Just a heads-up, the last version of @theappeal.org that existed is no more. Some folks seem to be doing some new stuff with the IP, but me and most of the remaining staff are gone. Not sure what their plans are but leaving that to them to explain.

Women detained in Philadelphia say they banged on their cell doors for hours pleading for medical attention, but nobody responded. On Tuesday, voters approved a ballot measure to bring more oversight over what's happening in the local jails: boltsmag.org/philade...

The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3

Partner just tried to write “Fyodor Dostoyevsky” using text-to-speech and it called him “Theodore Dubstep”

Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.

BREAKING: Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the national Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, according to a letter obtained by The Appeal. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...

This is indeed the undoctored image still up on Google Maps, FYI

Feels like focusing on criminal records kinda misses the point, which is just that the administration wants to do ethnic cleansing

One thing is certain: We are about to experience truly unseen of levels of Apes being Gone. All of them, perhaps

Check r/buyitforlife, buying stuff that lasts instead of the cheapest thing you can find on Amazon/at Marshall's is best practices regardless of this really is the end of American economic hegemony.

Don’t love that a key conservative belief is that “the New Deal was bad and World War II was what actually saved the US economy”

Call me naïve all you want but I’m still kinda floored his plan is *just* “tariffs.” Like I assumed he’d at least try some sort of conservative-approved manufacturing tax-break scheme or something, but he’s somehow actually dumber than I thought possible

So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

“They’re calling it the barrel with suspenders, folks. Barrel with suspenders. You keep hearing it! I said we should call it Trump Barrel but they said it sounded too close to Trump Bindle, which you people love so much already!”

Psyched to check my phone in the bread lines soon and find out Depression 2 was caused by a 19-year-old intern named Fart_King using an AI chatbot to write policy

Can’t stop laughing at how bad Cory Booker’s speech backfired, he talked so long that no one’s ever gonna go back to re-listen to it or pull clips from it

So the plan seems to be make imports prohibitively expensive to force companies to build infrastructure using those prohibitively expensive imports

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and @indivisibleskagit.org member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:

Germany is boycotting Israel's conference on combating antisemitism because the Israeli government invited too many neo-Nazis. (www.timesofisrael.com/french-germa...)

Okay I'm really sorry everyone but what point during any of the like 10-12 fucking years the left has been warning you about the mainstream attitude on foreign policy and civil rights of Democratic Leadership was this supposed to surprise you. We sent you a boat, we sent you a helicopter

if don't you think this is coming for you, whether as a progressive or as someone with a green card or as a jew or a muslim or genuinely anyone this administration does not favor, i don't know what to tell you at this point

Based on multiple interviews with sources in and outside of the Trump administration and also written communications reviewed by Rolling Stone

This is fucking insane

Story: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEW: The Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department is essentially being disbanded, three sources tell NBC News. It will shrink down to a fraction of its size and become a non-litigating section.

Some health centers that halted gender affirming care, kept doing nonconsensual surgeries on intersex kids to make them gender-conforming, even though the UN has condemned them 19thnews.org/2025/03/hosp...

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

"Data obtained by @theappeal.org shows that more than 75 percent of the misconduct incidents in NLEAD, the federal police misconduct database Trump deleted this month, were generated by prison and border guards."

NEW: We obtained a summary of the 5,200 federal police misconduct incidents Trump deleted earlier this month. Turns out 75 percent of them stemmed from Customs & Border Protection and Bureau of Prisons employees. theappeal.org/nlead-trumps...

The goal isn’t establishing a coherent worldview. Rather it’s to obfuscate the fact that she has none, and instead operates on an impulsive need to be acclaimed as a contrarian luminary, regardless of what she’s actually being contrarian about www.discourseblog.com/p/why-is-bar...

Can someone who's even more brain-poisoned than me explain how he looped Italians in here

Had to check myself that this was real, what’s uh, going on with Chris

fucking evil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Finished playing Avowed, really enjoyed it & found the criticism surrounding it bizarre—I feel like it’s the exact sort of mid-size, AA game that doesn’t get made anymore & industry critics seem to be clamoring for? It’s not perfect but I had a blast playing it personally

elon musk using IVF and CRISPR to ensure all of his children are male and then one transitioning to female boiled his brain so much he ends society as we know it is like the ultimate expression of family being the oldest kind of empire for the most pathetic kind of humans.

I know cruelty is the point but… man this one is just especially ghoulish. They say they’re doing this to “protect the kids” but it’s always been so painfully obvious what the truth is. The want trans kids to die, to disappear, to be erased.

lmao never change Philly

Fox Sports must take me to the empty, rainy alley where Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady called the Super Bowl from. I need to know more about it. Does it give off Final Fantasy 7 vibes in person, too? That is just one of many questions I have. defector.com/i-want-to-go...

Look, I’m happy about it, but it is *very* surreal having the Eagles be America’s favorite team for once. Very used to you hating us all!

"We obviously can't do anything" is not a tenable response to a crisis brought about by actors using every lever at their disposal to do things no one thought they could do.

"A gynecologist at a California prison sexually abused people in custody for years, subjecting them to 'horrific, sadistic' mistreatment under the guise of medical care, according to a lawsuit filed by six women this week." Story via @theguardian.com.

NEW from me: Why has Patrick Soon-Shiong touted RFK Jr repeatedly and run interference for him at his paper, the LA Times? Maybe because his biotech company has 3 applications pending at the FDA, whose parent agency Kennedy is about to be running. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

aaaand now it all makes sense

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.