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feel like we’re maybe six weeks out from a book burning

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

this is a segregationist administration and it is wild to me that there is any resistance to this straightforward observation

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Pro tip. Black people are not looking for people who aren't Black to share their thoughts in reaction to our expressions of being oppressed on how we can fix it according to their higher wisdom. We're looking for people who aren't Black to stop being the problem & get their heads out their asses.

submitted 11 hours ago • 39 comments

The key theme is not any judicial philosophy. The Roberts majority doesn’t use any consistently. The key theme is aggressive quick action against those who try to enforce the laws and Constitution on Trump. And extreme passivity on Trump’s illegal actions. It’s an anti-anti-Trump court.

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

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submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Given that this entire thing is being done illegally via an executive memo with no legislation or enforcement mechanisms, it would be nice if Democrats started making it clear right now that they will never respect or acknowledge this assertion once in power.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Eager to soothe Trump’s wounded ego, the Supreme Court ended nationwide injunctions today. Trump is crowing, but this just means we’ll take our smashing wins in 4 district courts and turn them into wins in 94 district courts. People born here are citizens, period.

submitted 6 hours ago • 98 comments

Want to improve your French? Try the free courses on FUN (France Université Numérique). I'm currently learning about digital resources to help special needs students. I did an Arts et Écologie course a couple of summers ago. So many themes to choose from! #fle #langsky #mlchat #wl #langchat #teachwl

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Translating this — for the unaware, not for a fellow son of the South like Kevin — as a guy who grew up in Alabama: Tuberville means Black people.

submitted 6 hours ago • 45 comments

Look, if you're Muslim and choosing to run for public office in this profoundly Islamophobic country, you do not scare easily. If you're Muslim and are in any public position in this country, you do not scare easily. The death threats are CONSTANT. Look at how unhinged white racists are.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.

submitted 11 hours ago • 118 comments

Tommy Tuberville holds the US Senate seat once occupied by ex-Confederate John T. Morgan, who also had an affinity for "rat" metaphors. In 1890, Morgan said Congress had to burn down the barn—to end elected local government in DC—to "get rid of the rats."

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

The fact that 2/3 fell tf out immediately is taking me down 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Ah, the ol' "My massively Islamophobic rant was just me misspeaking" defense

submitted 7 hours ago • 53 comments

(1) If a Democratic official said this about any group of human they would be done, but Republicans dehumanizing & denigrating Democratic-leaning constituencies is normalized, and accepted by Media & Political Elite. That normalization is literally getting people killed.

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

submitted 13 hours ago • 253 comments

Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury employs several queer columnists, any one of whom could have done this piece without the open bigotry. They were excluded because the point of this isn’t to mark a civil rights win, it is to shit on trans people. She is a degenerate and unethical hack.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films and TV shows, including Bullitt, Mannix and Cool Hand Luke, has died.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

A feature I’d like to see added to this app is the ability to search for people you follow based on a vague description of their profile picture when you forget what their name is

submitted 22 hours ago • 53 comments

The Supreme Court asserts that issues like abortion and trans health care should be left to the democratic process. However, they fail to acknowledge that this process has been undermined by their own rulings, Susan Rinkunas writes. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/scot...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The idea that the president can randomly fire everyone in the administrative branch is toxic. It’s enabling a slash and burn mentality across the federal government. What will be left in a couple of years? Is anyone reporting on what’s going on at NASA?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Imagine not being able to see others' humanity because the thin layer of their surface is different from yours. What a terrifying, clueless, wretched way to live in this world.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

If you need to be distracted tomorrow (I can't imagine why), stream trans pride and spread the love. They might have bought SCOTUS, but they can't steal our joy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife) How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn

submitted 23 hours ago • 423 comments

Sources: The Pac-12 has extended its offer to Texas State to be the 8th football member, and barring any late changes, it’s expected to be finalized on Monday, @theathletic.bsky.social can confirm. Austin Sports Journal first reported the offer, which has been in the works all week.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

submitted 6 days ago • 354 comments

Who is against these policies? Are people so far gone that they prefer their taxes pay for corporate welfare and massive pointless bombs over education and transportation?

submitted 21 hours ago • 234 comments

Another ruff week. Follow for more complimentary serotonin blasts. Our gift to humanity. ✨

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Please enjoy this portrait of two geniuses who looked incredibly beautiful in suits

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

War is a disease, peace is the cure. As we mark the 80th anniversary of the UN Charter today, its vision and principles of lasting peace are keeping us -- all the peoples of the United Nations -- accountable to create a healthier, safer, fairer world for generations to come. #CharterDay

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“Close readings of these reviews hinted at intercultural and communicative clashes.” Fancy way to say “racism.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The former

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

A think tank paper on misinformation that is itself misinformation 🧵

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I really wish I had a mind for heist movies so I could write a fanfic Ocean’s 9 set at the wedding of Beff Jezos and Sauren Lanchez

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Guys pls repost Marvelous! Shes going 2b euthanized if I can’t find her a foster! @nycacc.bsky.social wants to kill this 1-yr old! For no reason. 224097 DM me for application! Repost her pls!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Canada ‘urgently seeking more information’ on death of Canadian in ICE custody

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The level of grievance within a community is a key barometer for the community's vulnerability to democratic backsliding. Influencers can radicalize people in aggrieved communities as a political "force multiplier." From my testimony to EU Parliament. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j43Q...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Yesssssss @theferocity.bsky.social's reading of this!!!!! If you're not listening to Vibe Check what are you even doing with your one wild and precious life

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

I grew up on military bases. Military service members (because they are in service to the United States) must go where they are deployed by the military, which is part of the US government. They do not choose where they are sent to serve. Revoking their childrens' citizenship like this is grotesque.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The ink has barely dried on Mamdani’s historic victory & already the coordinated Islamophobia machine is in overdrive. If you thought post-9/11 or the 2011 “Shariah law scare” were the peak of anti-Muslim hysteria, I regret to inform you, its about to get worse: www.qasimrashid.com/p/warning-an...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments