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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 11 hours ago • 481 comments

i never understand how people take orders that are pure evil and rationalize it. how do these people live with themselves. if i forget to say goodbye to a friend at a function before leaving i feel like a monster and these people simply shrug off crimes against humanity lol

submitted 5 hours ago • 68 comments

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a room full of Alaska nonprofit leaders that the tumult of tariffs, executive orders, court battles, and cuts to federal services under the Trump administration are exceptionally concerning.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

University of Alaska reports four international students have had visas revoked without notice, reports Corinne Smith of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

"At this moment, you should not exercise your right to free speech because you can have consequences. That’s the most un-American thing ever. But I’m saying it,” Nicholas Olano, an Anchorage-based immigration attorney with Nations Law Group, told the Beacon:

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 11 hours ago • 41 comments

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has something to say to us today: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

It is absolutely vital for all Alaskans to view this clip of Lisa Murkowski addressing the fears of her constituents regarding the actions of the Trump Administration. “We are all afraid”. youtu.be/69FGNdBemTI?...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

It is absolutely vital for all Alaskans to view this clip of Lisa Murkowski addressing the fears of her constituents regarding the actions of the Trump Administration. “We are all afraid”. youtu.be/69FGNdBemTI?...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 #Trump's disgusting betrayal of #Ukraine and #Zelenskyy is perhaps the starkest example of the US completely abandoning leadership for security on the European continent. But his betrayal goes clearly deeper than this. /1

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

The most horrendous example of this so far. It's never Putin's fault if you're Donald Trump.

submitted 21 hours ago • 21 comments

🚨🚨 #ukrainewar: President Zelenskyy rightly calls out President Trump's #Putin appeasement after Russian Palm Sunday attack on Sumy. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/volo...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele: "Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate. But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some."

submitted 19 hours ago • 356 comments

it's so funny how many times Stevie Nicks re-recorded Silver Springs just to repeatedly get Lindsey Buckingham on camera while she screamed, "You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you." there will never be another band even a little like Fleetwood Mac.

submitted 17 hours ago • 61 comments

tristate corruption is literally destroying the country and once you see it you can't stop seeing it

submitted 11 hours ago • 16 comments

Respectfully, this concedes too much. Criminality under the Constitution isn’t a fact to be discovered. “Criminal” is a label that is applied by the state only after a presumptively innocent person is convicted of a crime, following due process. Without due process, a person cannot be a criminal.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 12 hours ago • 241 comments

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

submitted 15 hours ago • 53 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 12 hours ago • 590 comments

UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 244 comments

Bukele has already returned migrants to the U.S. because they were from Central America or they were women—migrants the Trump admin had unilaterally declared as “criminals.” This is all a joke to them. It’s truly sick.

submitted 11 hours ago • 22 comments

lol at Matt Yglesias forgetting to switch to his sock puppet account

submitted 16 hours ago • 390 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 12 hours ago • 86 comments

When the median voter finally has the same opinion as I:

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

JUST IN: CIA confirms that when it scanned Director Ratcliffe's phone for Signalgate messages, they were gone. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 13 hours ago • 313 comments

Some CIA directors delete torture videos. John Ratcliffe deletes Signal texts showing he shared classified information.

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

So, to recap: The government filed a non-responsive declaration more than an hour past the deadline. I’m gonna take a wild guess and predict that tomorrow’s hearing will be very unpleasant for one Drew Ensign…

submitted 13 hours ago • 105 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 15 hours ago • 288 comments

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 157 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Yesterday Trump announced the latest law firms that have capitulated to his lawlessness and political blackmail. Shame on them. Firms that are buckling to Trump’s bullying are paving a short road to tyranny.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

@vanhollen.senate.gov should be the biggest story of the day. He just released a press release saying “That’s why I’ve requested to meet with President Bukele during his trip to the United States, and – 1/2

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

Outstanding. More.

submitted 14 hours ago • 32 comments

It is legally impossible to deport citizens. This is not deportation. Removing citizens to foreign prisons, knowing to a certainty that they will be subjected to treatment that violates the U.S. constitution, doesn’t deserve any label that connotes legal legitimacy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 186 comments