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submitted 9 hours ago • 158 comments

www.al.com/news/2025/02... Trump targeting colleges that have AI programs probably At Elon’s request. This is a COUP!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 447 comments

Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How? Simple: overfishing is prevented. If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be such a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

Before USAID was gutted, transport contracts sent U.S. search-and-rescue crews abroad within 24 hours for major disasters like Myanmar's earthquake. The once-effective system lies in ruins as DOGE cut disaster crews, dog search teams, and heavy equipment needed for rescue operations.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.

submitted 22 hours ago • 354 comments

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free. - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks. - All workers get pensions.

submitted 1 day ago • 382 comments

Fuck this shit every day and twice on Sunday

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

As a Missouri resident, I could see everything that’s happening coming a mile away because they already did it to my state. Defunded schools, kicked kids off Medicaid, refused the will of voters, attacked marginalized communities, and sold off farmland to foreign companies. We knew.

submitted 2 days ago • 703 comments

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 809 comments

National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000. With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 3 days ago • 607 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 4 days ago • 707 comments

Part of why elections in the US are so secure is because they’re run by 10,000 local jurisdictions like mine. Trying to rig an election is like trying to rob every bank in America at the same time To rig American elections, you need to federalize them. The President’s new EO is doing just that.

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Labor friends in Washington state tell me that ICE “violently” detained farmworker activist Lelo Juarez today. They’re looking for immediate support. More info at this link, and below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA" "in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 6 days ago • 991 comments

Rural hospitals across the nation depend on Medicaid to stay open. Illinois' hospitals and health systems support 445,000 full-time jobs and anchor our rural communities. If these cuts happen, hospitals will close and people will lose their jobs.

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... " www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 1301 comments

Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...

submitted 6 days ago • 98 comments

The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

submitted 7 days ago • 371 comments

Good must prevail over evil. Otherwise, what’s the point?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 12 days ago • 281 comments

“Under the Biden administration, ICE primarily focused on detaining public safety & nat’l security threats. As long as they did not have criminal records, Cubans with I-220As were not taken into custody. That appears to have changed” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Here’s something fun I learned this week If you find yourself in an ER in an abortion ban state and upon intake they discover you’re pregnant, from there on out your care will be different than any non-pregnant person’s. The fetus becomes primary.

submitted 7 days ago • 212 comments

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Trump suspends shipments of produce and poultry to US food banks: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 561 comments

The president might not care for the rule of law, but it still exists–and it still matters. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: IMPORTANT MEASLES UPDATE TEXAS is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. The number of measles cases associated with an outbreak originating in Gaines County (western Texas) has now increased to 309, with 30 new cases confirmed in just the last three days,…

submitted 9 days ago • 241 comments

All of this is vindictive, and the swipe at Biden’s family is especially ugly (and wholly gratuitous, unless I’m missing something), but Tish James is the currently serving attorney general of New York.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

I will never stop trying to get people to care about Medicaid. And if you're on it -- or are close to someone who is (and LOTS of more affluent people do) -- please help. My column for the weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 9 days ago • 429 comments

Martin O'Malley, former Social Security commissioner, says he believes the Trump administration has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to crater Social Security.

submitted 8 days ago • 244 comments

About half of all childbirths in America are covered by Medicaid. Over half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid. Over 79 million people are covered by Medicaid. And the House GOP’s plans to gut Medicaid would hurt nearly every community in America.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

Higher education. The federal bureaucracy. Nonprofits. The military. And now the law firms. Facing a hostile and lawless administration, we are all having the same individual conversations: about leadership, about principles, and about our common fate. These must now be collective conversations.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Tragic. A male wolf who was released from British Columbia into Colorado earlier this year was shot and killed in Wyoming last weekend. Wolves are explorers by nature, and it's likely that he traveled from his release site in search of something - a mate? New territory? Home?

submitted 9 days ago • 163 comments

Guatemalan workers sue Iowa egg company, alleging human trafficking iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/18/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

United we stand, divided we fall

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: The Russian government has announced plans for “US-Russian cooperation on Mars exploration with Russia’s space agency, Rosatom” with Elon Musk. This is a rescue mission for Putin’s economy and a lifelong dream of Musk—to create a white planet. www.mind-war.com/p/musks-russ...

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Changes in climate will shrink the area of land suitable for banana plantations by 60%. Banana growers will need to do climate-resilient planning to maintain their livelihood & business model. www.carbonbrief.org/major-banana...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 78 comments

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

submitted 12 days ago • 479 comments

Good grief

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

New Mexicans: Pay attention here:

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks Raygun for the opportunity to say what I think about the rule of law today…without even speaking.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

submitted 135 days ago • 168 comments