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What’s astounding about this — and what makes clear the underlying cruelty and racism here — is that custodial kidnapping is a real problem dealt with by federal law enforcement. One would HOPE that ICE would bend over backward to ensure US citizens are not taken overseas against a parent’s will….

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Ironic that just as Trump and the GOP are working to destroy American universities, the Chinese are adopting the US model and massively investing in universities, science, and education. In China, there is one university ALONE that has 38,000 students devoted to studying energy and water resources.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Tell me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell without telling me you’re telling your corporate overlords to go to hell

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

The US government doesn't subsidize university research. Rather, universities subsidize government research. I've seen recent threads deceiving the first half of this, but nothing recent describing the extent to which universities are doing the subsidizing.

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

Document posted by National Science Foundation program director on LinkedIn says not only that grants are being terminated by DOGE but that they're being deleted from databases. Presumably to make it difficult or even impossible to undo DOGE's illegal actions.

submitted 6 hours ago • 95 comments

Pretty clearly attempting to turn the FCC into an extortion racket at this point.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump was not sleeping at the funeral of a pope I didn’t kill. by JD Vance

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

Freakishly and shamelessly inappropriate.

submitted 7 hours ago • 497 comments

Remarkable that there’s not even a whisper of a legislative agenda from Trump, despite having control of both houses and a stranglehold on GOP. It’s a clear attempt to alter the constitutional order by making executive lawmaking a constitutional reality through institutional acquiescence.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

The problem with Schumer’s argument that you can’t act until Trump crosses some extreme red line is that it becomes way too late to do anything about it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 51 comments

Oh. And huh.

submitted 7 hours ago • 70 comments

the hardest thing for me about the current moment is how obvious and transparent everything is, and that a large number of people refuse to look

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Disgusting, yes, but don’t miss how weak it is. These fascists expected to ride a popular wave of mass deportation, but only a few months in they’re facing mounting revulsion at their illegality, cruelty, and rejection of innocent-until-proven-guilty, and down to smaller-scale scapegoat reminders.

submitted 7 hours ago • 89 comments

Having all these rules is way too complicated. He should just hand pick the audience (like Sarah Sanders) or not have town halls at all (like Tom Cotton, John Boozman, French Hill, Steve Womack, Rick Crawford & Bruce Westerman.) #Arkansas #arpx #arnews

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event. The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

submitted 8 hours ago • 120 comments

if you're reading one thread this week, make it this one. By someone who taught me so much of what I now (hope to) understand about media and democracy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Please sue her into oblivion

submitted 8 hours ago • 41 comments

State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.

submitted 10 hours ago • 238 comments

It was a very rough night for GOP Rep. Mike Lawler at the town hall he held in his NY swing district on Sunday. Lawler faced nearly two hours of shouts, groans and mockery at a high school auditorium in Rockland County.

submitted 10 hours ago • 121 comments

Just to be 💯 clear: Ru’s repeated demand for Ukrainian demilitarization is a demand for capitulation not a condition for peace.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

Nobody has gotten a more thorough hearing than the Silicon Valley freaks have! The standards of what you need to know or how clearly you need to think have been completely suspended for them! Intellectual affirmative action for dopes who know less about the world than a bright ninth-grader does.

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

NEW — Columbia faculty, staff, students, alumni from almost 20 schools & departments will be holding a 25-hour marathon “speakout” to defend education & free expression, and to demand the Trustees fight back against the Trump-Vance administration’s attacks on academic freedom.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1272 comments

A big part of responsibly holding power in this moment is just letting people know what is happening behind closed doors that will affect their lives for the worse. This is a good example of what that can look like.

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 21 hours ago • 202 comments

If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Every single one. They should never live that down. Yes, that includes Warren and Sanders and Booker. www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

We live in a moment of great urgency and opportunity for Dems. But our nominal leaders aren't up to the challenge. Time for them to step aside or be moved aside so those who are actually leading can help save the country by seizing the moment. Waiting for Trump to self-destruct is not a strategy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

My postdoc advisor, Wally Broecker, said: "Climate is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks." Well, we are getting to the FOFO stage. 🧪 www.esa.int/Applications...

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

WAPO: “.. ocean-container bookings from China to the U.S. are down by more than 60 percent .. “.. The consequence will be ‘empty shelves in U.S. stores in a few weeks and covid-like shortages for consumers ..’” @davidjlynch.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 230 comments

I think people need to have more children. Here’s why I vote for the party that deports sick toddlers, gives everybody measles, cuts funding for children’s education and healthcare, and is investigating Miss Rachel.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

They don't want to go to jail

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments