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Antisemitism Isn’t What People Think It Is www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

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The Presidential Personnel Office (charged with implementing MAGA loyalty tests) is being run by a man who claims to have been born in Malta, who has not been properly cleared, and whose email account purportedly uses a password identical to those used of a suspected Russian spy. Say what, NY Post?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

submitted 3 days ago • 2038 comments

BREAKING: Sean Hecker, Jenna Dabbs, & David Patton of Hecker Fink and Rascoe Dean of Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison file a motion to take over as counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his criminal case in Tennessee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

This will be on the history books as the start of a dictatorship backed by the military.

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

TV host Jeff Corwin teams with the Miccosukee Tribe to tell #Florida stories www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/22/t... via @billkearney.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Anna, Leah, and Ezra, here is the link to the Civil War historical project by historian Keri Leigh Merritt, Phd., that Musk and DOGE harpooned. As you will see, it reveals the Civil War was a class war fought by the poor to enrich the rich..like our fascist coup 2day vimeo.com/1040130366/7...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

A really nice article from @lyndie.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-... #cosmology

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

#Florida dementia patient/elected official unable to explain what the Declaration of Independence is about.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Before you read this, try to guess why each is fleeing. (1) New Hampshire (2) Idaho (3) Texas (4) California (5) Florida www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 61 days ago • 17 comments

As others have noted, if you’re not seeing this “pro-natalism” creepiness through the lens of the white nationalist Fourteen Words, you’re missing the point.

submitted 63 days ago • 209 comments

If you celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970, this group has a message for you: Your work isn’t done. Last year, we spoke with two leaders from the organization Third Act about the important role of older adults in the climate movement.

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

Absolutely brutal and hilarious takedown of Bill Maher from the one and only Larry David.

submitted 63 days ago • 164 comments

Trump Urges Vatican to Select New Pope from Cast of "Fox & Friends" open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATED TODAY: We've added 11 more names to our DOGE tracker, bringing the total to 77 staffers affiliated with Musk. Plus, you can now filter our database by federal agency. Check it out ⤵️

submitted 67 days ago • 36 comments

Anyone who thinks that globalization’s destruction of American working class communities began with “neoliberal elites” during the 1980s/90s should listen to Bob Dylan’s “North County Blues” — which he wrote when John F. Kennedy was President. open.spotify.com/track/3eoVxC...

submitted 71 days ago • 3 comments

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

reupping this speech from a garment strike, Chicago 1915

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“The Comfort of Sleepwalkers”—for those still clutching their Starbucks while democracy burns, insisting the courts will save us. History will not wake you gently. This is urgent.

submitted 124 days ago • 11 comments