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Political Science PhD (UCSD ‘13), Data Science Bureaucrat (Oregon DHS), Union Member (SEIU), Mediocre Golfer (16 Handicap), Dad (‘25)

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U.S. citizen detained for 3 years says he 'lost everything' and hopes to rebuild René López, who obtained U.S. citizenship as a minor through his naturalized mother, spent years proving that was the case after the government said he wasn't a citizen.

DHS is in fact the worst of the worst... they detained a U.S. citizen for 3 years without any justification.

This could happen to anyone because the agency abuses its power.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

07.03.2026 16:26 👍 26 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0

Honestly, they don’t pay us enough to lie to you!

07.03.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Stand Up for Science will be back in the streets on Saturday: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

05.03.2026 18:42 👍 73 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 1

We are not at war with Iran, although we have been for the last 50 years.

07.03.2026 15:50 👍 721 🔁 118 💬 13 📌 9
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07.03.2026 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

07.03.2026 14:15 👍 4573 🔁 1583 💬 69 📌 61

The only thing popularists fear more than an unpopular idea from the left is a popular one that might actually threaten billionaires.

07.03.2026 03:52 👍 158 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
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On March 4, a U.S. sub torpedoed the IRIS Dena. Of 180 aboard, 87 died and 61 are missing; Sri Lanka rescued 32.

Sinking a ship that was someone's guest, that was following peacetime protocols, that couldn't fight back. Then leaving sailors to drown thousands of miles from home. That’s a war crime.

07.03.2026 02:07 👍 1116 🔁 588 💬 73 📌 48

Unbearable. Wtf are we doing.

07.03.2026 03:26 👍 390 🔁 160 💬 20 📌 3

“We have to do this by 5”

You’re not paid overtime. Go home.

06.03.2026 22:07 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.

This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.

06.03.2026 13:40 👍 19986 🔁 7798 💬 1071 📌 500

Words, what do they mean

06.03.2026 16:56 👍 1224 🔁 228 💬 36 📌 3

This is a heinous atrocity that we have committed and I hope people who made this decision are punished.

06.03.2026 17:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Lmao. So we’re ditching the New Testament then?

06.03.2026 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.

06.03.2026 14:37 👍 902 🔁 131 💬 28 📌 17

Can’t someone be there to spray these LLM guys with a water bottle like a naughty cat when they say dumb things like this?

06.03.2026 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 👍 9957 🔁 5240 💬 623 📌 630

I, for one, am tired of being told by Christian theocratic fascists that I, a Jew and an immigrant, am not a real citizen of this country.

05.03.2026 23:40 👍 360 🔁 68 💬 21 📌 1
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Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

05.03.2026 19:10 👍 358 🔁 140 💬 10 📌 15

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

05.03.2026 19:56 👍 4777 🔁 770 💬 84 📌 32

Could be some downsides to refusing to discharge your constitutional duties as a member of Congress.

04.03.2026 21:11 👍 126 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

05.03.2026 03:28 👍 20106 🔁 5693 💬 513 📌 220

This is a multi-decade problem. The time series on congressional work days since 1980 is grim.

05.03.2026 03:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We need to pass a House rule or law that requires them to work a certain number of days to get paid. Since Mike Johnson took over these people hardly ever work. When they finally come back after weeks off they work 2 days and he sends them home for 2 more weeks. It’s ridiculous.

04.03.2026 11:31 👍 16171 🔁 4670 💬 907 📌 240
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Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

05.03.2026 02:05 👍 2025 🔁 885 💬 16 📌 28

War is NOT a game. The Trump administration treats it as if it is, which erases the humanity of ALL who are killed, including US service members.

04.03.2026 23:01 👍 150 🔁 57 💬 8 📌 5

There’s something worth studying here about the way that social media networks impact coalition formation. Time to find some sources…

04.03.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ansari: "The DOJ was caught red handed withholding explosive and credible FBI witness interviews of a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. Shouldn't we hold hearings on that? Shouldn't Pam Bondi be here, forced to testify about why she's violating the law?"

04.03.2026 17:32 👍 3810 🔁 1137 💬 58 📌 43

Lawless authoritarianism:
-"How Trump Keeps Withholding Money After Being Sued 198 Times"
-"Officials Violated More Than 50 Court Orders in NJ"
-"ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January"
-"The judge then provided an additional count of 113 more court orders violated in 77 more cases"

04.03.2026 17:19 👍 178 🔁 105 💬 3 📌 5

There is an ahistorical belief, epitomized by just about everything Hegseth says, that the US has been somehow ineffective in warfare since WWII because it was somehow constrained in delivering destruction. To put it bluntly, this is dumb.

04.03.2026 14:30 👍 532 🔁 112 💬 25 📌 10