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Trump is abusing the power of the presidency at an unprecedented clip. So we started an Executive Watch resource that will keep a record of his illicit actions.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 16 hours ago • 80 comments

Good for @harvard.edu someone has to stand up to the bully in the Oval Office. #handsoff

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 364 comments

In this most crucial moment in US history—on the precipice of democratic collapse—university leaders are shamefully cowering. The moment demands they stand up, lock arms, and lead the fucking charge against the jackboots trampling our Constitution and academic freedom, and instead they shrink.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Modern journalism's instinct/desire/strategy to lazily accept and pass on, without further interrogation, the nonsense counterfactual framing of whoever is acting in the worst faith, is a huge part of why we are here.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

It's critical for people to be active, getting organized at the state level not just in conventional political ways but also to operate within and buttress their state govts for Trump's coming onslaught talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/get-a...

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Big list of protest organizers/listers with descriptions & links to their protest lists. Definitely click through at the top to this page for all the details: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6273... #50501protests #fiftyfiftyone #TeslaTakedown #Indivisible #USProtests #protests #HandsOff #resist #3E

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO

submitted 13 days ago • 257 comments

There are so many instances of legal migrants with no criminal record being deported to that Salvadoran prison. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

We (mostly not me, just an ad hoc group I'm part of) are collecting all the information we can about ICE seizing students and academics here www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers. Then the company started expanding into deportation flights. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments