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"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 172 comments

UPDATE: Authorities are investigating a shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and wounded six others. The suspect is hospitalized and is the son of a Leon County sheriff's deputy.

submitted 7 days ago • 216 comments

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

submitted 8 days ago • 1597 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 days ago • 1203 comments

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

submitted 13 days ago • 685 comments

Today is a perfect day to save a life! Minneapolis Animal Care and Control is having a Clear the Shelter event. There are sweet and loving cats and dogs who need homes. If you have been thinking about getting a companion animal, please come today and choose a bud in need. Photo tax: my MACC dog.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

submitted 13 days ago • 809 comments

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

submitted 15 days ago • 3548 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 15 days ago • 1472 comments

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 15 days ago • 614 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 16 days ago • 258 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 18 days ago • 1139 comments

Last night I wrote about Abrego Garcia’s case. Today, SCOTUS confirmed it’s true. Even though their stay is just temporary, he remains in cruel & unusual conditions in a foreign prison with no recourse. It could happen to any of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 467 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 18 days ago • 141 comments

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

submitted 18 days ago • 165 comments

THIS. #HandsOff

submitted 19 days ago • 215 comments

The LDS church repeatedly referred men with “same-sex attraction” to Owen for counseling. Instead of providing therapy, his patients told @sltrib.com and ProPublica, Owen sexually abused them. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 45 comments

If you give them power, you can take it away.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

submitted 24 days ago • 109 comments

"The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up."

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 24 days ago • 7402 comments

“Every single day, I think the chances are growing that we will not have a free and fair election in 2026.” In a new interview, the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy talks about Donald Trump, the Democrats’ “broken brand,” and the fate of the nation.

submitted 25 days ago • 35 comments

Big Bird Seen Working At Local Starbucks After PBS Funding Cuts

submitted 27 days ago • 83 comments

Securing your phone before entering the USA. 🧵 At CDC we travel around the globe to confront health threats and have never worried about returning home. Yet more researchers, including US Citizens, are having their phones searched at Customs. security.ucop.edu/resources/tr...

submitted 31 days ago • 40 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 31 days ago • 330 comments

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

submitted 28 days ago • 69 comments

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

submitted 29 days ago • 300 comments

This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat. "Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."

submitted 33 days ago • 914 comments

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

submitted 34 days ago • 610 comments

10,000 postal workers. The folks who worked while all of us stayed home waiting on package deliveries during COVID.

submitted 34 days ago • 214 comments

This is not where we want to go People need to push back on this NOW

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

submitted 36 days ago • 615 comments

In recent years, Judge Boasberg has: - ordered the release of Hillary’s emails - ensured Trump’s tax returns never became public - restricted disclosure from the Mueller investigation - limited disclosure of grand jury material in the Trump classified docs case. The resistance, he ain’t.

submitted 36 days ago • 191 comments

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 38 days ago • 1291 comments

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...

submitted 37 days ago • 117 comments

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

submitted 38 days ago • 240 comments