Pinned
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Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE??????
#WITAOD
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
There is no administrator of DOGE?
THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE??????
#WITAOD
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Academics, you will not exonerate yourself with the documents you turn over.
If you receive one of these letters, internalize that immediately. This is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee redux. You have to be proactive in communicating publicly.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
If you receive one of these letters, internalize that immediately. This is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee redux. You have to be proactive in communicating publicly.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Academics, you will not exonerate yourself with the documents you turn over.
If you receive one of these letters, internalize that immediately. This is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee redux. You have to be proactive in communicating publicly.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
If you receive one of these letters, internalize that immediately. This is the House UnAmerican Activities Committee redux. You have to be proactive in communicating publicly.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
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this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane
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yes its a meaningless vote but its still kind of amazing how many democrats still fall for right wing bullshit and vote to "condemn socialism."
im almost 48. for my entire life the gop has called every democratic leader a socialist, even as the dems preside over bigger wall street booms. every one.
im almost 48. for my entire life the gop has called every democratic leader a socialist, even as the dems preside over bigger wall street booms. every one.
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
yes its a meaningless vote but its still kind of amazing how many democrats still fall for right wing bullshit and vote to "condemn socialism."
im almost 48. for my entire life the gop has called every democratic leader a socialist, even as the dems preside over bigger wall street booms. every one.
im almost 48. for my entire life the gop has called every democratic leader a socialist, even as the dems preside over bigger wall street booms. every one.
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we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we gotta keep hammering over and over again just how fucking unpopular this guy is with every institution and every person in a position of power
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
people hate him and people will hate you for capitulating to him
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if youre a congressional leader and you wont publicly criticize trump out of fear, please step down and give your seat to someone who will do it. because this is the job. this is the fucking job.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
if youre a congressional leader and you wont publicly criticize trump out of fear, please step down and give your seat to someone who will do it. because this is the job. this is the fucking job.
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Regarding Trump's posts calling for Dems to be murdered (for pointing out a legal right no less) funny the same people bleating about Charlie Kirk 3 months ago and "turning down the violent rhetoric" are suddenly silent on the president calling for violence against his political enemies.
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Regarding Trump's posts calling for Dems to be murdered (for pointing out a legal right no less) funny the same people bleating about Charlie Kirk 3 months ago and "turning down the violent rhetoric" are suddenly silent on the president calling for violence against his political enemies.
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I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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we just FOIA-sued for their comms with platforms about ICE tracking apps www.eff.org/press/releas...
EFF Demands Answers About ICE-Spotting App Takedowns
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that tech...
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
we just FOIA-sued for their comms with platforms about ICE tracking apps www.eff.org/press/releas...
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Quiet, piggy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Quiet, piggy.
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This Is Sick: "Providers say some parents have even asked them to withhold pain medication from young people during their abortions as 'punishment.'"
Abortion Restrictions on Young People in the United States Cause Trauma | A new Human Rights Watch report finds young people in states that require parental consent are being forced to remain pregnant or involve unsupportive parents who belittle or shame them.
Abortion Restrictions on Young People in the United States Cause Trauma - Bucks County Beacon
A new Human Rights Watch report finds young people in states that require parental consent are being forced to remain pregnant or involve unsupportive parents who belittle or shame them.
buckscountybeacon.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This Is Sick: "Providers say some parents have even asked them to withhold pain medication from young people during their abortions as 'punishment.'"
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NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
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This is really interesting thread.
(About apparently gross incompetence by MAGA/Trump favored Mar-a-Lago-look prosecutor for Comey case)
To put it in perspective: This much incompetence in aviation world could have led to hundreds of deaths. It *would* have led to punishment and accountability.
(About apparently gross incompetence by MAGA/Trump favored Mar-a-Lago-look prosecutor for Comey case)
To put it in perspective: This much incompetence in aviation world could have led to hundreds of deaths. It *would* have led to punishment and accountability.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is really interesting thread.
(About apparently gross incompetence by MAGA/Trump favored Mar-a-Lago-look prosecutor for Comey case)
To put it in perspective: This much incompetence in aviation world could have led to hundreds of deaths. It *would* have led to punishment and accountability.
(About apparently gross incompetence by MAGA/Trump favored Mar-a-Lago-look prosecutor for Comey case)
To put it in perspective: This much incompetence in aviation world could have led to hundreds of deaths. It *would* have led to punishment and accountability.
Love this, they can't keep doing the same playbook and expecting people to suffer gladly.
Hiding in the woods like bitches
People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.
People from North Carolina don’t play; they’ll find out about North Carolina very soon.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Love this, they can't keep doing the same playbook and expecting people to suffer gladly.
Reading immediately!!
Marjorie Taylor Greene's big takedown of Trump today is powerful because it broadcasts that he's losing control over the GOP. His sudden call for release of files wasn't about transparency. It was about sustaining the illusion that he controls the party.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked the Cult of Trump
The Georgia congresswoman’s extraordinary takedown of Trump Tuesday morning sent a signal that no Republican can now ignore.
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reading immediately!!
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Good Point.
Marjorie Taylor Greene's big takedown of Trump today is powerful because it broadcasts that he's losing control over the GOP. His sudden call for release of files wasn't about transparency. It was about sustaining the illusion that he controls the party.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Wrecked the Cult of Trump
The Georgia congresswoman’s extraordinary takedown of Trump Tuesday morning sent a signal that no Republican can now ignore.
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Good Point.
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A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment:
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
Woman’s Church ‘Baby Formula Test’ Goes Viral, Exposing Compassion Gap
A Kentucky woman who was turned down by dozens of churches of various denominations and sizes in the Bible Belt in donating formula to her hungry baby has created a TikTok sensation. Fortunately, a fe...
religionunplugged.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A woman on TikTok did a very simple experiment:
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
With SNAP benefits paused, would churches give a poor mother with an infant who was starving a can of baby formula?
Spoiler alert: the Protestants failed.
religionunplugged.com/news/kentuck...
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Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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The piece quotes Kara Swisher — later identified as a friend of Nuzzi's — saying her piece about Biden's age was "the best political reporting out there."
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The piece quotes Kara Swisher — later identified as a friend of Nuzzi's — saying her piece about Biden's age was "the best political reporting out there."
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
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Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but:
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
Eg, there is no good reason to go outside the book to treat as declarative fact what she said in an interview when we already know she contemporaneously lied to her editor and concealed from the public both the existence and details of her liaison.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but:
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
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This 1000%. The "nudge wink you intelligent people know what I *really* mean" cover for not directly holding insiders and the powerful accountable is a) bullshit and b) tiresome and c) journalistic malpractice and d) a goodly part of the reason we've ended up exactly where we are.
Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but:
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
Eg, there is no good reason to go outside the book to treat as declarative fact what she said in an interview when we already know she contemporaneously lied to her editor and concealed from the public both the existence and details of her liaison.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This 1000%. The "nudge wink you intelligent people know what I *really* mean" cover for not directly holding insiders and the powerful accountable is a) bullshit and b) tiresome and c) journalistic malpractice and d) a goodly part of the reason we've ended up exactly where we are.