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The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

EVERYBODY SHUT UP ew.com/ryan-coogler...

Fifty research lab shuttered. Countless decades-old experiments and scientific records lost. Thousands of forest scientists and experts essentially forced into retirement. The destruction of science on a massive scale.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Oh, hey, it’s the military method that The Hunger Games goes out of its way to emphasize that doing this makes you a total piece of s**t. The thing that finally breaks our hero, after coming through a couple years of torture.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

This is powerful, if true. More of this. Refuse. Stand on principle.

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

There’s always enough money for wars, for ICE, for billionaires. Just not for you.

Since very few people seem to know this, just throwing into the mix that Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins lol

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

As a Strayan, this one always gets me.

forgot the most important of the genre

We need more public health experts in government. Help me get there. Andreaformaine.com

ahhhh looks like the old Pretend To Be A Famous 193-Year-Old Tortoise's Veterinarian And Say He Died And Then Solicit Crypto Donations Through Social Media scam i've seen it a million times

Not great the amount of news organizations that appear to do basically no confirmation on their own before sharing out a story based on a tweet from the Nazi site!

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

Literally my entire life has been a series of Republicans committing crimes and then Democrats declining to do anything about it once they're back in power.

It's not just my opinion. Studies show that access to diverse books positively impacts children's reading scores. This fabulous study from First Book explains this in detail. Successful readers read widely, and that means reading all kinds of books. firstbook.org/wp-content/u...

I'm exhausted thinking about all the work districts, admins, teachers, and students are putting into testing AI products for corporations and politicians. And angered that they are being made to do this work, diverting energy from teaching and learning, all while being told that they suck.

No, there's neither a "messy and complicated debate" nor "profound ethical questions." The President has no more power to make the federal government give him $10 billion than any other federal employee. That's not a thing, it's illegal, federal employees go to jail if they try it.

This sucks

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

If the Supreme Court votes to repeal birthright citizenship it must be understood as a yet another vote to repeal themselves as justices. A Supreme Court seat doesn’t carry the power to overturn the Constitution. Elected leaders and citizens both must recognize all six of them as illegitimate.

This is a good example to show anyone who thinks that Trump fascism can't really hurt us here in Massachusetts

Sorry but it’s weird to me that so much rhetoric from pundits and even actual Dem politicians concedes that even if the citizenship of all Americans technically formally equal, it is not morally equal. “Coastal women are lesser Americans than southern/midwest men” No they’re not. That’s not true.

-Nobody should have provide organ donation/essential life support for another against their will. -Electricity and internet should be treated like water, in that we should be investing in protecting and creating it in a way that won’t damage the planet, then providing it to the community at cost.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

they're quite serious about influencing k12 curriculum and college admissions

From Texas to Virginia to Minneapolis, people at No Kings protests agree: It is probably not great news that The Onion is doing so well right now.

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

We have so many brilliant YA fantasy and science fiction authors' stories that deserve adaptations: Tracy Deonn, Sabaa Tahir, Holly Black, Sarah J. Maas, the list goes on. Don't get me started on adult SFF! Very long list. There are 1000 books I'd like to see on TV/film. Hollywood, stop rebooting!

It is good to see elected Democrats naming what’s happening publicly

This 1997 letter to a neo-Nazi publication is an indication of just how normalized fascist rhetoric has become on Twitter. This is basically groyper shit--complaining about liberal white women, bitching about "conservatives" who are cucks when it comes to disavowing racism--hiding behind initials.

Not only a child, she’s an American citizen since her father is. As long as he has at least partial custody, she has automatic citizenship and access to an American passport.

This is just bizarre, like they don't understand how English works. The statement from the AMA's Chief Communications Officer said "surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood." That is not "endorses restrictions" (NYT headline) or "backed limitations" (NYT lede).

The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

It's PW official! My next middle grade novel is coming out in spring 2028. I'm so excited to be supported by the team at Chronicle and to continue working with Emily Daluga.

You never really hear panicked stories about cops being exposed to fentanyl anymore. Almost like it was a completely fake crisis invented by law enforcement and perpetuated by the media while Biden was in office.

This is the Senate candidate in Maine that I just mentioned, who I'm looking forward to meeting with soon.

"What would actual atonement look like? For Belgium, it would entail a forthright apology and an admission of institutional responsibility. For the US, it could mean...(to) treat Congo as a nation with aspirations of its own rather than a mine to be managed." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Hello, this is the Department of Television, so sorry to announce that we have invoked the “Hallelujah rule”and will no longer be issuing permits for the soundtrack use of “Dreams” by the Cranberries. Last sanctioned use was Derry Girls, please make alternative arrangements

This should be illegal.

If you MUST watch Harry Potter, you could do it with the DVDs you (or someone) bought before JKR decided to hurt people. Those still exist out in the world aplenty, and she won’t ever get a penny from it, or even feel it as moral support.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV just called for the permanent abolition of aerial bombing — a first for any pope. “Airplanes should always be vehicles of peace, never war. No one should have to fear that threats of death and destruction might come from the sky.” This comes as Trump’s Iran War enters week four.

“I never got to hold her.” ICE detained Juan Chavez Velasco, a dreamer, on his way to deliver milk to his newborn daughter’s hospital room. Horrific.