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The existential national crucible that Donald Trump has brought to the fore with his experiment in disappearing people to a torture gulag in El Salvador presents us with one of the starkest test of values and the constitution our country has ever faced. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/has-americ...

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.

submitted 16 hours ago • 231 comments

THIS This is what they’re doing. Sending people to concentration camps that—by definition—are outside the law.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

I know people joke about it, but it really is head-spinning just how much political turmoil & economic upheaval & suffering have resulted from people being mad they can't use racial slurs any more.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

submitted 1 day ago • 2232 comments

It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 219 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 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 day ago • 62 comments

They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

this is the no fucking shit of all no fucking shits and yet barely anyone anywhere is saying it.

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Revealing just how selectively this administration respects national sovereignty. With Canada and Greenland, Trump threatens invasion enthusiastically. With El Salvador, Trump sees sovereignty as sacrosanct.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 3 days ago • 220 comments

I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

submitted 4 days ago • 1341 comments

Governments detaining people and, weeks later, not disclosing their location to a judge is absolute “Chile and Argentina in the 1970s”-level stuff.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 5 days ago • 324 comments

They are doing this to people here legally and will absolutely start doing this to citizens too.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

People learn nothing. Arendt wrote so clearly about the increasing targetting of people, starting with non-nationals, then dual nationals, then a succession of undesirable nationals. Nothing will protect you. Fascism requires an ever larger circle of enemies to blame for its own failings.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Illegal. Ideas. There is no quiet part.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

I'd bet most Americans don't realize the six Nazi extermination camps during World War II also involved rendition to a foreign country. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chełmno and Majdanek were all located in Poland. Not Germany. Important historical fact.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

Media says tariffs are paused, even though many are not and the US has much higher tariffs now than a few months ago. A lot of media calls the tariffs “reciprocal,” even though that is a combo of a lie and nonsensical. More of the long-running media failure with Trump, treating truth as secondary.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 204 comments

no one should be praising an arsonist who suddenly got bored with the flames

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 7 days ago • 117 comments

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

submitted 7 days ago • 134 comments

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

Trying to suppress women’s votes.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

I am also the author of a history of concentration camps in the Soviet Union, and I concur

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

submitted 8 days ago • 1276 comments

WATCH: “I’m here because I will not be bullied.” A pardon attorney fired by Trump says Trump’s DOJ sent armed U.S. marshals to deliver a letter warning her not to testify before Congress about Trump’s DOJ’s abuse of power. Context: www.yahoo.com/news/us-just...

submitted 8 days ago • 189 comments