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By Adam D. Thompson

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Not saying anything you don’t know but this statement is not only patently false, it is the language of eugenics

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

submitted 9 hours ago • 863 comments

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Chief Judge Boasberg's probable cause ruling is not an appealable order. DOJ can ask the D.C. Circuit for an extraordinary writ of mandamus, but that requires showing that the district court ruling both (1) was clearly wrong; and (2) is not otherwise capable of being remedied on a future appeal.

submitted 11 hours ago • 135 comments

Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

We see through these efforts to punish, bully and silence. This is how you know they are weak...if fear and punishment is your only trick, you lack the power of people.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I am advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. You should too.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

A willing fascist threatening to prosecute regime opponents. Right out of the textbooks.

submitted 8 hours ago • 46 comments

Pretty much everything this guy does that isn’t currently a crime needs to become a crime

submitted 9 hours ago • 112 comments

The argument in the text is they can’t accomplish their policy goal while following due process (and therefore the standards should flex). That’s a general purpose argument for fascism, not one specific to immigration.

submitted 20 hours ago • 195 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 16 hours ago • 452 comments

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1266 comments

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into 8, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

submitted 10 hours ago • 32 comments

The list of eliminations are extensive and horrific. National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities, Head Start, rural health programs, public health workforce, Fogarty International Center, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, among so so many others that help so so many people.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

New from me: DOGE just put the entire staff on leave at the federal agency that coordinates US homelessness response. The agency's new leader is the same DOGE software engineer who now serves as the director of the US Institute for Peace: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

This is what actually happens in El Salvador's gulag prisons.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that all people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

If the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador, then there must be a contract, which should be public. If there's not a contract, well, that's a problem.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 13 hours ago • 735 comments

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

submitted 13 hours ago • 52 comments

What a phrase: Harvard is “about to learn the price of crossing the president.” If free speech exists, there should be zero “cost” to “crossing the president.” This is to treat Trump as a mob boss, rather than the president of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

When Tim called these people “weird,” that might have been the realest moment of the entire 2024 campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Meanwhile, noting the move from “tenet (of)” to “tenant” — an #eggcorn I think once limited to speech, here making it into Wall Street written guidance — might be nearly complete. I bet @waywordradio.org knows (or long ago addressed this)

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

odometer fraud...is a crime

submitted 23 hours ago • 8 comments

Heck of a @sltrib.com front page this morning

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

what the absolute fuck

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Some of us always meant it, but yeah, I was just commiserating with an old Reason colleague about what a disappointing eye-opener the Trump era has been. If we’re not all-hands for this, if we can’t see an authoritarian emergency this obvious, who are we even kidding?

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Xinis says she's going to force multiple Trump administration officials to sit for depositions over the next 7 days to confirm whether they're complying with the Supreme Court.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse. From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Im more familiar with the canadian context, but building up tech expertise in the govt like this takes decades and is almost impossible to rebuild from scratch

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Judge Xinis tells DOJ lawyers in the Kilmer Armando Abrego García case to “cancel vacation, cancel other appointments.” What I’ve been wanting to hear is “bring your superiors and a toothbrush—because if this doesn’t get resolved, none of you are going home.”

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

may this woman's persecutors be made to beg her and her husband's forgiveness

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you aren’t outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

I wrote this in January. Absolutely nothing has caused my assessment to change.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

What Judge Xinis is banking on is that the government does not want to spend two weeks in discovery. Two big things can happen: (1) They just make the call and get him back (2) They spend two weeks creating a public record of their own fuck ups and then get sanctioned

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l

submitted 2 days ago • 99 comments

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

submitted 2 days ago • 388 comments