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A truly gutting editorial from a West Point faculty member who is leaving the school.

submitted 5 hours ago • 18 comments

Don’t be fooled that Trump’s tariffs are just incompetence. It’s about power, just like the Exec orders issued to law firms and higher ed. He is counting on corporate America to come to him on bended knee asking for exceptions & giving loyalty in return. He doesn’t give a damn about the economy.

submitted 34 days ago • 33 comments

I visited the public defender office in Jackson in February. Horrifying as this case is, it isn't unusual. PDs say prosecutors routinely withhold discovery, dragging out meritless cases for months or years. When judges finally force their hand, they drop the charges, sometimes the day of trial.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

submitted 6 days ago • 200 comments

Considering how obsessed Trump’s top people are with calling everything “communism,” it’s ironic how much Beattie's witch hunt at State seems like a page from Soviet history, with Party commissars trying to identify ideological saboteurs in their midst. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 65 comments

Trump is crashing the economy, disappearing people, and attacking democracy & the rule of law every day, yet…compared to Democrats, he’s polling really well. Dems, the days of winning by just saying “Trump bad” are over. Those days ended in November. Dems, get YOUR act together.

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

Stephen Lynch, aiming to be top Dem on the Oversight Cmte, blew up at a constituent who asked him to oppose the GOP. "I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I get to decide that. I'm elected. I get to decide that. You wanna decide that? You need to run for Congress, okay? I get to decide that"

submitted 9 days ago • 979 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 1347 comments

New in PN: Trump's polling has already collapsed "Trump is increasingly unpopular. This presents a chance for Democrats to tie fascist politics — such as the targeting of immigrants and trans people — to a toxic presidency, and delegitimize those evil policies for years to come."

submitted 9 days ago • 165 comments

“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants, instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” Illinois Gov. Pritzker said.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.

submitted 13 days ago • 709 comments

These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent in the elevator with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance. The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.

submitted 13 days ago • 380 comments

Read this. Right now.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

submitted 16 days ago • 1432 comments

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend. “I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 17 days ago • 1246 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 17 days ago • 251 comments

This

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submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

A government that uses force while defying the rule of law is not entitled to the protections of the rule of law, nor are its agents.

submitted 20 days ago • 52 comments

So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore!

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

TONIGHT: @garrykasparov.bsky.social talks to @velshi.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 21 days ago • 340 comments

We are nearing the end.

submitted 21 days ago • 689 comments

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

submitted 21 days ago • 223 comments

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 925 comments

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

submitted 23 days ago • 236 comments

We are now at the point where the AP can write this as if its a simple background fact and it sparks no outrage: "Trump has made no secret of his plans to use the power of the federal government to target domestic political adversaries."

submitted 23 days ago • 183 comments

@juliettekayyem.bsky.social: “By the time political violence shows up in statistics, the damage to society is done.”

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 152 comments

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

submitted 25 days ago • 263 comments

Trump is also saying that the once the US has rounded up individuals, with minimal or zero due process, on whatever pretext they choose, they can send them out of the US to face torture, death, life imprisonment, slave labor or other fates that are unconstitutional or illegal in the US.

submitted 26 days ago • 172 comments

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

submitted 27 days ago • 499 comments

"Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the U. of Michigan said in its latest survey, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/e...

submitted 27 days ago • 33 comments