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BREAKING: Pete Hegseth Apparently Shared Sensitive Details of Houthi Attack in Neighborhood Buy/Sell/Trade Facebook Group

Paved paradise and put up an Equinox.

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

This whole Van Hollen trip is evidence for @joshtpm.bsky.social’s theory that one of the things limiting the effectiveness of so many people’s resistance to Trump is lack of imagination to try creative tactics.

Van Hollen is, curiously, one of very few electeds acting the way the founders envisioned—using the opportunity of one of the branches overreaching to further his own career. It’s a good thing, but passing strange we don’t see more of it.

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

This is like 90% of life now

Lmao “die in a camp” is a cry for empathy. My stars and garters, I wish I was this creative

This is the agency is responsible for: Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act Americans with Disabilities Act Fair Housing Act many more

This is a legal trainwreck. Florida made it a crime to be an unauthorized immigrant in the state. Sounds like no big deal to some. But what it does in actuality is allow police to arrest people they perceive as immigrants. Here's how that goes. More below. oklahomavoice.com/2025/04/17/u...

Look we may no longer have free speech exceptionalism but goddamned if we’re not still absolutely exceptional.

my super power is i always know instantly and perfectly from just one post when someone is Mentally Unwell (fun to riff with) or Mentally Unwell (do not engage)

In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...

lmao. turns out that was load-bearing DEI

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

i think it should be a crime to be forced to read about new york city politics every fucking day

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This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

I am not stupid or egotistical enough to think the regime cares about me, and I’m aware I’m a citizen (not Protestant white tho so, you know), but just as a mere thought experiment for empathy’s sake my wife and I — who I imagine are in a more comfortable position than Garcia’s family — just asked…

“Maybe my photos will live longer than I do and that’s what makes me feel at peace”

not every elite university in america is harvard, but every elite university in america has a virtually bottomless endowment that it can draw on if it needs to until donald trump is a subject of archaeological study. the only schools caving are the schools that want to

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

Is this true???!!

the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

Super fucking cool

Of course desantis installed this pervert at new college

You know when youre on the cusp of falling asleep but youre not done talking shit online

The bird app shows me the same finch a dozen times a day and its always a treat

This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.

Who does JD Vance think he’s bullshitting with his bullshit? There’s something both pathetic and infuriating about the imaginary dope he’s invented in his head to be more clever than—trying to manipulate the discourse like a cat trying to pick up a pencil, you have no thumbs, dummy.

Considering the degree to which zoomers grew up online I feel like this divide really illustrates how social media was more of a progressive force in society up until it was forcibly weaponized into a fascist radicalization pipeline a few years later

MLB today-

The "Jackie Robinson Day background" section of MLB's official press release about Jackie Robinson just notes that he was a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers who debuted in 1947. Nothing about the how, the why.

I…https://www.vox.com/culture/408578/trum-tariffs-incels-misogyny-email-jobs

My bff’s son works for Americorps and received a decommissioning letter today. DOGE is gutting the program. I’m so angry and disappointed DOGE would go after a program that does such good work. @marisakabas.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social @katiephang.bsky.social

Bird

Yup, Mark Paoletta — yes, one of the two people you might not have known in the creepy Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow, and Leonard Leo painting — is the first name on the filing, as the "chief legal officer" at CFPB currently.

Tammy Duckworth boils MAGA down to its essence:

This kicker: “The money spent on launching the missile into space has no other possible use because the issues women face on Earth are an afterthought.”

Let's fucking goooooooooo College of St. Benedict/St. John's University