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It is wild that “free speech” has been redefined to mean “explicit government viewpoint discrimination” with so little pushback

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

@schumer.senate.gov LET THE REPUBLICANS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. LET THEM DESTROY EVERYTHING. SHOW THE COUNTRY HOW INEPT THESE PEOPLE ARE. YOUR BASE WOULD 100% SUPPORT THIS

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

The status quo isn’t constitutional-favorable, nor is the dirty CR. Shutting down the government until the party responsible (the one in charge) is willing to agree to follow the law > approving of the end of the Constitution.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"She started a media company, hired her wife and little sister, secured investment from the likes of David Sacks and Marc Andreessen, and has never once published anything that might piss off her investors or subscribers." defector.com/they-should-...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 19 hours ago • 2466 comments

i find this notion that public spending is illegitimate bizarre as a matter of economics but totally legible as a statement of moral economy. and as per any strict system of morality, the punishment is part of the appeal. they are punishing the american people for believing in the public good.

submitted 20 hours ago • 417 comments

Just 30 years ago, preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV seemed unfathomable. Today, it is possible around the world thanks to dedicated researchers, compassionate clinicians, courageous mothers, and sustained investment through programs like PEPFAR.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

New, from me: Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing. It's a new spoils systems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

A quick 🧵: The news of Congress potentially blowing a $1.1 billion hole in D.C.'s budget has certainly riled up a lot of people. But it's part of a larger trend of how Congress's years-long budget dysfunctions have bled into D.C.'s municipal government.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

We are replacing actual, serious, qualified public servants with lightweights and cranks. Fire DOGE.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

I just published story on secretive NYPD unit led by Eric Adams buddies Things they've done: Purposely crashed into motorcyclist, killing him Punched unarmed driver in head then kicked him Shoved a man into a car window after he protested stop WE HAVE VIDEOS www.propublica.org/article/eric...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

damn doing all that for her 800 followers. I gotta get a better grift

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

@steveliesman.bsky.social Want to say as the son of a man who’s watched a metric shitton of CNBC for about 19 years now, thank you for seemingly have a personal distaste for complete bullshit.

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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Put whoever wrote this in charge

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

There is a reason why Elon and Russ Vought want Congress to pass Speaker Johnson's slush fund CR. We should not let Elon and Trump pick winners and losers or defund programs they either don't like or don't understand. They will hurt blue AND red states. VOTE NO.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

So many egregious allegations in the lawsuit DC filed against Cloakroom strip club: -managers demanding sex acts for unpaid leave -security guards refusing to protect entertainers who didn't give up a cut of their tips -sexual assault, wage theft, more www.washingtonian.com/2025/03/11/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

McGovern: The stock market is going down. Planes are going down. We've had several major accidents, several close calls, and we just learned that Elon Musk, the guy whose rocket just exploded, wants to fire air traffic controllers. Make that make sense.

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

35 mins later and +1.09%

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"I am not writing this to argue that these individuals and groups are insincere, or not genuinely worried about antisemitism on campus, or that theirs is not a Jewish view. It is...I am writing this because I think that they are catastrophically wrong." newrepublic.com/article/1925...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What California needs now is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. That's why I'm running for Governor. katieporter.com

submitted 1 day ago • 228 comments

NEW INVESTIGATION from me: There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor www.propublica.org/article/eric...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 2 days ago • 207 comments

I’m looking to speak to queer and trans artists (especially with work up at museums) about how institutions can and should be supporting LGBTQ+ art/artists during hostility and violence from the government, for an article I’m working on - if that’s you get in touch or share w/ artists you know!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A ton of good people with great politics identify as liberals because they’re not extremely online and are unaware some on the left think being a liberal a bad thing to be. I think it’s stupid as shit to use “liberal” as an insult that makes those people catch strays and confuses them right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

This is some Kremlin ass shit

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

A police accountability watchdog is being charged with a felony under a rarely used California hacking law. The reason? For sharing sheriff misconduct records with prosecutors—records that flagged deputies accused of excessive force, dishonesty, and more.boltsmag.org/the-cur...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this piece is really good from @joshtpm.bsky.social: --> If enough Democrats contact their senators in the next couple days they will fall into line. That’s in your hands. The future is really in your hands. --> Constituents have about 48 hours to make a difference.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"We are deeply appreciative of all you do in the care of our students and community. Also we will be using your engineering class as a trap for students who protested a genocide before they're shipped off to a Trump blacksite, and it's not optional."

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Mahmoud Khalil has become a political prisoner for protesting a US-backed genocide. His detention heralds new vistas of repression made possible by institutions and technological developments begun by the War on Terror.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Coming soon to the Social Security payment system.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Posting this classic woke Hollywood clip celebrating DEI icon Thomas Moore and his communist take on laws and due process: youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...

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submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Russian authorities abduct Ukrainian journalist, torture her for months w electrocution until she dies in custody, weighing less than 30kg. #russianwarcrimes khpg.org/en/160881447...

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

#TeslaTakedown Tulsa!

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

We shld view Tesla as the equivalent of a company that held down babies and poured radioactive waste down their throats or probably something worse. I don't support violence. But normal Americans are right to stand agst this company which threatens their liberty. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

From Paul Blumenthal: www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

The Wisconsin Democrats are holding phone banks every day to defeat Elon Musk and elect a fair judge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. They need your help. Sign up at the link below. You can help from anywhere in the US and training is always provided. wisdems.org/phonebank

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Have a bad idea? Just say any opposition to it is neoliberal

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Just last summer, Ed Martin hosted an award ceremony at Trump’s golf club for an alleged Nazi sympathizer and others convicted of Jan. 6-relates crimes. Now, under Trump, Martin is the interim U.S. attorney for DC. See @tomdreisbach.bsky.social’s reporting: www.npr.org/2024/09/12/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

This is a terrifying way for everyone to learn about hantavirus, one of the scourges of a New Mexico childhood besides the literal black plague www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

What's that? You say the Biden economy was "firing on all cylinders"? Might have been cool to talk more about that before the election!

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy intervened to stop DOGE from firing air traffic controllers, the Times reports. Musk continued to push for FAA cuts anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments