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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

submitted 14 days ago • 432 comments

"The Trump administration is working on a genocidal ethnic cleansing scheme"

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

This is more-or-less explicitly what the professional free speech movement has spent the last decade fighting for.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Broken Record: You cannot sustain a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

submitted 30 days ago • 120 comments

A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 41 days ago • 314 comments

the reason people want to believe that the modern US has always been this bad, and that there is no escalation that is unique to either Trump term, is because it relieves them of any obligation to do more than they already were while feeling really fucking smug about it

submitted 48 days ago • 24 comments

Imagine if there were a place you could present evidence and someone could decide if you were right

submitted 50 days ago • 67 comments

One of the sources of rot running through our political, intellectual, and media institutions is the total triumph of the idea that democracy means outsourcing your morality and point of view to a fuzzily incoherent view of what's popular. Total rejection of the idea of morality as personal virtue.

submitted 56 days ago • 61 comments

The problem with counting on BigLaw firms to stand up to Trump's attacks on the legal profession is that BigLaw firms care about profits per partner and not much else ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

submitted 71 days ago • 218 comments

Con law prof here. This shit is WILD. "Plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate" to disappear whoever the state deems a terrorist is not a fucking thing in any kind of constitutional democracy. It's unvarnished tyranny.

submitted 73 days ago • 85 comments

It's a movement dedicated to lying, cheating and stealing, being cruel to your neighbors and worshiping money.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

submitted 74 days ago • 418 comments

What Mike Lee is saying here is bog standard, American neo-Nazism. Read any George Lincoln Rockwell publication from the 1960s and this will be the starting assumption from which everything else proceeds. And by “Marxist,” Rockwell meant “the Jews.”

submitted 76 days ago • 70 comments

My family issued the following after Medgar Evers was partially removed from the Arlington National Cemetery website under the direction of the Department of the Army. “It is a spit in the face to all who have served, honored, and fought for this country,” said Myrlie Evers. Full statement below:

submitted 78 days ago • 62 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 82 days ago • 755 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 84 days ago • 3609 comments

This is called "having substantive moral disagreements" with people, and it's one of those unfortunate things that happens in pluralistic and free societies, much to the displeasure of people like Mr. Renn.

submitted 86 days ago • 11 comments

RFK Jr is blaming a dead child for not exercising more

submitted 87 days ago • 168 comments

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 88 days ago • 92 comments

If the Democrats can't bring themselves to say "government spending is good, actually" in this precise moment, then they really are cooked and all need to be replaced.

submitted 88 days ago • 180 comments

It is profoundly childish to believe that you can pontificate on matters of public policy without having people assign moral valence to your words and beliefs.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

A particular type of Democrat is invested in this approach as one means of countering Democratic declines with the working class, but it’s just completely disconnected to the reality of the American economy in 2025.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The last core unifying ideal of the Republican Party at this point is that they have no responsibilities or obligations to other citizens.

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions

submitted 97 days ago • 76 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 97 days ago • 430 comments

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 97 days ago • 81 comments

What happens when the SSA closes field offices? People have a harder time getting access to services that they are eligible for because of crowded offices. People with more severe disabilities, lower income and lower education are most adversely affected. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 99 days ago • 41 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 110 days ago • 5540 comments

This constantly gets brought up in response to AI criticism. No one objects to these applications. They object to the consumer facing dreck that's being marketed to us as groundbreaking and forced onto our devices.

submitted 119 days ago • 100 comments