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1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 1 day ago • 1234 comments

Looks like ICE is using the New England Patriot’s plane - which is available for charter in the off-season - to carry out their assholery.

submitted 2 days ago • 725 comments

I will say it again: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

submitted 7 days ago • 483 comments

Does the president have to obey Supreme Court rulings? This Federalist Society Supreme Court judge says it depends what party they represent.

submitted 14 days ago • 66 comments

A play in two acts.

submitted 21 days ago • 441 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 20 days ago • 609 comments

The Texas House Public Health Committee is taking up HB44 on Monday (the companion to SB31) Last week, 4 of the plaintiffs in Zurawski vs Texas, who sued the state over medical exceptions in the Texas abortion ban, testified against or on SB31. This is Lauren Miller #txlege

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

submitted 27 days ago • 926 comments

So let me get this straight: as he was framing Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic as lowlife scum for accurately reporting on him, Mike Waltz was frantically checking his _19_ other secret, national security-threatening Signal chats to make sure he hadn't accidentally invited any journalists to those?

submitted 28 days ago • 184 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 29 days ago • 963 comments

Elon Musk continues to show us that money can’t buy you happiness or the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Race 👍🏾

submitted 29 days ago • 61 comments

Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.

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It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 41 days ago • 2819 comments

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

submitted 42 days ago • 24 comments

SOTU reminded me why the Romans organized gladiator fights in the Colosseum. Distract the plebs. Give them some entertainment and they'll complain less about their living conditions. It still works to this day.

submitted 56 days ago • 181 comments

Tariff wars and robber barons, white supremacy and Comstockery, sewage in the water and measles on the march. Truly, he has Made America Gilded Again.

submitted 57 days ago • 109 comments

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 59 days ago • 266 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 60 days ago • 5987 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 63 days ago • 975 comments

BREAKING: HHS employees are told that responding to the Five Bullets is voluntary, but warns that if you respond, "assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors."

submitted 65 days ago • 281 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 65 days ago • 183 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 74 days ago • 318 comments

The official US Army account is now reposting ‘Libs of TikTok’.

submitted 74 days ago • 352 comments

~75% voucher kids were already in private school anyway. The other 25% suffer horrific results after transfer. The last 4 statewide studies found learning loss similar to Katrina and COVID impacts. Why? Sub-prime & pop-ups the only schools available to most voucher transfers.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 85 days ago • 1309 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked. The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.” This is Mr. Art of the Deal.

submitted 85 days ago • 919 comments

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

submitted 89 days ago • 656 comments

And no the NAEP Catholic scores don’t say vouchers work. They say: when you give one sector the ability to screen in and screen out poor performs, that sector’s scores go up. Research shows low scores are the key predictor of students leaving/kicked out of voucher schools.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

how many times did we say “sucking up won’t save you”

submitted 88 days ago • 95 comments

the definition of a “competent government” is “one you don’t have to think about all the time”

submitted 88 days ago • 76 comments

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

submitted 90 days ago • 913 comments

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 90 days ago • 963 comments

Donald Trump is the most unpopular president at the start of his term in modern American political history. Don't let anyone talk to you about a mandate. Don't let anyone talk to you about there being support for his agenda. Don't let anyone tell you that anything about this presidency is normal.

submitted 91 days ago • 195 comments

Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.

submitted 92 days ago • 220 comments

Jennings: This salute trutherism is outrageous. Rampell: Do it right now on TV! If you think it’s a normal way to greet people, do it right now on TV. Why won’t you?!

submitted 93 days ago • 1471 comments

This new TX fiscal note assumes only ~12% of applicants will be coming from TX public schools in the first year of the voucher system—about 25% by FY 2030. Those numbers strike me as roughly correct. It’s a subsidy for existing private students. capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 92 days ago • 3295 comments

Everyone was warned about this, and it’s happening just as we feared.

submitted 95 days ago • 1265 comments