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California representatives did a check in where migrants were being detained. They found no beds, no food and no water. Children were among the detained.

submitted 11 hours ago • 170 comments

So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

submitted 12 hours ago • 106 comments

My country is invading my state and that feels incredibly bizarre and sad to articulate

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES L.A. RESIDENTS TO BE IN “REBELLION AGAINST THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES” This declaration may well be a prelude to martial law. He’s illegally federalized the Guard in California and this looks very like the pretext he was waiting for.

submitted 12 hours ago • 198 comments

Sunny #caturday big kitten smiles

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When Social Security numbers first started being issued 90 years ago, some people objected because of concerns about government surveillance. This is the type of thing they feared:

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

big resisting at Harvard continues: “The Harvard Medical School renamed its diversity office and announced changes to several major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on Wednesday in the latest rollback of diversity infrastructure at Harvard.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The blockbuster horror film "Sinners" features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, impactful scene. For some Choctaw, it is the first time they've heard their language and seen their culture accurately portrayed on screen.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

🥚 Algorithms for medical screenings—what age to begin? how frequently?—hinge on knowledge of family medical history, as does willingness of insurance to cover the cost. Those of us who are both cancer patients and adopted people can testify that secrecy kills. 1/2 www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

No need for details, but my family is experiencing this currently, and it's a racket.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is an insane chart

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

They arrested a judge. They arrested a mayor. They are charging a member of Congress with a crime. And now they are intimidating members of Congress. It's here, everyone. We all told you it's coming. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Trump steals children from immigrant parents. It's that simple. The Trump Administration Is Trapping Migrant Kids In Shelters www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate what effect forced detransition would have on people who have experienced gender dysphoria and then taken the step to come out and get treatment. It would be a death sentence for many. It’s genocidal.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

no desire to love & raise a child can ever entitle you to what #adoption is designed to give: ownership of another person’s identity. it is this—the desire for a simulation of natal parenthood within a traditional patriarchal model of the family—that is the deep obstacle to true reform of adoption.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"Now the high court has issued another ban on the media naming a family judge found to have seriously abused their adopted children." #adoptee #adoption 🥚 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The first official Memorial Day observance was in Arlington in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended—but the first recorded such observance was less than a month after the war’s end in 1865, when formerly enslaved Black people in Charleston commemorated the Union soldiers who helped free them.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

JUST-RELEASED GEORGIA TEEN Ximena Arias-Cristobal: “Even having the right paperwork doesn’t mean anything anymore with the presidency we have now… just being Hispanic you’re a target.” More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

submitted 14 days ago • 234 comments

So everyone advocating for caution and regulation of AI are absolutely right (as if there were any doubt). Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Agree. As a former senior patrol agent, it is state sponsored terrorism to not identify yourself as law enforcement, kidnap & disappear people. We know these agents are arresting American citizens, legal residents & people granted asylum which violates US law. Yet, they all have qualified immunity.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The girls had a very good week. #caturday

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

so who do we think trump is manipulating the market for today?

submitted 16 days ago • 120 comments

🚨 10 years is a long time in dog years, but especially in technology years. This is simply irresponsible.

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NEW: “Former LA Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Plead Guilty to Threatening to Bomb City Hall Last Year” Sounds like the deputy mayor called in a fake bomb threat in an attempt to set up pro-Palestine organizers. Wonder what the city attorney's role is in all of this: www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

This is unconscionable.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 16 days ago • 103 comments

But sure, let's ban all children from getting covid vaccines. The stupidity is mindboggling.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Day 985. Children with Long COVID "reported a quality of life comparable to peers with cancer or cystic fibrosis, with many expressing a deep sense of ineffectiveness and loss of confidence…underscoring the urgent need for integrated mental health screening…" Or… A cure? How about a cure?

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you” The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

The most stupid and cruel people are running the gov.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 18 days ago • 152 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 18 days ago • 691 comments

Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!

submitted 19 days ago • 628 comments

“Crypto has not just facilitated fraud, money-laundering and…financial crime on a gargantuan scale. The industry has also developed a grubby relationship with the executive branch of America’s government that outstrips that of Wall Street or any other industry.” economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 116 comments

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

submitted 23 days ago • 619 comments

$45 million would fund gender-affirming care in the entire U.S. military for the next decade.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Citizenship is just a game to them

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Why is the DNC revoting on leadership roles? Who is David Hogg and why's everyone talking about him? And what does it have to do with the media, Jim Clyburn and DEI?

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

⚠️ Human Rights Watch: “The Israeli government’s plan to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and acts of genocide”

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

“We are staring our 100-day plan with a laser focus on bringing down the cost of living” - Christopher Luxon, 4 December 2023

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Q&A from a talk I gave last week. Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?" A: Fascism. It's fascism.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments