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You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.

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Stop trying to soft launch the suspension of habeas corpus you freaks. Your manufactured crisis does not constitute the need to violate constitutional rights. Weirdos.

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Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

why are USians like this

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full of the finest compromise and gold-plated bugware any vainglorious wreck of a human being could want

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Oh wow, you mean the massive, obvious grift wasn’t the magic solution you and your idiot friends thought it was? sifted.eu/articles/kla...

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This is so important because the framing has shifted as RFK Jr tries to make the death of children from a preventable disease seem normal, when normal was very recently (before anti-vax creeps like rfk jr) ZERO children dying of measles. Because vaccination was normal.

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Devastating to read: this is what systematic food deprivation looks like in Gaza: -Fisherfolk and farmers killed by bombs -Nearly all of the livestock obliterated -80% of agricultural farmland damaged, polluted and barren -Food prices up over 1000% -Famine www.ft.com/content/48dc...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I continuously point out the productivity of the U.S. labor force! Like, what are we innovating here?? www.bls.gov/productivity...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

honestly look at those eyes. Dude is an unhinged creep

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The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

submitted 3 days ago • 1066 comments

When bowing to big$ interests erases history

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Newark issues stop work order for a new private ICE detention center. “They failed to give city officials access to conduct inspections required under municipal ordinances and state code,” “This violates city and state law.” @rasjbaraka.bsky.social patch.com/new-jersey/n...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

In 1901, William A. Dunning published an article in @theatlantic.com called “The Undoing of Reconstruction.” He argued the war against Reconstruction was an ongoing project that hadn’t ended in 1877, or even in 1901. Unwinding it was a multigenerational effort…. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

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“They tell me from above that they call Sde Teiman a cemetery,” said the commander of the facility. A former guard at the Israeli torture camp testifies to the horrific conditions there in this translation of a Haaretz oped. x.com/alon_mizrahi...

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What I've heard from right wingers so far- The pope is woke CRT Dei Gay Trans Jewish Communist Marxist Socialist But I remind yall again this is a guy who doesn't think women can be priests and that being gay is a sin Yall were worried about pronouns. Meanwhile, this is the state of the right

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Voted for Trump but mad at “the government” is exactly how this will all be memory-holed.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

this is so metal. 98 and still able to operate vintage heavy combat vehicles

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really appreciate the updates on Rumesya Öztürk. Sorry crying now I just can’t believe this administration is going after a children’s advocate. We need people who CARE ABOUT CHILDREN AND THEIR NEEDS AND RIGHTS in this hateful society

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HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk appears remotely for her bail hearing in Vermont federal court! 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

One of the most underrated stories over the last 5 years is the Dems who have been corrupted by crypto money (growing every day as crypto pours money into primaries) causing a big split within the Dem caucus

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: the very first Notes on the Crises Legal Research Memo led to New York City to fundamentally revise its lawsuit of the Trump administration just 7 days later. This is an extremely powerful proof of concept for the memo project. www.crisesnotes.com/new-york-cit...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Anyone in plain clothes snatching people off the street deserve to meet our 2nd Amendment right then and there.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

submitted 3 days ago • 469 comments

We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments

Currently at a talk at @redemmas.org with (the king of Bluesky) @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @lkspence.bsky.social, talking about Femi’s Reconsidering Reparations book. Derecka was supposed to be here tonight, but Lester has graciously filled in. What happened to her is top of mind in discussion.

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Anyone who has ever thought the local cops will ever interfere with ICE deportations on behalf of their own communities is a daydreaming fool. State power is not on your side, and the people who enforce it are traitors to their communities.

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Do. Not. Rank. Cuomo. Do not. Friends don't let friends rank Cuomo

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BREAKING: For the second time in two weeks, clergy and faith leaders have been arrested while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, part of a larger protest against the GOP-led budget.

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

gonna start saying “is the pope from Chicago?” when someone asks me an obvious question

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

“When Black creators reach the highest levels of visibility while asserting structural autonomy, their success is not simply celebrated. It is managed — the institutional framing shifts from recognition to risk assessment.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

the family chat is speculating about whether Leo puts ketchup on his hotdogs or not

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The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact exactly how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

For 66 days the Netanyahu government has blocked ALL food and aid from going into Gaza. Now we're told it plans to seize and reoccupy huge parts of Gaza, as it pushes for Trump's plan to force 2 million Palestinians to leave. That would be ethnic cleansing by another name. We can’t stand for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 110 comments

I have been recommending that people join the Debt Collective for many years and truly there's no better time than NOW.

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imagining time traveling to the early 00s and trying to explain to my precocious teen debater friends that the criticisms of the Nanny State that they engaged with so earnestly would culminate in armed officers making sure grown adults were using the right bathroom

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

This story just gets worse and worse

submitted 6 days ago • 263 comments

it's frustrating to read words like "unprecedented" as a Native Studies scholar, when I regularly read about things like children kidnapped from their families and forcibly re-educated in church and government-run schools where they were malnourished, physically/sexually/verbally abused....

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

This is really fucking me up today. PBS is a treasure and inculcates meaningful pro-social values and behaviors any society needs to thrive

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No one has been returned from CECOT even as we learn more and more about the arbitrary and illegal nature of this operation. The Republicans continue to stonewall the courts. Don’t let this story slip from view.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

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