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I think this is one my most important columns from last year, on why any unchecked right-wing regime will seek to eviscerate the practice of science. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 20 hours ago • 60 comments

Bill Maher is dumber than you can ever imagine. I stopped paying attention when he became an anti-vaxxer.

submitted 8 hours ago • 91 comments

Give us proof, not your word.

submitted 8 hours ago • 103 comments

It's kidnapping.

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2046 comments

Forgive the rant, but what the hell is this Administration doing? Not gonna be easy to undo the damage, folks. But I’ve got some ideas on where to start.

submitted 12 hours ago • 404 comments

Trump yanked Obama’s portrait and stuck up a photo of himself during an alleged “assassination attempt.” Because nothing says “presidential” like replacing history with delusion.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Democratic House Rep. Jason Crow: "If you don’t have the courage to stand up and fight for the people you represent—you don’t belong in office." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Abrego-Garcia’s lawyers have asked for expedited discovery from US officials with knowledge of the terms of any deal with El Salvador and of A-G’s whereabouts. Expect Judge Xinis to grant it over howling objection, and for 4th Cir to deny US emergency appeal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 48 comments

The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.

submitted 10 hours ago • 194 comments

#TrumpParade 🤣🤣

submitted 10 hours ago • 262 comments

the transfer to El Salvador of US deportees is, per Pres Bukele, a straight up contract that has “nothing to do w/foreign policy.” The fees we are paying makes their entire prison system “sustainable.” Don’t see how US can make argument that bringing A-G back is some sensitive foreign policy matter

submitted 9 hours ago • 260 comments

The most dangerous gang in America. DT-47.

submitted 9 hours ago • 257 comments

Frost: I come from Florida. See, Project 2025 is Florida 2024. We’ve seen this, but we also know how to deal with it. When they disappear, a college student, you take to the streets. When they steal your Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, you take to the streets.

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

I bet more Republicans than Democrats had already recognized him.

submitted 13 hours ago • 251 comments

BREAKING: Famed Economist Paul Krugman just told Ari Melber: "This Tariff pause is [still] a tariff rate that is higher overall than Smooth-Hawley. This is a bigger shock to the economy than any trade policy in any country’s history."

submitted 11 hours ago • 42 comments

In Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, public outrage erupted after a local hospital director ordered the closure of the neurology department and laid off staff. In response, furious residents staged a protest — and threw the official who signed the order into a dumpster. #3E

submitted 10 hours ago • 119 comments

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

submitted 9 hours ago • 163 comments

When you’ve lost the DAILY MAIL

submitted 11 hours ago • 155 comments

AOC: And his whole presidency began with launching tools for bribery, meme coins to fleece working people and move around money in the dark, extortion settlements from media companies and law firms who gladly pay them

submitted 11 hours ago • 107 comments

The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. But who benefits from those riches? Consider: the richest 10% of Americans hold nearly 70% of the nation’s wealth – while the bottom 50% hold just 3%. See the problem?

submitted 11 hours ago • 418 comments

Just in case those of us fighting for democracy in court didn't need another challenge, Big Law turning collaborators is here and growing. My firm and others continue to fight. We will never back down. We will never bend a knee. We will never obey.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1047 comments

There’s a special place in HELL for anyone who stands before the Supreme Court and argues that a man they wrongfully sent to an El Salvadorian death camp should stay there.

submitted 9 hours ago • 460 comments

I said it before and I’ll say it again: Target not only turned its back on diversity it spit in our faces. My wife and I haven’t been back since January — and we won’t be. We take our money where people like us are seen, valued, and respected. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

submitted 10 hours ago • 706 comments

Pierre Poilievre doesn’t talk about men’s biological clocks, sperm counts, or prostate health—because that would be invasive and absurd. So why is it acceptable for him to comment on women’s reproductive timelines? It’s not policy. It’s not leadership. It’s misogyny. #NeverPoiLIEvre

submitted 16 hours ago • 296 comments

My law firm is currently litigating 49 voting and election cases in 21 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA. I expect new cases will be filed this week.

submitted 10 hours ago • 705 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1063 comments

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 237 comments

The government has filed a declaration in the Abrego Garcia case reiterating its assertions that he is detained by El Salvador on its own “sovereign, domestic authority” and implicitly not subject to recall by the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 10 hours ago • 103 comments

It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

submitted 13 hours ago • 170 comments

LIVE: Bernie Sanders just started speaking at one of his largest ever rallies in Los Angeles. Watch LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T244...

submitted 11 hours ago • 52 comments

Very fair requests by attorneys for Abrego Garcia⬇️ Needed transparency for all the detainees unlawfully sent to El Salvador torture center. - compel government to produce written documents on agreement with El Salvador - require government officials to appear as witnesses before district court

submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

Here comes the reeducation camps in redwhiteandblueland mining lithium and uranium for the gazillionaires!! I knew it!!

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Greg Abbott’s stalling the TX-18 election to help Trump’s agenda—keeping a safe Dem seat empty for 7 months. @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social isn’t just another name on a ballot—he’s the next-gen fighter. He’s calling Abbott out and ready to raise hell in Congress for people the GOP tries to silence.

submitted 13 hours ago • 86 comments

It’s always veep

submitted 11 hours ago • 185 comments

Southern California Edison, the electric utility whose equipment has been the focus of investigations into the deadly Eaton fire, said on Friday that it planned to bury over 150 miles of power lines in fire-prone areas near Altadena and Malibu — one of the top requests from fire-ravaged communities.

submitted 11 hours ago • 58 comments

NEW: The Trump administration, via a senior State Department official, says Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. But they still won't say if they're doing anything to get him back. Details w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 10 hours ago • 117 comments

For folks who can't seem to handle multiple thoughts in your pretty little heads: Yes, bad shit is still bad. That does not, however, change the fact that it is news that, following Friday's hearing, State has confirmed where Abrego Garcia is and that he is alive.

submitted 10 hours ago • 48 comments

A state judge in Idaho — which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation — appeared to slightly broaden access to abortion there on Friday. In situations where a mother faces risk of death, the ruling allows for abortions even when death isn’t imminent.

submitted 10 hours ago • 141 comments

This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

submitted 11 hours ago • 398 comments

With planes and helicopters falling out of the sky every week you’ve got to ask yourself…

submitted 10 hours ago • 55 comments

Gomez: It doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z. We are now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Gomez: Fuck around Crowd: Find out

submitted 13 hours ago • 147 comments

Nationwide organizing (like our work to help mobilize millions last weekend) takes a lot of resources, so our resistance grows bigger and better when you pitch in. Please consider a donation to build momentum and fuel our organizing during the congressional recess: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...

submitted 10 hours ago • 35 comments

C’mon Simpsons.

submitted 9 hours ago • 367 comments

Zero. Zero days before he exempted phones, chips, computers and other tech.

submitted 12 hours ago • 233 comments

The Global Financial Order Is Trembling politicalwire.com/2025/04/12/t...

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A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

submitted 9 hours ago • 508 comments

Marjorie Taylor Greene buying Apple, Pi, Qualcomm, Dell, Amazon, and Lam stocks seems a lot more sus before the tariff exemptions on electronics components, smartphones, semiconductors, and computers. Martha Stewart would like a word.

submitted 17 hours ago • 393 comments