@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-20 19:24:22
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116784058836220577
Critics say that taxpayer money is helping to create a
“deportation-industrial complex” that puts Geo Group,
which runs ICE detention facilities across 16 states, including Delaney Hall in New Jersey,
at …
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-20 21:53:05
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116609113825825794
Trump is destroying pillars of American democracy to empower himself.
He claims elections are legitimate only if he wins.
He uses federal law enforcement to investigate and prosecute his perceived enemies. …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 19:40:43
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116438685610678376
Rep. Kevin Kiley of California quit the Republican Party in an attempt to show he is nobody’s puppet
-- and save himself from a losing his seat now that California redrew its map and put him in a tougher position.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 18:57:37
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116438556354668841
It may seem odd that a movement ostensibly dedicated to ending abortion would oppose the tools that are the most effective at ending abortion.
But the anti-abortion movement is not, in fact, a movement dedicated to …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-20 16:36:13
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116607868805517318
“The F-word in Pennsylvania is not fuck. It’s Fetterman,”
said Rabb, who described how he’s heard this worry from district voters
– of another elected progressive shifting after their victory
– so often t…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 03:34:23
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116434921889415122
“Are people just supposed to walk away from their consoles,
and let these orbiters around other planets or rovers on other worlds
... just let them die?”
— Jim Bell, Planetary scientist, Arizona State Uni…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-21 17:46:31
Survey after survey has shown that the United States’ international popularity has steadily declined in recent years.
That trend now appears appears to be accelerating during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term.
The American chattering classes tend to discuss the dangers of the country’s worsening image in terms of geopolitics and waning “soft power”
—and they’re not wrong.
Washington’s globe-spanning alliances have long been one of its major strengths.
If …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 05:09:19
A year ago, the US ambassador in Paris blamed France for not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism.
Today he suggests that the US should offer refugee status to French people of Jewish faith...
-- @…
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