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This is so bizarre. I get why the core group wants to do this. But the enormous surrounding ecosystem of donors, business interests, military-industrial complex, and more, rolling over this is truly weird and dumb.

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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

submitted 54 minutes ago • 195 comments

some of the most important work you can do right now is simply to have a vision of how the future could be worth fighting for a political climate entirely defined by grievance and disgust will always be tilted towards the right, because they direct anger at vulnerable people not powerful ones

submitted 54 minutes ago • 2 comments

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submitted 1 hour ago • 128 comments

Three additional names out of so many kidnapped and disappeared into the gulag in El Salvador. No justice, no peace.

submitted 56 minutes ago • 0 comments

Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.

submitted 1 hour ago • 71 comments

This is a huge deal. Casey DeSantis started a little pet project to “graduate” people off Medicaid but in actuality stole court settlements from FL taxpayers and funneled that money into political campaigns to fund opposition to medical marijuana and abortion rights amendments.

submitted 4 hours ago • 89 comments

If laid off federal workers want to run for office, we’ll help them do it. Let’s go. www.thebulwark.com/p/fired-gove...

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

“Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding & awaiting final signoff to the program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Note: there’s been some coverage of this, but the religious pushback Trump has received since assuming office has been wide-reaching, loud, and sustained. There have been lawsuits, vigils, protests, fights with bishops, critical letters from the pope, a sermon criticizing Trump to his face, etc.

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 5 hours ago • 408 comments

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

I hate fraud so much. I was lucky to be raised by a deeply ethical dad who worked in the real estate industry in Florida and so was constantly bringing home stories of the worst kinds of guys getting rich in ways that they felt were "illegal but fine" but were actually the worst kinds of theft.

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

HAPPY TAX DAY! How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits. 🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS. Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

submitted 4 hours ago • 64 comments

New from me: DOGE just put the entire staff on leave at the federal agency that coordinates US homelessness response. The agency's new leader is the same DOGE software engineer who now serves as the director of the US Institute for Peace: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement. ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion. Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

submitted 7 hours ago • 66 comments

aka extortion

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

there was a ground stop at nashville airport for an hour yesterday for “staffing issues,” something i have also never encountered, even as much as i fly

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Tax ppl can speak to the statutory and regulatory questions. But as a 1st Amendment person, I can tell you that this is wildly lawless as a constitutional matter. Govt subsidies & exemptions are not free-for-alls to impose viewpoint based restrictions. Plus this is a nesting doll of violations - 1/2

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

Literally speedrunning the path to authoritarianism. Straight out of the textbooks.

submitted 4 hours ago • 24 comments

If you are a Republican wanting a photo-op you get a VIP visit to the prisons. If you are a Dem asking about someone wrongly jailed, you are turned away.

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

submitted 4 hours ago • 137 comments

Announcing the Guests of Honor for the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21! Please give it up for Tochi Onyebuchi (@tochitruestory.bsky.social) and Sarah Gailey (@sarahgailey.bsky.social) who will be joining us in Oakland's Preservation Park! Buy your tickets here: locusmag.com/2025-lo...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Have you heard about Saudi Arabia buying acres of Arizona land for $25 per acre anually in order to steal our groundwater? It’s for alfalfa, btw. For the super wealthy’s horses and cows. Seriously.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

The White House dragging the senator, calling him a “disgrace” and referring to him and his “bedwetting friends” (??) is a strange and grotesque response to a truly horrifying situation that the senator is trying to resolve.

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

A LOT of practice! From 2017:

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

The unspoken implication here is that the elite, rich Trump supporters assumed that Elon would be the functioning President and the actual President would be a figurehead, and they were okay with that.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Anything else w/ this much experimentally verified evidence tends to get thought of as "settled." Weird how it's the science that consistently says "forcing a framework of means testing, the protestant work ethic, & punishing people for being poor is bad, actually" gets repeated incredulity & shock

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

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Have any of the White House reporters even attempted to ask the Trump administration why it keeps saying that Abrego Garcia is in the domestic custody of a foreign sovereign when all evidence suggests that El Salvador is holding him on behalf of the United States pursuant to a contract?

submitted 7 hours ago • 96 comments

Reading this (detailed and eye-opening) article w/ my Writer Beware hat on, I can't help wondering how the many overseas scams that purport to do exactly this kind of assistive self-pub--incl managing authors' KDP accounts--manage to release so many books janefriedman.com/self-publish...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

submitted 9 hours ago • 816 comments

I have at least one interaction daily which reminds me of how oblivious most average Americans are to the aggressive destruction of public health & the unravelling of protections for their health happening in real time. That really scares me because it will be too late when realization sets in.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

“Thievery has moved beyond the concrete schemes of past centuries and into a digital void that ordinary people do not know how to navigate — other than to identify what plutocrats stole from them. And that our country is one of those things.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Friends, this story strongly suggests the interim US Attorney in DC was very recently on the payroll of Russian intelligence. bsky.app/profile/wash...

submitted 9 hours ago • 40 comments

"Pressure groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members and administrators initiated 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries, according to ALA’s report." Only 16% came from parents! @slj.com @txfreedomread.bsky.social www.slj.com/story/newsfe...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

New on the all-but-inevitable GOP effort to steal the 2026 midterms. www.offmessage.net/p/they-are-g...

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

submitted 10 hours ago • 77 comments

Trump's case against Harvard is the same as his case against all universities and media outlets and public figures. They don't agree with him. And he wants to abuse his power to punish them for that sin and that sin alone. (You'll note at no point in this screed does he even mention anti-Semitism.)

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

Meta is censoring searches for "El Salvador mega prison" as CSAM. They control social media and are ensuring that no one will see the truth of what the US is doing.

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

Soofia’s story is one heartbreaking example among many, and builds upon myriad anti-immigrant policies Trump tested out during his first term.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment