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This will be in tomorrow's Border Update but deserves its own separate post: Profiles of 15 young Venezuelan men shipped off to El Salvador's prisons last Saturday. None of them seem to be gang members—not at all. Post is here, with links to sources: adamisacson.com/who-did-the-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

submitted 2 hours ago • 845 comments

It's essential to understand that the Musk/Trump government isn't a deviation from "mainstream" Republicanism, it's the logical culmination of it. If anything they're accomplishing what past right wing leaders have only promised but failed to deliver

submitted 27 minutes ago • 32 comments

Would simply contrast this to New York's approach in the congestion pricing fight, which has been: 'Not your job, not the law, go away.' And yesterday, they basically folded. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/n...

submitted 25 minutes ago • 5 comments

What a devastating blow to our collective future that the bravest and most principled of us are being cast out from American businesses and organizations in order to maintain their posture of cowardly submission toward the ascendant dictator in the foolish hope they will escape his fickle wrath

submitted 24 minutes ago • 1 comment

My god. I wish I’d had her presence of mind at her age. Entire letter (extremely well-written) attached.

submitted 5 hours ago • 32 comments

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Every day this administration finds new ways — petty and profound, symbolic and consequential, buffoonish incompetent and cartoonishly evil — to embarrass the people it serves.

submitted 2 hours ago • 11 comments

We cannot abide a Democratic Party that continues to be weak and acquiescent in the face of this. Enough is enough.

submitted 13 hours ago • 121 comments

Any pub or show not running or reporting on this comment right here is absolutely caping for this administration. Everyone knows education is the most kitchen table ass talking point ever and specifically saying disabled kids shouldn't have access to it affects so many families

submitted 16 hours ago • 41 comments

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1041 comments

Bloomberg reports that Aaron Kofsky has been hired to help overhaul the FHFA, a key regulatory agency. For many years and up until last summer, as @makenakelly.bsky.social has reported, Kofsky posted extensively about his use of drugs, including gas station heroin, kratom, and oxycodone, on Reddit:

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

This dynamic at @bennet.senate.gov and Rep Peterson's town hall really encapsulated an issue with current Dem messaging. They are relying on the public to take to the streets, but they are not dispositionally prepared for what that will look like. They still want norms and decorum and respect.

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Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

submitted 1 day ago • 393 comments

The next Dem President needs to dump the entire Intel report on everything these people did. All of it. How much money they estimate Trump took. How many off the record conversations with foreign agents. All of it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

You guys what if it wasn’t a coincidence that they only ever complained about the ‘cancellation’ of climate deniers, misogynists and race-science freaks

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

DOGE bros present a knock-off AI. Employees: “When will the Adobe Pro be given back to us?” It is emblematic of a complete mismatch between what Musk & Co think they are doing and what employees actually need.

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity. this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

submitted 15 hours ago • 28 comments

An important read

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JUST IN: After years of litigation about Trump's civil liability for Jan. 6, the Justice Department is now moving to substitute itself for Trump in the lawsuit, saying Trump was acting in his official capacity on Jan. 6.

submitted 14 hours ago • 100 comments

99-0. Every single senator voted to confirm this ghoul.

submitted 14 hours ago • 66 comments

we have an utter fucking nimrod attempting to set himself up as dictator because for 50 years anyone who could have stopped him has dithered and procrastinated, hoping someone else would do it

submitted 14 hours ago • 48 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 15 hours ago • 907 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 413 comments

Fascinating look at how deeply surveilled we all are and how dogged law enforcement can follow the tiniest bread crumbs to capture perpetrators they prioritize. In other news, the person who planted pipe bombs in Washington DC ahead of January 6th is still unidentified.

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

Insanity. Just a reminder that Musk was denied top level security clearance due to his drug use and undisclosed contact with foreign leaders, including Putin. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 13 hours ago • 33 comments

Trump rescinds his Executive Order targeting Paul, Weiss because the firm entered into an “agreement” with Trump. According to the White House, Trump agreed to rescind after a meeting w/ Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp, in which Karp “acknowledged the wrongdoing” of former partner Mark Pomerantz.

submitted 16 hours ago • 184 comments

Trump nominated a guy to the bench. Everyone said he was a lazy ideologue with bad temperament and the usual suspects dismissed that as liberal rubbish. Anyway he just issued a dissent from a Ninth Circuit opinion in the form of a YouTube video with Old Spice ads in which he waves guns around.

submitted 18 hours ago • 92 comments

honestly really smart from Van Dyke. Trump isn’t going to read your opinion but he might watch your video

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

“You seem like such an affable, kind, nice man,” Morgan said, her voice hesitant. “But I am so angry. I am so scared. I feel our democracy is in danger. ... I wish you’d be angry.” My story on Democrats in Congress facing rage from their constituents at town halls: www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

submitted 23 hours ago • 23 comments

WELL: Here's Judge Howell's 3/19 minute order in the Perkins Coie case; what Chad Mizelle, as well as two other DOJ lawyers, told the judge when they filed their status report a little past noon today; and ... the actual memo, just filed. Check out that second paragraph.

submitted 20 hours ago • 42 comments

Fresh off claiming Trump’s bullshit “war” allows them to ignore habeas corpus, snatch people off the street, and ship them to a foreign gulag without due process, they’re now claiming it also allows them to ignore the Fourth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 34 comments

Some things are becoming clear: This administration isn't invulnerable and they know it, which is why they're moving so fast. Dem leadership failed, their messaging of capitulation is counter-productive and they need to be replaced. There are many points of weakness to be exploited to stop the coup.

submitted 23 hours ago • 419 comments

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

preaching to the choir here but people should understand that the end goal of the right-wing anti-trans push is the total subjugation of women and enforcement of dogmatic gender conformity onto every American

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

submitted 1 day ago • 1467 comments

One of the great gags of the moment is the DHS spox using the Berkeley Free Speech movement as the banner on her account, where she posts about deporting academics.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments