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Some folks are just so so close to saying "we need to let men do whatever they want to women, otherwise they'll hold our whole society hostage," but they keep getting tongue-tied and it comes out as "male loneliness epidemic"

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

LAST NIGHT AT UCLA - On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus. These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

the fraction of parents reading to their 0-4 year old kids frequently has apparently fallen by 23 POINTS since 2012 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 176 comments

All of this for some students watching a documentary on campus. Fucking ridiculous.

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

why exactly is the white house allowing known circulators of CSM into the briefing room?

submitted 13 days ago • 284 comments

They’ve already deported someone to Rwanda! I reported on a State Dept. cable confirming it a week ago! I even shared the cable details so others could confirm!!!! I feel insane www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-rwanda-...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

NEW: The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday. Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

A mob of Hasidic men in Brooklyn chase down a woman who came to protest Ben-Gvir. This sort of reaction has become normalized in NYC and LA, where violence against protestors has spiked enormously since October 7th. This largely isn't covered or addressed by media, despite how widespread it is.

submitted 18 days ago • 142 comments

Have reforms really triggered a crime wave? How much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs or the profit motives of private prisons? On International Fact-Checking Day, we're busting some of the biggest myths in the criminal legal system🧵 buff.ly/S8yZTrC

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif: “If our civilians are not safe then I am making it clear that Indian civilians will not be safe either." (New thread)

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

Canary Mission is a secretive pro-Israel group that's been running an employment blacklist for a decade. Now, they're taking credit for Trump's student deportations — and providing more names for him to target. www.vox.com/politics/410...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Palantir just officially got the IRS contract to create "fully operational mapping of IRS infrastructure." The same tech being used for the military 'kill chain' is going to be analyzing your financial information. Here's our video on Palantir from last week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

the incumbent that kat was challenging is retiring and stepping down from her seat. we interviewed her when she launched her campaign. get to know her if you haven’t yet!

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

over 100 people are rallying outside the albemarle county courthouse right now to protest the abduction of two local residents here yesterday by masked men with no warrant who claimed to be ICE agents

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

I know others have gone into detail throughout the day, but I just want to make sure I highlight how important Judge Paula Xinis's order from today in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case is. It is about discovery — the evidence the gov't is to turn over — but her points are sharp and the context is key.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

Judge Sweeney becomes the first non-D.C. judge to rule that the Alien Enemies Act is likely not applicable to Tren de Aragua, and rules that the Trump administration may not apply it to anyone in Colorado without 21 days notice and opportunity to file a lawsuit.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

SCOTUS oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor are in 5 minutes. What is Mahmoud v. Taylor? The Don't Say Gay case out of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit. Gather round. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Over on X, a tale of the madness currently playing out with student visas is currently going viral on the basis of an astonishing quote from a judge calling what the Trump administration is doing “Kafkaesque.” The lawsuit is one of Banias. law’s emergency TRO cases and the quote is from 5 days ago.

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

"Most police contacts are initiated by residents: almost 30 million people initiated contact with police in 2022. However, only half of these people ever reported possible crimes. More often, they were seeking help. ... [M]ost calls to the police would be best directed elsewhere."

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I can't even begin to tell you just how disastrous a traditionalist Catholic pope being elected would be. It would be gasoline on a conflagration of fascism sweeping the globe.

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

submitted 25 days ago • 1010 comments

People are getting angrier at the Kneecap Coachella signs than they are at the daily forced starvation and mass slaughter of children that Kneecap is protesting

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

We cannot elect this corrupt monster who has nothing but contempt for New Yorkers.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

Don't rank Andrew Cuomo, not number one or two or three or four or five. Don't rank Andrew Cuomo at all. I know you recognize his name, but watch this to remind yourself who he is really and don't rank Andrew Cuomo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB4g...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The reason the south has languished for generations is that the white leadership cares more about preserving a white male hierarchy than making their society better. We're now seeing that on a national scale. The Trump administration is turning the US into deep south style autocracy.

submitted 24 days ago • 30 comments

My piece in Counterpunch on the politics of cleansing, which analyzes the breadth and interlocking nature of the authoritarian blitz Trump is waging on even the idea of democracy--truly fascism in real time. www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/18/t...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit denies DOJ's request to allow the Trump admin to end protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S. while litigation continues. A district court had blocked the administration's effort to end the relevant TPS action in a stark opinion in March.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

submitted 26 days ago • 1050 comments

I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

submitted 26 days ago • 332 comments

Just finished our budget & finance info session! 😁 100+ people showed up on a Thursday night to learn about the City's financial situation and how we got here! Please create your own city budget on our new app and send it to your elected officials! 🙏🏼 mylabudget.lacontroller.app

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

We only get results if we fight and take action. Thank you, Senator Van Hollen. Now it’s time to bring Kilmar home.

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 26 days ago • 8463 comments