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My friends planning to travel to the US, I urge you to take precautions. Please. Especially if you value freedom of opinion.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That goes for no matter who the "we" is - individuals or institutions alike... and I fear a ton of different we's aren't going to see that until it's way too late.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Everything you need to know about Musk 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court will not stop Louisiana from trying to suffocate Jessie Hoffman to death tonight with nitrogen gas. Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would grant a stay of execution. Gorsuch, based on a religion claim, dissents and would also grant a stay.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

When your government breaks into independent non-profit organisations without a warrant, you’re not living in a state that respects limited government, the rule of law, or democracy. We need to be frank and vigilant: US democracy could collapse into a hybrid regime by 2028.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 2 days ago • 266 comments

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

submitted 2 days ago • 713 comments

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

submitted 3 days ago • 929 comments

Taps the sign again***

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

we are in an informed bubble of people

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

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The Department of Education has existed almost 1/5 as long as the country itself. It’s been around longer than I’ve been alive. Longer than the median American has been alive.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Putting this into perspective: The government says that any [presumed] member of [what the government deems to be] a group can be deported so long as [the government asserts that] it is advancing the interests of a foreign country against the interests of the US [, regardless of citizenship status]

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Essential to remind that libraries are not just vital sources of knowledge and information but also excellent community centers devoted to under-served populations. Services for job-seekers, the blind, for senior citizens. They lend out books but also tech, cooking equipment, media players.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees. “From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments

I literally built my NPS career on the foundation the Institute of Museum and Library Services laid. To see a wrecking ball being taken to them is heartbreaking… Their work around envisioning museums and libraries as places for civic skill building are core to who I am as a person, frankly.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.

submitted 4 days ago • 140 comments

We The People.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

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today's mood is also today's shirt

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

I understand it is a dark read for many, but I wanted to say, Maus 1 and 2 are available for free through the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/maus...

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

I know we’re in a fascist hellscape, but could we stop with the AI art? Because generative AI is part of the fascist hellscape’s DNA. This could easily have been done in 10 minutes in GIMP and looked so much better…

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 5 days ago • 5340 comments

It’s moments like this that I really wish we had @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social in DC…

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Schumer has a book tour starting next week. I hope it goes just great for him.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Charles Entertainment Schumer

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 6 days ago • 2373 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 6 days ago • 5273 comments

quisling (noun) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

taken by ICE from the Boston airport with proper paperwork, mistreated and relocated to another state

submitted 7 days ago • 80 comments

AI isn't just theft and environmental callousness. It's also fascist because its overall aim is to wrest the power of artistic expression from everyday ppl and place it in the hands of oligarchs. It's anti-truth and anti-morality. I block it wherever I see it.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I don't want to add to doomerism but game devs should know this about Tim Sweeney.

submitted 7 days ago • 59 comments

Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory. He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

“you know none of this is about saving money, right?” a republican source told @wired.com. “it’s all about destroying a liberal power base.” it’s only tuesday… lock in

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments