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UPDATE: @POTUS rescinded the stop-work order that halted legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children. We'll continue to work to ensure that kids are not deprived of their constitutional right to due process & legal counsel. Read our updated stmt:

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm old enough to remember when China doing deals with African countries exchanging minerals for infrastructure was a dangerous kind of exploitation and imperialism.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

I hadn’t even thought about that. Incredible.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

submitted 2 days ago • 121 comments

The Interior Department reversed course on a stop-work order that cut off funding for “all activities” related to legal aid for unaccompanied migrants younger than 18.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Some good news today! The stop work order for those providing legal representation to unaccompanied children has been cancelled.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Jackson County TN Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker had several interactions with this account - defending slavery as not being sinful and celebrating the notion that Kamala Harris might lose her citizenship under a right-wing government.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments

Another flagrantly illegal move here. There is no authority in the INA that permits a blanket suspension of processing of certain applicants.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: HHS launches anti-transgender campaign featuring Riley Gaines. It seeks to ban gender affirming care and require the federal health agencies to eliminate recognition of trans people. womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by NBC News, despite Trump promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

She governs scared even for a Democrat, but a governor who wanted a national profile would boot Adams out of the paint and brag on congestion pricing as the historic W it is. She could have Hochulmania Running Wild headlines but is afraid of angering Long Islanders whose votes she'll never win.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Every one of those men should be ashamed.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

“The more people who understand their rights, the better residents can protect themselves.” Essential reading from @abigailhiggins.bsky.social of @51st.news on protecting yourself and your neighbors from ICE in DC 51st.news/how-to-defen...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

i am, for what it is worth, somewhat optimistic that this will all end terribly for these people.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

why gerry connelly over AOC? why has hochul protected eric adams? etc etc so many questions are easily answered once you understand this basic truth from @ositanwanevu.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The way the prisoner's dilemma is supposed to work is you put them in different rooms.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

free hot take: don't get rid of the penny, just multiply the face value of every coin by 10 (and swap the dime and nickel)

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

We believe news is a public service, but we're currently only reaching 1% of D.C.'s population. Let's get more news to neighbors, spread the word and sign up for our free weekly newsletter: 51st.news/signup

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The actual Constitution is the honor system.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

"Some current and former US officials expressed quiet concerns to CNN that the intelligence flights could be part of an effort to find targets for the US military to strike itself."

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

submitted 13 days ago • 463 comments

Elaine this, Elaine that. Too much 90s sitcom revisionism on who the real goddess of that era was

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

not trying to pick on this guy. this just reminded me that the federal government does not provide coffee to workers. to drink coffee at a federal office you generally have to pay into a "coffee club" that is managed by a staffer who volunteers to collect money and purchase a monthly coffee supply.

submitted 13 days ago • 125 comments

Judges have more tools here as well. Order the relevant employees or an agency representative to appear personally on a short time frame for an evidentiary hearing, allow cross at the hearing. Transcript can be made public.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

can't wait to play civ 7 like i play all the other civ games: exclusively play vanilla because expansion packs seem weird, play exactly the same style with the same civ for 1000 hours over the next decade, mostly ignore entire key game mechanics, and consequently never actually get very good at it

submitted 17 days ago • 147 comments

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

submitted 17 days ago • 342 comments

here's a resource for immigrant families about their rights. it's written for DC but much of the advice is broadly applicable. familiesuniteddcmetro.org

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have cut off funding for half of the health centers that serve 400,000 Virginians, forcing some to close, which could mean up to 200,000 Virginians are suddenly without healthcare www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

I'm still mad about Ken Klippenstein's article from yesterday. You can't be any kind of leftist, or even just left-of-center liberal, and look down on government bureaucrats. All social programs depend on dedicated civil servants. We can't get anything done without them

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

1. I keep saying this, but it’s important to try to slow things down. It’s something that the Democrats really don’t get. You can win a war by losing every battle slowly.

submitted 19 days ago • 109 comments

Has any senator or representative forced Musk's goons to try and arrest them yet? Contesting the state of exception is scary but it's far more likely to have a good outcome than outright conceding it.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

not sure there's a political tendency more empty and dead-end than defending Biden now. His career is over, and while the present crisis is authored by Trump and Musk and those who worked to put them in power, Biden's admin failed in its singular task of preventing Trump's return. That's the legacy.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments