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My 2yo, throwing something with malice aforethought:

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Who can tell the difference? IS there a difference is maybe the most important question.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

As you read CATO's report on how 65% of the people ICE has detained committed no crime, remember that @padilla.senate.gov was asking why Kristi Noem always invoked the same 6 cases when Noem's goons assaulted him. That's why. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with absolutely no basis, but wait over a year to see a judge.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 3 days ago • 3209 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 4 days ago • 445 comments

Serious question for lawyers - what are you supposed to do if people without warrants, badges, ID, and covering their faces attempt to detain you?

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

He's drinking Daaad's Berry Soleil! with apologies to Prince

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Shooters were dressed like law enforcement and this is exactly why I’m pissed about ice officers wearing masks, driving unmarked cars and not being identifiable when they terrorize communities

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

We need to remind everyone that this man is in jail because of the ideas in his head, having committed no crime

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

submitted 15 days ago • 886 comments

Immigration is good, actually.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

“Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,” it says, “it wastes $4 million.”

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 14 days ago • 327 comments

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 14 days ago • 1911 comments

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...

submitted 14 days ago • 121 comments

ICE surrendered their presumption of legitimacy when they kidnapped and internationally trafficked dozens-to-hundreds without due process and defied courts who have demanded their return. It’s cash now, no credit. GTFO of our communities and don’t come back until you have proof.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 15 days ago • 102 comments

"Balance in journalism doesn’t mean giving equal weight to truth and lies, it means giving weight proportional to credibility... If one doctor out of a hundred dissents from the consensus, that’s not a “side” deserving 50% of the story. The era of false equivalence needs to end."

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

submitted 21 days ago • 378 comments

Gee, if only Trump had a department looking for easy cuts to wasteful spending

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

one last post on international students -- public opinion is not in the administration's favor on this, and universities should not let them forget it

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Heaven forbid senators vote for things that they think will get them reelected. That could leave government—shudder—accountable to the voters!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

As a YIMBY homeowner, let me add that citing someone's hypothetical future hypocrisy as an alternative to trying to defend your position on the merits is an incredibly tiresome and useless form of argument

submitted 22 days ago • 47 comments

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

submitted 23 days ago • 119 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 23 days ago • 463 comments

Now more than ever

submitted 23 days ago • 130 comments

The same guys trying to demonize government workers as useless bureaucrats who just lounge around all day on the taxpayer dime are complaining on television about how hard it is to work in the government

submitted 25 days ago • 53 comments

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 25 days ago • 172 comments

Lmao the future sucks

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

submitted 25 days ago • 110 comments