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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

submitted 8 days ago • 223 comments

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

The house has passed a ban on coverage of gender care for all ages under Medicaid, CHIP and ACA plans. I don't know what to say to anyone this morning other than that the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to lose access to the care they need to stay alive deserve better than silence.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

everything may be awful BUT on the plus side as of today there are 7,836 different species of frogs

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 9 days ago • 469 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 12 days ago • 251 comments

🥲 www.newsweek.com/largest-ante...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Righteous Gemstones is a documentary

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Sharing this because it's such clear, direct, and forceful messaging. Pass it on to anyone who needs it.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

REMINDER: Oral arguments are currently taking place before SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship cases as the Trump Administration is challenging the ability for district courts to issue nationwide injunctions.

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Talking to the woman who runs the front desk at my kid’s school about how bad things are and she said “I guess we’re all on our own.” “Not if we take care of each other,” I responded.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Stop wishing and start neighboring. If you want things to get better you need to build it with your neighbors.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

We’re officially overrun with animals at this point.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

My passionflowers (may pops) are blooming! 🤗💜

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

He's being attacked because of free speech. WATCH THE WHOLE THING: Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1vS...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

submitted 42 days ago • 155 comments

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

submitted 43 days ago • 2924 comments

Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding, Says School President www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

So proud that this is one of my Senators. Use what power you have. Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov.

submitted 43 days ago • 34 comments

Trans women are my sisters. Cis women who share nothing with me but a probable chromosomal arrangement and some quirks of biology and use their power to smugly oppress and violently harm others will never be my sisters.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Under fascism, which breaks social ties and makes everyone fear everyone, the mere act of neighbors trusting and helping neighbors becomes radical civil disobedience www.bostonreview.net/articles/mut...

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

Excellent piece by a student columnist at #UNC. “Chancellor Roberts, trustees and governors — do your jobs and protect the integrity of this university, instead of rolling over and allowing the rights of your students to be violated.” www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

no tattoos, no criminality, just a 19 year old on his way back from volunteering with the Red Cross, taken off the street and thrown into a Salvadoran dungeon documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...

submitted 44 days ago • 19 comments

“The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.” -Nuremberg Principle IV

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

if we're defining a constitutional crisis as a breakdown in the rule of law or the erosion of constitutional protections, then we’ve been in one for a long time (see: US prisons.) what we’re seeing now is just that breakdown becoming more visible to people who were never directly targeted before

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

happy open constitutional crisis day to all who observe and also all who don't it's happening either way

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.

submitted 45 days ago • 88 comments

Haha Jeffrey Bezos busted his ass on live TV during a stupid publicity stunt and it’s the little things in life you know? 🥲

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.

submitted 45 days ago • 240 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free them all.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Any Jew who permits themselves to be used by fascists in this way runs a serious risk of my grandma returning from the grave and giving them a beatdown. I’m just reporting the news here - I don’t control the furious souls of my ancestors.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Why I refuse to normalize this president: Appeasement is not workable strategy with a fascist. www.mlive.com/politics/202...

submitted 49 days ago • 74 comments

I desperately need to know if #sarahwynn-williams has seen the Clovis episode of #Veep because from what I gained from her book is that it is SPOT ON. #carelesspeople #facebook #markzuckerberg #siliconevalley

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. this is nazi shit. michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...

submitted 50 days ago • 15 comments

The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff. You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.

submitted 50 days ago • 165 comments

And now at UNC. @koriedean.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 51 days ago • 253 comments

My thoughts on the Wild Lotus finale are just GOD DAMMIT UNCLE BABY BILLY

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday was International Asexuality Day and I'd just like to say that there is asexuality is not a monolith. We're queer and here to disrupt your assumption that sexual desire is and should be the default.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 55 days ago • 338 comments

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 54 days ago • 53 comments