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The Trump administration’s move to end deportation protections for wartime allies who fled to the U.S. after the fall of Afghanistan has infuriated veterans, who say the U.S. government is betraying a sacred promise.

submitted 23 days ago • 37 comments

this is so despicable, if we thought the loneliness epidemic was already bad, now we have the richest most powerful companies encouraging loneliness. these tech CEOs want us to only have ai friends

submitted 24 days ago • 131 comments

At least the robber barons of the early 20th century built museums and schools and parks for the public good because they knew the public would turn on them otherwise.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Google evolved from giving the world something everyone needed to forcing everyone to use something no one wanted

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

submitted 23 days ago • 235 comments

Dog approved. Congrats on the new book - can’t recommend it enough! @leahlitman.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The past few months have been tough, and we just want to say thank you. In the beginning, it felt like we were yelling into the wind, no one was listening. But then you all showed up. You raised your voices, shared the truth, and made the media pay attention.

submitted 23 days ago • 401 comments

The first clause of the First Amendment literally reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" -- which is exactly what this bill does. So much for defending the Constitution.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

students the world over have spent another graduation season bringing Palestinian flags and signs to commencement stages, from the U.K. to Qatar. at NYU and George Washington, student commencement speakers had their diplomas withheld or face campus bans for bringing up Gaza. @teenvogue.com

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison

submitted 23 days ago • 48 comments

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submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

The Department of Education is (was?) responsible for: ✅Distributing & monitoring spending for special-ed & low-income students; ✅Facilitating postsecondary financial aid; & ✅Civil rights enforcement Impossible to see how dismantling it will do anything but hurt kids & students.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Great job, Donald

submitted 98 days ago • 44 comments

Department of Education laying off half its employees www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

US Education Department will fire 50% of its workforce.

submitted 98 days ago • 301 comments

I follow multiple financial subs on Reddit. Most have new posts every day of people panicking about the economy...with one notable exception: The 'lower class' ones (e.x. r/povertyfinance) have largely chugged along like normal. Everyone else's emergency state is our daily life. 😂😭

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

submitted 108 days ago • 713 comments

This is unbelievable. The Washington Post reveals that an aide working for Mike Johnson persuaded Republicans not to issue a subpoena for former WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified to the Jan. 6 committee—fearing it could expose the sexual texts many of them had sent her.

submitted 145 days ago • 298 comments

I say we lean into Trump's executive order on gender. Get rid of all men's bathrooms, men's locker rooms, and men's spaces since men no longer exist. No more draft registration because men don't exist. No more men's sports because men don't exist.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is convinced Californians are desperate and meanwhile Mexico and Canada are both offering for us to leave the U.S. to join them. Same vibes as the dude insisting his ex is desolate without him when she's got her pick of dates to choose from. Befitting for the Divorced Deadbeat Dad™ campaign.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

submitted 206 days ago • 69 comments

Y'all. This fire in the Hollywood Hills is spreading FAST. If you are near Hollywood/West Hollywood I would really get a bag together.

submitted 160 days ago • 2 comments

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

submitted 160 days ago • 1249 comments

Updates from the Los Angeles fires: • At least 5 dead • 1,000+ buildings destroyed • Palisades fire is most destructive in Los Angeles history • Tens of thousands of people still under evacuation orders • Another round of high winds expected tomorrow afternoon www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

submitted 160 days ago • 10 comments

An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.

submitted 160 days ago • 23 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 160 days ago • 608 comments

The most baffling part of the positive social media embrace of Luigi Mangione and the UHC CEO assassination is how much of it is coming from the right. Ya'll voted in that CEO's benefit, for his sake, and to your own detriment, yet you're happy he's dead? Makes no sense.

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submitted 186 days ago • 59 comments

He did it! Congrats to Derek Tran!!

submitted 204 days ago • 775 comments

Funny because true.

submitted 203 days ago • 1952 comments

Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...

submitted 204 days ago • 13 comments

“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”

submitted 203 days ago • 11 comments

Now this is an interesting story via Reuters. Quietly, without fanfare, several British police forces have largely withdrawn from X as concerns over the promotion of violence & extreme content persist. Reuters surveyed Police & found 8 different forces have hugely scaled back presence on X.

submitted 203 days ago • 8 comments

Wait, they’re still on the board? I thought I had them killed.

submitted 203 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Israel approves ceasefire to end war with Hezbollah, concluding more than a year of fighting along Israel's northern border

submitted 203 days ago • 5 comments

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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submitted 203 days ago • 32 comments

20 mostly white private academies, all founded in the 1960s and 1970s, brought in more than $20 million from North Carolina in the past three years alone. None reflected the demographics of their communities. Few even came close.

submitted 211 days ago • 29 comments

Yes! Yes!!

submitted 211 days ago • 35 comments

Closest thing a bookish young Jew had to Christmas

submitted 211 days ago • 2 comments

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

submitted 215 days ago • 246 comments

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

submitted 215 days ago • 2382 comments