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Rowling, like Musk, demonstrates why the ultra-wealthy cannot be allowed to be so: because they use their wealth to buy the world they want to live in

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

submitted 14 hours ago • 563 comments

It really does feel like they are going all-out on this to a degree that is going to boomerang very badly

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

submitted 16 hours ago • 87 comments

“While in the custody of a county jail in Tucson, AZ, Casey had transformed from an energetic woman who maintained a healthy weight into a skeletal figure who could hardly move or speak. “She was just skin and bones,” her son, Carlin, said.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Federal agencies now only exist to litigate the president's personal grievances

submitted 12 hours ago • 73 comments

Recreation centers in DC provide many events for kids to be safe and have fun. This will be awful for them especially if it extends into summer bsky.app/profile/51st...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

All the norms of this profession's mainstream are aligned against speaking straightforwardly about what is happening to this country. That's not just true today. It has always been true.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

If you leave school, and there is a fight across the street, and you go across the street to look at that fight, you can then be placed in the gang database.

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

the plan is to end American science research all of it, no exceptions other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Progressive activists are being disappeared and deported and we are still getting conservative whine-fests in national outlets

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

A second poll in less than 24 hours has dropped where it shows that Fetterman, the most pro-Israel and pro-Trump Democrat in the Senate, has the highest unfavorables out of any elected official in the party.

submitted 14 hours ago • 52 comments

Maybe Bondi is even higher up in MS-13. She might lead the whole thing. There's just as much evidence

submitted 8 hours ago • 145 comments

“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.” #defendhighered

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 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 15 hours ago • 441 comments

difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Truly insane story that involves executives who allegedly made fake tax shelters helping pay off the campaign debt of the man set to oversee the IRS and potential investigations into their schemes. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

submitted 12 hours ago • 144 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

My take on the “we need to hear more right wing opinions” thing is the people saying it believes that everyone is as right wing as they are but they just don’t say it because they’re afraid people will get mad, but if we hit a saturation point everyone will suddenly drop the mask and agree with them

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump's assault on civil society broadens [WaPo]: his new acting IRS commish "told staff in recent weeks that one of his first orders of business as an agency exec was to review & revoke the tax-free status of groups suggested by Republican allies in Congress, 3 of the ppl said." First up: Harvard.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

submitted 15 hours ago • 320 comments

"Three-quarters of Americans who oppose the regime haven’t been asked to take action; concerns around safety and efficacy have also kept some on the sidelines." drive.google.com/file/d/1R1iF...

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Congress still hasn't fixed the local D.C. budget shortfall it caused in the first place. Now, the mayor is instituting a spending freeze and warning furloughs might be necessary. Latest from @maustermuhle.bsky.social 51st.news/bowser-freez...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

this fucking season man

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Why would Larry Krasner allow this?!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

YES. The Left needs to get out of the habit of acting as if the key missing piece is the will to act, and needs to focus more on HOW things could get done and the very real challenges that make action more difficult.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

After writing my history of concentration camps, I came to believe that short of committing murder yourself, one of the worst things you can do is to abet or exploit the suffering of another human being to increase your own power in the world.

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

plenty of good points made in this article, but the conclusion that "the money is there" to accomplish this on the left is just wrong. it is not.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

"Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the military – say is no longer motivated by Israel’s security interests..." www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

Oh my god it is LITERALLY OUR TAX MONEY CAN WE JUST HAVE IT TO FUND OUR OWN SOCIAL SERVICES.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

most of these sound like a party to me - which is fine conclusion wise, but complicated the framing wrt what exists already

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments