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Now is for the moment for another New Deal, but one that includes constitutional reforms. Dems should commit to proportional representation so we can a multi-party system that can win back voters' trust.

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

Fusion voting allows a candidate to be nominated by multiple parties—so a center-right candidate in Kansas could run under both the GOP and a new moderate party. Once common in the U.S., it's now banned in most states since major parties saw it as a threat. #ElectionReform #FusionVoting #ThirdParty

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Reminders: "Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific. Most Nazi camps were outside Germany, away from the eyes of German citizens. Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant. Never again is now.

submitted 64 days ago • 40 comments

Form an alert circle and protect the children. Good advice.

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

None of this is true, and I, for one, still believe in facts. 1) Autism is not an epidemic 2) Vaccines don’t cause autism 3) There will not be significantly more information on what causes autism in the next five months

submitted 68 days ago • 5 comments

As a public health researcher I find this deeply concerning. I can’t fathom how it was possible for RFK Jnr to be put in this position. With no public health expertise nor any understanding of how research and the scientific process works, he is dangerous. #Science #PublicHealth #neurodivergence

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 68 days ago • 866 comments

As I mentioned last week, measles isn’t the only vaccine-preventable disease going around. Whooping cough is, too, and 2 babies died from it in Louisiana. The anti-vax movement is killing children and the response from Republicans in Congress is to cut Medicaid. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 68 days ago • 1514 comments

Elon Musk's xAI is accused of worsening air pollution in Memphis -- and of running more than double the number of natural gas-burning turbines it secured permits for there... story @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/e...

submitted 68 days ago • 13 comments

He’s going to say it’s vaccines and then it’ll be reported as “he says it’s vaccines but others disagree” and in the meantime the programs that make life for autistic people so much better will be gutted.

submitted 68 days ago • 18 comments

“The infrastructure of care, prevention and research that has developed over the 40-plus years of this epidemic is virtually being eliminated or drastically reduced to the point that the progress that we have made." 19thnews.org/2025/04/hiv-...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

The Attorney General of the United States.

submitted 69 days ago • 63 comments

NEWS: Social Security abandons DOGE phone service cuts amid chaos, backlash. The retreat by Musk's team and Trump officials comes after scoops by Lisa Rein and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social revealing the mess at an agency serving 73 million Americans www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

cowards enabling a tyrant www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

Trump used an emergency powers law to impose tariffs — but that law contains no reference to tariffs and no president has ever used it for this purpose.

submitted 70 days ago • 16 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 283 comments

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally untrustworthy this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 124 comments

Very useful tool that maps and displays the volume of climate disinformation being produced by key players on various social sites www.tortoisemedia.com/hot-air-expl...

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 71 days ago • 207 comments

Correct.

submitted 71 days ago • 252 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 71 days ago • 255 comments

i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance

submitted 72 days ago • 122 comments

Wait so the plan is literally to take government workers researching kidney disease and keeping the water clean and have them make iPhone cases instead

submitted 72 days ago • 129 comments

6 months ago

submitted 72 days ago • 475 comments

The 1st Amendment does not exist if the government can sell you into prison labor without any due process. The 2nd Amendment does not exist if they can do that. NONE of your rights exist if they can do that.

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

This is now the worst three-day performance for the S&P 500 since October 1987.

submitted 72 days ago • 212 comments

From Portland on Saturday. #MEpolitics (via @thefiredog.bsky.social)

submitted 71 days ago • 4 comments

Massachusetts will save on costs of removing fluoride from the water since less than one third of our municipalities have it in the first place! #mapoli @massgov.bsky.social now would be a good time to invest in fluoridated water systems! #resist

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 72 days ago • 380 comments

By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.

submitted 72 days ago • 237 comments

Tangible, direct action from Sen. Schatz. We love to see it. @schatz.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 255 comments

Ngl I read this this morning

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Boat derangement syndrome

submitted 72 days ago • 382 comments

This is why he was never supposed to have this power to begin with! glares at John Roberts

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

submitted 72 days ago • 327 comments

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

submitted 72 days ago • 231 comments

Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index rises to highest level in history 🚨

submitted 73 days ago • 20 comments

Welcome to the dumbest administration

submitted 73 days ago • 1033 comments

UCONN is back atop the sport. The Huskies have won their 12th national championship. Paige gets her title.

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

Yay my curse is broken a drought since I came here for our women’s team since I got here in 2016. UConn where the men are men and the women are champions!!

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

UCONN IS BACK ON TOP OF WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 👑 The Huskies are 2025 national champions.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments