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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

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Venezuela minister offers the same assessment as US intelligence officers: there are _no_ Tren de Aragua members among US deportees. The claims of the Trump administration are pure fiction. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Who is JD Vance and what is he about? zeteo.com/p/peter-thie...

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At least 200 children among the 506 Palestinians killed by Israel in the last 5 days, the UN says. www.un.org/unispal/docu...

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USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment. Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.

submitted 141 days ago • 155 comments

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 95 days ago • 820 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 100 days ago • 274 comments

“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prosecutors have concluded that arson incidents that burned IKEA shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw were set by Russian saboteurs acting under the instruction of Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 100 days ago • 1676 comments

Basic US civics: 3 branches of government, not one. President, not a king or dictator. Nazis are bad

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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

submitted 102 days ago • 1320 comments

It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.

submitted 101 days ago • 188 comments

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

submitted 101 days ago • 730 comments

Ok. So it seems, at least with deportations this administration is willing to defy the courts. Now what? I’m genuinely asking for your thoughts.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

submitted 103 days ago • 2750 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 103 days ago • 750 comments

If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22 Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼

submitted 103 days ago • 308 comments

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 103 days ago • 2866 comments

I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight. open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

submitted 104 days ago • 2688 comments

Damn straight!

submitted 105 days ago • 256 comments

Indeed.

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Frump labels anything he doesn’t like illegal. Is that foreshadowing? In a dictatorship The Dictator is the law.

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Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

submitted 107 days ago • 238 comments

All roads lead to Russia.

submitted 108 days ago • 65 comments

This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

submitted 108 days ago • 74 comments

It completely amazes me that this administration's foreign policy on Ukraine is based on JD Vance "seeing some videos". He's the VP of the USA. All he has to do in order to see the situation on the ground is tell the Air Force to fuel his jet.

submitted 108 days ago • 15 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 108 days ago • 453 comments

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop them from forming. Keep up the fight.

submitted 109 days ago • 119 comments

💯🎯

submitted 110 days ago • 486 comments