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Good Christ—Register of Copyrights just got canned as well, a position over which Trump has (AFAIK) literally no hiring or firing power

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

"The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology."

submitted 8 hours ago • 26 comments

This is insanity. There is no way he has this much power. And if it's because he's mad about the AI report, it's going to backfire. I've got issues with the report too, but that it didn't support Elon doing what he wants is going to make the public and courts want to let him do it even less.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 110 comments

This part

submitted 15 hours ago • 778 comments

Incredible interview with Stephen 🤡 Miran. Every answer is revealing but this is just… www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.

submitted 10 hours ago • 241 comments

what would they say if it was biden? trump is senile and the press covers it up because they like him and want to help him

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 15 hours ago • 95 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/a...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Irish woman green card holder out of ICE detention. No legal basis for release in this report. It appears community uproar + Irishness + whiteness + pressure by Congress Rep and Irish govt + lawyers in 2 cities = out after 2 1/2 weeks. Sister: She fears for the women she left behind in detention.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

The future of habeas corpus has been pushed into the spotlight as President Donald Trump has been involved in discussions inside his administration over potentially taking the extreme step of suspending the procedure.

submitted 12 hours ago • 60 comments

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

submitted 13 hours ago • 46 comments

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

submitted 19 hours ago • 937 comments

Putin: [Who is this doddering old fool?] Stooge 1: [Some Crypto dude] Putin: [Jesus, these people. Tell him I said hi or something.] Interpreter: President Putin offers his warmest greetings and thanks for your visit /1

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

It wasn't enough to arrest the Mayor of Newark yesterday. These fascist goons are now threatening to arrest even more elected officials for simply doing their public duty to inspect government facilities, including this one operating without required permits and in violation of the law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 621 comments

Another story on why ICE should be abolished.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

George Lucas’ handwritten notes before starting the rough draft of Star Wars in 1974. Alt text provided. From The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 19 hours ago • 529 comments

Very good rundown of all the reasons Andrew Cuomo was a disaster for the city as governor and would be an even bigger one as mayor. Please spread the word: Do not rank Cuomo. There are very competent people running, especially Brad Lander, who deserve people's votes. Cuomo does not.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

“After school shootings, many Republicans try to shift the public conversation away from gun violence and toward mental health programs that might make mass shootings less likely. Student mental health grants had bipartisan support. “Trump is cutting them anyway.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 19 hours ago • 192 comments

And this is why some products will just disappear off the shelves..importers will not be able to afford to carry them.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

Number of (reported) golf outings for Trump since inauguration: 16. Number of ‘daily’ intel briefings: 12. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

I think it's important to stress that the Mayor was arrested AS HE WAS TRYING TO DO HIS WORK.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

The only time the U.S. has suspended habeus corpus was during the Civil War, so Confederate soldiers could be held as prisoners of war without judicial proceedings. We are in no such crisis, unless they are determined to create one.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

New Jerseyans, call your Representative! U.S. Capitol switchboard, 202-224-3121. Also call your state representative. That's more work - take a look here: www.njleg.state.nj.us#findLegislator

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We are going to end up straight up poisoning people

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

and also, significantly, is also the office Cory Booker used to hold

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Disappearing an elected official.

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

The Suspension Clause: 1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session; 2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and 3) Even then, applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

Last fall Niall Ferguson chastised me on Xitter for suggesting Trump could turn fascist, asserting, "fascism was all about state control of the economy and militarisation in preparation for war, pretty much the opposite of Trump's philosophy." Just thinking about that for no reason whatsoever.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Has there been a case of violent retaliation against ICE agents or members of their families?

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

submitted 1 day ago • 582 comments

Corrupt and criminal ICE fears the People

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Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

submitted 2 days ago • 220 comments

NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

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New: a man 'disappeared' by ICE was not included on a government list of people deported to El Salvador's mega prison. But we found his name in a hacked flight manifest to the country. Raises questions about how much the government knows about who it is deporting www.404media.co/man-disappea...

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NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Two years ago, I requested a copy of the mishap report SpaceX sent to the FAA after one of its rockets exploded shortly after takeoff. The 102-page document finally arrived last week, but it’s almost entirely redacted! 1/ www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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It's a "deal," not a deal: "This document serves to define the general terms for the EPD that set forth the shared desires of the US and the UK... Both the US and the UK recognize that this document does not constitute a legally binding agreement." ustr.gov/sites/defaul...

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"I had a thing when I was 14 with a girl I liked. I kept waiting for her to call. She kept waiting for me to call, and we never got together. And there was something beautiful that could have happened.. I don't know what she's doing with her life now, but that's the story of the American economy."

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

You're doin' a heckuva job, Duffy.

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It is actually extremely important that [ed: actually, ~50%] of global pharmaceutical revenue comes from the US, though less for reasons related to the fever dreams of RFK Jr and more because coincidentally about 50% of global pharmaceutical R&D spending also happens here.