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Trump’s sputtering response to Harvard standing up to him is yet another reason why institutions should refuse to bend the knee. He’s a paper tiger, unable to argue his own case.

submitted 19 hours ago • 505 comments

‘Other communications show that researchers worked to remove the copyright pages from the books they had downloaded.’ If you’re a writer or artist of any kind, this piece will turn your stomach. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 15 hours ago • 218 comments

“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

Chris is absolutely right here. If YOU shrug your shoulders and say, "well, we couldn't possibly expect the scofflaws in the Trump administration to comply, so don't have any expectations, suckers!" then YOU have given up on the rule of law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

I see a lot of people falling into the "this is pointless" trap, and I can only say it so many ways — though I suspect I will have to write something specifically about it on this front — but the bottom line is that we must expect compliance. Anything less is just making noncompliance easier.

submitted 16 hours ago • 66 comments

all support to comrade checks notes harvard? double-checks notes in its struggle against the imperialist actors of the executive branch

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

ICE gave “misleading” and “last-minute” information to city law enforcement and has not responded to the city’s requests for more information about the violent arrest of a New Bedford immigrant this week, according to Mayor Jon Mitchell. newbedfordlight.org/ice-keeps-ma...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

No! The deuce you say!

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

JIMMY CARTER HAD TO SELL HIS FUCKING PEANUT FARM

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Dresses like a gangster….. ok, he’s dressed like every white boy I went to prep school with in New England in the early 2000s but ok.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s becoming disturbingly clear that a whole lotta people don’t understand what a supply chain actually is.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I think men like this should be way more afraid

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“When liberalism was firmly entrenched, its discontents could treat authoritarian ideas as interesting avant-garde provocations. Authoritarianism in power, however, was always going to be crude and stupid.” FAFO www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 1 day ago • 987 comments

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 1 day ago • 488 comments

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 1 day ago • 558 comments

As a citizen of an imperial nation, that, with Brexit, had its own unforced implosion: I think the thing that will hurt Americans most in the end isn’t the mockery, it’s the indifference as people move on from you. “We are the world’s laughing stock!” “No. They’re not even thinking about us.”

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 1 day ago • 793 comments

Also I don’t give a shit if Abrego Garcia is a criminal. He can be the fucking king of ms13 for all I care, disappearing him to a fucking GULAG IN EL SALVADOR IS STILL ANTI CONSTITUTIONAL. It’s not wrong because he’s a nice guy, it’s wrong because due process is the cornerstone of the rule of law

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hey you know what I don't support permanent exile to a foreign death camp for criminals either.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive. Read story and view full video: newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

MAGA idiots have been tricked into surrounding Tesla dealerships nationwide, their presence alone is deterring potential buyers and collapsing sales. Psyop successful 👏

submitted 2 days ago • 824 comments

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

submitted 1 day ago • 316 comments

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

submitted 1 day ago • 669 comments

Something that is unique about this case, and the assumption I have that Miller is driving the bus here, is that they have decided to go all in on literally the worst possible case they have. The government has admitted they sent him to El Salvador in error. The Solicitor General said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I think every Dem should do interviews with the Bulwark because frankly they're the likeliest to ask interviewees whether they'll invade El Salvador

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

The White House is mad that there were no pro-racism people on a Sesame Street special.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So this is entirely separate from signalgate?!?!?!??!

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

I keep reading and hearing that, while Trump's net favorability is negative, his approval ratings on immigration are positive. Thanks to @gelliottmorris.com for looking under the hood on this. Turns out Americans really don't like Trump's immigration policies.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is one reason why Dems shouldn't hedge everything they say about immigration with a generic "illegal immigration is a serious problem" intro, it just feeds into Trump's framing. Pick specific bad Trump policies—there are many—and attack.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 1 day ago • 563 comments