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The soft bigotry of low expectations

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

The US denied a visa to a French lawmaker who is critical of Trump policies. Can you imagine how much the GOP would never shut up if the French denied a visa to one of them? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

The GOP should never hold power again.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE. Tells me everything I need to know about you.

submitted 14 days ago • 364 comments

Sometimes Uni makes a face, and I have no idea what he's thinking :3

submitted 15 days ago • 212 comments

The First Amendment specifically prohibits the government from using heavy force on citizens who protest the government. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 14 days ago • 290 comments

It is a disgrace that the Department of Defense continues to post partisan political messages on social media and a disgrace that the DHS Secretary is making political statements about elections from the Oval Office. They piss on this country’s traditions daily. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 14 days ago • 1151 comments

It’s destroying our future.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Russ lies each time he talks about impoundment All of Nixon’s impoundment cases were decided on PRE-ICA law, & he lost every case that was decided on the merits The ICA then GRANTED impoundment authority that didn’t exist before You can’t legally impound w/out explicit allowance & you never could

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

This is the kind of thing that would be a full-blown scandal leading to the resignation of multiple officials in any normal administration. Instead, it is completely ignored.

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

"The cornerstone of the American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases, however daunting," Judge Leon wrote in a 73-page opinion. "The Founding Fathers knew this!"

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom." - Abraham Lincoln

submitted 29 days ago • 154 comments

Just calling balls and strikes: anything that helps trump is legal, anything that would hurt trump is illegal

submitted 32 days ago • 48 comments

So the administration that claimed they wanted to give Americans more medical choice is banning my choice to get a Covid booster to protect my own health? The anti-freedom admin strikes again.

submitted 35 days ago • 37 comments

This is literally an authoritarian using the power of the state to jail an opponent, and attempt to intimidate all other opponents, in the United States of America. This doesn't happen if the US is still a democracy

submitted 36 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

Some Americans just didn’t show up for the test or chose an answer that was, effectively, not there. 2024 really shook my confidence in the American people.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 58 days ago • 100 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.

submitted 67 days ago • 317 comments

For those interested in Judge Wilkinson's approach to cases asking courts to review executive-branch actions, @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social & I (who both clerked for Wilkinson) published an essay about just that last fall. Read it here ➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Bottom line here ⬇️

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

submitted 68 days ago • 1162 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 68 days ago • 8391 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 69 days ago • 1846 comments

roberts and his co-conspirators are probably writing an opinion “for the ages” explaining that the article ii vests the president with the inherent power to disappear anyone he pleases

submitted 76 days ago • 210 comments

Dark Pence is back.

submitted 83 days ago • 1719 comments

America once took pride in not requiring citizens to carry national ID—no "Show me your papers!" Now we have to carry passports to avoid being disappeared.

submitted 87 days ago • 151 comments

I want to re-up this piece by Joel Simon for Vanity Fair which helps explain why those of us at the Voice of America are fighting back to preserve our journalistic autonomy — something actually mandated by law as a federal judge just illustrated. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-fre

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 87 days ago • 29 comments

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

submitted 87 days ago • 768 comments

RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.

submitted 87 days ago • 594 comments

This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.

submitted 89 days ago • 92 comments

Student: Master, how do I get better at debugging? Master foo: The primary tool for debugging is not a debugger; instead, it is staring intently at log files until they confess their sins. Upon hearing these words, the student was enlightened.

submitted 95 days ago • 9 comments

I will never recover from this student email.

submitted 575 days ago • 387 comments

JUST IN: DC Circuit sets oral arguments Monday afternoon in challenges to Trump's order to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 97 days ago • 11 comments

For over 80 years, Voice of America delivered news to countries—many under authoritarian rule—where reliable information was scarce. Now, those broadcasts, once a vital tool for promoting democracy and transparency, are fading away.

submitted 100 days ago • 390 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 100 days ago • 625 comments

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.

submitted 106 days ago • 177 comments

BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 106 days ago • 64 comments

Moments like this should be shared as widely as the terrifying shit. Not because they’re proof we have nothing to worry about. Because they indicate that he cannot in fact do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to. Recognize people who are doing their jobs rather than following his whims.

submitted 106 days ago • 15 comments

I wish that people in mainstream culture had listened to us nerds when GamerGate was happening and when the Sad/Rabid Puppy situation was going on with the Hugos. They were movements, writ small, of what is now eating my country.

submitted 120 days ago • 14 comments

😕

submitted 122 days ago • 940 comments