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This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

submitted 19 days ago • 1990 comments

every word of this kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 25 days ago • 1083 comments

One of the best parts of campaigning? Meeting Virginians and taking in the beauty of our Commonwealth along the way!

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Our meeting with Rümeysa Öztürk was a true testament to her character. She remains kind-hearted and courageous, despite the cruelty she is enduring at the facility. I asked her pointedly if she had a message for the people of Somerville, she said thank you for being her community.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

This is at least six kinds of stupid. You’re assuming any significant number of birds HAVE immunity (unlikely), that recovered birds recover in any salable way (dubious), that the long-term-sick birds don’t infect humans (improbable), AND that the virus doesn’t mutate (impossible). 🧪

submitted 67 days ago • 52 comments

In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

submitted 80 days ago • 380 comments

Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico now number over 250, with two deaths being linked to the outbreak. (For comparison, the US had 285 cases of measles in all of 2024). Measles isn't just a rash. For @wired.com, I wrote about why the disease can be so deadly: www.wired.com/story/this-i...

submitted 74 days ago • 33 comments

💥 NEW: A spokesperson for the ALFDP (Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals) messaged me yesterday about Trump's Executive Order last week targeting law firm Perkins Coie. In his EO, Trump called the firm's DEI practices "discriminatory," and threatened other "large law firms."

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 74 days ago • 303 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 81 days ago • 1075 comments

Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.

submitted 81 days ago • 763 comments

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 85 days ago • 176 comments

Worth noting that when the war started Zelensky’s English was very shaky and he’s clearly spent a ton of time improving it for exactly this purpose.

submitted 85 days ago • 1515 comments

Jeff Bezos had a busy day Wednesday. After announcing the obliteration of the Washington Post’s editorial page that morning, he had dinner that night with Donald Trump. 👉

submitted 85 days ago • 177 comments

Breaking News: A jury in Illinois convicted a man on murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who lived at his property.

submitted 85 days ago • 21 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

submitted 85 days ago • 933 comments

It's not necessarily the most important part of today's Oval Office debacle, but Vance suggested that Zelenskyy has never thanked the U.S. for its support — and that's demonstrably ridiculous. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 85 days ago • 207 comments

Fear, exasperation, even tears in Europe (and mass expressions of solidarity with Ukraine) after the heated Trump-Vance-Zelensky meeting. Gift link: wapo.st/3ETfWkH

submitted 85 days ago • 31 comments

The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But nearly 20% of the time, the American organ transplant system is skipping over hundreds or even thousands of people when it distributes kidneys, livers, lungs and hearts, a New York Times investigation found.

submitted 86 days ago • 12 comments

I work at Fox News because its critical that Americans hear opposing viewpoints about the critical issues in our public discourse. Right now, Trump voters are having buyer's remorse. Approval ratings are down. Constituents are fed up. It's just the beginning.

submitted 86 days ago • 461 comments

The Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era rule that required oil companies to pay a fine for emitting methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that has significantly contributed to climate change.

submitted 86 days ago • 52 comments

A newly hired advisor at DOJ is a former judge who received what was then Oregon's longest-ever suspension for misconduct. He also made the news for "for having hung a picture of Adolf Hitler in his courthouse." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-hir...

submitted 88 days ago • 254 comments

"It was a really devastating blow that Joy Reid's show ended last night," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. "But I am also completely, absolutely confident she is going to continue to be a central voice in American politics at this critical time."

submitted 88 days ago • 125 comments

just now #vitaminsea 🌊

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 88 days ago • 669 comments

I miss DEI

submitted 88 days ago • 2226 comments

One of the reasons air travel became safe was the FAA moving away from enforcement actions, as Will mentions. If pilots are nervous they'll lose their jobs by reporting something going wrong – they'll stop reporting!!! You'll only find out when the "near miss" turns into 200 dead

submitted 88 days ago • 21 comments

Before asserting that something like this is happening because he says he can do it, journalists should ask what the statutory authority is, and if it is unclear or nonexistent, the headline and story should reflect that.

submitted 88 days ago • 85 comments

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

submitted 88 days ago • 344 comments

Had a conversation with a non political person whose buddy works for the forest service and was 10 months into his job supplying hard to reach parts of a national forest and was fired. The guy talking to me was like “I don’t really think my buddy’s $50,000 salary is gonna balance the budget.”

submitted 88 days ago • 480 comments

Hero

submitted 88 days ago • 1262 comments

Remarkable resignation letter from the Justice Department's chief information officer in the immigration review division — a disabled veteran. Obtained by @propublica.org's Brett Murphy:

submitted 88 days ago • 289 comments

NEW: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said that the over $2 billion in federal funding allocated toward his state has been released following the lawsuit he filed against the Trump administration to unfreeze the funds last month.

submitted 88 days ago • 46 comments

only the best. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

submitted 88 days ago • 645 comments

A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked an executive order that President Trump signed shortly after he was sworn in that suspended a decades-old program admitting thousands of refugees into the U.S. each year.

submitted 88 days ago • 17 comments

"Overturning Roe was never just about sending abortion back to the states. It was a necessary step on the path to allowing pre-existing state bans to take effect, and to banning abortion nationwide."

submitted 88 days ago • 17 comments

Hampton Dellinger, a government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled by the courts, announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass firings of some probationary federal workers.

submitted 89 days ago • 39 comments

and on day 36 in shambolistan... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

submitted 88 days ago • 328 comments

1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

submitted 88 days ago • 1206 comments

Roman Catholics worldwide prayed on Sunday for Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition, after the Vatican announced that he was “not out of danger.”

submitted 90 days ago • 36 comments

Some came with complaints about Elon Musk. Others chided the GOP to push back against President Trump’s moves to trample the constitutional power of Congress. In districts around the U.S. over the past week, Republican lawmakers faced a groundswell of fear and disaffection from constituents.

submitted 90 days ago • 128 comments

Pope Francis is suffering from “initial, mild kidney failure” in addition to the serious respiratory illness that has left the 88-year-old pontiff in critical condition in a Rome hospital, the Vatican said on Sunday.

submitted 90 days ago • 30 comments

A Hawaii man who spent more than 30 years behind bars for a murder he had long insisted he did not commit, was released on Friday on the orders of a judge who cited new evidence in his case.

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Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: And for me, the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step to also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on TV...

submitted 90 days ago • 626 comments

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 90 days ago • 445 comments

Germany’s likely new chancellor Friedrich Merz: Look at what Musk has done recently in terms of interventions in the German elections. That is an unprecedented event. The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic, drastic and ultimately brazen than the interventions we had from Moscow...

submitted 90 days ago • 196 comments

BREAKING: Germany’s Chancellor slams Trump in first remarks following the election, more federal agencies rebuke Musk, and the Trump Administration conducted mass layoffs at USAID. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments