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There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 7 hours ago • 154 comments

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Wonder how much longer the tourism drop go on before Trump makes some sweaty plea like "We only detain and abuse SOME of the tourists who are nasty to me on computer"

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Highly recommend this interview with Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University, on why academic freedom at our higher ed institutions should concern all Americans. #AcademicSky #MomSky

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He's proven that he can't be held accountable. Dems are too slow and toothless, his own party is terrified of him, and SCOTUS gives him a pass. Why wouldn't he just crime in the open? There are no repercussions.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 235 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

"The project is about deskilling America: reducing white-collar work through AI and remote job cuts, destroying universities, starving higher education, using tariffs to wall off the country as a manufacturing-and-extraction island... pushing men into manual labor and women into domestic roles."

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We’ve entered a golden age of cowardice, full of people and institutions with historically anomalous levels of money and power who are terrified of stating simple truths. It is pitiful and embarrassing.

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California pilots a solar-over-canal system to combat drought. Project Nexus will cover canals with solar panels, generating clean energy while preventing water evaporation. The project showing potential for 13 GW of annual energy, while saving 50,000 acres of land. buff.ly/ZBokAil #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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LA people. Thank your friend, Professor Rick Hasen, for making this happen. Coming your way April 17th.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

"Somebody needs to start writing Project 2029 and it ain't going to be Chuck Schumer" @elienyc.bsky.social on his latest book: 'Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.' " We choose to live this way, we can choose to live better tomorrow."

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Insanity- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Huh, weird

submitted 12 days ago • 126 comments

“The guards often asked flight attendants to heat up the food they brought from home... “They treated us like we were their maids…” “In their eyes, the detainees are not the passengers,” another flight attendant said. “The passengers are the guards. And we’re there for the guards.”

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"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

Damn. Ranking Member Kamlager-Dove calls GOP witness Matt Taibbi a "serial sexual harasser" and enters articles into the congressional record about his history as a sex pest

submitted 12 days ago • 606 comments

The CDC has been gutted www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

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Basically crimes are legal if A) they are the same kind of crimes the Trump family does and B) the judge or prosecutor is a Democrat, or C) you pay a bribe to the president. This is not an exaggeration. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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On the day Trump says he’s “not joking” about a third term, I’m going to remind folks I published a book about this “slow civil war”—and in it I reported on his open talk of a permanent presidency, and the way the media ignored it, going back years. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/b...

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You may have seen viral posts like this about Elon Musk saving a seven-year-old girl's life via a Neuralink device implanted into her brain. The image in the post is AI-generated and there's zero evidence that this story ever happened. It's pure fiction for online engagement.

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The Trump administration has canceled every grant for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, which is devoted to combating child labor & forced labor. Two former cabinet members, Labor Secy Julie Su & US trade rep Katherine Tai, argue that this will harm workers in the US as well as abroad.

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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 14 days ago • 284 comments

Hey DOGE, I've found some taxpayer-funded waste to eliminate:

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The US government is using its diplomatic corps to unjustifiably interfere with France’s constitutional protections. France is already pushing back. This isn’t the behaviour of an ally, and this needs logged as such. www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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...Vance/Trump "use the same language as fascist mass murderers. I’ve witnessed this process of normalization over the last 8 years as a reporter covering the far right, seeing neo-Nazi talking points, especially around immigration, enter the mainstream discourse with horrifying, accelerating speed"

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Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

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Validating read: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I wrote about the White House X account — which is steeped in the sociopathic posting style of far-right extremists — and seems to get more sinister and cruel with its posts each week of the administration. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 123 comments

The worst thing the federal government has done to unions in my lifetime happened last night. The second worst thing was three weeks ago. The labor movement will either protect ourselves right now or be smashed. That's all there is to it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

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“Why does..mainstream media continue to focus only on the rights & wrongs of using a messaging app for sharing war plans..[than that]..a blatant war crime was committed by the Trump admin in Yemen on March 15..The principals said so themselves. In the Signal chat. With glee.” My Afternoon Read:

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It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.

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I've been unable to think of little else since watching the video of masked secret police from ICE whisking away Rumeysa Ozturk - a shocking scene of police state repression I never hoped to see in America What's even worse is why she was disappeared. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/rume...

submitted 17 days ago • 64 comments

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

submitted 17 days ago • 3057 comments