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We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

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This happens in dictatorships

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as others have noted there's a connection between these deaths and right wing "Antifa" paranoia. musk designed and advertised this thing as apocalypse proof which in his smooth brain meant "able to protect riders from dangerous hordes of poor rioters". this also makes rescuing passengers impossible

submitted 21 hours ago • 142 comments

They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown

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You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

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at the summit of bold visions www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...

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Amaya!

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Gimme the pie slice! Line drives up the middle should be hits.

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Primary Every Democrat. The party won't represent us unless we force them to. Mr. Van, you better get on board with universal healthcare or your days representing Northwest Indiana are numbered.

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white collar www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...

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Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

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I dunno man, if the WH can point to people from Latin America and say "gang member," and point to people from the Arab world and say "terrorist" or "antisemite," and those designations lead directly to detention or worse, I think we have to acknowledge we're in a pretty bad place.

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I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

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I really can’t get over that all this, the threatening to invade Canada, the torturing of that German guy with a green card, the soon to happen deaths of millions of people from the dismantling of USAID, is a response to the absolute dipshit question “has wokeness gone too far?”

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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and removed his savings from his bank account, cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

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3.3 million people potentially dead in one (of four) years from the closing of one (of many) agencies. Trump and Musk are going to rack up holocaust numbers worldwide. I can’t fucking believe this.

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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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1. ‼️BREAKING: (w/ @ket.bsky.social) A proposed HHS rule threatens to exclude trans healthcare from the list of Essential Health Benefits in the most sweeping anti-trans attack yet. It targets trans care for all ages for people on ACA plans. Subscribe to support us! www.madycast.com/p/proposed-h...

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Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

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this administration is speed running us into multiple disasters, some of which may be catastrophic

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

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yeah man there are consequences to putting a deranged old man in the white house

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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The CR is so disgusting toward DC that it prohibits the city from spending ITS OWN LOCAL TAXES it will lock up 1$B of our own money while the city is forced to fire TONS of teachers, firefighters, and outreach workers. So anyone supporting it can fuck right off honestly

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NEW: Bolts has learned that Chicago's new prosecutor has launched a program to further empower local police. It lets police bypass the usual 'review process' to file more felony charges directly, without a prosecutor's approval. It signals how new prosecutor will be a lot more trusting of police:

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seems like a small point but i wish reporters would stop calling it DEI when the white house internally calls it DEIA. they remove the A because it stands for accessibility. they want to ruin the lives of disabled people but they don't want to talk about it publicly.

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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

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Passengers evacuated after American Airlines plane fire at Denver International Airport (video: x/flynnstone) kdvr.com/news/local/p...

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NEW: A coalition of 16 states joined Texas in a lawsuit claiming that a federal rule that prohibits discriminating against disabled people is unconstitutional. My first freelance piece for @prismreports prismreports.org/2025/03/13/s...

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Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

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Midwestern governor with a one-seat legislative majority: The coward RethugliKKKans may dash themselves on our rocks if they wish, the tide and the seabirds will leave no trace of their remains New York/California Democrat: I’d like to vote against things I oppose but that’s not realistic

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Fun birthday for this classic from the archives: March 12, 2018: Blood for the Corn God www.noncanon.com/comics/2018-...

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This isn’t about fixing bureaucracy in Washington. This is about defunding your local public school. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

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There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports. There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state. Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/main...

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The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

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tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

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It's hardly the worst part here, but the "Shalom" here, by an administration dominated by non-Jews, is getting to me. If Jews do not speak up against this, our tradition is going to be deeply harmed by allowing it to be exploited this way.

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on top of everything else the "Shalom" took my breath away. The most anti-semitic thing I've ever seen a government official do or say

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The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

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some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

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This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

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the ADL supports kidnapping (yes, that's the right word) of dissenters by a regime seeking to enforce a dominant national identity. way to go guys, keep your eyes on the prize.

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1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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This is how both the first and second red scares began: deporting legal permanent residents for nothing other than their (also legal) political beliefs apnews.com/article/colu...

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