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Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky knows that if we do not hang together, we will all hang separately: "despite the risks of speaking out, silence itself comes as at enormous cost. Giving in to a bully only makes things worse."

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 1 day ago • 801 comments

Most women in Sub-Saharan Africa have no access to modern contraception. The US is cutting funds for family planning in developing countries. 50 million women won't have access to contraception, leading to more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 10 days ago • 421 comments

Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

The leaders of academia are not equal to this moment.

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

submitted 5 days ago • 512 comments

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal honor to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

submitted 9 days ago • 974 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 9 days ago • 1074 comments

Breaking: Congressional Republican suggests Elon Musk should be deported.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 9 days ago • 1702 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 12 days ago • 1172 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1567 comments

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 12 days ago • 826 comments

Trump stenography in the streets. Reality in the sheets.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

Welcome to the American Cultural Revolution.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 15 days ago • 622 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 17 days ago • 622 comments

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 16 days ago • 134 comments

Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

submitted 16 days ago • 619 comments

I like JB.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Again, you don’t have to believe be is a 🇷🇺 agent, but everything he does is observationally equivalent with that conclusion.

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

submitted 16 days ago • 94 comments

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

submitted 26 days ago • 40 comments

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

How is "Administration declares itself above the law" not the giant screaming headline everywhere

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments

PAGES FOR WHITES REMAIN ONLINE Message, again: If you’re not a straight white male, anything you accomplish – even rising from segregated schools to 2-star general, rallying men to repel an attack while wounded, earning the Medal of Honor – comes with an asterisk www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

This administration illegally denied hundreds of people due process, then deported them to a country they’ve never known, run by an authoritarian infamous for cruel treatment of prisoners. They then deceived a federal judge to buy time for the planes to land so he couldn’t do anything about it.

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 20 days ago • 87 comments

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 104 comments

Pundits already trying to make Dem base outrage a left vs mods thing, when in reality Neera Tanden is out there retweeting Bernie Sanders

submitted 20 days ago • 91 comments

Rewriting history one state at a time. Oklahoma Proposes Teaching 2020 Election ‘Discrepancies’ in U.S. History www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

since she was 8 months old www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

submitted 20 days ago • 230 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 22 days ago • 1215 comments

It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.

submitted 20 days ago • 148 comments

Yale just confirmed to me that the State Department did indeed cancel this contract for one of its research labs, which was tracking Ukrainian kids kidnapped by Russia:

submitted 20 days ago • 103 comments

I've been at DOJ for so many important speeches & presentations. Today, my heart is filled with sadness for my former colleagues & our country as a convicted felon who doesn't understand justice or the meaning of the rule of law & why both are essential to our democracy stands there.

submitted 20 days ago • 488 comments

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

submitted 20 days ago • 375 comments

Biiiiiitch….

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 21 days ago • 5233 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 21 days ago • 706 comments