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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 2 hours ago • 92 comments

"The remarkable fact about all the law breaking is how little the administration has done to cover its tracks. They want us to think the laws don’t apply anymore and all that matters is pleasing Dear Leader."

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

submitted 15 hours ago • 77 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1136 comments

“The court’s ruling also means that the government may have to pay back duties it has already collected. “Anybody that has had to pay tariffs so far will be able to get them refunded,” said Ilya Somin” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

Need proof that RFKjr doesn’t give a shit about the health of America’s children? In his new report on “health epidemics” facing our nation’s youth, he fails to even mention the single greatest threat to the health & safety of American schoolchildren today. I’ll give you a hint: It’s not vaccines.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Ohio State has over three thousand at the moment, representing around 6% of the student body. Congrats to all the American families who will get to pick up the tab now.

submitted 18 hours ago • 43 comments

Marco Rubio literally had a student kidnapped off the street for co-authoring an oped criticizing her university. And now he's complaining about censorship?

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 1 day ago • 503 comments

we should be very clear here: Jake Tapper is glad Trump is ruling this country like a king and is intentionally helping him consolidate power in the service of selling books

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Kappin' off the win 👏 #LetsGoOilers

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"Grampa, what was it like living during The Dumbest Time?"

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there’s a lot of dystopian news lately, but this story really makes my skin crawl. The indignity and dehumanization is too much

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner" "Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for [Trump], including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary." via NYT 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

This is the whole thing and we should be loud about it. They are deporting moms, dads, and kids. Not criminals. If you’re looking for what’s happening with criminals, they’re getting pardons.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Well, this aged well

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

This is a disaster. Why on earth would we not vaccinate children and pregnant women against COVID?

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Dudes in Washington deciding health care decisions for pregnant women, what could go wrong

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Hey @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com post How about “Trump Posts Unhinged Rant on Memorial Day, Attacking Biden, Judges, Immigrants and Democrats-Further Demonstrating His Cognitive Decline” Or do you just intend to sane wash us all the way into tyranny

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I have a new piece out tonight about what really happened at the worship Battle of Seattle. baptistnews.com/article/wors...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Google should offer one big button that says NO THANK YOU. No AI thank you, don't try to 'Refine' do not suggest, don't attempt to 'fix' my grammar or spelling, do not follow me around on the internet, don't 'summarize' I am never ever gonna 'Ask Gemini', not ever

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Owner of loudest peep machine wonders why there no peeping.

submitted 3 days ago • 118 comments

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. https://trib.al/HylddRa

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

As I noted in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, a lot of the 1950s-era campaigns to post the TC on school walls fell apart when they moved from theory to practice and had to pick a specific text. Proponents were often stunned to learn that Protestants, Catholics and Jews had different versions.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

There was, and is, a strategic comms effort from the right to tell the country to stay away from Bluesky (and stay on Twitter.) That comms effort included high profile pieces in the press whining about Bluesky being a “bubble.” They were amplified on Twitter. And it persuaded many people.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Yep. It's not possible to understand politics today, much less predict future trends, without recognizing that a large segment of the population lives in an alternate reality increasingly untethered from the real world via nonstop right-wing propaganda on every issue.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Have to give Stu his flowers today. Didn't get the shutout but damn that was impressive. 2nd period could have easily gone the other way and he made the big stops, and they started turning into goals. Boys are dialed in at the right time. #LetsGoOilers

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