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When Trump said he'd stop people entering the country, I'm not sure this is what he had in mind...

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

I'm excited to announce Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection. This is an account of all the ways that the state cannot be trusted with the power to kill and how they have tried to hide that reality. Secrets of the Killing State is the truth every citizen should know.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

hey, remember when a fascist campaigned for president by promising to do fascist things and every Republican and the compliant lapdog press were all 'nah he's just kidding.' good thing there were no serious consequences from that

submitted 5 minutes ago • 8 comments

I have lived through unstable economic and political times before. Tariffs and isolationism are breeding grounds for fascism. We are at strong risk of repeating history.

submitted 41 minutes ago • 135 comments

We haven’t reached bottom yet. Because there is no bottom to his moral depravity.

submitted 1 hour ago • 284 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters "‘He said Verence died of natural causes.’ ‘Well, being assassinated is natural causes for a king,’ said Granny."

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

submitted 51 minutes ago • 5 comments

I'm begging media outlets to stop using Bukele's self-imposed moniker, "world's coolest dictator." Even in quotes, it's gross.

submitted 3 hours ago • 44 comments

Meta is on trial in DC today. The FTC is advancing a blockbuster antitrust case, alleging that Mark Zuckerberg's company illegally built a "social networking monopoly" through years of "anticompetitive conduct." But there is a big if: Whether President Trump will intervene. Here's my full story >>>

submitted 45 minutes ago • 20 comments

SCOTUS didn't order Trump to return Abrego Garcia. They ordered the lower court to define "effectuate," they told trump to "facilitate" the return, they told trump to be ready to report the steps he's taking, & they told Xinis to show due regard & deference to trump's power over foreign affairs.

submitted 47 minutes ago • 59 comments

Trump orders government to stop tracking cancers in U.S. firefighters. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 20 minutes ago • 75 comments

Y’all… we dare you to only watch this once…

submitted 19 minutes ago • 41 comments

Trump orders U.S. government to stop tracking "super gonorrhea" that is resistant to most antibiotics: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 18 minutes ago • 100 comments

BREAKING NEWS

submitted 1 hour ago • 96 comments

Link to Mahdawi’s habeas petition, filed today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 12 minutes ago • 2 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 1 hour ago • 468 comments

“We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 1 hour ago • 301 comments

Bill Burck, who also represents Trump Org as outside ethical counsel, is on this? (As well as Rob Hur.)

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

Pam Bondi: “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him…If they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.” Nayib Bukele: “How can I return him to the U.S.? Like, I smuggle him into the U.S.?” No, you put him on the plane the AG just said the US would provide!

submitted 1 hour ago • 122 comments

The entire presser, INCLUDING Bukele's video, was staged defiance. It shows that Trump is not facilitating Abrego Garcia's return--SCOTUS' order. It was staged to precede the status hearing tomorrow. It was also staged to present the claim of terrorism in unquestioned fashion for media to parrot.

submitted 1 hour ago • 46 comments

The president of the United States and the president of El Salvador have conspired to kidnap a man and hold him hostage in an El Salvador prison. This criminality ignores the rule of law and thumbs its nose at a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate his return.

submitted 2 hours ago • 192 comments

i support any action that leads to the people in this video being put in front of an international criminal tribunal

submitted 2 hours ago • 70 comments

Balmer was “mentally ill and he went off his medication.” She said she had tried to get her son “picked up” last week and, despite reaching out to four police departments, “couldn’t get anyone to help.” “So, he was mentally ill, went off his meds, and this is what happened,”

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Prof. Wurman, I've questions about the Stuart Constitution and your new anti-birthright citizenship paper. If the paper is premised on the idea that people have been wrong because- for decades- scholars have overlooked important nuances in legal history, then I don't think you pass your own test.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Prof. Bernstein may disagree, but I don't think infants deserve to be denaturalized and I need not suffer fools who think this is a moral cause.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

submitted 2 hours ago • 41 comments

Denaturalization. Depriving people due process. Cooking up pretended offenses. Disappearing people to foreign governments. Our Founders knew what kind of government this is.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

I’m so angry I can’t even speak. Well done MAGA, America is a failed state. Well done John Roberts, some of this is on you. Well done Mitch McConnell, how’s that legacy looking now? The so-called ‘party of law and order’ killed law and order, live on TV.

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BREAKING: Sixth Staff Member Diagnosed with Brain Tumor at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

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"Paper receipts are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California's safety threshold" - Companies include Burger King, Chanel, Dollar General, AMC Theaters, GameStop, Subway, Foot Locker & Ace Hardware

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BREAKING: Judge William Sessions in Vermont appeared poised to accept habeas jurisdiction over Rumeysa Ozturk's case at the conclusion of a Monday hearing, with aims of holding a habeas hearing in May. He ordered supplemental briefing on the length of a hearing should he accept jurisdiction.

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

Today El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukeke will visit the White House - no doubt to advance plans to imprison incarcerated U.S. citizens in El Salvador.We need to stop this before it happens. Call both your Senators and your Rep. & tell them NO! 202-224-3121 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

As a rule, the degree of cruelty and suffering inflicted by Trump is inversely proportional to the ability of the victims to defend themselves. The most vulnerable are the most targeted.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments