If you're not careful, newspapers will have you hating people being oppressed - and loving people doing the oppressing.
~ Malcolm X

doge doing what it was designed to do

News needs to focus on ice purposely crashing into cars. One of these days it’ll be a child.

Andruil just announced a new product called EagleEye for “warfighters” on the other site.

Andruil partnered w/ Meta, Oakley, Standard Issue, Qualcomm, & GentexCorp.

So much defense money is going to the same people and corporations.

Gentex is also a Tesla supplier.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

Holy Shit storm rages on: the owner of the 2005 painting from the Whitney Biennial reached out; the Yo and XXX were added by visitors while it was installed in the stairwell, after James Wagner photographed it. greg.org/archive/2025...

“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.

Infuriating.

"Through this unlawful process, IMLS’s new leadership has decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program is going to a single recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for its America250 project"

like his illegal destruction of the digital equity act, which immediately destroyed funding for affordable broadband and digital literacy training in a large number of red states

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

This was always the biggest risk. You can't really outlast a party that doesn't want the federal government to function; during a shutdown, that side is getting what it wants.

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if you don't know about one of the most *insane* lawsuits over the origins of this kick ass desert landscape painting that is definitely not by Peter Doig then do yourself a favor and read this to the end lol

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

I've been following Aaron since before the latest ICE immigration stuff and he is one of the most valuable ones you can have. True professional context and experience of the headlines. He's not just bloviating he actually understands the full legal case history.

"To the extent Trump has the power to federalize troops, it stems from a law Congress passed. In other words, Congress could, were it not currently controlled by sniveling sycophants, just pass a new law that took away that power. So, by its very nature, that’s not a plenary power."

are you sure you're not peter doig? www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/18/p...

Prisoners in the Sobibór extermination camp organized an uprising on 14.10.1943. They killed 11 SS men and then attempted to escape. After the uprising, the SS murdered all the remaining prisoners in the camp. Around 50 of the 300 prisoners who escaped survived the war. Esther Raab was one of them.

cuomo is such a horrible person that Indian Point doesn't even get discussed among his failures. But it's probably the biggest!

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

first they came for jared leto and i was like, well, it looks like he's at the in 'n out on la cienaga

If you're going to a No Kings march instead of a witty sign that might elicit a chuckle maybe you could just carry an American flag