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Harvard doesn't represent us. "We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." -3000+ Jewish higher ed workers & students docs.google.com/document/d/e...

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.

submitted 10 hours ago • 153 comments

31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.

submitted 18 hours ago • 63 comments

If the US invades Greenland, things will never be the same in our lifetime. We will be seen as Nazis and Fascists for the rest of our lives. And make no mistake, they are serious about this.

submitted 14 hours ago • 138 comments

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 486 comments

Three groups are probably opposed to trans visibility day: the conservatives who genuinely hate and fear trans people, the conservatives who cynically use hate and fear of trans people for power, and the nominal Democrats who think the left has become too “extreme” about trans issues —

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now? This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1500 comments

The transcript of the faculty meeting that cost Katrina Armstrong her job leaked because nobody at Columbia was able to configure Zoom to prevent transcription. freebeacon.com/campus/what-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

It is utterly fucking bonkers that the VP of the United States held a press conference on the soil of another country, declared his intent to take over that country, and implicitly threatened military force if that country didn’t comply.

submitted 23 hours ago • 159 comments

If you have to pay people to vote your way, it must be hard to comprehend people hating you for free.

submitted 23 hours ago • 72 comments

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

submitted 23 hours ago • 58 comments

The administration’s key demand is not just that they can send anyone they like to a foreign labor camp, it’s that you will accept without question their assertion that the people they choose are dangerous menaces who deserve it. They want your unquestioning obedience.

submitted 17 hours ago • 222 comments

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

submitted 20 hours ago • 66 comments

I sent Karl this video over the weekend thinking he might have something to say about it and... uh... yeah, he's got some thoughts.

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

This works and is true; I do this by (accurately) listing my bonafides as a middle-aged dad and former CEO small business owner/job-creator who wants universal healthcare, a livable minimum wage, a commitment to 100% renewables, gutting violent policing orgs’ budgets, and a union in every pot.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law. Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 363 comments

imagine accusing hecklers of being paid while youre on stage at the event where youre literally purchasing votes

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

Republicans

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Now THIS is a headline

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

A huge part of the current right-wing backlash is that these people were stuck at home with their kids for a year and realized they hated them, they are not gonna do that again but now they have to teach them math

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

NEW: ACLU's filing on Friday also shows the impact of these bad gang tattoo claims. Specifically, remember Andry, the gay make-up artist we sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador? Here are the tattoos that an ICE officer declared were "Consistent with those of a Tren de Aragua member."

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

The legacy media outlets and journalists giving this brazenly criminal, incompetent administration cover and using its fascist rhetoric in ‘serious’ pieces are making a dumb mistake. Their craven bootlicking is permanently on record, and their work and reputations will age like rancid milk.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me." Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know. Read it + share it with a friend:

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I know some of you get sick of me dunking on the free speech bros, but at a time when Trump is threatening his speech as no president has before, the head of FIRE is busy RTing a far right “researcher” whining about his paper getting rejected

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"Hurricane Musk is wreaking havoc across science agencies, policies, regulations, data, advisory processes, and public information. But scientific societies, associations, and organizations are fighting back." Here's what you should know:

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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 444 comments

“Entire neighborhoods were conquered” is the kind of thing the crazy guy on the street corner says. It’s divorced from reality. Yet there are millions of people who legitimately believe it and panic at the idea of going into a city because they think Tren de Aragua is lurking around every corner.

submitted 2 days ago • 398 comments

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

wow Elons grandpa was a complete nutcase who moved to South Africa to help build apartheid www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.” Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 3204 comments

Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

submitted 136 days ago • 169 comments

Why are there no articles that begin, “Fascism has a long history of inspiring massacres and war crimes. In this time of overt corruption and unconstitutionality, the Republicans should go fuck themselves.”

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

BREAKING — Nearly all employees at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) received an email tonight informing them they were fired effective immediately, multiple staffers confirmed with me. Just a few HR and IT staffers are being kept on to assist DOGE’s illegal dismantling of the independent nonprofit.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments