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The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

submitted 5 hours ago • 25 comments

“Heterodox” in this context means you agree with the people who control all three branches of the US government. Real mavericks and underdogs

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Sidebar from the Post. Good to remember, this is all illegal. Renegade executive branch gang doesn't decide budgets.

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

Portions of the president's executive orders were unconstitutional, the judge decided.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Speaking of "waste fraud and abuse", Elon's little sociopath-grunions cut several hundred thousand of NEH grants that help fund the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine). sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Would've been nice

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

Trump had a judge arrested today, so let's see how Democrats are fighting back...

submitted 18 hours ago • 42 comments

When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

submitted 20 hours ago • 179 comments

I think people need to get rid of the idea of a “return to normal” whatever that even means. The political and economic situation of the world with climate change getting worse is not going to be less chaotic

submitted 19 hours ago • 210 comments

Will Lewis -- who now serves as CEO and publisher of the Washington Post --"could have been arrested for perverting the course of justice" after he helped deal w/ the phone-hacking scandal for Rupert Murdoch. This is via a court document just filed in the UK www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

The level of criminal conduct here is hard to imagine www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 15 hours ago • 89 comments

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

submitted 20 hours ago • 594 comments

How much of everything awful happening today could have been avoided by holding people who attempt a coup accountable instead of stepping back and saying "I'm sure the American voters will make the right choice."

submitted 17 hours ago • 118 comments

"A government that can disappear 238 men to an El Salvadoran prison on flimsy allegations can do the same to any of us. 'But I’m a U.S. citizen who has never committed crimes' is a defense that only works if you get the chance to make it in a court of law," Ashton Pittman writes.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

The United States of America is child trafficking.

submitted 17 hours ago • 80 comments

Just today: -Arrested a sitting judge -Announced a policy that media must respond to subpoenas re leaked info because it “undermines president Trump’s policies” -Deported a toddler American citizen

submitted 17 hours ago • 22 comments

Literally just saw a tiktok where the dude interviewed two young people who said they voted for Trump. The dude, who was Latino, said that Trump passed the vibe check compared to Kamala. interviewer: he raped a woman Guy: what interviewer: Donald trump he raped a woman. Was that the vibe check?

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

"EVERY SPANISH SPEAKING TRAFFIC STOP BECOMES AN IMMIGRATION STOP."

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

There you go. This is who they are

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Only way to come back from this is to put a whole bunch of people in jail

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

submitted 17 hours ago • 157 comments

First known American citizen to be deported.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

This is always where it was going to go. They want control over how human bodies are allowed to be portrayed, not just nudity but in all aspects. Bluster about "protecting children" from pornography is just the wedge they use to open the door.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

The way I now see batshit insane headlines and go “…yeah ok that tracks”

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

I’m sorry wait what

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

submitted 15 hours ago • 83 comments

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

submitted 16 hours ago • 80 comments

START 👏 HOLDING 👏 PEOPLE 👏IN 👏 CONTEMPT even if you’re not ready to pull the trigger on Trump or Vance, all the flunkies doing the actual fuckery are totally arrestable private citizens who might start singing a different tune if they have to do jail time for Trump’s agenda

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

Even his sports takes are eugenicist.

submitted 20 hours ago • 40 comments

People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

OR JUST NOT FUCKING USE IT EVER

submitted 21 hours ago • 298 comments

So he’s doing terribly and solid majorities oppose him

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

Amazon are fucking scum.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I mean, this is patently absurd and unworkable. Bigoted clowns

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

Great job by Republicans to make a middle-aged white judge who worked with Catholic Charities a new face of the resistance. This is exactly how you let white people know they're next & no one is safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is a really important response to the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan by Kash Patel's lawless FBI. Good on Representative Clancy.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Can we start using the f-word now? ~AA

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

A good starting point for reporters, headline writers, and readers is to not take for granted the government's initial claims. Because they are probably not true.

submitted 23 hours ago • 40 comments

At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."

submitted 23 hours ago • 119 comments

Bill Maher has the behavior of a very specific band of boomer white guy: an "equal-opportunity offender" perfectly willing to weaponize identity politics and cry like a baby the second anyone gives back to him even 1/8 of what he dishes out. I guessed his birth year (1956) instantly and correctly

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

Had to be done.

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

Guess we've found that use case for AI everybody was looking for.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Generative AI steals from artists and is killing our planet. I do not care about what circumstances you think justify it. Do. Not. Use. It.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

By the way this isn't an obscure act; it was the one used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the one never overturned by the Supreme Court or US District Court, even when Fred Korematsu's case was appealed in the 1980s.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

The good news this is only for any computer labeled "Copilot+," so if you were wise enough to avoid purchasing one of those you don't have to deal with this horseshit. It's like natural selection.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments