ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

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Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.

Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.

Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.

But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr

Caught in the Crackdown: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusat...

A DOJ press release accused Heather Morrow of assaulting an ICE agent.

When video showed Morrow hadn't attacked anyone and was tackled by an officer, prosecutors dropped the felony charges but promptly filed a misdemeanor case against her.

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"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Ooooo stone cold take!

Sounds like they want a maid/nanny who will also sleep with them. On top of them just being assholes.

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

Secrets of Strixhaven GO!!

I do like this!

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

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“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona's Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona's swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.

More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — after the state implemented changes called for in Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Tuberville is the current crop of idiot Senators that the GOP love. Easy to manipulate those that are incapable of critical thinking.

Please be good or at least a fun experience!

Abelard is MVP!

primary use cases for AI, an ongoing list:
- pornslop
- academic fraud
- eroding our collective sense of truth
- cyberpsychosis
- dementia acceleration
- fucking a jagged hole through the arts
- search engine enshittification
- fascist panopticon
- anti-intellectualism
- war crimes

Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health iss

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping.

The cruelty is endless.

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BISCOTTIS. I NEED THEM!!!

“The commons” doesn’t just refer to resources everybody uses, but to resources that are collectively, not privately, owned and managed.

No privately-held social network is or can be a commons.

The Trump Administration Has a Warning: We Will Use Violence YouTube video by Mother Jones

Take a look a three recent events and one thing becomes very clear: The Trump doctrine is violence.

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Senate unanimously approves installing Jan. 6, 2021 plaque The move comes after years of political squabbling over a plaque honoring law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol that day.

The Senate unanimously approved a measure to display an existing plaque honoring the officers who protected the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

Congress passed a law in March 2022 mandating the plaque, but it has yet to be installed. Mike Johnson has argued the project is “not implementable.”

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

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Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway. Immigration agents have shot at least nine people since September. All of them have been in cars.

For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles.

But the federal agents enforcing Trump’s mass deportation campaign seem not to be following this rule, and are taking a far more dangerous path.