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🗣️WHAT THEE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE PASSENGERS HAD TO HOLD THE PLANE TOGETHER

submitted 6 hours ago • 68 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 11 hours ago • 448 comments

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

submitted 11 hours ago • 438 comments

In February 2020, active news readers were aware of the coming pandemic but not the mass public. I’m getting the same sense of dread about how the trade wars are gonna hit the U.S. economy over the next few months unless Trump figures out an artful way to capitulate.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

submitted 9 days ago • 329 comments

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’” 4/11/25 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...

submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

Goodness, this story

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

People gonna be trying to pay rent with their hatred of pronouns.

submitted 23 days ago • 86 comments

BREAKING: Rather than dignify SB 185, a gender affirming care ban for incarcerated people, with a vote, GA House Democrats have staged a mass walkout in a show of opposition and solidarity with trans Georgians. #gapol @erininthemorning.com @assignedmedia.org

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

submitted 23 days ago • 649 comments

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

submitted 25 days ago • 276 comments

Schumer favorably quoting a comparison of Palestine to Kosovo and Israel to Serbia is so funny when you remember that he voted to authorize a bombing campaign against Serbia for their actions in Kosovo.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.

submitted 29 days ago • 57 comments

Before the war, Nazi Germany demanded that multinational corporations doing business in Germany fire any Jewish executives they had and by and large, they complied.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

“[We] have agreed that if agents arrive at our gates, they will be held there until they are met by the highest-ranking officer on duty,” Brown’s notice reads. “If they present a warrant, it must be verified before any further action is taken.”

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

submitted 30 days ago • 510 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 30 days ago • 1921 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 31 days ago • 618 comments

One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

Israeli forces have killed Hossam Shabat with a targeted airstrike while he was driving his car in Beit Lahiya. Shabat, who was 23 years old, had become well-known for his reports from northern Gaza amid Israel’s total siege on the region.

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

Experts Recommend Using Hunger As Egg Substitute theonion.com/experts...

submitted 35 days ago • 106 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 35 days ago • 273 comments

either floating a SS payment shutdown is the world’s worst ever attempt to bluff a judge or they already broke SS

submitted 35 days ago • 125 comments

I hope Gil Hochberg and Joseph Massad quit and find better places, Columbia doesn't deserve them.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Faculty, teachers, educators nationwide — how are you reacting to Columbia University ceding to the Trump administration's demands to get funding back? Are you organizing anything? What's next? Signal me premthakker.35 or email [email protected] Your anonymity will be protected

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

It is amazing that some people do not spontaneously combust. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

This is absolutely appalling

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

submitted 37 days ago • 71 comments

This is the only post made by Georgetown postdoc Badar Khan Suri on Bluesky before he was detained by federal agents and moved to Alexandria, Louisiana for possible deportation thehoya.com/news/develop...

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

I’m a stroke survivor, and he’s making me pro-stroke

submitted 37 days ago • 36 comments