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May 2, 1945: The U.S. celebrates the collapse of Germany's far-right government. May 2, 2025: The U.S. is chastised by Germany for supporting a return to power of Germany's far-right government.

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The things I need to explain on twitter these days 🤦🏼‍♀️ Bluesky is so much better

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Population doomers are bad at math. The only population crisis the U.S. is facing was caused by Boomers not having enough kids (while cutting their own taxes). Newsflash: Gen X and Millennial women have never fallen below replacement fertility— but Boomers never reached it. /🧵

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I don't usually write on Fridays, but I figured it was worth it for this: An explanation for Oklahoma students of why the 2020 election definitively wasn't stolen — and how the real lesson to learn is about the leaders in your state. Gift link: wapo.st/4m3cvcw

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shouting this from the rooftops for anyone who will listen: republicans are trying to more than double ice funding in the middle of an ice-led human rights catastrophe

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

You can tell by just looking at this fellow that he’s a far right heel Leavitt planted in the press room to start some shit.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, bars the CFPB from terminations pending appellate review of a district court injunction. Judge Pillard (Obama) and Katsas (Trump) take the action over the disset of Judge Rao (Trump).

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

submitted 7 days ago • 187 comments

The median red state GOP legislator is like "it's really cool when people want to move here, we should build homes for them and create good blue collar jobs," the median blue state Dem legislator is like "fuck off, we're full," and inter alia this could easily swing the 2032 presidential election

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Important article from @mkfeeney.bsky.social about the administration's attack on misinformation studies.

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Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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🚨 NEW: Trump 2.0 is more dangerous—and resisting him takes more courage than ever. We’re joined by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social to talk legal resistance, contempt hearings, and the fight for democracy. Hosted by me and @johnfugelsang.bsky.social Listen +subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The MAGA myth is that all leaks are evidence of a unified "deep state" opposed to president. This debacle is a great example of MAGA luminaries leaking to embarrass each other:

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social review shows the teen was recently active in at least 5 extremist Telegram channels or chat groups, including one in which neo-Nazi posters uploaded detailed instructions for crafting explosives and improvised firearms.

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“I’m one of the good people,” I say as I drag an unaccompanied 4-year-old girl into an immigration court. “People will remember this as a good thing I’m doing. Not, like, evil.”

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Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

submitted 14 days ago • 313 comments

Was down in Mexico city last year, and had a beer with a guy from Iceland, who was doing basically what these students were: a world tour without a fixed schedule. It seemed incredibly cool, and also something that can get you locked up when you try to enter America.

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Happy Friday everyone. Thanks for reading NPR.org this week. Wanted to take a second to also remind you: I interviewed whistleblower Dan Berulis to accompany my lengthy written story on NLRB. Hear from him in his own words: one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5355...

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

After almost a week, negative responses to my 7k+ word investigation into DOGE's access at NLRB relies on a statement on there being no "official record" of DOGE's visit. Berulis never alleged DOGE funneled sensitive data to Russia. His disclosure relies on forensic evidence.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

The Alito dissent ignores the realities of the government's extreme efforts to exterminate core constitutional rights and claims of powerlessness to correct admitted errors. In this case the immediate remedy was the only practicable outcome. bsky.app/profile/trib...

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In his dissent Alito cries foul on SC decision bec of lack of procedure; "prematurely granted, unprecedented." Yet he is in complete agreement w/sending people with brown skin, including those arrested in error, to a brutal foreign prison for a life sentence w/o a hearing or any procedure. Hmm...

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This wasn’t a dissent. This was a temper tantrum because Roberts decided that, in fact, Trump couldn’t be trusted, the 5th Circuit has already shown its fealty to Trump and Roberts knew where Alito stood…so he took a stand in the interest of justice. I’m no Roberts fan, but this time he got it right

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Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "My whole point here is if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody ... if you threaten the rule of law for one person, you threaten if for everybody in America."

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New survey of key IRA tax credits (for clean electricity, EVs, and building electrification/efficiency) by the University of Maryland finds 77–87% overall support, including 71–82% of Republican voters (only 16–29% of whom favor repeal).

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Note import of what Geidner is saying. Alito dissent may simply say, "this appeal isn't before us, even on rocket docket." But some majority (not clear it's 7) thought they had to stay up late on most important Catholic weekend to intervene to protect due process for people being loaded on planes.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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