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this is some unbelievable cowardly shit, they're going to try to strangle medicaid, and they're going to blame it on the states. call your reps and call your senators and tell them you can see what they're doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

Keep platforming these dangerous frauds, keep soft-peddaling this fascist uprising in your headlines and stories and keep wondering why people are being disappeared, the economy is tanking and our vital infrastructure is being dismantled. Clap clap. Take a bow.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 749 comments

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

A 🧵. This is the actionable part, but you need to read about the unconscionable and unconstitutional nature of what’s going on with the De-siloing of sensitive data by DOGE to fully understand why you need to consider what’s contained in the link below

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a story about a #1 movie at the box office where the focus was on the fact it wasn’t profitable after its first weekend. 🤔

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

he killed more people in three months than IDF, Hamas, and the Russian Army combined did in eighteen

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

"This checklist has been compiled by grad workers for grad workers to provide support for non-citizens who are being targeted by the Trump Administration. This document draws on resources built by organizations that have been defending their communities and our rights—these are listed at the end."

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

One of the reasons we’re all so tired all the time is because the effort of keeping up just basic literacy with what’s happening politically requires constant reading, studying and analyzing like we’re all enrolled in an upper division History course where the syllabus is released one day at a time

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

This is an enormous theft—not just privatizing a government function with a worse and more expensive for-profit substitute, but also a massive government financial data heist—and on the other side of it everyone needs to end up broke and imprisoned to deter them and others from doing it again.

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

angela lansbury in famous works of art: thread

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

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CREW sued the CDC for—under RFK Jr.'s leadership—unlawfully closing its entire FOIA office, essentially leaving the public in the dark. Americans must have transparency into the CDC’s operations.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

In addition to being wonderful human beings who do many of these things, the autistic people I've known: ✅Don't have brain worms ✅Don't take steroids ✅Don't play with animal carcasses ✅Have not driven their spouses to suicide ✅Are not actively trying to kill thousands of American children

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful

submitted 7 days ago • 95 comments

The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that? This is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

The book is now officially out today! Get your copy and ask your local bookstore to get more!

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Here is how WaPo handled Dem's 10-day long effort to count every vote in PA vs. GOP's 5-month long effort to throw out thousands of votes in NC. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

submitted 10 days ago • 483 comments

Maybe you should have listened to the political scientists & others pleading for you to pay attention & not spent all of last spring doing the tired bit about how there was no difference at all between the two doddering old men?

submitted 8 days ago • 71 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 9 days ago • 1003 comments

How long, in minutes, would it have taken the GOP to introduce articles of impeachment against Clinton, Obama, or Biden if they had said they were going to ship American citizens to a prison in El Salvador? 15? Less?

submitted 9 days ago • 69 comments

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

submitted 10 days ago • 61 comments

If Trump comes after you, and you have some resources—think law firms and universities, not foreign students disappeared for speech—then you have a moral and patriotic obligation to fight back. If nothing else, it ties up the regime’s resources. They don’t have that much. They need capitulators.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 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 9 days ago • 4 comments

Can we finally acknowledge the threat: Palantir, now placing white supremacist recruiting ads at US colleges, is the data-surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, who groomed much of the US alt-right. Our VP is Thiel's obedient protege. Thiel's lieutenants hold IT spots across the government. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 361 comments

Someone should ask Marco Rubio why students are being deported for saying the same things the guy Trump is honoring with his first foreign visit has said.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

Guys I’m telling you ridicule is the answer

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 11 days ago • 202 comments

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 12 days ago • 2341 comments

new york times article a year from now, probably

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

I hope people comment on this! It looks like Friday, 4/11 is the final day to comment, and you can do it anonymously if you want

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Please comment. mRNA boosters knock me on my ass for a solid day. Novavax makes things much easier.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments