The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.
Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.
“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.
It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”
Reminder that you are not getting all of the info, even in scientific journals, as they are being censored and throttled.
Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
200,000 acres of Native Hawaiian land. 100 years of federal trust obligation.
Trump's move: reclassify them as a racial group, not a tribal nation. Same land. New legal category. Zero obligation.
That's not a budget cut. That's a legal erasure. #taxtherich
NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
Terrific news from Maryland in a thread that applauds competent, ambitious, effective Dem lawmakers. Huzzah!
You’ll likely never see oligarch-owned media reporting on this success, much less giving credit to the Democrats who are improving people’s lives.
But they’re out there! Read all about it:
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
hard same
over the past 60 years, courts have used qualified immunity to excuse all sorts of egregious police abuses--saying 'maybe they didn't know they couldn't do that!'--and whittle down our constitutional right to be free from such abuses into nothingness
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This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess
Some job news: I now work in the newly-established Federal Department of Metaphors. How are we doing so far?
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
Litigation is supposed to be an adversarial process.
When both sides are controlled by the same person, who can “settle” using OPM, there is simply no limit to the fraud that becomes possible.
Just to recap: the man who illegally shared YOUR tax data with ICE & stole our PPI- data thru DOGE is suing to collect $10B because someone shared HIS. Rules for thee, not for me has never been this expensive. GRIFTERS!
It will be interesting to see who applies for the Flat Earth Professorship in Earth and Planetary Science
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
"The effort comes in response to longstanding criticism that Harvard’s faculty leans overwhelmingly liberal."
Golly, I wonder why faculties tend to be overwhelmingly liberal? Are liberals more drawn to teaching? Have conservatives been engaged in a long war on science and knowledge? WHO KNOWS?
Everyone can benefit from listening to Gould’s answers here, but I suspect the people who most need to hear this won’t click on it.
Luckily, we can listen a couple of times and be ready to calmly cite his work and examples when we encounter them!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we progressives DO acknowledge differences, and the whole point of our worldview is to make sure nobody is punished for them unfairly, no? Because while we may have differences in genetics or socioeconomic status, we ARE all human, and that's the crux of it all
It's maddening because embracing those arguments requires such statistical illiteracy that it makes it almost impossible to take anything else they say seriously. Yet they keep talking & people who otherwise appear to be smart keep listening
The "generational wealth" bit is bleakly hilarious. Oh, so people with very rich parents are themselves very rich because they're SMART, not because they have trust funds!
If this is true, we shouldn't allow people to inherit. They will get rich again on their own merits.
Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.
The queen of all vices: Pride.
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I don’t take moral direction from the malignant liars and frauds on team Trump
I’m team Leo