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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 5 days ago • 1465 comments

This is a pretty important point!

submitted 5 days ago • 208 comments

“Firing back”

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 9 days ago • 308 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 28 days ago • 1115 comments

Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

submitted 33 days ago • 1756 comments

NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 34 days ago • 66 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 34 days ago • 944 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 36 days ago • 125 comments

Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year - https://www.theverge.com/news/662847/trump-ending-energy-star-program-could-cost-homeowners-450-annually

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Actually brilliant. Genuinely great metaphor

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This is real

submitted 43 days ago • 5608 comments

Republicans are straight up talking about ending upward mobility.

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

We don't need anger. We need to build. #CanadaStrong

submitted 49 days ago • 59 comments

Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.

submitted 54 days ago • 453 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 54 days ago • 755 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 55 days ago • 123 comments

Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

submitted 55 days ago • 565 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 57 days ago • 924 comments

Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.

submitted 61 days ago • 205 comments

This is smart and important www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

submitted 61 days ago • 79 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 61 days ago • 1654 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 62 days ago • 106 comments

NEW: Ukrainian President Zelenskyy pleads with President Trump to visit Ukraine to “understand what Putin did” after two Russian ballistic missiles hit Sumy, a city close to the Russian border, killing 34 people and injuring 119 others.

submitted 62 days ago • 24 comments

every time they make a tariff modification I am legally obligated to tell you it would take 0.05 seconds for them to exempt bananas and coffee but they STILL WONT DO IT

submitted 62 days ago • 40 comments

Try not to laugh.

submitted 64 days ago • 417 comments

WaPo surveyed manufacturing workers. By a 57-22 percent margin they say tariffs "would hurt rather than help their job/career." And among Trump voters, fewer than half think the tariffs will personally help them www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 65 days ago • 17 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 66 days ago • 1785 comments

#NEW: The House has also voted to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule limiting overdraft fees to $5. 217-211. All yay votes were GOP, 1 GOP plus all voting Dems were nay. The big banks won. Regular people lost.

submitted 66 days ago • 26 comments

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

submitted 66 days ago • 434 comments

Like a three-fold win here =>

submitted 68 days ago • 26 comments

China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

submitted 68 days ago • 691 comments

big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

submitted 69 days ago • 108 comments

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Part of this is the terrible planning and implementation, with no real thought to which imports are critical for US prosperity (lumber, solar panels, etc.) and which aren’t (fast fashion, subsidised base metals). But with this idiotic rollout, a whole generation will likely be anti-tariff broadly.

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Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.

submitted 71 days ago • 1430 comments

The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.

submitted 72 days ago • 195 comments

Who did this?

submitted 72 days ago • 1440 comments

no nintendo bc trump :( kotaku.com/switch-2-pre...

submitted 72 days ago • 183 comments

BREAKING Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell have introduced legislation that would require tariffs to be approved by Congress within 60 days, or the tariffs will expire.

submitted 73 days ago • 56 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 73 days ago • 428 comments

I don't expect any of our major media outlets to acknowledge this outright, but this is the thing: These aren't 'steep' tariffs, these are _insane_ tariffs. These are 'nobody in the White House understands decimal points' numbers. It speaks to total economic illiteracy _throughout the White House_.

submitted 73 days ago • 84 comments

We were cleaning Chinas clock economically. Many predicted they would surpass us by now, and they haven’t. But this tariff stuff will close the gap. Idiots

submitted 73 days ago • 899 comments

Patrick and Laura’s home in Etobicoke was built after WWII, when Canada faced a housing crisis and the government stepped in to build more homes. Now we’re facing another housing crisis, and it’s time your government got back into the business of building homes.

submitted 74 days ago • 68 comments

"This is going to be much bigger than Smoot-Hawley,” econbrowser.com/archives/202... 😞

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

submitted 74 days ago • 115 comments