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Report links disgraced Milwaukee cop to high-profile deportation

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

New consumer sentiment data just out for April: Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years. Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

NEW: The Board of Immigration Appeals has been formally reduced from 28 members to 15 members, an action which "coincidentally" purges every single Board member appointed during the Biden administration. This comes as the BIA faces record backlogs — which will now get much worse.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

Great thread showing major media orgs helped Trump by spreading blatant misinformation about the tariff "pause".

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

A spoon full of poison makes America go down

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

What kind of brain problem makes you think that on the whole, Vietnam has fucked over the United States

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 315 comments

oh my god

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

So much winning — in 15 charts https://www.ft.com/content/b418d001-b1cf-4f0e-93f0-50470f40e97a

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

This is high art

submitted 8 days ago • 536 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 8 days ago • 1139 comments

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 8 days ago • 589 comments

I hope that Canadians are ready to cancel their Netflix, Disney+, and Apple+ subscriptions, too. #ElbowsUp

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 10 days ago • 232 comments

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 10 days ago • 177 comments

As the industry disintegrated, the remnants specifically selected for people who do well in bureaucracies and don’t feel comfortable challenging the status quo. Those are not the people you want running the store when fascism shows up.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Sec. Rollins claimed freezing USDA funding to Maine would "not impact federal feeding programs or direct assistance to Mainers; if a child was fed today, they will be fed tomorrow." My office learned tonight that's not the case. USDA froze the funds to administer child nutrition programs in Maine.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Look it was either this or having to say they/them once in a while

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Hard to watch: @newsweek.com posted footage of masked ICE agents arresting 50-year-old grandmother Angela Gonzalez, who'd been here since she was 11. She had a pending VAWA application, but other than that, had no options for a green card since she got here too late for the Reagan amnesty.

submitted 12 days ago • 505 comments

So just to recap: 1. The reciprocal tariffs aren't reciprocal. The rates announced by Trump are unrelated to the tariffs charged by other countries. Imports from Brazil, which imposes relatively high tariffs, will face lower rates than countries that impose little or no tariffs on US goods.

submitted 12 days ago • 53 comments

Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

submitted 12 days ago • 879 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

submitted 12 days ago • 187 comments

Strikingly, a type of gang that does actually use tattoos to ID their members is cop gangs in Southern California www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

i strongly endorse thinking about billionaires as a kind of monetary black hole

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 17 days ago • 989 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 18 days ago • 672 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 18 days ago • 112 comments

Today, we got long-term budget projections from the Congressional Budget Office assuming the 2017 tax law isn’t made permanent. It’s worth delving into how we got there—as recently as 13 years ago CBO was projecting a declining debt burden even though the retirement of the Baby Boomers was known. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

If we’ve deported Venezuelans using wartime authorities, then Noem’s video should probably be considered a war crime.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

The Vice President and the National Security Advisor discussing how they pre-targeted a building housing civilians.

submitted 20 days ago • 91 comments

How much worse can the Signal chat fiasco get? Chat member, Steve Witkoff, was not only in Moscow, he may have been inside the Kremlin meeting with Putin while war plans and fist emojis were flying around on his phone. Nothing to see here… except everything. +… www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

I think most people (myself included) don’t have an intuition for orders of magnitude (e.g., the difference between millionaire and billionaire). One way to appreciate this is time, since we all experience it. Here's the difference between a thousand, a million, and a billion seconds.

submitted 209 days ago • 22 comments

Woah -- "the mandate of the electorate." This isn't "like" a dictator, or "creeping toward authoritarianism." This is just it. Anyone who says otherwise now is supporting it.

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 21 days ago • 331 comments

They not only shared highly classified information on a private messaging app, but they also presumably did so on private unsecured phones--phones that are highly likely to be of interest to our adversaries. People have spent years in jail for far less. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 21 days ago • 88 comments

18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.

submitted 21 days ago • 415 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 24 days ago • 338 comments

Trump may have overpromised, but boy did he underdeliver

submitted 25 days ago • 66 comments