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a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further
June 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further
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"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.
he said that too lol
June 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.
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The US housing market is stalling.
June 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The US housing market is stalling.
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Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.
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“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in private talks, “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down.… We want to put them in trauma.”
Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.
www.thenation.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.
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Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.
If it weren't for the tariffs, this would be one of the biggest stories right now.
April 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.
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Your vote for Trump at work
RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Your vote for Trump at work
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I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”
TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
May 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”
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We’re all looking for the guy who did this.
May 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We’re all looking for the guy who did this.
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Reposted by atoms are enough
The dead-weight loss of investing over $100B, as Republicans propose, in walls, jails, police, and surveillance tech is compounded by the economic losses from making the U.S. radioactive for foreign tourists.
Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?
Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?
Ex-cop jailed and deported during holiday to US
A former NSW police officer has described the terrifying ordeal she faced after she was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the United States – despite travelling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
www.news.com.au
May 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The dead-weight loss of investing over $100B, as Republicans propose, in walls, jails, police, and surveillance tech is compounded by the economic losses from making the U.S. radioactive for foreign tourists.
Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?
Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?
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this. thank you.
May 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
this. thank you.
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the number of 'takes' there'd be today if Krasner had lost, versus the near-absence of 'discourse' around it, is telling.
Coverage of the "progressive prosecutor" movement has often focused on its setbacks.
...Meanwhile, Larry Krasner just crushed his opponent in Philly. And, writes @taniel.bsky.social, reformers have lately racked up other big wins, incl. in MN, TX, MI, VT, FL, VA, CO.
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...Meanwhile, Larry Krasner just crushed his opponent in Philly. And, writes @taniel.bsky.social, reformers have lately racked up other big wins, incl. in MN, TX, MI, VT, FL, VA, CO.
boltsmag.org/larry-krasne...
Larry Krasner Easily Wins in Philadelphia, Reinforcing Network of Reform DAs - Bolts
Local advocates cheered Krasner’s primary victory on Tuesday, which all but assures him a third term, as an affirmation of criminal justice reform by Philly voters.
boltsmag.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
the number of 'takes' there'd be today if Krasner had lost, versus the near-absence of 'discourse' around it, is telling.
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Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight
New: The crypto folks who bought the President's memecoin in order to attend his elite dinner tomorrow spent over $1 million each on average, and nearly $400 million in total. Per @molly.wiki, nearly 3/4 appear to be foreign nationals who'd be legally barred from donating cash to candidate Trump.
Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average
In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency.
www.nbcnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight
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I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage.
Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.
Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.
They wanted to pass this evil budget to take away healthcare from millions earlier today. It’s still stuck in the rules committee cause House Dems introduced over 500 amendments and we are lined up to debate on them. Delaying is important. Keep up the pressure on these Congressional Republicans.
May 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage.
Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.
Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.
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They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news."
May 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news."
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Go anti-woke, go broke
It’s pretty remarkable just how thoroughly Target got its shit wrecked for the anti-DEI stuff
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/t...
May 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Go anti-woke, go broke
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Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:
May 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:
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HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."
May 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."
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For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich.
The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.
The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.
GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit
The figure is expected to intensify a national debate over spending and tax levels as President Donald Trump tries to push the legislation through Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich.
The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.
The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.
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Has any major US media org seen declining public trust, and reacted with something like "MAGA/GOP will denounce us if we do anything other than lie in exactly the way they want, it's bad faith, we can't win their trust, so let's try appealing more to customers that prefer truth"?
Even one example?
Even one example?
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Has any major US media org seen declining public trust, and reacted with something like "MAGA/GOP will denounce us if we do anything other than lie in exactly the way they want, it's bad faith, we can't win their trust, so let's try appealing more to customers that prefer truth"?
Even one example?
Even one example?
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Vague, toothless coverage is media trying to regain public trust.
It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.
It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.
you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen”
the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety”
who are people going to take seriously?
May 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Vague, toothless coverage is media trying to regain public trust.
It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.
It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.
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If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
May 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.
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We’re all gonna die
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We’re all gonna die
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“Did I mention we are VERY racist?”
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an exception for the Afrikaners?
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
TRUMP ADMIN OFFICIAL: One of the criteria is making sure they can be assimilated easily into our country
May 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Did I mention we are VERY racist?”
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Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
🚨 ICE activity reports for 5/9:
Activity reported at
- Fort Totten Dr & Gallatin St NE at 8:00AM
- 5 officers - 3 ATF, others federal police
- 4 unmarked black cars with VA tags
- At least one person detained
Activity reported at
- Fort Totten Dr & Gallatin St NE at 8:00AM
- 5 officers - 3 ATF, others federal police
- 4 unmarked black cars with VA tags
- At least one person detained
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US