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The Democratic Party is so broken if we let him win

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

me: they think it should be illegal to have black people in positions of influence savvy, sophisticated pundits: don't be hysterical the trump administration:

submitted 14 days ago • 120 comments

Pretty much every detained imm. court session now includes someone who is subject to mandatory ICE detention under the Laken Riley Act for no better reason than they were once charged with extremely minor theft offenses. Even if those charges were dismissed. I'm never forgiving Dems for this

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

NEW: Judge Howell rules that Trump/DOGE's entire takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace was unlawful—including the removal of board members and termination of programs. She reinstates the actual board members and invalidates everything the imposters did. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

If Trump successfully installs his heinously corrupt henchman on the 3rd Circuit, it will be because SENATE DEMOCRATS refused to confirm Biden's nominee to this very seat—based on their own Islamophobia and credulous embrace of bigoted GOP smears. Just a total nightmare top to bottom.

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

This is all nothing more than performative BS on the part of @schumer.senate.gov who appears to be enabling his DSCC chair @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and other corporate Dems like @markwarner.bsky.social (part of leadership) @gallego.senate.gov to advance shady crypto bill this week.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

it's state propaganda now

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

Alina Habba says she is dropping the charges against the Newark mayor, but says she will charge Rep. McIver.

submitted 14 days ago • 368 comments

These are not serious people. I can't even travel to the US without risking being permanently banned from entering the country simply because my gender marker is legally X, and you threaten our sovereignty, but sure your feelings are hurt, bro.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

First they came for the transes, and you said "Fuck the transes, they're weird"... Remember, until a few years ago it was almost unheard-of for a woman to be charged with procuring an abortion. Now they have "new national guidance" on how to hunt them down. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

The fate of millions in the hand of a weirdo eugenicist freak who pulled a knife on a minor and threatened to gut her

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

It was actually worse than this sounds. Alkonis fell asleep/passed out behind the wheel with his wife and children in the car, woke up before crashing, and decided to keep driving. He then fell asleep/passed out again and killed two people.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless theonion.com/gavin-n...

submitted 15 days ago • 86 comments

The Heritage operation is notable, but I think this lets too many people off the hook. People were suggesting critics of Israel supported terrorism well before October 7th. It was a bipartisan effort and a normal part of American politics.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

British surgeon working in Gaza says it is now 'a slaughterhouse' amid Israeli bombardment

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

Nineteen months in and they're still letting the IDF write their copy:

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

"Can you work for the BBC and outwardly express opinions?" asks Radio 4 Today whose presenter Justin Webb routinely uses his platform on Radio 4 Today to express his negative views about trans people.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Sorry, but this is just a fully radicalised perspective, and anyone espousing it should be going through Prevent not advising it.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

A lot of people are sitting scratching their heads wondering how Starmer can repeat Great Replacement, say the 14 words in 11 and refer to an "Island of Strangers" when it's quite easily explained by the fact that he's surrounded by radicalised individuals.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

If I were a foreign intelligence officer, of course I would ensure that the UK wages a relentless war on minorities and engulfed in a pointless culture war against them.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

YES. one of the things Prevent is actually supposed to be working on is white boys becoming radicalised by far right online bullshit and: how is this not that??

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Instructive to remember how people acted as if it was the end of civilization when Trump officials were confronted in public during his first term.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

“The Columbia footage that we subpoenaed conclusively proves that Mahmoud never attempted to run from the ICE agents, that the government lied once again, & that there was no valid reason for the arrest of a US permanent resident and human rights defender” - Ramzi Kassem to @premthakker.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

success in journalism now means spending decades building up the Elon Musks of the world, then getting fed the equivalent of an entire newsroom's salary to hurl the most pathetically toothless snark at the very sociopaths you helped create

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

submitted 18 days ago • 958 comments

The American Keir Starmer

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture. But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?

submitted 17 days ago • 1424 comments

real gutting background to the most lunatic anti-science government in American history: an endless stream of staggering medical innovations

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

Tariffs aimed at bringing business back to the U.S. are actually driving it to Canada www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 17 days ago • 20 comments

My new @lawfaremedia.org article "Trump's 'Emergencies' Are Pretexts for Undermining the Constitution." Why these claims to emergency powers are illegal and dangerous, why they are worse than previous abuses of emergency powers, and how to stop them: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

This is why they are obsessed with destroying the civil service, the best path for black people to gain access to white collar employment

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Under Trump's economic plan, people making between $17K and $51K could lose an average $700 in after-tax income, taking into account tax and social spending changes, according to a new study. Those make $4.3M or more would gain an average $389K. @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 134 comments

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

submitted 16 days ago • 290 comments

Under 65 years old? No Novovax COVID vaccine for you this year. As expected, the Republicans have enabled RFK Jr. and his coterie of antivax grifters to take away your right to make your own medical decisions in consultation with your doctor. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/h...

submitted 16 days ago • 162 comments

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

submitted 16 days ago • 113 comments

There are still people who call themselves "policy wonks" who looked at widespread examples of seller's inflation and opportunistic pricing and said that the models simply didn't support it. Kroger puts "sale" prices on labels and then charges full price: www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

The trams I'm using in Switzerland that get you everywhere and make cities completely livable are just slightly updated versions of the streetcars most American cities decided to ditch, and are struggling to restore now because the infrastructure is already built out. What a massive error.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

The right-wing New York Post is calling Trump's crypto dealings a "Hunter Biden-Style Scandal." Are Democrats investigating or fighting back the way they got hammered on 'Hunter's laptop?' No, they're supporting a Trump crypto bill that makes the grift more lucrative. nypost.com/2025/05/19/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The menswear guy doing industrial policy - you love to see it. In support of his point, I once happened to meet Bruce Raynor, then the head of UNITE, the big textile workers union. He said, "I'm always glad when I see a man in a suit - it's the one thing that's still going to be made in the USA."

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

submitted 18 days ago • 121 comments

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for: "As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

submitted 18 days ago • 124 comments

“Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed via public programs or directly to the poor, but because it imposes a de facto statutory maximum on income or wealth.” @econmarshall.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job… www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“The last thing American consumers need is yet another mega merger." Today, @coxcommunications.bsky.social & Charter Communications announced a $34.5 billion merger agreement that would leave Charter with majority control of the new combined company. Our statement from @bergmayer.net:

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

submitted 51 days ago • 85 comments