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The new modified-modified Taylor Rule: Interest rates should be set according to how nice or nasty the president is to the Fed chair. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

ICE just blocked Rep. Dan Goldman and me from inspecting their detention center at 26 Federal Plaza, where migrants are reportedly being forced to sleep on the floor for days at a time.

submitted 23 hours ago • 74 comments

⚡️ After speaking out against Trump, former US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink launches congressional bid. "My next mission: fighting for what's right here at home," Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink wrote.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

Such dainty language. The underlying story is that we are descending into a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

submitted 1 day ago • 906 comments

This is not the answer the American public should feel any confidence in...

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

NEWS. MEDIA. AND. THE. PUBLIC. NEED. TO. TREAT. EVERY. STATEMENT. AS. A. LIE.

submitted 23 hours ago • 26 comments

Again, I think this will increase Mike Lee’s popularity, not decrease it. Trumpists want a swaggering, bullying douche.

submitted 23 hours ago • 127 comments

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

Hmmm. No fear that these rampaging secret police could ever trouble a law-abiding AR-15 owner doing some open carry. Not one brown NRA member?

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: Hours after Donald Trump complained before the G7 that Russia had been kicked out of the global trade coalition, the Kremlin ordered air strikes on Kyiv that killed 15 people—including an American. https://trib.al/caicZmn

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This is what happens because we didn’t string them up for storming the capitol.

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

You wouldn't think that this could get worse and worse and worse, but it apparently can.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

An update from @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social : The Los Angeles Press Club says police officers repeatedly used "less-lethal" bullets and violated the constitutional rights of reporters covering anti-ICE protests.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

During the countless hours of local news coverage yesterday, the anchors went to great lengths to repeat that Boelter was not a "political" person. I think having a list of 70 Democrats you want to assassinate makes you political, but what do I know.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Some grim reading www.politico.eu/article/east...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Google's @hultquist.bsky.social says in an emailed statement that the company is seeing "multiple intrusions in the US" that bear the hallmarks of Scattered Spider activity and "now seeing incidents in the insurance industry." Google spox. confirmed there's more than one U.S.-based insurance victim.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

As climate solutions reporter I find many 'solutions' don't scale- or reduce pollution at all. Which is why after months of reporting I want to tell you about Vienna. Vienna has found a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change, all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in. 🎧⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

FUCK ‘EM UP, UNC

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

America 2025

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@hcrichardson.bsky.social does another amazing service for us all. Please share widely. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Think of this when you see those fancy graphics today explaining how the Acorn carbon capture project “works”

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Cuomo PAC darkens skin of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in new mailer to NYC voters.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

been about 5 years since fact checkers insisted trump never said we should consider injecting ourselves with bleach, when he plainly did. now here we are.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

My relatives keep asking me how we're doing in the riots. I say, you mean the police riots? Cuz no one else is rioting.

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about

submitted 8 days ago • 588 comments

The overt totalitarians in the administration are laying the pseudo-intellectual groundwork for large-scale use of military force against civilians.

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

By now, everyone should know which countries are on the travel ban list. Some of ya'll didn't listen when we told you; especially you Muslims who rejected Kamala. This is Muslim ban 2.0. Oh, and Cubans for Trump: you made the list too. We told you.🔥☕️ www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

No need for the National Guard here folks…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

this is good

submitted 9 days ago • 447 comments

Thank you for speaking up, Finneas.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

Now the Speaker of the House, second in line to be President of the United States, is calling for the elected leader of the 4th largest economy in the world to be publicly tortured for [checks notes] defying the treasonous whims of the wannabe dictator currently occupying the Oval Office.

submitted 9 days ago • 258 comments

Rep. Mike Flood apparently thinks bills are meant to go unread, like a terms of service agreement

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 9 days ago • 579 comments

Kristi Noem, standing next to the president in the White House, urges Californians to not elect Gavin Newsom again

submitted 9 days ago • 1394 comments

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🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

EFF's case against OPM and DOGE gets a preliminary injunction to restrain OPM from sharing personal information on government employees!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: LAPD didn’t just “detain” someone. They surrounded him, beat him, and jumped him — like a gang. On camera. On horses. While he screamed for help. Unarmed. Cornered. Alone. If that’s not state violence, what the fuck is?

submitted 10 days ago • 495 comments