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I really appreciate the anti-oligarchic defense of democracy that Bernie and AOC make clearly in the rallies that they are doing. It takes democracy out of the realm of the abstract and speaks to both power and everyday experience.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

At a minimum, Democratic elected officials must stop working with Republicans unless it involves resolving the constitutional crisis. Full boycott. Block everything. They are all violating their oaths of office.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

incredibly rich coming from a movement full of men screaming "innocent until proven guilty!!!!!!" when they're credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

After years of being a professor, I can finally call myself a (full) Professor, so that's exciting news* amidst all the terrible news. *For non-academic folk, that means I got a promotion.

submitted 15 hours ago • 109 comments

People, please, we are wayyyyy past the question of whether to use the word fascism. Every day brings another example. The real challenge is that a significant portion of the population doesn't even know what the word means...for them or the people they care about.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1033 comments

The drafters of the Clean Air Act saw CO2 as a pollutant yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/the-...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

submitted 10 hours ago • 53 comments

Democratic Party leaders. We need you to get on TV & social media to detail exactly what you’re doing to get Garcia back from El Salvador. You need to tell the truth about where we are in the authoritarian takeover of the U.S. Stop asking for donations until you show us you’re real leaders.

submitted 12 hours ago • 98 comments

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

submitted 15 hours ago • 113 comments

Democrats failed miserably when they did not send capital police to arrest those people who refused subpoenas. Every time you let someone get away with corruption or ignoring the law, you allow it to happen again at a much greater level.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Look at this bullshit. And people will see this and still think, 'yup gonna vote for this person.' Pathetic.

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

“If we normalize this, there’s no end.” This is what @schumer.senate.gov said he was waiting for. Defying court orders. We are there. Now what?

submitted 14 hours ago • 324 comments

Folks who are citizens of other countries and are considering travel to the United States for a vacation or work or whatever: I strongly advise against it. You will not have protection from the illegal actions of this administration. It's not worth it. Don't roll the dice by traveling here.

submitted 13 hours ago • 96 comments

Looks like Indiana is trying to raise the EV fee to $340 a year. Somebody in the Michiana EV facebook group did the math, and it came out equivalent to the gas tax one would pay if you drove a whopping 13.9MPG guzzler the average VMT of 13,500/year.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

submitted 11 hours ago • 644 comments

This seems like a good time to remind people that the Stanford Prison Experiment was based on fraudulent data. The "guards" were cruel to the prisoners because Zimbardo told them what he wanted to find with his research, and because they wanted to help him prove his point.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?” I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter

submitted 11 hours ago • 314 comments

OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed Grok as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

The only reasonable applications for a machine that spits out unchecked text is mass disinformation. Any use of a generative LLM outside of this is just infecting other fields with a torrent of confident bullshit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

All I'm saying is, the "Me me me me me more leftist than you" people on this app DIDNT EVEN VOTE. Don't listen to any of those dumb motherfuckers, they helped pave the road to hell, and they're still doing it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 51 comments

Say @schumer.senate.gov, ya gonna do something now? Like, anything?

submitted 18 hours ago • 93 comments

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 14 hours ago • 49 comments

Guy who claims to be a master dealmaker can’t even strike a deal with one of his closest allies to secure the return of a man he mistakenly sent to prison?

submitted 16 hours ago • 555 comments

Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 977 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1494 comments

If New York Dems pick Cuomo it does not bode well for staging a meaningful resistance on the left. Electing someone other than a serial abuser is the bare minimum

submitted 21 hours ago • 44 comments

I’ve just posted this video message to members of the DC Bar, urging them to vote AGAINST AG Pam Bondi’s brother to be its next president. Please pass this on to anyone who is eligible to vote. www.instagram.com/reel/DIcQFxt...

submitted 15 hours ago • 294 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 14 hours ago • 742 comments

Nobody-- nobody-- could research 500 years of international law, the ancient roots of the common law, and all of American history in three months and magically have answers about the nuances and contours of birthright citizenship that somehow evaded dozens of scholars for decades. It's laughable.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Again, the contract the US signed with El Salvador directly says that the long term disposition of those it sends to El Salvador is at the discretion of the US.

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

This is one of the easiest conversations you can have right now with folks who are alarmed and previously unorganized, because this is not a hypothetical situation. I think many people can be moved closer to understanding that we must defund and abolish the police because of what is happening.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The congressional press corps needs to ask every Republican member about this atrocity. All of them. Get them on record.

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Hot Takes on Harvard Doing the Right Thing My initial thoughts on Harvard saying no to authoritarianism... open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Canadians are being warned to be “extra vigilant” against deliberate disinformation efforts & campaigns during the last few weeks of the Canadian Federal Election. Disinformation has become a constant thing, but a significant ramp-up is expected as we approach the Debates later this week.

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

Took almost a decade but congrats to Leonard Leo on his deal with Donald Trump to ensure conservative dominance of the judiciary that ended with it being made totally superfluous as a branch of government.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

this probably carries a non-zero amount of actual personal risk to van hollen, which is why he should take some of his colleagues with him

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 comments

@vanhollen.senate.gov should be the biggest story of the day. He just released a press release saying “That’s why I’ve requested to meet with President Bukele during his trip to the United States, and – 1/2

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

1/10 The Atlas Network is a global pipeline of fossil fuel-funded extremism. From Trump to Bolsonaro, Farage to Poilievre, Milei to Le Pen—this network is behind the rise of anti-climate, anti-democracy puppets. It’s coordinated. It’s dangerous. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 19 hours ago • 59 comments

Oh look, exactly what I said would happen.

submitted 19 hours ago • 49 comments

We need ideas like this. We've got to put all constructive thoughts out there, long odds or not. If we don't, we guarantee they won't materialize. So thanks @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social. Maybe this'll get a few Republicans thinking harder about history than their next election.

submitted 18 hours ago • 50 comments

this is the key to trump's political success, imo—in fact, he did the exact opposite and declared that scotus agreed with him, which neatly obviates the idea of a crisis at all. now the reality only matters if they decide to make it matter, and he has been very successful betting that no one will

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

It's exhausting to live in the era of bad faith. Good faith is an essential glue in the legal system, science, education, institutions, society, interpersonal interactions, etc. If you take that away, what remains is a house of cards. We need the ability to trust again and that needs to be earned.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments