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ICE is even paying off for Putin. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Children should not live in fear of their parents disappearing. Elders should not live in fear of going to the grocery store or their faith house. Standing with our immigrant neighbors always. www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

‘Time for some traffic problems on the bridge’ is a proven loser’s strategy.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

submitted 23 days ago • 758 comments

As you contemplate that Donald Trump used pro-terrorism conduct as his baseless pretext to prohibit foreign students from attending Harvard, remember that on his first day on the job, Trump freed some adjudged terrorists from prison.

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

Trump is gutting Voice of America — the same tool that helped us win the Cold War — and replacing it with propaganda from OAN. He’s not defending America. He’s building his brand. And he’s making us vulnerable to real enemies. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/killing-th...

submitted 31 days ago • 198 comments

Excellebt insightful thread

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

submitted 45 days ago • 675 comments

Conspicuous consumption needs to be reined in says man sitting on a golden toilet.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

Some expected. Some surprises. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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submitted 48 days ago • 487 comments

The New World Screwworm, a fly whose larvae feed on living tissue & are capable of eating a full-grown steer alive in about a week, decimated wildlife & caused hundreds of millions of dollars a year in damages to ranchers from the 1930s to the 1980s. Now it’s back www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

It’s too offensive for it not to be real - the great pretender.

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

submitted 50 days ago • 286 comments

Drew Sheneman, Newark Star-Ledger

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

submitted 54 days ago • 428 comments

“He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.” That seems accurate!

submitted 57 days ago • 1431 comments

America is… cooked.

submitted 56 days ago • 1673 comments

Breaking News: A federal jury ruled against Sarah Palin in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

submitted 60 days ago • 671 comments

NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 60 days ago • 71 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 60 days ago • 1419 comments

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 60 days ago • 807 comments

www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 62 days ago • 436 comments

I mean, it's not like we didn't point out that a loudmouth drunkard with poor impulse control and a history of abuse wouldn't make a great SECDEF...

submitted 61 days ago • 338 comments

STARTING NOW: Judge Boasberg holds an emergency hearing on reportedly imminent Alien Enemies Act deportations. 🧵

submitted 63 days ago • 25 comments

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"

submitted 64 days ago • 538 comments

Important.

submitted 65 days ago • 21 comments

Dem’s project 2029 part 4

submitted 65 days ago • 295 comments

Meanwhile, more unsurprising and unacceptable Pentagon news. www.cbsnews.com/news/kristin...

submitted 65 days ago • 64 comments

In theory…

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 67 days ago • 1255 comments

This story and the other one in the Washington Post about DOGE breaking into SSA (wapo.st/3G9JR97) made me wonder where some of the litigation against DOGE stands, and TIL something just wow (cont'd in next post)...

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

submitted 66 days ago • 115 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 67 days ago • 563 comments

"The security of the world is at stake." Well worth watching President Zelenskyy's interview on 60 Minutes www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine...

submitted 68 days ago • 675 comments

“Mein Kampf” (TWO copies no less) remains on the shelves, but “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 166 comments

Raskin: They want to go back to the idea that the law doesn’t apply to them in anyway, they’re not bound by the law, and they can use the law to crush other people

submitted 71 days ago • 162 comments

New data point foe the Elon body count www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

submitted 70 days ago • 56 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 74 days ago • 282 comments

This morning we learned that a well-known white nationalist met with the President and convinced him to fire several qualified generals for no reason. My concern is that this is the new normal. And that service to country no longer means anything to those in power.

submitted 78 days ago • 261 comments

all major indexes down more than 5% and continuing to fall

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

and that’s it for the S&P’s past year of gains — wiped out and into the red

submitted 78 days ago • 11 comments

Montana food banks are set to lose more than 300,000 pounds of food after significant cuts to a federal program that purchases healthy foods to distribute to those in need.

submitted 79 days ago • 27 comments

This, this, this. More work like this. For higher ed, for journalism, for entertainment, every area. Documentation.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

So much winning. I can’t stand it.

submitted 78 days ago • 16 comments

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 78 days ago • 216 comments

Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p

submitted 78 days ago • 1475 comments