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Private companies like Turbotax have been ripping taxpayers off for years. But thanks to the Biden-Harris Administration, this #TaxDay you can file for free online with IRS DirectFile. Go to directfile.irs.gov.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is a good idea but a big problem with it is is that in many states with a Dem governor and Dem AG, the state troopers would just ignore the orders and side with the ICE guys

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

you have to judge these things on a scale. Is it as big as George Clooney reporting that Biden is old? As big as Tim Walz mixing up what month he was in Hong Kong in 1989? As big as ANTHONY WEINERS LAPTOP?

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Let this be the start of a civil society cascade of just saying no to authoritarianism.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Has anyone in the legislative branch developed a plan for what to do when/if the executive branch finally, formally tells the judicial branch to get bent? Congress? Anyone in there with a plan? A thought? A response other than futile spluttering?

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

The effect on recipients' work ethics was not surprising. It's in line with everything else we've already learned from dozens of basic income experiments around the world. This is a good article, but this framing is bad and needs to change.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It can't be this difficult to understand the difference between "invincible" and "if anyone with power was going to stop him, they would have done so a long time ago."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Back to watching CNBC. "This is not a misprint: Dow futures with an implied drop of -4.5%." Each anchor has the vibe of a guy waking up from a years-long bender on the side of the highway with no phone and an empty bank account. Continues to be better TV than almost any show.

submitted 9 days ago • 351 comments

Good. This isn't rhetoric or hyperbole: On the current trajectory there is simply no way the United States survives a full Trump term as any kind of recognizable liberal democracy. Thinking about how to beat him in 2028 is a waste of time; it will be too late by then.

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Scientific racism doesn’t exist without the active involvement and complicity of scientists. Or, in this case, social scientists 👇 One practical step we in academia can take to guard against attacks from the far-right is to stop facilitating scientific racism

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone still supporting this administration cannot be trusted. They won’t blink an eye when the police state comes for you. Adjust any personal relationships accordingly.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 14 days ago • 198 comments

cory booker gave his democratic colleagues a lesson in making your own news cycle. 25 hours ago, ain’t nobody care about who gave the longest senate floor speech. you were not planning yesterday to dunk on strom thurmond today. yet here we are, simply because the man got up and did it

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Senate Ds should do a lot of things, but then it makes little sense to criticize Cory Booker for an action he is taking alone with no substantive support from party leadership.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

yall we can’t collectively screech that “no one’s doing anything!” and then say “no not like that” when someone actually does something. is Booker’s filibuster gonna save the world? of course not. but since courage begets courage it could lead to more. I’m fucking cynical as hell but come on.

submitted 15 days ago • 215 comments

Some people are reacting to that 3rd term story as though they had been walking around believing that a free, fair and competitive election in 2028 with candidates not called Trump was the current trajectory for those in power in the US. Simmer on frogs.

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

One reason there is not a "Joe Rogan of the left" is because it is difficult to gain mass appeal with a leftist audience while engaging in obvious bullshit

submitted 16 days ago • 57 comments

ok but what if our institutions are about to become self enforcing and we ruin it by doing something

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Every social scientist should have stood with Claudine Gay when they tried to pull this shit with her, I can’t think of a single quantitative paper that you couldn’t lie about in this way

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

They are never ok. They have their own rules of engagement, which are to trivialize even the gravest stories for clicks and access.

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

By publishing these stories, Goldberg risked retribution by the administration and its fanboys -- federal investigations, lawsuits, audits, swatting attacks, intimidation, death threats.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

the actual solidarity move would be to boycott the white house events, at which nothing of value is learnt anyway.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.

submitted 20 days ago • 540 comments

"Every accusation is a confession" also goes for how ICE thugs wear masks when they snatch people off the streets and masks bans under the guise of "masks can be used to conceal your identity when doing crimes"

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

submitted 21 days ago • 300 comments