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If authoritarian rule lasts a decade, Harvard has bigger problems.

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

submitted 8 hours ago • 277 comments

American civilization is collapsing under the weight of shitty people who are frankly fine with this happening because he’s called Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez.

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

if we're ever allowed to do pro-consumer policy in this country again we should start by throwing people who subscribe you to their email lists even though you explicitly uncheck the "subscribe me to your email list" box in jail

submitted 1 hour ago • 21 comments

Woke marxist harvie wilkinson strikes again

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

This is an angry opinion. It explicitly brings up the possibility of disappearing American citizens if the line isn't drawn here and now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 hour ago • 68 comments

It’s kind of darkly funny that polls show basically all of RFK’s ideas to be toxically unpopular and meanwhile he himself consistently polls as one of the most popular active American politicians based almost entirely on vague positive nostalgia for his family

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 3 hours ago • 135 comments

The first priority of a congressman is getting elected. The second is getting reelected in perpetuity. The third is to never be on the hook for anything unpopular.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

And the voters mean this--exactly this--very seriously, too. That's why Trump's immigration approval numbers keep going down. Only the best median voters.

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

mission accomplished

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

This is literally an opportunity to discredit Trump's entire immigration policy platform, and it's already working as support for him on immigration is now only barely above the waterline.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Calling this as an 80-20 issue for Trump really shows, principle of the matter aside, he has no idea what's going on in the real world of public opinion, he's off in some pundit vibes bubble. No point arguing about focusing on popular issues if you're delusionally ignorant about what's popular.

submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

Days after a delegation of House Republicans were in that slave labor camp for a photo op.

submitted 2 hours ago • 16 comments

This isn't about waste - Trump is eliminating many of the federal government's most effective and cost-efficient programs. It's wanton, scorched-Earth destruction.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Things are accelerating quickly to a breaking point.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

submitted 3 hours ago • 346 comments

If this were an administration with more executive function I'd speculate that this is a gambit to kill birthright citizenship. Of course, knowing these fellas, this might well be them stumbling ass-backward into that gambit

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

submitted 3 hours ago • 63 comments

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

submitted 3 hours ago • 113 comments

Also, it's the Senate, not the US President, that declares war and ratifies treaties into law. Just complete lies and delusions about how the Constitution works.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Not for nothing but that first sentence is patently false. Congress has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations! Which, as in the domestic case (indeed much more clearly than in the domestic case), doesn't just mean mercantile trade, it means goings-on

submitted 4 hours ago • 25 comments

It's the A Few Good Men trope, which a) only works to attract a certain type of person into certain kinds of units, insufficient for general purpose forces and b) the USMC made "unfuck the barracks" a core component of FD2030 for a reason

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I think what’s most striking about the last few months is how rarely anyone in the GOP applies this simple test. A lot of checks and balances rely on this kind of worrying about precedent but it’s now totally absent, as if they don’t think they’ll ever be out of power again.

submitted 3 hours ago • 556 comments

Literally everyone who's ever served knows this kind of motherfucker. The dipshit who schedules mandatory training on weekends, who rats on people looking at their phones while waiting around not on watch, and mysteriously is always on leave or appointments whenever shit needs doing.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

"Every government lies now and then, but authoritarian regimes go further. They don’t just stretch or hide the truth. They look you in the eye and tell you that what you just saw didn’t happen." Propaganda is now part of our politics. New from @saletan.bsky.social:

submitted 5 hours ago • 25 comments

This is the essential point. What they are doing—targeting college students, random documented immigrants—is horrifying, criminal, and must be stopped. But it is also true that they are doing specifically this because it maximizes control through fear, because they can't otherwise scale.

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments