolution for @marketwatch.com: www.marketwatch.com/story/the-se...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

The House has voted to limit district court judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions. Just one Republican, Mike Turner of Ohio, joined all Democrats in opposing the bill. The legislation is a direct response to judges who have blocked certain Trump actions.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

TODAY: The House is expected to vote on the GOP's voter suppression bill. We must stop H.R. 22 to protect fair elections in 2026. We’ve seen the damage of similar laws in states like Kansas and Arizona, where thousands of eligible voters were blocked from registering. Call your representative ASAP.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

New from me: the Senate plan to extend Trump's tax cuts and enact an additional $1.5 trillion in tax cuts would lower wages so much Americans on average would have less money even w/ the lower taxes. In other words, it reduces after-tax income. Link here: www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

The SEC is the only agency that could get to the bottom of who did these trades — and they would have to want to know.

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

Oh don't forget that even tho trump is playing with the stock markets, signalgate is still there and your national security is still being played with Pete Hegseth still at the helm. Your safety was compromised and will continue to be compromised.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

JFC. WE ARE STILL WORSE OFF. We still have at least 10% global tariffs. Businesses can’t make decisions, as they don’t know what tariffs will be 90 days from now I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo

submitted 5 days ago • 306 comments

The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

Trump is exploring legal avenues to “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador, where the administration has arranged for individuals to be held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses.

submitted 5 days ago • 111 comments