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Clearly, spreading bullshit is the highest virtue, so teaching people to recognize propaganda & manipulation is “censorship”, and therefore we need to defund digital literacy programs. And while we’re at it, education is “censorship” of bad ideas, which is why we need to defund the universities!

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“So Russia keeps the territory, gets all its money back, and gets access to world markets to rebuild its economy. What does Ukraine get? Well, nothing.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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As libraries across the country receive notices of critical grants being canceled, ALA has new advice to help libraries & institutions navigating federal grant terminations. Steps 1 & 2: Notify your legal counsel and preserve all documents. Read the rest: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

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So Tesla just dropped its Q1 numbers and... 😬. The company brought in 20 percent less automotive revenue in the first quarter compared to last year, and profits? Down 71%. Let's get into it... 🔗 www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

submitted 4 days ago • 183 comments

One thing I wonder: with Trump's popularity quickly collapsing, do the institutions caving to him ever stop and consider what it's going to look like if he becomes widely hated, and they're the college/law firm/company that buckled while a bunch of their competitors did not?

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"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/y3RevJzO

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

submitted 4 days ago • 680 comments

Georgetown U students used open data to discover that the planes athletes take to games are the exact same planes being used by ICE for deportations (h/t to Bellingcat) thehoya.com/news/inside-...

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DAVID BROOKS SAYS GENERAL STRIKE NOW AND BILL KRISTOL SAYS ABOLISH ICE

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The US has three branches of government: 1. The guy who does whatever he wants 2. The people too scared to stop him 3. The courts he openly ignores And introducing: 4. An impotent 4th Estate.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

submitted 10 days ago • 214 comments

Laying down a marker: The alternative to Trumpism is freedom, rights, mutual respect, and equality under the law. That means for all, trans people very much included. The alternative to Trumpism is not let's agree to treat some people as second class to placate the bigots. On that, I'm a hard no.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

Focusing on eight examples from the government’s recent briefs, @johnmikhail.bsky.social argues that the Trump administration’s position misrepresents the history around #birthright #citizenship. www.justsecurity.org/110212/birth...

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🤣🤣

submitted 10 days ago • 984 comments

Make no mistake, it wasn't an 'accidental' deportation, it was a test. Failing to abide by a court order sets up the precedent to ignore future court orders. This is not a drill.

submitted 10 days ago • 154 comments

"We know we're helping ICE track down people based on their protected expression. We just don't fucking care." Even for corporate America, Palantir is a fucking skidmark. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Any troops deployed on U.S. soil are bound by the Constitution. No one — not even the president — can take our rights away.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Spot the American. Is it someone who speaks his mind and does the work to get citizenship? Or is it someone born into citizenship who covers his face while abducting people in a Черный ворон?

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 13 days ago • 340 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 12 days ago • 720 comments

Whether it's a right-winger trying to kill Democrat Josh Shapiro, a right-winger trying to kill Democrats Paul and Nancy Pelosi, or right-wingers trying to kidnap Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, it's time to renounce political violence from both sides.

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

So not even 24 hours after Ukraine suffered the horrific Palm Sunday terrorist attack by Russia, Trump has made it his mission to publicly defend Russias actions and repeatedly attack Ukraine and Zelenskyy.

submitted 13 days ago • 61 comments

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

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El Salvador is a very small impoverished country that consistently produces refugees and organized crime, Bukele is a very wealthy man that’s pushed for cryptocurrency. Bought over 34 new luxury properties. Crypto is favoured by organized crime to launder money. You do the math.

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“The sequence of events is op-ed, doxxing, detention.” Stunning @hannahallam.bsky.social story of Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk's rendition by ICE after she was one of four co-authors of a guest essay in her student newspaper. www.propublica.org/article/rume...

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There it is.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: The House passed the SAVE Act, which requires Americans to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Over half of all Americans do not have a passport. Millions more do not have access to their birth certificate. 21 MILLION citizens will be impacted.

submitted 17 days ago • 115 comments

The base commander will likely be fired for it, but it highlights the tension between our military's appreciation of our reliance on allies and the Trump administration's squandering on the goodwill our military generates. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 16 days ago • 202 comments

Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

submitted 16 days ago • 250 comments

Every prisoner swap with Russia is like "she is a 14-year-old girl who Putin said sang 'Carol of the Bells' too aggressively and he is a top Russian spy who personally strangled a dissident to death in a London coffee shop"

submitted 16 days ago • 106 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 19 days ago • 118 comments

What happened on the other side of Signalgate? An eyewitness says that the U.S.’s attack in Yemen killed women and children, including a newborn baby.

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A January operation in the central Californian city of Bakersfield saw dozens detained by border patrol agents operating more than 300 miles from the US southern border. Bellingcat worked with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org to piece together the operation www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

submitted 34 days ago • 424 comments

In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.

submitted 19 days ago • 166 comments

Trump has damaged America forever. We're now viewed as an unreliable partner - business can never trust him and any government policy - our allies don't see us as an ally anymore - our enemies are emboldened. Trump destroyed our soft power advantage.

submitted 20 days ago • 346 comments

Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

The Trump DOJ is preparing to end federal oversight of police departments responsible for: -- the "goon squad" in Rankin, MS, where officers routinely tortured people -- habitual and illegal strip searches in Mt. Vernon, NY -- the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols, Ronald Greene & George Floyd

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Y’all know what to do

submitted 20 days ago • 405 comments

If the woke kids hadn't made people like me vote for Trump, we wouldn't be in this mess right now.

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As protests gain momentum, it's important to recognize and call out COINTELPRO-style behavior Many people who engage in this type of behavior aren't feds. They probably mean well. They are also engaging in behaviors that are so good at disrupting movements that the FBI literally weaponized them

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When you see a leftist mocking wine moms & pussy hats, that's when you know they're performative nihilists who do nothing but post Because the leftists who do serious organizing on the ground to make the world better know that those spaces are full of people that remind the nihilists of their moms

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The elective medical industry is cashing in on plastic pollution fears with a new treatment to clean blood of microplastics. But it’s an expensive service, and the evidence of harm from microplastics is still deeply uncertain.

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