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Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Attacks on Democrats saying they love trans people have stopped since all those candidates called trans girls boys. You simply can't argue with success.

Meanwhile, one of the most harmful policy movements in America right now is a property tax revolt that is shifting us away from our most economically efficient tax, all so property owners can have a little more in their pockets next month.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

I did the math on my rough chances of getting a tenure-track job in my field of history in 2013. Best case, it was about 6 percent, so I essentially gave up on academia and pursued other things. Writing MMA articles for a couple grand a month was a wildly more promising career path.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Your takeaway from the Israeli statement should be to remember that the 3.4 million Palestinians of the West Bank live under a permanent and unaccountable military-security state that has existed for nearly sixty years, and that every major political party in Israel is committed to maintaining it.

The racism that Abdul El-Sayed is facing from Republicans, the press, and even some Democrats is so disgusting.

The inner Inland Empire was built around the streetcar system and has the skeleton of good urbanism that decades of car-oriented sprawl can't erase. With much much better Metrolink service and more people-oriented streets, it could be very livable.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

my hot take is and will remain that in reality, Americans do not mind or even notice taxes it's the fucking *paperwork* we could get the voter enthusiasm of a tax cut PURELY be dismembering TurboTax on live TV. Like, have bulldozers smash the computers while the CEOs are tarred and feathered

That should certainly be the trigger for all governments in Europe to eliminate their dependence on MS, and, indeed, ALL US tech companies, because Apple and Google have bent the knee in other ways.

American is the only rich country without universal health care, and this guy's take is that our conditional, incomplete, and fragmented public health insurance was too generous, and dangerous to the people who benefited from it.

I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

Your regular reminder that for DECADES, a consistent majority of the American public have told pollsters that undocumented immigrants living here for years should have a chance to "fix their papers." The "deport them all" crowd are the minority, and always have been.

she's doing a heathcliffe bit

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Cornell University's handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape is raising questions about how a decades-old federal civil rights law shapes colleges' treatment of campus sexual assault.

Admittedly I am chuckling to myself imagining a black market of used paperback copies of Normal People, being passed palm to palm like drugs.

The federal government is going after Ilhan Omar only because of her race, gender, religion, and party, openly admitting they have no probable cause and aim to manufacture something. Worse because she’s a sitting member of Congress. That makes it an attack on her constituents and US democracy too.

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

Notably Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of modern Zionism, used this same "It's not that we hate Arabs, it's just impossible for both of us to get what we want" apologism while outlining the ideology ("he called it polite indifference") It's like they knew from the start exactly what their movement was.

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

Dr Mason is one of the GOATs and she is obviously right about the relative threat of political polarization vs right-wing radicalism, and about disservice done by disproportionate focus on the former and both-sides “neutral” framing of ideological extremism in the media. Westwood is being an asshole

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Someday, these guys will realize how much of a pussy these types of statements make them look

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

I don't talk about it much, but it really is psychically damaging to receive the incredible amount of harassment that comes with transitioning publically. I really don't like being the object of others' vast cruelty and it is exhausting keeping up the composure to not descend into cruelty myself.

"Somewhere along the way, I took a lurch into the weeds of fringe beliefs. I selectively reject science, and then liken the pushback I get for this to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. I actually say this, in writing, on a widely read forum, without a trace of shame." buff.ly/hNq98T3

i know a lot of people have chosen to leave the poison swamp that inflicts constant tick damage but since the Plague Baron stopped casting Rain of Putrefaction so often its gotten way better. plus all of the important conversations about rot and pestilence are happening there