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There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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Pretty depressing when you think about it

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I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.

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This is not about fighting antisemitism. This is all about silencing opposing views. Today it’s pro-Palestine, tomorrow it’s pro-Ukraine, and then it’s just deporting whomever they don’t like. And then everyone is silent.

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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 2 hours ago • 114 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 4 hours ago • 279 comments

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

My grandfather was a green card holder from when he arrived in the US in his 20s until he died in his 90s. Having a green card makes you a LEGAL resident of the US. The fact that he has disappeared should terrify you. And the fact that Columbia was complacent in his disappearance is grotesque

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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

submitted 4 hours ago • 114 comments

the biggest strength of the global far right is the utter timidity and fecklessness of the small-l liberal establishment in almost every country

submitted 9 hours ago • 25 comments

NEW: Unrivaled stars Arike Ogunbowale and Napheesa Collier gifted the league's trainers $10,000 a piece, thanks to a partnership with Icy Hot. More on how the league has invested in women's sports in its inaugural season: www.sbnation.com/wnba/2025/3/...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

(fires 200,000 people) Deep state globalists have hired 200,000 paid protesters to make me look bad

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 118 comments

governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy how can these people be so bad at this

submitted 8 hours ago • 62 comments

I guess I should no longer care for a severely injured trauma patient - in partnership with trauma surgeons - using Advanced Trauma Life Support principles and training. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

We need a DAILY press conference with the Dems best messengers (AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Pete Buttigieg, Jamie Raskin, etc) breaking down exactly how Trump and Musk are destroying our country and debunking their bullshit. Stream it on every single platform. Every single day. For as long at it takes.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

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Giving up Target for Lent 👨‍🍳💋

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This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

This is Blatantly illegal Another attack on higher ed Another attack on diversity Another attack on social mobility

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Yes because nobody actually tries to pin him the fuck down. jesus christ this is tone deaf af

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They’re not workaholics. They’re occupying these offices like a Bundy militia and are worried that if they leave to do normal things like sleep or eat they will be barred from re-entry.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

a side note to this, the "just social media" argument should be dead and buried at this point. It's the year 2025, the internet is the primary communication network of the planet, and we are being ruled by alt-right lunatics whose entire worldview has been shaped by online right wing crap.

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I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

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purveyors of lawlessness and violence fear lawlessness and violence as directed at THEIR families. Nimby-ed to death, are we....

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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

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pipe rock theory is a must see

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I was in the 75th class of Fulbright Scholars, apparently, the last class It was the best year of my life: I had my daughter & it was transformative to my work Fulbright was an opportunity for nerds who wanted to make the world better I’m very sad today for my future Fulbrighter and all of them

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Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

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Neo-feudalism feels like the best term.

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I have no idea what I would have done if this had happened while I was on my Fulbright. I was 22, had no savings, was on the other side of the world, with a visa that IIRC didn't allow local paid work. I think my credit card limit was $800. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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The idea that organizing would be easier under Trump was always a weird one

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"Andrew Rohrbach, who helped convict Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking teenage girls, and Celia Cohen, who had worked on several mob cases in recent years, were marched out ... at the command of DOJ officials." nypost.com/2025/03/07/u...

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BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

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Obeying is never good enough

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worth noting that steak & shake was bought out by private equity years ago and they ran it into the ground so that only a few failing locations were left open

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Cannot overemphasize that this is not ambiguous, it all originated with a guy who lost his license for falsifying research. It’s like if they announced they were going in search of the Fiji Mermaid.

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Corporate Media when economy doing amazing under Biden: TERRIBLE ECONOMIC VIBES FAULT OF OLD MAN BIDEN, ALL IS LOST!!! Corporate Media when Trump starts intentionally tanking economy: Experiencing little hiccup, Trump’s plan will eventually makes US stronger, I all good, we love you Donald!!!

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Guardian provides needed antidote to idiotic Carville #BrokenTimes op-ed: "Ask the post-first world war German Social Democrats–they also believed that the Nazis would disgrace themselves and be rejected by the public once their true colors were shown." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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