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I really just can’t get over this. What POSSIBLE POLICY MOTIVATION could this serve? A traffic ticket from the Obama administration makes you MS-13 or some kind of dangerous criminal element? We can’t risk letting these doctors cure cancer, if they once went 63 in a 55? IT IS LUNACY

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

Just insane stories from the graduate school communities, students getting kicked out of the country - medical and science researchers - because of trivial, decade-old violations, like speeding tickets, long ago, paid in full

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 16 hours ago • 166 comments

it is interesting how this was totally an elite fabrication. trans rights were on the path to general acceptance on the gay marriage coattails but nearly our entire elite culture including elite liberals decided to run a multi-year op against a tiny minority

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

How it started // How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

Some of us said after the first Trump admin. And Dems agreed until the precise moment they took power whereupon they immediately decided it would be a lot easier to simply do nothing

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I’m sorry but this is why, if you find yourself in a room with Donald Trump, you look him right in the eyes and tell him he’s a moronic, fascist piece of human garbage. Because otherwise this might happen

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

You know, I think the best way not to “yield to the far right the notion that humanity ought to persist on this earth” is to protect the humans currently on this earth, and make them free, particularly from the far right

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is really it. And it isn’t limited to mainstreaming racism. Until very recently antivax views were truly fringe, and if you held those beliefs you were a pariah. But now, you have media outlets mainstreaming absolutely ludicrous anti-science opinions because the HHS Secretary espouses them.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

One is left with the question of what is sufficient penalty to deter future treasonous fascist collaboration despite the potential financial rewards and promise of legal immunity from treasonous fascist leaders?

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Logic of fascism: some people are subhumans whose role is to be tormented by the state for the pleasure of the leaders and the masses he embodies, and anyone who harbors them is an enemy of the state to be punished with all its tools. Government is for torturing the weak and their defenders

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Are you the CEO of a multinational enterprise with deep pockets and a direct line to the White House? Great—Trump’s open for business. Oh, you run a small- or mid-size company and have nothing to offer the king? Kick rocks.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Also this is how it starts: academics banding together, which leads to universities banding together, which leads to companies banding together, which leads to states banding together, which leads to nations banding together - all so Trump can’t extort us one by one

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Not sure why she needed a full article when fourteen words would have sufficed

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Yes! All the people Trump is extorting banding together against him is the ONLY way out! Universities, academics, can start it. Band together and FIGHT BACK

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Yes

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Crony capitalism. Be friends with the president and your company gets special favors. You support him, he supports you.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

gee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election

submitted 3 days ago • 205 comments

what have you done exactly

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

absolutely insane, a betrayal of the most basic principles of freedom of speech for which the American republic is supposed to stand

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Let’s get it in front of a real judge

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Unearthed video: Trump nominee Ed Martin praises Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a neo-Nazi white supremacist and convicted January 6 felon: “Extraordinary man”

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

None of this stops until they throw members of the Trump regime in jail for disobeying court orders.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Was SO predictable that DOJ was going to treat SCOTUS language re. "due regard" as letting them continue to slow-walk this endlessly. District Judge not buying it, which is good, but this is why SCOTUS is wrong to treat this DOJ w presumption of good faith and regularity.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

It is enormously damaging that a bunch of leftists gleefully spread the ring wing line that Nancy Pelosi got rich “insider trading” (she just got lucky buying and holding tech stocks) to attack Dems when the most clear cut cases of using classified information were Rs (Burr, Perdue, and Loeffler)

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

This is about as bad faith as you can get. SCOTUS may have been blithe, but it plainly meant the judiciary can't order the US government to storm CECOT or tell them how to ask Bukele.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Under what law or authority? Seriously what the fuck is this repeated assertion of “you are required to hear from us in writing again before you issue an order” coming from. You should be disbarred for even proffering this bullshit

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments