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They are officially not letting trans people in this country. FYI

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🚨BREAKING: Four more Big Law firms join the ranks of Trump collaborators. A&O Shearman, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and Simpson Thacher all capitulated. In a sign of growing inflation, each firm agreed to $125m in Trump approved pro bono. Shameful.

submitted 1 day ago • 919 comments

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 hours ago • 92 comments

The chickens haven't really come home to roost yet (everything is about to double in price, tourists will no longer come to the U.S., much worse unintended consequences we don't have the imagination to conceive of) and people fucking hate this shit, generally loathe what's going on. Go on offense.

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Trump is preparing to defund Maine’s public schools after he demanded a “full throated apology” from their governor for not obeying him and she is refusing to do so.

submitted 19 hours ago • 423 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted. Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.

submitted 20 hours ago • 136 comments

I spent a decade studying kids' help-seeking. So, I can tell you that if a child asks their teacher to call them something other than what's on file, it's because that child fundamentally trusts that teacher. And, I'm appalled that a teacher would be fired for inspiring that kind of trust.

submitted 20 hours ago • 31 comments

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

submitted 20 hours ago • 394 comments

The Trump administration is now saying they might unite with other countries against China, regarding trade This was LITERALLY the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which Obama negotiated in 2016 In 2017, Trump WITHDREW the US from the TPP (!!!) THE STUPIDITY IS OFF THE CHARTS

submitted 23 hours ago • 125 comments

This era of mass grift—driven by one of the most corrupt administrations in American history—isn’t just a crisis. It’s a massive opportunity for the Democratic Party to lead an unapologetic, system-wide anti-corruption campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 675 comments

There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc. But it won't be DOJ. It won't be the SEC. It won't be Congress. You know who CAN investigate this? NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.

submitted 23 hours ago • 155 comments

Heck of a headline The story is amazing & horrifying

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

This is, in addition to very obviously denying people benefits and clearly excluding the vast majority of seniors, a violation of federal law on accessibility, especially since X requires users to log in and agree to the terms of service to see published content.

submitted 23 hours ago • 104 comments

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This is outrageous. Seniors, people with disabilities, and families shouldn't be forced to go to Elon's website to learn what's happening to their hard-earned benefits.

submitted 22 hours ago • 42 comments

Stephen Miller has been a despicable piece of trash for a very long time. At Santa Monica High School, Miller reveled in distinguishing himself as a staunch opponent of the liberal student community. Back then — just as now — Miller loathed multiculturalism in particular, and often spoke out…

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

The four law firms that it was announced are now Trump collaborators -- Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, and A&O Shearman Sterling -- ALSO agreed today to "Disavow DEI" as part of a settlement with EEOC. Why would any new associate join such a place? Why would any partner stay?

submitted 22 hours ago • 617 comments

weird, what could explain this

submitted 22 hours ago • 324 comments

The haunting echo of every fascist regime ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Dubious bureaucratic processes sending innocent people to a gulag is tragically familiar. But it's happening here right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

New consumer sentiment data just out for April: Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years. Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

This is why people hate Washington. The President is bragging about his buddies' investments while people see their retirements go down the drain.

submitted 1 day ago • 375 comments

The first step in policy analysis is figuring out what's going wrong. And by my view, we're facing two crises: A tariff crisis, and a crisis of confidence built upon fears incompetence. Let me lay it out, wonk it out and math it out. (I get a bit testy because I think this stuff really matters.)

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

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interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

"A Wall Street Journal analysis of daily financial statements issued by the Treasury Department found government spending since the [Trump] inauguration is $154 billion more than in the same period in 2024 during the administration of former President Joe Biden."

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

New pod: Fox News has become like "North Korean television," says historian Nicole Hemmer. Fox hosts are mostly engaging in shameless sycophancy for Trump. But a few Fox figures are telling the truth about this fiasco. We dig deep into all this here: newrepublic.com/article/1938...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

This is why everyone should care about climate change deniers. Even if you don’t care about the Earth, you probably care about your wallet. And deniers are going to cost you a LOT of money in the coming years. #ncpol

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If you find talk of bond and forex markets hard to track, this graph does an amazing job illustrating what's going on.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

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I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

submitted 1 day ago • 855 comments

I realize this is over Donald Trump's head, but killing foreign tourism will increase the trade deficit.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

WATCH— @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Why are you making fun of smart people that calculate things?” Jessica points out Trump is making it seem like he paused all the tariffs but the Yale budget lab says those remaining will cost each 🇺🇸 household $4400, the highest tariff rate since 1909.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

📌I see House Democrats are targeting just 35 Republican districts in 2026, which is the absolute definition of thinking incredibly small. 📌Billionaires are stealing our money, gutting medicaid, social security and vets' benefits. People's 401ks are in tatters. 📌RUN HARD EVERYWHERE, DAMMIT.

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Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

Any financial expert surprised that Trump picked a convicted felon—who literally invented a fake economist to back his trade BS—to be his senior trade advisor, should retire. Navarro isn’t just in Trump’s ear—he’s rigging the narrative and helping engineer chaos for a financial windfall.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

submitted 2 days ago • 282 comments

US economic policy, apparently:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Dear Leader, It’s tough to “be cool” when I’ve seen how it will “work out” for the 3,739 people who have been gunned down in America this year.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I've never been a Treasury secretary, so what would I know, but I reckon transparently lying about easily checked facts won't calm fears in the market, or the broader population.

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

If that were true (LOL it is not even close) how would plunging us further into recession be good recourse?

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Literally the administration itself is describing what law firms are doing as proclaiming fealty to a king. We fought a revolution over this.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

RFK Jr. told me he would "address drivers of maternal mortality.” But he just fired the researchers that work to improve the health of mothers and babies.

submitted 3 days ago • 126 comments