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I know it's far away and presumptious but is someone working on a Project2029 to fix a lot of this?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I never watched To Catch a Predator but the doc PREDATORS explores the reasons for its popularity and questions its motives and our desire to watch the moment someone's life is upended. Seeing someone's reaction to the raw footage vs the produced episode is telling. #IFFBoston2025 #Movies #Boston

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Evidently in China if you suspect a cheating spouse, you don't hire a PI, you hire a MISTRESS DISPELLER to go undercover and breakup the affair. Started quite compelling but then dragged a little. No Q&A and I wonder how the doc makers filmed these intimate conversations. #IFFBoston2025 #Movies

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT is about a lesbian poet couple one of whom, Andrea Gibson, has terminal cancer. It's legit laugh out loud funny and incredibly meaningful. Given the description no one would pick this movie to see and yet I think everyone would enjoy it. #IFFBoston2025 #Movies

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The #IFFBoston2025 lineup has arrived! ✨ From April 23-30, we’ll be showing over 90 films, including COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT at the Somerville Theatre, PAVEMENTS at the @brattletheatre.bsky.social, and SORRY, BABY at @thecoolidge.bsky.social. Head to iffboston.org for the full lineup!

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

#IFFBoston2025 starts tonight! I expect to go to 19 screenings in the next week. #Boston #Movies iffboston.org

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the evidence ICE submitted in his case: a "gang worksheet" filled out by local cops in 2019 saying: 1) he had on Chicago Bulls gear 2) a confidential information said he was part of an MS-13 clique in a state he'd never lived in. ICE agreed they had nothing else. Read the full context here:

submitted 70 days ago • 166 comments

Agreed, and the more we amplify what Booker is doing, the more we make it matter, in public perception and as an example to other elected officials. On the other hand, the more we disparage and tear it down, the more we make it not matter. It's not all up to him.

submitted 70 days ago • 40 comments

“If Mr. Trump continues to attempt to usurp the authority of the courts, the battle will be joined, and it will be up to the Supreme Court, Congress and the American people to step forward and say: Enough.” Thank you, Judge Luttig.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Grateful to talk to John Kruzel @reuters.com about the current moment . . . "This cannot be stressed enough - up until this point, we have not, in modern times, had to wonder whether a presidential administration would comply with a court order," said Duke Law professor Marin Levy.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 80 days ago • 328 comments

Look closely at the URL. Before removing her cousin from the website, they inserted “dei” before “medal-of-honor.” www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

Every mind-bending TV show:

submitted 88 days ago • 135 comments

Department of unfortunate typos, Purim edition

submitted 88 days ago • 44 comments

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

submitted 102 days ago • 146 comments

Perfectly executed piece from my colleague @danamilbank.bsky.social, on our owner's edict that WaPo opinions write "every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." The greatest threat to these pillars is Donald Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 102 days ago • 66 comments

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

submitted 102 days ago • 492 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 102 days ago • 842 comments

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 102 days ago • 1615 comments

These newly cancelled projects “had received a waiver from the freeze because the State Department previously identified its work as essential and lifesaving.” What else is there to say? They’re all obliterated, with nary an effort to distinguish. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

There is a belief in MAGAland that the private sector will just fund this stuff. For example, Sean Hannity said that “most of the solutions for cancer are going to be found in the private sector, not with public money.” But thats simply not true.

submitted 103 days ago • 48 comments

Trump’s biggest power grab just reached the Supreme Court www.vox.com/scotus/40183...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Trump and Musk are getting even richer from their White House gigs — and ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics.

submitted 103 days ago • 21 comments

“Are we risking a time when no judge can function without a distorting level of concern for self and family?” An important read from Judge Ponsor. 👇

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

THIS is how you write about the absurdity of this administration. It’s brilliant prose, full of irony and subtle humor, with a meticulous eye for the farcical details. No other approach could have adequately captured what happened in that room. All who chronicle this era should take note.

submitted 103 days ago • 326 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 104 days ago • 155 comments

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

submitted 109 days ago • 36 comments

This is all you need to see to understand the disaster of a budget passed by the House GOP last night.

submitted 104 days ago • 14 comments

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

submitted 104 days ago • 88 comments

With his order yanking security clearances from Covington & Burling lawyers, President Donald Trump has crossed a line. He is now using the powers of his office, and openly, to punish a law firm for representing one of his adversaries. How will the legal profession respond? My new Cato post.

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

Interesting thread and a perfect example of details being complicated.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 109 days ago • 1065 comments

The story here is really incredible. The DOGE boys go into an agency and fire half the staff without even knowing what the agency does. Yeah, that is really damn efficient.

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the *offer* of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 109 days ago • 148 comments

Merrick Garland went to extraordinary lengths to avoid appearing political. Pam Bondi went to CPAC, did a podcast interview with Ted Cruz, and made clear that she's brought partisan politics back to the attorney general's office. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 109 days ago • 27 comments

From the "Never Thought I'd Say This" Department: Bravo to Fox News. Any news outlet not defending AP is a coward.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 109 days ago • 102 comments

Susan Collins believes what the White House and Musk are up to is illegal, and she expects lawsuits. But she doesn't have to wait for the courts: She's the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which gives her real power that she could be using right now. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 110 days ago • 51 comments

This. Let’s be done with the whole “run government like a business” bs, shall we?

submitted 110 days ago • 42 comments

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coff...

submitted 111 days ago • 38 comments

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 109 days ago • 129 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 109 days ago • 72 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 110 days ago • 2545 comments

If you're looking for some great databases of the ongoing resistance (as well as some other useful resources) here's a thread of where to start. 1. Check out Choose Democracy's website with incredible guides on action you can take: choosedemocracy.us

submitted 111 days ago • 12 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 112 days ago • 1194 comments

Excellent explainer on why the NIH indirect rate cut matters, as well as why it is illegal.

submitted 122 days ago • 7 comments

I'd love people's help getting this out into major subreddits. Especially ones frequented by technology workers. The more people in Silicon Valley who know the truth, the better. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

submitted 122 days ago • 55 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 123 days ago • 1649 comments