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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

Every single member of this administration should be in prison.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

I am definitely very concerned that Abrego Garcia is dead.

submitted 4 hours ago • 22 comments

it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

The grasping at straws to defame and slander the character of an innocent man kidnapped, black-bagged, and sent to rot in a foreign prison colony is one of the most despicable things I’ve witnessed in modern American political life, and that’s saying something. Legitimately, literally nauseating.

submitted 8 hours ago • 47 comments

And beyond actual geopolitical issues, as former Team Maldives at AID I would add it's logistically incredibly dumb to not have an Embassy in a major hub for American tourists and American hotel chains. Like, people lose passports and get into trouble there regularly.

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No surprises here I don't think, but an absolutely shameful and crushing list of Embassy closures in Africa for what's left of U.S. foreign assistance.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There aren't nearly enough comparisons on how the US seized both Texas and Hawaii: 1) US settlers leading the overthrow of local officials, declaring independence and immediately demanding US annexation 2) Washington demurring 3) The US finally annexing amid a massive burst of territorial expansion

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: I obtained a budget document laying out Trump’s plans for State and what’s left of USAID. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

submitted 2 days ago • 199 comments

periodic reminder that while USA is not signed on to the whole International Criminal Court project, El Salvador is

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

this is the key to trump's political success, imo—in fact, he did the exact opposite and declared that scotus agreed with him, which neatly obviates the idea of a crisis at all. now the reality only matters if they decide to make it matter, and he has been very successful betting that no one will

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

there’s been a lot going on, so just in case you forgot that the DOGEing of USAID had consequences, this estimate puts resulting global deaths to date at ~190k and counting. it’s been less than three months

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

One of the many reasons I feel like I'm losing my fucking mind is that every week some shit politician gets caught doing something that fifteen years ago would have ended their career but now they just keep doing it and nothing changes. Like it's never felt more "Rules do not apply anymore"

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Once again absolutely furious/going to vomit over having to spend the rest of my life fighting this: "The pursuit of liberty and the pursuit of happiness, “give me your huddled masses”, all resonant and powerful touchstones. They are now reduced to dust."

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The multiple strands of unconstitutional actions here are hard to untangle: Texas Muslims Want to Build Homes and a Mosque. The Governor Says No. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

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Spent the day serving as a judge in my alma mater's annual global health engineering competition 🥹 So proud to have finally seen it become truly global - teams came from Bangladesh, Peru, more - and furious that these kids will be graduating into a decimated field

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 5 days ago • 2341 comments

Unfortunately true

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It's not just measles. Cases of whooping cough have skyrocketed more than 1,500% since 2021, as vaccination rates have dipped. In the past 6 months, two babies in Louisiana have died. Such critical reporting @deldeib.bsky.social + @sheinvestigates.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

Cruelty demands ignorance. Love demands endurance. Two more reasons to read a book and go for a run. This is about running. This is not about running.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The goss in Austin is that Chip Roy frequents a certain North-Central vegan sushi joint

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is pretty clearly illegal. What federal employees do in their own time, own dime, no affiliation claimed, is their business. Of course with MSPB frozen out, feds may literally have no place they can challenge an illegal firing, so there is that.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The Texas Senate has passed a bill banning one of most common native trees, the Texas mountain laurel, which grows abundantly wild around Austin and is among the most common landscape trees.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Dems need to message that this is getting hearings the instant they retake either chamber

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sad about this one, but, well

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Eric Schmidt just said this in a congressional hearing! He ultimately sees 99% of total power generation in the US going to data centers for AI. 99%! Any way you cut, this is a patently insane and insanely destructive notion.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Huge economic impact does not, its worth pointing out, promise a positive impact.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Fun fact, Kai Ryssdal is my longest-standing weird crush and boy is that coming in handy

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Naturally, Paxton is already running ahead of Cornyn in primary polling

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Fabletics is posting a “Tariff Surcharge” on their receipts. I hope other companies follow suit.

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

SCOOP: The Trump administration has dismissed all health officials who oversaw care for some of the world’s most vulnerable people: more than 500,000 children and more than 600,000 pregnant women with HIV in low-income countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

On the other side of Signalgate were actual people who died in Yemen from US airstrikes. I wrote about one family who lost fifteen women and children www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not kidding that any Dem who wants to run in 2028 should get out ahead of this and loudly say if El Salvador puts American citizens in Trump's gulag we'll fucking invade.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

It's also like not only are you not going to get bananas or coffee or whatever, but a ton of businesses with products you like will simply go under because their profit margins were too slim. This will mean a massive wipeout of competition and centralization of the market.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

The king never misses

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Rubio lied and/or is powerless. Gift link wapo.st/3R6qHTG

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Spot on. Roberts's overriding goal is that there must not be a constitutional crisis, because he is rightly afraid that the courts would lose. Unfortunately for him, Trump is hell-bent on provoking a constitutional crisis. So to avoid a crisis the Constitution itself must give way.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments