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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

submitted 13 hours ago • 611 comments

Ezra Klein on Mamdani, and the future of the issue of Israel:

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

submitted 11 hours ago • 306 comments

Honestly the way that the Democratic Party (and here I don't just mean politicians) treats Muslim voters is pretty obscene. Last year was spent loudly shouting "antisemitism" at anyone who brought up the genocide of Palestinians. Then Muslim voters were told to put and shut up (vote for Harris)...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I would love to know who is telling Democrats that you have to smear Mamdani in order to defend Jews. Once again, falsely claiming a Muslim man has called for violence against Jewish people" is bigotry. Stop pitting Jews against Muslims!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm very much over non-Jewish Democrats like @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @ericswalwell.bsky.social telling Jews how bad Zohran Mamdani is for the Jews. I think he's great. We don't need your opinion on this. Endorse the Democrat and move on.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

If congressional Dems shouldn't talk about or vote for impeachment because it won't pass, they shouldn't talk about or vote for anything because they don't have to votes to pass anything, and definitely don't have the votes to override a veto. But none of them say that, it would obviously be absurd.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

Since nationwide injunctions are (mostly) prohibited now, does that mean I can have the student loan payment plan that I've been waiting on for months? Serious question. I've been in limbo ever since the SAVE plan got blocked.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

The big story of American politics right now is a bigoted lunatic bullying other Americans, while other powerful people convince themselves that the savvy move is to do nothing or surrender. It's as if they've never ever dealt with a bully before and don't understand that acquiescence emboldens them

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

If you want to see a Dem tell himself weakness is savvy, read this thread. He says don't impeach Trump for clearly impeachable offenses because Senate Republicans will block removal. But fighting rather than acquiescing is the point. It doesn't need to fully win on its own, it signals to the pubic.

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

My question for Ryan is why, after looking at what happened to Columbia and Harvard, anyone would think that acceding to Trump's thugs would buy the protection they are purporting to offer.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Honestly, this is my #1 objection to yesterday’s decision. SCOTUS had many, many opportunities to curb universal injunctions against the Biden administration. For four years, it refused. Then, almost as soon as Trump returned to office, it changed the rules to take away universal injunctions. Why?

submitted 21 hours ago • 39 comments

This is the anti-impeachment argument I have been hearing from others close to Congress. It’s what House leaders think. And it is Very Wrong. @casten.house.gov: “Impeachment… doesn’t accomplish anything unless it is followed by a vote to convict in the Senate.” No, no, no. This is status quo…

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

LLMs are evil. Silicon Valley has created machines that not only lie proficiently, but that parrot bigotry. And yet we are supposed to give up our control to these machines.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I see the Very Serious People are hard at work minimizing our concerns with "The SC won't actually end birthright citizenship." Okay, maybe not, but what happens in the meantime while we wait for the Court to make up it's mind? Trump has clearly been emboldened, and that is the Court's fault.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

What. Is. Happening. NBC Los Angeles news write-up here: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

submitted 1 day ago • 314 comments

Once again, it really feels like many people are in deep denial about how our country is now a dictatorship.

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Republican presidents get power and Democratic presidents don't. That's what the last four years of SCOTUS boils down to. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

submitted 1 day ago • 241 comments

Liberal democracy is being destroyed because too many powerful people are obeying in advance rather than fighting back.

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Wow. So much for academic freedom. University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

This administration is pursuing a white supremacist project—attacking birthright citizenship, gutting DEI, welcoming white S. Africans under the guise of “white genocide,” and brutalizing brown folks who’ve contributed to this country for decades. We must fight this project relentlessly.

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All you need to know about modern Republicans is that they spent the entire Biden Presidency asking Kacsmaryk and other judges for injunctions against everything under the sun, and then 6 months after Trump's inauguration they say you can't get injunctions anymore.

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SCOTUS just stripped judges' power to stop unconstitutional orders nationwide in a move KBJ calls "an existential threat to the rule of law" The Court has chosen a side, and it isn't the rule of law. Lower courts can't protect the Constitution because the Supreme Court won't let them.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Trump makes it abundantly clear that he's going to speedrun with ending birthright citizenship and a bunch of other laws on the books after the Supreme Court ruled in his favor on injunctions.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments