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Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…” www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...

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Two veterans made their way onto a military base in Washington State and attacked a soldier with a hammer as they tried to steal combat equipment, the authorities said. The theft led investigators to a house full of Nazi paraphernalia and a stockpile of stolen weapons.

submitted 14 hours ago • 57 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 1305 comments

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

submitted 13 days ago • 331 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Buddy I think "This content that ended up printed in our newspaper was not approved by anyone in our newspaper" raises more questions than the one you're trying to avoid answering!!!1!

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

We've reached the "criminal charges against congresspeople" stage of the proceedings.

submitted 20 days ago • 64 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 24 days ago • 362 comments

NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.

submitted 24 days ago • 56 comments

“For the right story, are there ways that we can continue to support the local effort to dig, dig, dig?” Hopeful @niemanlab.org story by @speppered.bsky.social on an NYT fellowship to support local journalists around the US to give them the resources they need to speak truth to power.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine learning from a prison in Belarus that Elon Musk is shutting down the U.S. media outlet where your work covering an authoritarian government landed you in jail for three years. Meet Andrei Kuznechyk: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

Over the past 27 years, nine prisoners have been set free after being convicted in part on inaccurate evidence given by an infamous forensic pathologist and dentist team. Duncan was the last person awaiting an execution based on the pair’s work. With @veritenews.org

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 43 days ago • 330 comments

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

submitted 44 days ago • 84 comments

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 46 days ago • 822 comments

The Trump admin is killing efforts to hold Putin and Co. accountable for war crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

The Onion uncovers what’s inside Elon Musk’s $35 million Texas compound. Explore Elon Musk's entire compound here: theonion.com/inside-elon-...

submitted 53 days ago • 50 comments

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 54 days ago • 111 comments

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison theonion.com/judge-g...

submitted 57 days ago • 45 comments

The insider trading shit is a good angle and I’m glad dems are going with it, because it’s simple enough to be easily comprehensible and just straight up corruption.

submitted 60 days ago • 60 comments

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

submitted 68 days ago • 92 comments

There need to be consequences for being this gullible. Or an apology. Or literally anything? Also we fucking had an Iran nuclear deal and he junked it for no reason.

submitted 70 days ago • 21 comments

News Analysis: President Trump and his administration’s lawyers are trying to deter law firms from suing his administration. His actions could undermine the basic right of Americans to sue their government.

submitted 71 days ago • 74 comments

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

submitted 73 days ago • 571 comments

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 76 days ago • 364 comments

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

submitted 78 days ago • 144 comments

Now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City (@NLBMuseumKC) exists to tell a deeply important American story -- one that is ultimately about triumph. Our history, good and bad, is all we have. Learning it is our duty.

submitted 81 days ago • 142 comments

The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and U.S. officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter that lawmakers plan to send to Secretary of State Rubio.

submitted 81 days ago • 116 comments

Russia significantly stepped up its sabotage campaign over the past two years as it sought to pressure Europe and the U.S. to curb their support for Ukraine, according to a new study.

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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

submitted 84 days ago • 170 comments

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

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🇲🇽 Mexico President: "US Customs and Border Protection data show that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at US ports of entry were US citizens"...

submitted 95 days ago • 155 comments

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

submitted 97 days ago • 537 comments