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Important to note the Potemkin villages they're going to set up each time someone with a soul goes down to monitor the conditions of the concentration camp are part of the war crime itself. The audience for this propaganda is MAGA rubes, not The Hague, which will be indifferent.

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“If you deny the constitutional rights of one man you threaten the constitutional rights of everyone else” This is a straightforward message. It’s not difficult.

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Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

submitted 18 hours ago • 167 comments

Mack Truck announces layoffs — due to truck orders that have been “negatively affected by .. the impact of tariffs.” @penncapital-star.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social penncapital-star.com/briefs/mack-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 360 comments

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

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Attorney General Pam Bondi goes on TV to call Abrego Garcia a “top MS-13 leader,” “an alien enemy” and a “terrorist” — wild lies that are contradicted by the actual Supreme Court unanimous order I think that a defamation suit could be down the line here

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This is a real post from the White House. If you still support the Trump administration, the stink of this trollish behavior over the life of an innocent man, deported to a gulag based on a mistake they have freely admitted, is on YOU too.

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This is why it makes NO SENSE to talk about "the country" voted for x, y, or z.

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This is no different than if the government just started cancelling signed & in-process contracts with Raytheon to build missiles or F-35 components because Trump decided he didn't like the political views of employees at those companies. In that case, there'd be no dithering about what this was.

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Here's the thing about exploiting this mother to fight due process.

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Was really a matter of time - a six-figure grant to the Internet Archive was dropped halfway through its spending, with zero warning. sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/d...

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In 2017, Senator Rubio blasted Rex Tillerson for not presenting the State Department human rights reports with a press conference. What Secretary Rubio is doing is far worse, systematically editing out descriptions of human rights abuses and corruption. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 36 comments

Essential read

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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

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Do you know the name of the Looney Tunes chicken lady or, if not, what would you name her?

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Starting a list of companies with announcements of price hikes: 1. Hermes 2. Ford 3. Temu/Shein www.reuters.com/business/ret...

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I call upon the administration and the government of El Salvador to prove that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and unharmed.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

I'm not the most avid Christian, but even I find the use of the cross as a prop when engaging in blatant falsehoods in the name of extraordinary cruelty to be offensive.

submitted 2 days ago • 347 comments

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

submitted 2 days ago • 979 comments

A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.

submitted 2 days ago • 276 comments

Hedy Lamarr is famous for looking like this - and for co-inventing a frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology that is fundamental to modern wireless communication

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr: Autistic kids are a tragedy. They'll never pay taxes, never hold down a job, never contribute anything to society Autistic kids:

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

The ‘1984’-style Ministry of Truth in full effect

submitted 2 days ago • 458 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 3 days ago • 1181 comments

I’ve been trying this technique of inking the outlines first, to make sure the major shapes are working well. I think I like this method, helps get the design of the page nailed down before adding details ✨

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

A movie that takes place where I’m from…and one of the only ones to shoot (at least partially) here AND actually name-drop Syracuse. Ironically, shortly after this movie we lost our actual hockey team and didn't have another one for almost 15 years, as far as I can tell.

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Unbeatable entertainment.

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A movie that takes place where I’m from… where they paved over our Little League to build Tom Cruise’s auto body shop under our iconic bridge. But, he and Spielberg rebuilt the park as “War of the Worlds” field.

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Marco Rubio is exactly the kind of henchman from whom Marco Rubio’s parents fled their native country.

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

Cuomo isn't the issue. NYC voters are.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

He’s going to be fired because he outed the fact that Musk arranged with Hegseth to get a top secret briefing at the Pentagon. Trump and his Chief of Staff didn’t even know about it. As usual, in Trump World, the person who does the right thing is the one who is punished.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 3 days ago • 529 comments

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Does DUNKIN’ taste like coffee-flavored “drink” to anyone else? It’s the “orange drink” of coffee.

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vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process

submitted 3 days ago • 437 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

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#BushtitoftheDay This male Bushtit thought he was a hummingbird and ended up with pollen all over his little face. So angry! #birds #nature 🌿

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments