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Every American should be deeply troubled by this massive escalation, and @democrats-judiciary.house.gov are standing strong for judicial independence. This is an unmistakable descent further into authoritarian chaos.

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 295 comments

We live in a lawless state.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Who is paying attention to this in the US?

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"Both of us [Pakistan and India] should act carefully." Tensions have escalated between South Asia's two nuclear powers following Tuesday’s attack on tourists by separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir. Read more: aje.io/r3zuli

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god this shit is blood boiling

submitted 2 days ago • 814 comments

If you can't speak, especially as a proponent for human rights, on the record, it really doesn't matter what you say. Deborah Lipstadt proves she supports the disposability of some, just as long as it doesn't include her. A denier through and through of genocides.

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Born and raised in Florida, I can testify that it is the most devastated state in the nation.

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A must listen!

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At what point do we start calling this terrorism? One goal is very clearly to terrorize part of our society, to intimidate another part, & to feed the anger & bigotry of yet another.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

“Nothing binds people together more than complicity in the same crime,” wrote Nadezhda Mandelstam of life in Stalinist Russia. “The more people could be implicated and compromised, the greater would be the number of people supporting the regime and longing for it to last thousands of years.”

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NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

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At last, some solidarity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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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 4 days ago • 751 comments

And this is one of the reasons why Blacks Studies and Africana Studies are essential...and why my institution like so many are moral failures as they quietly fold those very programs.

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Double rainbow over Lake Seneca . . . Just out of reach!

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Striking detail in this profile of retiring IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi—the most direct evidence yet that political pressure, not military planning, drove the massive volume of air strikes in Gaza in the three weeks before the ground campaign started www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

It should be abundantly clear that Trump is scapegoating Powell for the Trump/Navarro economic disaster. Markets were down2.5% today...more significantly the sentiment about the value of US assets is plummeting...hence bad news for everyone who has a job (or not) or a loan or a business.

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A grifting we go!

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April 17 marks the 200th anniversary of the Haiti indemnity agreement. In March, tennis star Naomi Osaka, who is of Haitian descent, added her voice to the chorus in a tweet wondering when France would pay Haiti back. theconversation.com/200-years-ag...

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Elon Musk = crimes against humanity. These are charges that must be brought against specific people, like Musk. There is a direct link from every death due to HIV-AiDS in Zambia or Botswana to Musk and each DOGEtte who has cut aid.

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'Gaza turned into mass grave of Palestinians and for those helping them' Doctors Without Borders (MSF) slams Israel for targeting humanitarian workers, mass killings and its blockade of aid to Gaza aje.io/ho76sa

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

AIPAC should be designated a terrorist org as they promote the extermination of Palestinians.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A government that uses force while defying the rule of law is not entitled to the protections of the rule of law, nor are its agents.

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

If there are so many "emergencies" why does Trump have so much time for golfing? Maybe he recognizes he's the disaster and is subconsciously calling for help? Help would be impeachment.

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Shift under way?

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Conservatives constantly complain about this. But it could be that their views simply have become less convincing, critical, or interesting. In response they are willing to silence all other views.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Pedophiles and rapists stick together. Tate and Trump have that as their defining bond.

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Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

The Supreme Court Got It Badly Wrong open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

Sometime soon Trump & his thugs will start revoking the passports of American citizens. There's plenty of precedent for it. Ask W.E.B. Du Bois. Ask Paul Robeson. Then we were in hysterics about communism. Now we're suppressing pro-Palestinian speech & any criticism of Israel.

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It's clear Carville and I live in different worlds. One's pension, IRA, are tied up in the stock and bond markets: when they tank so does everything else. What are the distractions democrats are creating? I see nothing that compares to the MAGA chaos. Watch everything burn down? No.

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This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

submitted 11 days ago • 51 comments

Someone should ask Marco Rubio why students are being deported for saying the same things the guy Trump is honoring with his first foreign visit has said.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

SAW IT COMING

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments