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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 2 days ago • 206 comments

This struck me as a very weird post because I thought the event was between Copley Square and Boston Common, and I wasn't aware of anything at City Hall. And it turns out this is from April 5; I don't have any idea why this person is posting inaccurate information.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

don't laugh, armies only behave like this when they're very depressed

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

A world of totally made-up, self-referential academic articles, of horror at the limits of our language; of representation; the symbolic seeking a Pyrrhic victory over the Real, of collapsing sense of trust through viral video technology - yes, that’s right, I’m talking about Sigbovik

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Man I don’t want to get conspiratorial but a thought I can’t shake is that just like we can’t trust that people presenting themselves as law enforcement are law enforcement, can we trust that a violent person who’s said to have been impersonating law enforcement isn’t law enforcement?

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"The assassin was masquerading as a cop" If they don't know his identity, how are they sure he isn't a cop? Sincere question.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 1 day ago • 384 comments

i understand the framing, which is about RFK jr lying to a senator to get senate approval but RFK jr also lied to the american public just completely unacceptable for a public official and senator bill cassidy is not the only one who should take action for being lied to

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

Soon i will be culturally illiterate not just because i am old but because i am violently allergic to shortform phone videos

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 7 days ago • 3073 comments

genuinely surprising there's not a canonical React ESLint rule to say "yeah, if I'm running useEffect I just always want there to be a dependency array, no exceptions"

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

In retrospect maybe the Democrats should have put this in some ads after gawker published it in 2015

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

It is weird to me that there are people that haven’t basically been assuming Trump (and, like, almost certain Bill Clinton if you wanna bothsides this shit) are in there for years now

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

submitted 10 days ago • 105 comments

This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 41 days ago • 148 comments

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

submitted 12 days ago • 411 comments

the big disconnect that happens here is between the correct message for D politicians (especially in red states), which is “you’re right, this isn’t who you are, you’re better than that, vote differently next time” and the actual truth, which is yes you did, fuck you

submitted 15 days ago • 82 comments

[sigh] Times are tough.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

NY Times has been given the go-ahead by their Trump admin handlers to publish something that was already well-known before the election

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 18 days ago • 78 comments

the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 27 days ago • 128 comments

All these anti-woke warriors have conversion narratives that involve them getting triggered by the smallest shit imaginable. In this case, a routine email most of us would skim (at best) becomes "a sweeping directive" she "bristled" at, a dire threat that became her origin story. It's ludicrous.

submitted 29 days ago • 247 comments

🔥🔥🔥

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

I think this is where something Josh Marshall said is clarifying: we don’t need the Supreme Court to rule on this. If the Supreme Court says this is ok - or says birthright citizenship isn’t a thing - we can all still read. The threat of impeachment+removal is the only (constitutional) remedy here.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

I’m serious about this. They say they have actual footage of lawmakers body slamming ICE officers. Show that footage or shut up.

submitted 36 days ago • 120 comments

Popehat is right. Criminal prosecution is the compromise position, and it's better than these thugs deserve.

submitted 37 days ago • 10 comments

"So this is a plea to those Democrats: Please rethink your position. Crypto isn’t a legitimate industry. Any vote that further empowers that industry is a vote for more and bigger corruption, even if you personally aren’t corrupt. Just say no to the scam."

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

What is the highest numbered pope in the past? What is the highest numbered pope in the past or future?

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

It gives me no joy to report this but @hankgreen.bsky.social is trying to mess with tzdata and must be stopped youtu.be/r16ipl30TsA?...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Ppl are talking about "picking up" scholars leaving the US bc of cutbacks, but that's not the right way to think about talent flows. Few USians will leave US; rather US will cease to be the unrivalled academic destination point. The play is for intl scholars who otherwise would have gone to US.

submitted 125 days ago • 11 comments