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Some good news today! The stop work order for those providing legal representation to unaccompanied children has been cancelled.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you're going to read one thing today it needs to be this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

I would not characterize this as “a major diplomatic breakthrough.” I would instead call it human trafficking. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

This is brilliant and necessary

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 13 days ago • 899 comments

Chuck Schumer has failed America and cannot be allowed to continue on as caucus leader.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”

submitted 14 days ago • 79 comments

If you want to understand how we'll survive this mess, check out Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer. I help produce this weekly podcast about how now fits into the history of authoritarianism and what we can do to fight back. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

When Schumer was Majority Leader, GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville single-handedly blocked military promotions, leaving important roles vacant, by denying unanimous consent. So were you weakly letting him hurt the country then, or are you weakly declining to do something similar to help the country now?

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Seriously???

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The job of congress isn't to come on here and tell us stuff, that's the media's job. Your job is to tell us what you're going to DO about it.

submitted 25 days ago • 571 comments

Dear US senators: You can ABSOLUTELY say you're voting against these nominees before their hearings. You'll save yourself some grief and us a lot of time. There are no norms here to uphold; don't pretend they're in any way qualified or valid candidates. Just say you're not voting for them. Thanks.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

Really fucking rich that the first GOP bill to pass - abetted by too many Dems - is a gross excessive attack on all immigrants, based on one crime, when Trump is pardoning violent criminals who actually do put us in danger Be good if some House Dems pointed that out today during the debate

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 35 days ago • 941 comments

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

submitted 37 days ago • 92 comments

The first visual of the Trump presidency at the border; a sobbing woman in Ciudad Juárez stands outside the Paso Del Norte port of entry, clutching a pole as she weeps having learned that her 1:00PM appointment for a chance to seek asylum in the US has been cancelled. x.com/arelisrhdz/s...

submitted 36 days ago • 120 comments

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

submitted 44 days ago • 621 comments

Genuinely mad that no one figured out how to poke this division between Miller/MAGA and Big Tech Bros before the election.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

submitted 62 days ago • 306 comments

I head someone explain this as “Good weird is being weird about your own business, bad weird is being weird about other people’s business” and I thought that summed it up pretty well.

submitted 92 days ago • 26 comments

People fricken loved the checks Trump sent with his name on 'em. Everybody LOVES "handouts" when they personally get 'em. Stop means testing, give EVERYONE help, and TAKE CREDIT.

submitted 95 days ago • 11 comments

I wish the rest of the Democratic Party got half as mad as AOC is about the GOP's blatant bigotry and assholery.

submitted 96 days ago • 20 comments

TWO dad wins today: My 17 year old son got his driver’s license today but more importantly I heard him just casually singing this song while cleaning up. Every now and then I feel like I know what I’m doing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I’m one of the million who have voted early in Georgia—shoutout to the poll workers in Chamblee 👏🏼

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit just realized that Harris should agree to an interview with Jamelle Bouie This would (a) be really great with good questions, & (b) make The NY Times news desk lost their fucking minds

submitted 179 days ago • 39 comments

Hoping to see a spinoff Transformers origins story, must have been a really interesting character arc

submitted 179 days ago • 0 comments

unbelievable. a right-wing donor and member of the board of visitors has basically pressured UVA into suspending the University Guide Service, a highly-regarded student org that runs tours, because it tells prospective students and their parents that Jefferson was a slaveholder.

submitted 180 days ago • 115 comments

Warnock: "I need all of my neighbors' children to be OK. Poor inner-city children in Atlanta and poor children of Appalachia. I need the poor children of Israel and the poor children of Gaza, I need Israelis and Palestinians, ... I need American children on both sides of the track to be OK."

submitted 190 days ago • 22 comments

There seems to be a mass migration from The Other Place happening here and on Threads. If you’re new here, I’m a political historian who posts a lot about history, and politics. And history and politics. And the occasional bird.

submitted 203 days ago • 17 comments