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Make it make sense

submitted 8 hours ago • 325 comments

Scary things that you may have recently read headlines about that it turned out you didn’t have to worry about include: microplastics in your brain, black plastic spatulas, intermittent fasting, and plant based meat alternatives. Also, no, you do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a month.

submitted 6 hours ago • 217 comments

Before folks overreact to headlines about the judge’s ruling in the Khalil case, please note that (1) it was an immigration judge (IJ), not a federal district court; and (2) the IJ had no power to consider Khalil’s constitutional objections. This particular decision was a fait accompli.

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

😳🐟🐠🐡 This takes sleeping with the fishes literally—and to a whole new level. 🌊

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There are some very bad stories going around about the Mahmoud Kahlil case. The hearing today was before an immigration judge — which is located within the Justice Department. They are NOT a "federal judge" in the sense that anyone reading at least one nationwide story saying so thinks of it.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Hard to believe the hill the Justice Department wants to die on, we don’t want to comply with your order so we aren’t going to. Nothing like engaging in explicitly lawless behavior they don’t even pretend to regret.

submitted 1 day ago • 757 comments

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”

submitted 1 day ago • 469 comments

🚨NEW: The NC Supreme Court's GOP majority will retroactively nullify 2,000 to 7,000 ballots from military and overseas voters unless they quickly prove their identity—but only those who voted in a few Democratic counties. Could overturn Justice Riggs' victory. appellate.nccourts.org/orders.php?t...

submitted 1 day ago • 406 comments

Trump defying a court order. This is a crucial moment on the road to (or from) authoritarianism. Here we go.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

BREAKING: As expected, and consistent with all the PROOF reporting from the past week, the Trump administration has now _refused to follow court orders_ in the Abrego Garcia case. Major media misinformed the public by telling them that the Supreme Court ruling in the case was a win for rule of law.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Oh look, Trump is threatening Mexico with tariffs again. At this point countries will just laugh at this ass clown. His credibility is shot. He can’t stick with tariffs because of the same domestic pressure he’s caved to 4 times already in less than 90 days. Just hollow threats.

submitted 2 days ago • 476 comments

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

America has no allies in this trade war. Not the EU. Not Japan. Not Canada, not Mexico, not Australia. Not even Russia. OK, maybe El Salvador. MAGA wanted America alone. It got its wish.

submitted 2 days ago • 97 comments

Right now, America is not a place where rule of law exists. We are all being mined to increase the wealth of the few.

submitted 2 days ago • 268 comments

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 2 days ago • 484 comments

Knox ICE playing ugly games www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l...

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

So today, the Supreme Court told the President of the United States that he can't "accidentally" send people to an overseas prison and just leave them there. I want you to think about what has to happen for us to get to this point.

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👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 382 comments

He really might’ve actually destroyed the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency holy fuck

submitted 2 days ago • 335 comments

In a rational world with a functioning polity, this would be a good moment for Congress to claw back its power over tariffs. Because, as David French noted, “that which Trump arbitrarily revokes, he can arbitrarily invoke tomorrow.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

BREAKING: The House just adopted a budget resolution that sets the stage for deep cuts to Medicaid. People with disabilities, seniors in nursing homes, and children in schools will suffer the brunt of these misguided cuts.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

The Social Security Administration said that people seeking retirement or survivor benefits could continue to file applications over the phone, reversing a much criticized change that was expected to force tens of thousands of Americans to visit offices in person each week.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

submitted 2 days ago • 1529 comments

www.economist.com/leaders/2025.... yup

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So now all the “fiscal conservatives” in Congress who complained for the last 4 years that the Biden/Pelosi budget deficits were “mortgaging our kids’ futures” are on a path to pass a budget that will explode the deficit exponentially to far more than any of the Biden years.

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BREAKING -- Republicans just cut funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That's right. $880 BILLION cut from ACA and Medicaid -- to pay for a billionaire tax cut -- raising the cost of healthcare for 119.3 million Americans. Are you one of them?

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

Has anyone considered the possibility that all these Nobel Prize winning economists know more about the economy than the fat dude who bankrupts casinos?

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Dow plunges 1,014 pts as Trump raises China tariffs to 145%, Tesla craters, bond market spikes, and House GOP backs a $5.8T debt bomb to fund Trump’s billionaire tax cuts. Panic, chaos, and insider trading rumors swirl. Catch up now:

submitted 2 days ago • 117 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 2 days ago • 416 comments

"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 679 comments

Stop trying to play three-dimensional chess, just remind voters Trump has created an enormous financial crisis out of nowhere

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Markets woke up and realized that a 10% global tariff and 125% tariff on China is still going to devastate America’s economy.

submitted 2 days ago • 399 comments