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In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

submitted 1 day ago • 1252 comments

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 255 comments

This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Mike Johnson changed the House rules so that a vote for Congress to reclaim authority to do tariffs will never be scheduled, by declaring the rest of this Congressional term one single calendar day. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/house-quie.... He could fix all of this before the US markets open.

submitted 2 days ago • 113 comments

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

submitted 3 days ago • 232 comments

Your most personal data is about to be at Elon’s fingertips

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 3 days ago • 620 comments

Hey, people who run the NYT (many of whom I know): This is really embarrassing. You should (a) pay attention to this hed/dek/tweet framing of today's politics, (b) *name* the people making these decisions, and (c) explain their choices. And (d) do better. Whether or not it "matters" any more.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

If MAGA really wanted more high-wage jobs where people work with their hands, they would be trying to boost construction work. But instead they’re crashing housing production and trying to protect high resource areas from upzoning.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Really not sure what the endgame is supposed to be when you just keep looking people in the eye as you throw their ballots in the trash because they voted against you

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The ROI for "one-off s*** to keep kids engaged in school" is basically infinite, this is all so dumb.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

The Lithuanian president showed up to honor dead American soldiers as their remains departed his country. The American president did not show up to receive their remains as they arrived in the US. He had a golf tournament to get to.

submitted 4 days ago • 269 comments

Bloomberg article about the OAR cloud computing contract services going away. I talked about impacts on severe wx R&D in my Substack post yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Dems should start with the premise that Rs *can* be pressured to buck Trump on tariffs. Do *not* assume it's hopeless. Hound them relentlessly: Rs and Trump are hiking your prices to fund tax cuts for the rich. Take it to red areas. @normornstein.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1936...

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

New: In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Justice Department quietly decided not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively ending the corruption investigation into the close ally of President Donald Trump, according to The Associated Press.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 6 days ago • 927 comments

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 6 days ago • 196 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 5 days ago • 558 comments

Good article on a very important new lawsuit. Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder, this could all be stopped with this one cool hack. Make the GOP reps miserable enough to do it. Trump's certainly making everyone else miserable enough. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/13/i...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 6 days ago • 159 comments

Trump administration cuts entire federal heating assistance staff

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

A review of the signatories of the now-infamous 2020 Harper’s Letter shows that only 24% who put their name on the letter defending ​“Open Debate” have come out in opposition to Trump’s war on campus free speech. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Here’s the email that Harvard University’s president, Alan Garber, sent to members of the Harvard community in response to this news.

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

With each new assault on democratic norms, I keep going back to this problem of there being no downside for Trump for brazenly unconstitutional grabs. At worst, a court stops him — and he’s no worse off. We’ve relied on presidents’ good faith and decency. That’s clearly no longer enough.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Trump officials to review $9bn in Harvard funds over antisemitism claims.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Center for Public Integrity is shutting down: Wesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group. www.cjr.org/news/center-...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

We do need to talk more about him not finishing THIS term. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/13/i...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Again, it he serves a full term we will be undoing the damage for DECADES.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 9 days ago • 285 comments

I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share!

submitted 9 days ago • 135 comments