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Trump says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students Weaponizing government agencies to force compliance to a dictator is exactly what happens in Russia. So now we have IRS, DHS, DOJ, etc involved in attacking Harvard

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I'm not the most avid Christian, but even I find the use of the cross as a prop when engaging in blatant falsehoods in the name of extraordinary cruelty to be offensive.

submitted 6 hours ago • 302 comments

we now have election-style "race calls" on whether or not republicans have successfully invalidated enough legitimate votes validly cast by constituents to steal the office they lost

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One of the 2 DOGE staffers who flew to LA to try to release water at a water pumping station for a photo Op during the wildfires is now a senior adviser to the NOAA Administrator where DOGE has been slashing staff, contracts, programs, and leases

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

American NAZIs

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Kilmar Abrego is no longer among the living.

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18 minutes of Shaedon Sharpe dunks 😃

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Shorter MLB: We celebrate the legacy of Jackie Robinson, but we won't tell you what that legacy is.

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It’s so weird how a political movement that started with the birther lie, moved on to lies about an invasion at the border and stolen elections, and is systematically attacking higher education and the free press is uninterested in identifying and combatting disinformation.

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UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

submitted 16 hours ago • 78 comments

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta are suing the Trump admin over the Trump tariffs. The lawsuit argues Trump doesn't have the presidential authority to unilaterally impose tariffs using the International Economic Emergency Powers Act.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

People did this media story in 2017, but it's an even bigger one now - the old WH press corps, for all its sins, losing space to pro-Trump media with questions that boil down "sir, how can we help you?"

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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Either the U.S. government is able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

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Replace ‘Harvard’ with ‘churches’ and he’s onto something…

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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

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A movie from the year you turned 30.

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Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

submitted 31 days ago • 136 comments

As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption

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It is pretty wild to think of Barack Obama sitting with someone from Central America and going “well uhhhh I think it would be a good idea to uhhhh send American citizens to your secret prisons” and the media just being like oh ok that’s dope man anyways how about TARIFFS

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

there was not "intense social pressure" to stop saying 'master bedroom' and 'brown bag lunch,' bffr. If you were a national pundit with millions of readers you would get some annoying twitter replies and emails. Ordinary people with normal jobs were not experiencing this.

submitted 3 days ago • 95 comments

Just pick a fucking lane

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Bert Kolde strikes again. Chauncey gets an extension after 116 wins in 4 lackluster seasons 🤦‍♂️

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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If I was the angry Cajun advising @thedemcoalition.bsky.social I’d say reject the premise of the SAVE act. “our elections ARE safe. There’s no evidence they aren’t, and the only reason I can think of why the GOP wants to focus on a made up issue to to distract us from stuff like this.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?

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