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Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget bill that would amount to one of the greatest transfers of wealth from the working poor to the super rich. And two billionaire oligarchs are fighting about it because the bill doesn't cut vital social programs enough. Hello?

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“‘Unitary executive’ is just a fancy word for ‘authoritarian’ or ‘despot,’ and we can’t afford to give the judicial branch any more opportunity to advance this dangerous legal theory.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/vet-...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Americans have a right to know the REAL cost of the Trump Tariffs. My Truth in Tariffs Act will require large retailers to show how much more consumers are paying for an item because of tariffs—President Trump’s foolish new national sales tax.

submitted 30 days ago • 79 comments

Why specifically China? Oh that’s right, they are his most important business partner.

submitted 45 days ago • 111 comments

The Miami Herald is doing remarkable public service journalism on deported Venezuelans and the crimes being committed against them. Almost like news institutions that are located in and around the communities they serve end up being accountable for serving those communities

submitted 45 days ago • 44 comments

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19 motorcycle cops at Trump’s golf club presumably to escort the convicted felon through Virginia

submitted 48 days ago • 79 comments

Abuses of the tax code was one of the items in the original impeachment case against Nixon. Using the tax code to selectively target enemies - and decimate civil society - is the next step in the authoritarian agenda.

submitted 48 days ago • 65 comments

interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 57 days ago • 86 comments

DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS.

submitted 56 days ago • 65 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 56 days ago • 473 comments

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 55 days ago • 941 comments

Trump's moves are already imposing immense costs on the United States and on the world via lost scientific progress on preventing Alzheimer's, curing cancer, etc.

submitted 54 days ago • 14 comments

Calling Trump's illegal, vindictive, and crazy effort to treat universities the way he does his contractors--by not paying what is owed, by disavowing contracts--as an "aggressive, ad hoc approach" is maddening not because it is false but because it is incomplete and soft pedals the danger.

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

The impression that the press, many politicians, and most university management gives is that these are special gifts for good boys and girls ("blank checks" as Andreessen said) and not signed-and-dated contracts that are being illegally, unilaterally broken. So it's no surprise Trump thinks he can!

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

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 54 days ago • 51 comments

Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

submitted 54 days ago • 223 comments

APSA adding virtual attendance for the September conference in Vancouver to accommodate scholars who are afraid to leave the US and then try to come back:

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Calling on scholars to join us in asking their university leaders to stand up for higher education this week. We provide the template. You just need to provide the voice. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 53 days ago • 563 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 53 days ago • 40 comments

Informing the public about this is important, but regular people won't get the message unless Dems act like this is an emergency. Even if it's just actions that won't ultimately "succeed," bills that won't pass, they need to get caught trying.

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

submitted 58 days ago • 1973 comments

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

submitted 58 days ago • 309 comments

Oh my God then why isn’t this on the front page every day in giant font??

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Not market manipulation 🤔 A clip of Trump in the Oval Office discussing how people made money in the recent market fluctuations, as a result of his tariffs. "He made two-and-a-half billion today, and he made nine hundred million, that's not bad!" Watch ⬇️ 🔗 trib.al/Fek2Z1n

submitted 58 days ago • 27 comments

Don’t capitulate. Don’t lose your nerve. Don’t believe Trump is unbeatable. He isn’t.

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

Appalshop in Whitesburg had much of its vast archive of Appalachian media damaged in historic 2022 flooding, but received federal grants to restore them. Now those grants are likely to be zeroed out with DOGE cuts to NEH and IMLS, putting the archives and other humanities programs at risk.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: the Supreme Court orders the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Abredo Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly sent to El Salvador.

submitted 57 days ago • 48 comments

America’s Company Commander is at it again. He simply can’t comprehend the scope of what it takes to field a modern military.

submitted 58 days ago • 44 comments

📣 We’re seeking interviewees for the film “The Roof Over My Head,” which discusses the unhoused community in Appalachia. If you/someone you know want to tell your story, please get in touch! A small stipend will be provided. ✉️ Email madison (at) appalshop (dot) org before 4/4/25

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty much the same amount Republicans promise to “save” in this budget is what the IRS could have collected from tax cheats and wealthy/sophisticated filers WITHOUT RAISING A SINGLE TAX. But instead somebody somewhere will lose out on healthcare. Stupid and cruel.

submitted 58 days ago • 34 comments

In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

submitted 58 days ago • 98 comments

zero mention of the fact i had this story LAST NIGHT or that i shared the email hours earlier.

submitted 58 days ago • 31 comments

And they are here on BlueSky: @appalshop.bsky.social, as well as @kyhumanities.bsky.social, which is also losing a huge chunk of its funding

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Trump directed the Department of Justice to investigate former employees of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Still fixated on the 2020 election, he continues to pursue retribution.

submitted 58 days ago • 78 comments

The stupid... it b-u-r-n-s...!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥

submitted 59 days ago • 919 comments

I am lucky if I make it through two hours of Contracts without saying something dumb and he drops this twenty hours in

submitted 67 days ago • 10 comments

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 66 days ago • 167 comments

Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.

submitted 66 days ago • 147 comments