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submitted 3 days ago • 457 comments

Reporting on what really happened in the showdown at the Library of Congress today. (A widely circulated post here on Bluesky, which I commented on before deleting, said it was a showdown between Library people and DOGE people—turns out the latter were DOJ people.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Ah yes, the rhetorical excess is "elbows up" not "we're going to fucking invade your country and subjugate you and your long vowels."

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 10 days ago • 1695 comments

“Sinners,” the horror movie from the director Ryan Coogler, is on a pace to collect at least $330 million in worldwide ticket sales, a level reached by few original films in the genre.

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 11 days ago • 874 comments

Lehigh County pension board to stop buying Tesla stock, a first-in-the-nation move In a joint statement with the grassroots group Tesla Takedown, Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley, who introdu... https://www.mcall.com/2025/05/07/lehigh-county-pension-board-tesla-stock #TeslaTakedown

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"Sovereignty beats Journalism" is a little too on-the-nose for me.

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

This is the symbol for kick ass journalism in a democracy that needs it desperately

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

submitted 20 days ago • 1542 comments

Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 25 comments

this is legitimately evil

submitted 20 days ago • 472 comments

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

submitted 21 days ago • 350 comments

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

submitted 22 days ago • 1043 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Trump's polling is Very Bad (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

recent polling is just a total repudiation of the idea that full spectrum opposition to trump across every area was/is a bad idea

submitted 26 days ago • 189 comments

Let's say Harris won last year and Vance was holding 10k-20k person rallies where he railed against left-wing "oligarchy." Would the CW be that this was crazy and a waste of time? Or would we be seeing NYT op-eds and A1s about what "oligarchy" is and why the GOP base was on fire about it?

submitted 26 days ago • 118 comments

Casually arresting judges and tweeting about it www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

Till Saturday, GameStop is giving you big trade in bonuses towards a Switch 2 An old Series X netting you the price of a Switch 2 is wild

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The guys with the nets need to take him away.

submitted 28 days ago • 1391 comments

This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity ever for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

submitted 29 days ago • 60 comments

FUCK. THIS. All of this.

submitted 29 days ago • 1198 comments

A Switch 2 will fix me.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Hegseth's post-firing bender is going to be legendary

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Getting out my wallet. I'm 43 and modern pop music confuses me, All Songs Considered is a medical necessity.

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

submitted 30 days ago • 652 comments

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

submitted 30 days ago • 904 comments

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

submitted 31 days ago • 635 comments

TLOU S2E2: Holy shit. Amazing job @clmazin.bsky.social.

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back. This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious? news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

submitted 31 days ago • 62 comments

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."

submitted 31 days ago • 460 comments

When people say that some concept is too complicated for voters to understand, I remember Stephen Sondheim's line about the "West Side Story" movie. He was told that it didn't have "hummable" songs. Then United Artists spent a ton of $ promoting it, the movie was a hit, and suddenly it was hummable.

submitted 31 days ago • 23 comments

China just slashed U.S. oil imports by 90%… and is now importing record levels from Canada.

submitted 35 days ago • 69 comments

Connecticut is out in full force today. #CTPolitics #CT #Connecticut #NutmegSky #NoKings #NoDictators

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

thinking of becoming a full on pocket constitution guy

submitted 32 days ago • 698 comments

7 out of the 9 Supreme Court justices believe in rule of law and due process and constraining executive power at least a bit, which is better than 4 out of 9 but is still not great

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 33 days ago • 1339 comments