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I’d be so hyped for A.I. if it was in the hands of humanists taking a holistic approach to its integration into our lives instead of devaluing the arts and gleefully eliminating the jobs of artists. Technology is at its best when it makes us more human, not less. Rollercoasters. Karaoke. Lazer Tag.

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Alan Moore from a new interview. alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...

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I really resent being governed like it’s sweeps week.

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No reason for Bhattacharya to choose between gutting science and trashing academic freedom. He is doing both. You cannot get funding from NIH if your mention certain forbidden words, but you can get 500 million without peer review if you are aligned with the administration.

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Do you think Congress or the FDA should be in charge of food safety? (Where this means: of course Congress gets to legislate, but should it have the power to overturn regulations without the normal process?)

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Good lord, just learned (form the conlawprof Listserv) about the most transparently Orbanist stunt yet. Steven Miller filed a FOIA suit against John Roberts as pretense to claim that the administrative office of the U.S. courts is really an executive agency storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Really terrible timing for Dems to be collaborating with the GOP on a stablecoin bill while Trump and his family are putting out a stablecoin! This is going to hit the floor next week.

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CNN: “A Gaza-bound activist aid ship caught fire and issued an SOS, after what its organizers claimed was an Israeli drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters…” (Greta Thunberg was almost on board)

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Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

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Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

UCLA shut down a screening of The Encampments—a documentary about students being brutalized by police for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza— by sending police to brutalize students during the screening. Of the documentary. About that.

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There's a stage of democracy where the rule of law remains strong enough to be a serious deterrent to would-be authoritarians. There's a later stage where the law can only slow down the authoritarians, buying you time. And then there's the stage where the law is instrumentalized BY authoritarians.

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The REAL story here is that this moron backed himself onto the ropes and BEGGED the reporter OVER AND OVER to finish him off for good, and the reporter refused to take the punch. He PROTECTED Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The Women, Peace and Security Act was signed into law by President Trump in 2017.

submitted 10 days ago • 550 comments

house transportation and infrastructure reconciliation text is out, and let's see what they're doi- oh, they're imposing registration fees on green vehicles

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You'd think so, but assuming a Democrat can take over in 2029 how do they rebuild the federal agencies that have been decimated? How do they undo and punish the graft and corruption taking its place? Seriously important questions, presidential candidates should try to answer them.

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"New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo worked as a paid adviser to an offshore cryptocurrency exchange as it dealt with a federal investigation before it pleaded guilty to operating illegally in the US, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David French’s column today says Harvard is “remarkably intolerant,” the speech environment is “abysmal,” and left-wing bias is “overwhelming.” So I have a question: if they’re so biased against conservatives, how do they keep being a stepping stone for influential conservative lawyers and judges?

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Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir and top Republican leaders agreed in a meeting that Israel should continue bombing humanitarian aid in Gaza, Ben-Gvir has said — effectively admitting that he is getting express support from top U.S. leaders to commit war crimes and genocidal acts.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Family separations are back. As some of us warned they would be. Utter cruelty and deception here from Trump and ICE:

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

I wanted to try and figure out how Neil Gorsuch concluded that 'Pride Puppy', an ABCs book about a lost dog at a pride parade that he insists he read, exposes kids to "bondage" and "sex workers." The answers are somehow even dumber than you can imagine. A brief thread:

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The way I now see batshit insane headlines and go “…yeah ok that tracks”

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SCOOP: three days after Kilmar Abrego García’s family sued the govt for his wrongful deportation, US officials began working on plan to fix the mistake and ensure his safety in El Salvador until they could bring him back. Then the Trump administration dug in www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Last month, after news broke that Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations, one of his closest military aides made an unusual inquiry to DoD's chief information officer: Would they grant an exception so Hegseth could keep using Signal freely? www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

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A lot of people have invested years and decades in the idea that the left in general are dangerously crazy and need to be ruthlessly policed, so they’re not going to be distracted by minor matters like out of control right wing authoritarians taking power and instituting crank fascist crackdowns.

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How are they still whining about this shit in April 2025

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To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

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for my entire life i have simply never understood how anyone reading this can be convinced this is an antisemitic statement

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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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Fantastic and necessary piece from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social (deleted earlier post because typo) stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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“We have to sacrifice the most fundamental things about America—literally its most essential guarantee of liberty—or we won’t have a country anymore.”

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Trans women should use male toilets, equalities minister says www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

I just received the first copy of Copaganda! It will be sold anywhere books are sold. I try to explain the role of the media, the police, and academia in how we got to this authoritarian moment.

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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Over on X, a tale of the madness currently playing out with student visas is currently going viral on the basis of an astonishing quote from a judge calling what the Trump administration is doing “Kafkaesque.” The lawsuit is one of Banias. law’s emergency TRO cases and the quote is from 5 days ago.

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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

submitted 21 days ago • 119 comments

I keep thinking about this As someone raised Catholic, converts to Catholicism in the us are interesting to me. Being able to look at Catholic doctrine and willingly take the mass of contradictions and say "that makes sense" is not what they do. 1/

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The White House has turned covid.gov into a conspiracy theory page.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

people asking “why can’t they do both?” and the answer: on tariffs/the economy the plan is to do nothing and make posts about egg prices. whereas on immigration, as von hollen has shown, there’s space to act. and really what the “it’s a distraction” camps wants is to not act

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