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In Trump's first White House, Betsy DeVos launched an initiative to prevent inappropriate use of restraint and seclusion on #ActuallyAutistic students. Now, Trump's top special education official ran charter schools that restrained 41 percent of students. www.the74million.org/article/trum...

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this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

submitted 22 hours ago • 306 comments

Honestly, this is good. They should be doing this every fucking week for the rest of his life. If it gets voted down, then you have 220 shitheads on the record saying that blatant law breaking is fine. Get caught trying, is my point.

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A fun political benefit to Reconstruction or whatever comes next is that the rapid hiring and stimulus to undo the damage could reap huge economic benefits too. Continuing the Republican bust, Democratic boom cycle for any politician brave enough to take credit for it!

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In conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social, @raskin.house.gov points to a dilemma: The louder Dems warn of future legal consequences for Trump-era lawbreakers, the likelier Trump is to pass out corrupt pardons like Halloween candy. 🧵 newrepublic.com/article/1951...

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NEW: Trump's war on government is killing a generation of scientists, researchers, and policy experts. As I note in a recent issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this will cost the US far more than the phony savings Elon Musk and DOGE claim. link.motherjones.com/public/39805...

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read this please www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut everyone loses services.

submitted 2 days ago • 159 comments

it will take generations for the US to rebuild its credibility to the extent anyone overseas will ever help us again. A complete betrayal of any Afghans who assisted US forces there for no good reason whatsoever.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Interesting. Copyright Office is under the Library of Congress and is NOT an executive agency.

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In a major shift, disability service providers across the nation are being acquired by investment firms seeking a quick profit, raising serious questions about implications for care. #disabilities

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Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.

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Didn't impulse buy any of the cute things I saw in Marshalls, please clap

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i don't know if the next dem administration will actually be able to get trump on criminal charges, but whomever helms it must understand that trump's open criminality absolutely encourages it in all of his underlings all the way down and they do not have SCOTUS protection

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Just insanely, flabbergastingly corrupt

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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

The Administration has arrested a judge in WI and a mayor in NJ, and is threatening to arrest federal lawmakers. In any other country we would say the strongman's security forces are locking up political opponents. We need to treat it exactly that way here. www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

for the past few months the us has been ruled by a lawless triumvirate--a mobster (trump), a plutocrat (musk), and a commissar (miller)--haphazardly implementing, respectively, a great leap backward (tariffs), a kleptocratic shock therapy (doge), and a gestapo-spearheaded ethnic cleansing (ice)...

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a strong statement from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social on the detention of Mayor Baraka and mistreatment of members of Congress at an ICE facility, specifically noting that agents carrying out Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional orders should expect consequences jeffries.house.gov/2025/05/09/l...

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Trump is still defying the Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. Make sure your Members of Congress hear from you about this attack on our Constitutional rights: act.indivisible.org/...

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HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

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NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI. The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard. futurism.com/soundcloud-a...

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Newark mayor Ras Baraka has been taken into custody by homeland security at an ice facility for trying to conduct oversight at said ice facility. He was with @replamonica.bsky.social @menendez.house.gov and @repbonnie.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/n...

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This is us now. Don't look away. Good on the standers-by who recorded and tried to intervene.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

The second article I've come across where the writer and the researchers are surprised that being known for outsourcing some portion of your job thinking and writing to a chatbot could damage your reputation. Deranged!

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Stunning poll findings: Marist now has Trump at only 46% approval among rural voters, who voted for him by overwhelming margins in 2024. And CNN finds more that 40% of those who approve of Trump expect a recession next year. As we discuss here, it's premature to say his base will never crack:

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

The autism registry is a direct threat to the safety of American children (both autistic and non-autistic children!) and parents should treat it like its one.

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Trump could well push for a global deal to weaken the dollar when the US holds the G20 presidency in 2026 - in my latest for @foreignpolicy.com I explore how a Mar-a-Lago accord would be almost impossible to pull off and run counter to Washington’s global interests foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/08/d...

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When Dems take the House, we must have a Select Committee to investigate ICE abuses. My fear is that we won't get one because David Shor is telling Hakeem Jeffries not to touch immigration.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Every day a story that should tear at your soul.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

submitted 6 days ago • 409 comments

Wildly illegal & unprecedented crimes being committed on a daily basis now

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NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

He also manually blocked life saving food and aids drugs in Africa, already leading to people dying. It should never go unmentioned that he and Luke Farritor murdered people on Elon Musk’s orders.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Beautiful baby girls can’t have 30 dolls if they die of heart defects.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

A fundamental attack on public goods aimed at creating schemes to enrich the rich and funnel money to religious groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

Something similar in function to ICE needs to exist, but ICE in its current form needs to be gutted and rebuilt. The sadistic glee and sneaking, furtive attempts to get around constitutional protections are evidence that a huge percentage of ICE employees are unfit for law enforcement service.

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Federal employment has often been an avenue for people with disabilities to find meaningful work. Now DOGE puts their jobs at risk. apnews.com/article/disa...

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And you may find yourself living in a thatched-roof hut And you may find yourself living in the Holy Roman Empire And you may find yourself negotiating with your lords And you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

New piece: Trump’s approval rating among low-engagement voters has fallen 30 points since Jan, the worst decline for any group. The GOP’s big advantage with hard-to-reach voters has evaporated as economic turmoil & toxic politics turns them away from Trump www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-do-di...

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

Drip drip drip more problems for Leaky Pete

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Big news in North Carolina: A federal judge (appointed by Trump) has handed a major loss to Republican Jefferson Griffin, who's trying to overturn November's supreme court race. The judge, Richard Myers, ordered North Carolina's Board of Elections to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs's win.

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