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This idea that ICE rounds up people in blue states and then pre-deports them to a red state because they're not hung up on due process or evidence or any of that old-fashioned stuff really reveals to what extent we seem to have already had a civil war without calling it one.

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

Happy Trans Day of Visibility to all trans people and the people who love and support them. I give a special thought today, to one of my students, a trans-rights activist, who worked so hard and cared so much, and ended his life way too young, overwhelmed by it all. RIP.

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...buying a seat for a JUDGE who claims he will be a "support-system" for Trump. A judge, who is supposed to know that's illegal. Maybe it's the blatant nature of it that upsets my naive self.

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We must stop the Hitler saluting apartheid loving Musk from buying the election in Wisconsin on Tuesday!

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Former Doctors Without Borders (MSF) president and Montreal pediatrician Joanne Liu’s presentation at NYU was cancelled because a couple of her slides on Gaza casualties “could be perceived as antisemitic.” She was already in New York. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

From @marissarothkopf.bsky.social Belated Birthday Cake I We love yellow cake with chocolate frosting! open.substack.com/pub/marissar...

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Look, if you're going to bend the knee ... just bend the knee. Don't say you're tying your shoe.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

From an hour ago...

submitted 3 days ago • 254 comments

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

submitted 3 days ago • 829 comments

Dear Big Law. This is how it is done. Bravo, Jenner and Block! Don’t you other firms ever watch those superhero movies? The selfish, greedy cowards always finished last! 👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Each week, The Contrarian selects an "Undaunted" individual working to defend democracy This week's spotlight: Senator Tammy Duckworth We honor her for denouncing MAGA bullying & incompetence—while exhibiting unceasing resilience & integrity

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Great news, if you’re a horse with worms.

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BREAKING (I rarely get to say that): Judge Howell eviscerates DOJ’s motion to disqualify her from the Perkins Coie case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Ja, but door-long claws might just have been the TikTok trend at the time

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Weird how this was never a concern with Judge Aileen Cannon

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

ICYMI, @propublica.org uncovered Project 2025 training videos last summer. And here’s where they discuss how to evade FOIA & hide their agenda from the public. The “Houthi PC small group” didn’t arise from ignorance of the law or incompetence. They just got caught.

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

Republicans, this is a chance to take an off ramp from Trump. His people are indefensible and he is out to lunch. Take it. Neither (nor now prob Vance) are going to be on the ballot.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

A perfect summary of everything that is very bad and very wrong about the Signal chat being shared with the ed of the Atlantic. Thanks @vermontgmg.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely spot on. It's refreshing to read such a smart response.

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The first pitch perfect response I have seen from a Congressional Democrat to the signal chat security breach scandal. If your Member of Congress or Senator is not echoing this ask he or she is simply not doing his/her job.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Hey reporters, you should be asking Tulsi Gabbard about the Pete Hegseth / Military accidentally texting a reporter foreign attack plans on a non-government server. Really, do your job and confront her with her own words. And when she changes the topic, come back to it.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

submitted 7 days ago • 827 comments

🍪♥️Cover reveal!♥️🍪 After months of talking about it, and developing new recipes (60!), it's hard to imagine it's a real thing. But it is. And you can even preorder. (Preordering makes publishers verrrrry happy.) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is the most openly corrupt act by a sitting President in the history of America. It is now 4.40 PM - and Politico, WaPo and NYT are simply refusing to cover it. NYT wrote 35 articles speculating on the POSSIBLE corruption of Clinton Foundation. Which was never found.

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

The Trump Administration has detained, kidnapped, and/or deported the following people: - A white, Canadian actress - a US citizen child who survived brain cancer - a Palestinian activist and student - an Indian national and post-doc student - A Filpino woman here for 50 years

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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

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After mass firings, the IRS will be forced to close audits of wealthy taxpayers. Audits of rich individuals and corporations will soon be closed — without action — due to a lack of personnel to complete them. Millions upon millions in revenue will be lost. “All of a sudden, these cases…

submitted 8 days ago • 430 comments

My latest for @contrariannews.org. Bake something nice, maybe?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I snortled.

submitted 10 days ago • 108 comments

Don't miss this brilliant thread, Our Flag Means Death fans.

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Done with 'Severance' S2 and need a new binge? Meredith Blake recommends Netflix's 'Adolescence' a chilling why-done-it about radicalization & social media’s grip on youth. Need a palate cleanser? 'Every Little Thing' is a stunning doc on hummingbird rescue—& the quiet power of compassion.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 13 days ago • 191 comments

Trump’s meme coin is, in all likelihood, already the most profitable grift in the history of the presidency. He is making millions - perhaps more than $100 million since January - by selling the office of the presidency.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

I'm beginning to think there's a double-standard going on.

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