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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 3 days ago • 458 comments

I mean to be totally frank dating someone who is openly Trumpist puts you at obvious, immediate risk of an abusive relationship in a way that wasn’t true of your average 90s Republican

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

“Since he stepped back into the Oval Office, nearly every day brings new examples of Trump’s commitment to authoritarianism and obsession with election denialism and subversion,” Marc Elias writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 4 days ago • 935 comments

Good news, folks!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

All airlines are shitty. But Southwest Airlines, for a time, was the least shitty, and I liked it for that. Then, private equity ruined it, like it ruins everything else. My column for @chron.com: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

the deportations are not final. the regime and security forces fuck up constantly. escape and survival are not just possible but probable. this nightmare engine can be fought and is being fought. don't forget.

submitted 9 days ago • 54 comments

The moral imperative of our time.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

we have now swung around from police militarization (cops looking identical to soldiers) to police chuddification (cops looking like half-drunk proud boys in downtown Portland circa 2019)

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

Does anyone know a expert in South Pacific languages? This is why I miss Twitter. I used to be able to just ask this and someone would be like “I am!” But seriously, is anyone? I need an expert on South Pacific languages.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

And this kind of collective shrug from people who say “what’s the big deal it’s just down the street” are why it’s so emotionally devastating

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Before and after a dip in the birdbath. 😁 Same American Robin. It's not commonly known that the American robin is a member of the sponge family and will increase in size with the addition of water. 😂 #birds

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Marco Rubio used to defend free speech wherever it was threatened. Now he's snatching students off the street for exercising First Amendment rights — an authoritarian crusade that would make McCarthy himself blush. I would ask "have you no decency," but I already know the answer.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

the whole renaissance fest saga has been one of the most insane things to happen in texas recently

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Many such cases

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 14 days ago • 130 comments

It's never been easier to grift.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

The NWS office in Jackson, Kentucky, has been without staffing overnight because of DOGE cuts. Last night, a tornado tore through southern Kentucky and killed more than a dozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Good stuff

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do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?

submitted 18 days ago • 1424 comments

Racial exclusion is a thing of the past, so we are going to return to it?!?

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

When Blumenthal tells you that KOSA has no free speech problems please remember that he also said thinks that Elon Fucking Musk is “the foremost champion of free speech in the tech industry.”

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

submitted 18 days ago • 202 comments

This forever

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

submitted 19 days ago • 79 comments

Worth repeating that this woman AGREED TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES. She said she would go back to Europe, where she held a valid visa that would allow her to temporarily stay. She just didn't want to go back to Russia, where she feared returning bc of her past persecution for political activities.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

That is in fact what this administration has done.

submitted 19 days ago • 701 comments

Strong work 🫡 @rollingstone.com

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

“I could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

Moments before an immigration court hearing in Mahmoud Khalil's case, our lawyers were abruptly banned from using laptops in the courtroom — but the government's lawyers weren't. No one should be denied the basic tools they need to defend themselves in court.

submitted 21 days ago • 98 comments

Seeing some of those videos of ICE guys in full soldier of fortune getups with rifles and balaclavas being filmed by 40 year old women in Yoga pants telling them to go fuck themselves and get the fuck out of their city really shows once again that libmoms are America’s most fearless defenders

submitted 22 days ago • 198 comments

“these people are an eyesore and rather than helping get them back on their feet I’m going to shove them out of sight and hope they die quietly” inhumane and evil

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

because of these chucklefucks it is a miracle that we go a day without a passenger airline crash

submitted 22 days ago • 237 comments

The way progressive White folks keep ignoring that most Black folks lived under authoritarianism HERE from the early 1500s to the 1970s in parts of this country & instead reach to Germany to describe our current situation is deep— Do y’all not know the Nazis modeled their system on Jim Crow HERE?

submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

🧵This country has a deep history of resisting & rejecting oppression. It isn’t often taught or acknowledged. We need to know. We need to learn from our elders, ancestors, & political forebears. Now. A thread about that. I will inevitably miss many examples; pls reply or QT with additions.

submitted 185 days ago • 50 comments

No kings. Not ever. Saturday, June 14

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…

submitted 23 days ago • 624 comments

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 23 days ago • 137 comments

years and years of yelling at people that actually the president doesn’t have that much of an effect on the economy only to be proven wrong by the world’s biggest dipshit

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

Well, without an ankle monitor, what is to stop her from co-authoring another op-ed?

submitted 24 days ago • 51 comments

I saw a MAGA call the new pope “globalist” and was wondering how long it was gonna take for someone to call him a Jew out loud and apparently the answer was a couple of hours.

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

I am once again asking Congressional Democrats to act as if we’re in the midst of a constitutional crisis.

submitted 24 days ago • 37 comments

Shut down the facility

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments