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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

submitted 4 days ago • 297 comments

🧵 1/2 Breaking: This is NOT good. When brilliant, experienced scientists feel they can no longer do their jobs—it’s a warning siren 🚨 RFK Jr. is undermining science and endangering lives. Call your reps—especially Republicans. 🧠🪱 has got to go. 🧵 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 9 days ago • 74 comments

Yesterday, I met with a 12 year old boy in Oxnard, CA. His mom and dad have been fieldworkers for over 20 years. ICE agents snatched his parents from the fields and left this boy alone with no clue when he’ll see them again. A 6th grader.

submitted 13 days ago • 162 comments

Senator Alex Padilla was fulfilling his Congressional oversight duties when he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed. This is no isolated instance; this is a pattern of behavior by the Trump administration. There is simply no justification for this abuse of authority.

submitted 13 days ago • 248 comments

Excellent @gelliottmorris.com post today on the across-the-board distributional effects of GOP policy in the second Trump administration. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Wow! Is anyone else having a hard time finding medical supplies?

submitted 51 days ago • 54 comments

I know many veterans that STILL are on the wrong side.. WTF, Vets?! WTF?

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

This was the best. @charliejane.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social are national treasures and there's no one better to discuss how billionaires like Musk wield science fiction—and often fundamentally misunderstand it. We also dig into how sci-fi can help explicate and offer hope in this moment

submitted 62 days ago • 6 comments

Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

submitted 62 days ago • 344 comments

⚰️ The US now ranks 33rd in infant mortality. We just don’t care about our babies (or their moms) outside of talking points.

submitted 64 days ago • 19 comments

Amazing reporting by NPR. DOGE hackers are anti-American pathological narcissists who think they wont get caught. Amazing and brave actions by Berulis for bringing the detail to light of the use of hacker tools against federal agencies!

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is now talking about shipping U.S. citizens to prisons in El Salvador. Let me say that again: U.S. citizens. To foreign prisons. This is not just unconstitutional—it’s unhinged.

submitted 72 days ago • 292 comments

On this #TaxDay, we're reminded that while working people pay their fair share in taxes, billionaires and wealthy corporations often pay nothing. Taxing the rich is crucial to funding social safety nets that serve EVERYONE!

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Statement from #Harvard university www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

AOC: The crumbling of our rights and protections. Understand that all of this is what it means and what it feels like to be governed by billionaires. This is what oligarchy feels like.. it is this system that has brought us the most corrupt administration in American history..

submitted 74 days ago • 32 comments

Sanders: Instead of spending $1 trillion a year on the military, let’s build 5 million units of low income and affordable housing..

submitted 74 days ago • 143 comments

Thank you to the GAO staff performing this investigation - and the pledge that the resulting report will be made public!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Name them. Name them for what they are, and name the things they are doing. “You will never win a fight when every word you utter is a propaganda win for your opponent.” - @heathermarsh.bsky.social

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

The next steps are clear. We must ask ourselves — what is even one more tangible thing we can be doing? This will take work, grit, and determination—but this is how change happens. Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something in the cause of our country.

submitted 78 days ago • 104 comments

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

submitted 82 days ago • 796 comments

Saturday Fun Day!! Santa Ana, CA! #nokingsoc #resist

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Someone needs to put these blue collar cosplayers to work building the 10 million housing units we need

submitted 82 days ago • 14 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Last night, every Senate Democrat voted for my amendment calling for a $17 an hour federal minimum wage while every Republican but 1 opposed it. The movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is growing. In 2025, a job must lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.

submitted 82 days ago • 160 comments

Hell yes it will.

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

@altcdc.altgov.info @altnps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

submitted 81 days ago • 1940 comments

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!! This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference. It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference. #50501movement

submitted 81 days ago • 753 comments

In the dead of night, the Senate advanced Trump’s budget. A great night for billionaires — a bad night for everyone else.

submitted 82 days ago • 175 comments

Me. I derive quite a lot of joy from that, actually. It makes me feel remarkably better. Kind of like petting a puppy, or taking a midday nap in the sun. Just pure endorphins and glee.

submitted 89 days ago • 176 comments

No one is above the law, and no one should be using the federal government for their personal gain. That’s why I introduced the Special Government Employees Transparency Act with @lujan.senate.gov to hold Special Government Employees, like Elon Musk, accountable.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Hey all, since Orange County Republican Congresswoman Young Kim won’t do a town hall, we are going to have one this Saturday in her district in the City of Orange. The people deserve answers! www.mobilize.us/dpoc/event/7...

submitted 92 days ago • 21 comments

I hear Signal is particularly vulnerable to the problem of dumbasses who text classified information without checking who they're sending it to.

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

WYDEN: I would like it in writing that you will lock DOGE out of the Social Security databases. BISIGNANO: I don't know what lock DOGE out means. WYDEN: Stop them. It's a simple concept. When you lock someone out you stop them.

submitted 93 days ago • 41 comments