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David Cay Johnston
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But of course...
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Catherine Rampell
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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my
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@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
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Amanda Marcotte
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"While authoritarians promise that strict hierarchies giving those at the top total control are necessary to keep people safe, the opposite is true. "Male dominance leads to women being raped and beaten. "White supremacy leads to racial violence."
www.salon.com/2026/02/18/k...
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Kristi Noem’s law-and-order pitch is collapsing
The DHS secretary and her semi-official aide Corey Lewandowski are to blame for the shutdown
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/18/kristi-noems-law-and-order-pitch-is-collapsing/
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Chuck Wendig
1 day ago
This is good and worth reading.
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James Fallows
2 days ago
This is almost impossible believe, but it now seems undeniably true: That a serving president of the United States DOES NOT UNDERSTAND what a tariff is. It's like a football player running toward the wrong end zone. You can't believe it's happening, but it is.
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ETTD. Roberts has done more to protect and empower Trump than anyone else, and Trump would kick him into the gutter without any hesitation.
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emptywheel
3 days ago
Why we had to wait so long for the fucking tariffs opinion.
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Scott Shapiro
4 days ago
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
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Bradley P. Moss
4 days ago
To recap in light of breaking news out of the UK: The French found a way to prosecute former presidents. The South Koreans did the same. Our British cousins now literally are prosecuting members of the Royal Family. But U.S. presidents remain above the law.
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MAGA explained by coffee choices.
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Chuck Wendig
5 days ago
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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Greg Sargent
5 days ago
Appalling: During Trump's effort to indict Dems for the video warning against carrying out illegal orders, one of their lawyers asked prosecutors to say what statute was allegedly violated, I'm told. They failed to name one. Then they tried to indict anyway. New:
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A.R. Moxon
5 days ago
You won't protect your principles by abandoning your principles. You won't protect one group of threatened people by abandoning another. All you'll do is bounce around the fascist frame, and so you'll never threaten the fascist project, because even if you "win" you're still inside their picture.
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Kakistocracy in action.
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Audacity.
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NY Times Pitchbot
6 days ago
It is time to restore America's strong sense of heterosexual masculinity by emulating ancient Sparta. by Pete Hegseth
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8 days ago
REMINDER: Donald Trump is already interfering in the 2026 elections, says Ari Berman, who has been covering voting rights since before Donald Trump started birthing. Nothing hypothetical about this.
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Donald Trump is ALREADY interfering with the 2026 elections
YouTube video by L O L G O P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNPM6zP3MPA
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I’m working to suppress my gag reflex.
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Angus Johnston
11 days ago
Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.
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As
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so aptly pointed out, the cruelty is the point. It’s not negligence; it’s deliberate.
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MdDoogie3
11 days ago
So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas? It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death. 18/
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Greg Pak
11 days ago
To be clear: "A.i." is not going to live up to the "hype" of actually replacing good human work. Its purpose is to destroy our expectations of quality and value and accept ever-increasing enshittification, immiseration, and death in order to increase the wealth of billionaires.
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Katie Mack
11 days ago
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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These Fucking Hats
13 days ago
Post a banger that is not in English. Hermann Prey, one of the greatest baritones of the 20th century, sings Schubert’s Erlkönig. You’ll recognize it from cartoons. Listen to how he does the four distinct character voices.
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Walter Olson
13 days ago
Duane Berry faces no criminal charges but has been detained for a decade. The Fourth Circuit interprets a federal law as permitting perpetual confinement on grounds of incompetency, yet the Constitution prescribes no such general federal power [Mike Fox & Matthew Cavedon on
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Berry v. United States Brief: The Federal Government Lacks General Police Powers Like Civil Commitment
While Congress may criminalize conduct and punish offenders, the federal government cannot exercise indefinite civil control over individuals no longer lawfully in its custody.
https://www.cato.org/blog/berry-v-united-states-brief-federal-government-lacks-general-police-powers-civil-commitment
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
14 days ago
Curling is that incredible sport that's actually more fun to watch if you don't know any of the rules and have no idea what the hell theyre doing
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Aaron Rupar
15 days ago
Jeffries on Trump asking Schumer to rename Dulles & Penn Station after him in exchange for unfreezing funds: "It's another example of Trump trying to force presidential graffiti down the throats of the people... this guy's priorities are completely & totally unhinged. But this is the GOP right now."
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Kevin M. Kruse
15 days ago
"Come on, just give the baby his bottle" is a terrific attitude for rank and file Republicans to have about the leader of their party.
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James Fallows
15 days ago
Agree.
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Not only do Trump and his staff always lie, but they can’t even lie convincingly or consistently.
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John Pfaff
16 days ago
“You’re better at this than we are” is not the flex Cruz thinks it is. I’m always amazed at just how whiny GOP leaders are. They all like to think they’re the second coming of John Wayne, buy then act like petulant toddlers all day.
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Oliver Willis
17 days ago
Trump referring to the first Black President and First Lady in the history of the USA as apes is not a distraction. It is a major news story once again emphasizing how fundamental racism is to this administration and the Republican Party and conservative movement. And right now media is ignoring.
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Another impeachable offense.
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Tom Nichols
17 days ago
No, you just need a Congress that takes its oath to the Constitution seriously
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Biggest Revelations From The Epstein Files —
theonion.com/biggest-reve...
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Biggest Revelations From The Epstein Files
In compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Justice Department has released more than 3 million documents related to the late child sex offender’s prosecution. The Onion shares the bigg...
https://theonion.com/biggest-revelations-from-the-epstein-files/
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Raffi Melkonian
20 days ago
Wait, wow?
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Radley Balko
20 days ago
Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.
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Chris Hayes
25 days ago
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated!
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
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Leah McElrath
25 days ago
By
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Will Stancil
25 days ago
this is the same principle through which Supreme Court forbid Democrats from requiring states to adopt the ACA Medicaid expansion, except the lever is “lawless paramilitary violence” instead of “financial penalties”
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John Pfaff
25 days ago
A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
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Justin Wolfers
25 days ago
Powell ducked politics in today’s presser, including questions about himself. He was exactly who he’s meant to be: direct, clear, apolitical, and focused on the economy. His bet: the best reply to critics is to keep doing the job Congress gave him.
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Oliver Willis
25 days ago
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Weird.
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Seth Cotlar
26 days ago
The only constant in Trump's politics is that he doesn't have any beliefs in the way that most of us conceptualize what "a belief" is. What he claims to believe at any moment is just what he thinks is necessary to say right then and there to gain advantage for himself.
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Peter Sagal
27 days ago
The order is a short read and worth the time.
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Radley Balko
27 days ago
Good for her. It isn’t every day you get the chance to tell a SCOTUS justice that he’s full of shit.
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A short thread well worth reading.
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emptywheel
28 days ago
I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies.
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Combatting DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections
https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/combatting-dhs-misinformation/
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jamelle
29 days ago
yeah this i agree with.
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