* End fact-checking on social media * Stop deplatforming those who promote dangerous misinformation Of the two major parties, only one takes these positions Can journalism stand as neutral before them? www.status.news/p/left-to-th... From @status.news [no paywall on weekends]

just as “Charlie” would have wanted: an authoritarian state preventing teachers and students from talking about, well, pretty much anything that matters.

“Political satire is not only funny, but also sound anti-authoritarian strategy.” - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Anti-fascists sometimes wear inflatable frog costumes. Their response to the State of the Union #SOTU will be “The Ribbital” open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.

Manufactured doubt on the safety of vaccines has led to trying to fast track a “study” in Guinea-Bissau “testing” their efficacy by depriving infants of access to the Hep B vaccine. the Tuskegee experiment is not just a historical monstrosity, it’s a warning.

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!

Next para: "A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

There was never a breaking point for Germans, or Austrians, or the Polish, or, or, or… So I’m not holding my breath for Americans to be any different

Trump says he won't go to Congress b/c he doesn't need it. Continues to take Court's mention of alternative routes as legal holdings that they are ok

The President says he has cut the trade deficit by 78%. But this chart (which tells the truth) tells a very different story. We had this big lousy trade war, and we've got nothing to show for it.

FCC chair should NEVER express their own opinions about broadcast content. this idiot specifically

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

just like the Nazis stole from their Jewish victims… exactly like that.

As one who was in on the ground floor of the University of Michigan School of Information, which resisted integration with computer science and understood the value of the libraries & archives legacy, I’m sad to see this happen.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

Behold, the Mad King!

Trump is melting down. One minute he’s raging, then he’s whining, then he’s threatening, then he sounds like he’s about to cry. Rambling off on tangents. Totally unhinged manic.

we're like this close to Trump declaring war on the Supreme Court

Another person, who was briefed on the conversation, disclosed that Trump said he has "to do something about these courts," AP reported. The meeting with the governors ended shortly after Trump learned of the decision. #Tariffs

This is catching on. There’s nothing Trump hates more than being ignored.

this decision will turn out to be much weaker than people imagine. Kavanaugh: “So the Court's decision is not likely to greatly restrict Presidential tariff authority going forward.“

Honestly I've never understood this idea that having to give refunds will be a mess. The government has records of which importers got charged tariffs. Just cut them checks. The IRS manages to give out millions of tax refunds every year. It's not like it's an unmanageable task.

This "court"?

Oregon declares outbreak of measles after 5 confirmed cases www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/l...

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They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

Imagine if you had no shame and could just make shit up all the time. It must be an amazing feeling.

Big Bother is watching you (not a typo)

France’s 'Climate Sense' project puts you in a 50°C #climate chamber, a glimpse of a possible future. Not a graph. Not a report. A physical experience. Imagine if political leaders everywhere had to feel that heat before making climate decisions. climatesense.fr

We asked for the Epstein Files. We get the X-Files.

The cynic in me is thinking some of his buddies in universities told him this would actually not be a great move for protecting right wing power & interests long term. That line about how “the pendulum is always moving” has big “I realized this could soon backfire on conservative academics” energy.

Every time I see a report of ICE leaving Minnesota or Minneapolis I think "I wish" because uh, they're still here being assholes & terrorizing people, just not as much in some places but more so in other places best I can tell and of course people are still imprisoned in misery at Whipple & . . . 🧵

many very smart people have proposed the running out of goons theory

apnews.com/article/immi... judge accuses Trump administration of 'terror' against immigrants in scathing ruling

A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch that once pursued criminal prosecutions against the president. https://cnn.it/4cBCqW7

Wrote about how DOGE bros blew up already approved grants by feeding project names into ChatGPT and asking it "is this DEI, tell me in less than 120 characters."

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

Unprecedented corruption, right in front of us, every day

that carbon dioxide collects in the atmosphere to cause a greenhouse effect has been known for 125 YEARS

Their version of DEI is “Didn't Earn It.”

DOJ unlawfully deleted files relating to a 13-15 year-old girl who made allegations against Trump. She was apparently credible enough for the FBI to interview her multiple times. We must keep pushing for full disclosure - this shameful coverup must end. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

There's a decent chance he falls asleep and topples out of that chair.

Making matters worse, the Trump admin is REFUSING to adjudicate green card applications for refugees who come from one of the 39 countries Trump banned. So under this policy, a refugee who applies for a green card exactly on time, doing nothing wrong, can (and DHS says must) be jailed by ICE.

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Americans don’t want to be pulled into more conflict in the Middle East. No more endless wars. No more blank checks from Congress.

Furthermore, prediction markets let rich people pay a small overhead to bid up things that they want to seem "popular". They also let folks with insider information (such as politicians & CEOs) monetize that information in a way that's less regulated & more plausibly deniable than the stock market.