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You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

submitted 23 days ago • 664 comments

Too late Elon. 🇿🇦

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

We gotta impeach Trump. I don’t care if it’s not going to go anywhere, it needs to be a marker in history that we stood up to this lawlessness.

submitted 54 days ago • 70 comments

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments

Bingo

submitted 72 days ago • 421 comments

Well done, Corey Booker. "Good trouble!"

submitted 73 days ago • 320 comments

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

submitted 75 days ago • 284 comments

The owner of X is openly offering million dollar bribes to swing the election of Supreme Court judges in the US. If you are a media organisation and are still using links to X on your website and posting there, quite simply.. You are part of this.

submitted 77 days ago • 100 comments

Cowards to the right of me, Good Guys to the left👍

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

Hahahahahahhahaahahahahaha

submitted 81 days ago • 62 comments

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

submitted 84 days ago • 1232 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 84 days ago • 322 comments

2 footprints, separated by about 380,000 kilometers (236,000 miles) and 3.6 million years. One on top is from an early hominid stepping into ash in northern Tanzania after a volcano's eruption. The one on bottom is from Neil Armstrong stepping into the lunar regolith as the first person on the Moon.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 85 days ago • 3827 comments

A survey of 100,000 Germans found only 3% would consider buying a Tesla. But when Musk shared it, the figure jumped to 70%. Bots manipulated Musk's post, with 253,000 votes from just two US IP addresses.

submitted 87 days ago • 153 comments

Schumer is hoping that enough time will pass and people will forget about this, but we’re not letting up. We refuse to be treated like fools while Democratic leadership sells us out and expects the outrage to fade. Sign & share if you agree: Schumer must step down as Democratic Leader

submitted 87 days ago • 147 comments

If only there had been warnings about Trump’s erratic, frightening, irrational and dictator tendencies. If only there was a 900 page manual that he is following to the “t.” If only there was a previous presidency to look at as an example.

submitted 88 days ago • 50 comments

I am a California native and lifelong, multigenerational Democrat. We want to see fire and fury, not compliance or same as it ever was politics and weakness. Fight for us. Fight for what we are all fighting for, or step aside and let the fighters FIGHT.

submitted 89 days ago • 36 comments

The past 7 weeks have been deeply traumatic for this country. Yes I know we have to keep fighting, but it also feels really important to acknowledge that trauma. And care for it as best as possible. While we keep on fighting. #MomSky

submitted 90 days ago • 6 comments

If “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is classifed as a mental illness then republicans won’t care if people can start collecting social security benefits from it, right? 🤔

submitted 91 days ago • 26 comments

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 91 days ago • 2100 comments

Today is the Ides of March. Today is the Ides of March. Today is the Ides of March. I am hoping that if I repeat myself, so will history.

submitted 91 days ago • 16 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 92 days ago • 5884 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 93 days ago • 5144 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 96 days ago • 222 comments

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student arrested by the Trump administration, has still not been charged with a crime and has not been allowed to hold a private conversation with a lawyer. This is where we are now, America.

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.

submitted 95 days ago • 981 comments

look at what happens when he’s asked to defend his bigotry, not just deliver a jokey little soundbite for his fellow haters. he crumbles immediately.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

Good on the Senate Democrats for saying this

submitted 96 days ago • 61 comments

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident who has not been charged with any crimes. He was arrested Saturday in New York and taken to Louisiana for participating in pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

Pretty soon, a carton of eggs will cost more than a share of Tesla stock. #TeslaTakedown #3E #Resist

submitted 96 days ago • 19 comments

JD Vance wouldn’t last a minute under bombardment in Ukraine.

submitted 96 days ago • 63 comments

The Supreme Court is now considering whether to overturn laws that ban LBGTQ “conversation therapy.” Conversion therapy tries to force minors to change their sexual orientation to heterosexual by inducing psychological trauma.

submitted 96 days ago • 193 comments

👋 Hey Kids!!! Get ready to either laugh uproariously or sob inconsolably, cuz it's time for either the SUNDAY FUNNIES or the TRUTHFUL TRAGEDIES, depending on your own personal point-of-view. #Enjoy 🤣 (or) #Despair 😩

submitted 97 days ago • 742 comments

My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example

submitted 99 days ago • 253 comments

Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."

submitted 98 days ago • 42 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

submitted 99 days ago • 529 comments