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submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

It is difficult to convey precisely what is happening at HHS—how it’s so unprecedented and why it’s so destructive—because the changes are happening in so many places throughout the department simultaneously, and with no transparency.

submitted 10 hours ago • 24 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

👇👇

submitted 9 hours ago • 389 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 10 hours ago • 767 comments

Elon Musk hopes to close 11 OSHA field offices — among them is the agency's only office in Louisiana, one of most dangerous states for workers in the U.S.

submitted 9 hours ago • 72 comments

The nationwide measles outbreak now stands at more than 800 cases, but you probably don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on that news. The orange areas in the below map show where the vaccination rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!

submitted 9 hours ago • 304 comments

Some notes on this morning’s remarkable emergency stay order granted by SCOTUS, stopping Trump Adm from summarily removing Venezuelans under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. SCOTUS acted while the NDTexas & 5th Circuit courts dragged their feet. Thread: 1/10 bsky.app/profile/anna...

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

💯 this!!!

submitted 10 hours ago • 298 comments

Last transmission from Earth: “Maggie Haberman reports that the launch code was a ‘mistake’, DOGE intern to blame.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 52 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Best breakdown of the buildup leading up to, and context of this morning's SCOTUS ruling I've read so far. @stevevladeck.bsky.social does it again.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

submitted 12 hours ago • 133 comments

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 655 comments

Happening now:

submitted 14 hours ago • 159 comments

Odd that the VP continues to visit several European counties but the coward steadfastly refuses to accept the long standing open invitation from Ukraine to visit that country, talk to the people, hear the truth, & see reality. But he prefers his right-wing social media dystopia.

submitted 13 hours ago • 291 comments

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

submitted 23 hours ago • 51 comments

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

submitted 23 hours ago • 119 comments

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 1 day ago • 414 comments

🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

MORE NEWS: Judge Boasberg has called an emergency hearing in 35 minutes on lawyers for Alien Enemies Act targets’ urgent claim that Trump administration is resuming summary deportation.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Trump is breaking the law. How is that not in the headline?

submitted 1 day ago • 354 comments

One of the highest-ranking Jewish elected officials in the country was attacked, and Trump still hasn’t clearly condemned it. Trump’s inaction, combined with his slashing of programs that keep Jews safe, reveals that this isn’t actually about antisemitism. Op-ed by @haliesoifer.bsky.social:

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

So goddamn outrageous!! 😡

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

If it's true that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was "transferred nine days ago from the CECOT prison to a lower-level facility in Santa Ana," that means that one of the very few facts that the Trump admin told Judge Xinis in its declarations was false.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Important to note the Potemkin villages they're going to set up each time someone with a soul goes down to monitor the conditions of the concentration camp are part of the war crime itself. The audience for this propaganda is MAGA rubes, not The Hague, which will be indifferent.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Van Hollen: This case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the Constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

the united states—the most powerfulcountry in the world—has now become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic, and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Not quite my experience when I go grocery shopping -- but I guess groceries are an old classic idea where you just put things in a bag.

submitted 1 day ago • 125 comments

The Trump administration is turning its eye to nonprofits. Can our civil society institutions survive the attack? Yes — but only if they vigorously fight back and don't cut "deals," Tom Watson writes.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

oh my god

submitted 1 day ago • 943 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Every college coach in America should be doing this.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

NEW reporting from the NYT: “A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.” In a deeply disturbing social media post, President Bukele then…

submitted 1 day ago • 409 comments

“As a businessman, Trump spent a lot of his career profoundly in debt,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “His bankers often bailed him out, and he seems to believe that the Federal Reserve should do the same for his presidency.”

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

😂😂

submitted 1 day ago • 600 comments

This is easily the worst first 100 days of any administration ever. Just a complete and total failure by all objective metrics. What a disaster.

submitted 1 day ago • 314 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Republicans are trying to steal an election in North Carolina. They have been laying the groundwork for five months, and unless the federal courts intervene, they just might succeed.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"They want to rob it": Former Social Security head says Musk, Trump are "wrecking" agency to raid it

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

The press and the courts are talking—intelligently and powerfully—about every aspect of the Trump administration’s rendition of people to El Salvador except the illegal use of taxpayer money to fund the imprisonment. On what authority?!? This letter is great. migrantinsider.com/p/lawmakers-...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 2 days ago • 304 comments

“The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index is probably the best metric to understand if the U.S. is ‘bringing manufacturing back home.’ And it's absolutely cratering: -26.4, one of the lowest readings in memory.”

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

1/ Only 40% of US Republicans see Russia as an enemy, a majority have a negative opinion of NATO, and an overwhelming majority say they are unconcerned about Russia invading other countries or the consequences of Russia winning in Ukraine. ⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

One anonymous source says someone is a gang member, and that's enough evidence for you?!? One source is NOTHING. People lie and falsely accuse folks all the time. There's a reason why the Bible says (at least 7 times) TWO OR MORE witnesses should be required to prove a crime.

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

🤣🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 429 comments

Thank you, Sen. Van Hollen, for standing up not just for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his family but for every American who believes in due process. We can't stop speaking out until he is home and this administration is forced to stop its horrific practice of kidnapping people without charge or trial.

submitted 1 day ago • 271 comments

White House officials are preparing executive orders for Earth Day that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Trump promised his followers a cheap and easy victory in his trade war against the world. He secured no allies except El Salvador. America is alone, with the worst hardships for Americans still to come. Latest on the David Frum Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ7I...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

The NYT confirms this photo was intentionally staged: "A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Van Hollen and Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments