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submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

So I just got off a call with Senator Warren @warren.senate.gov and her team about the MAGA Murder Bill (aka the Big Beautiful Bill) and whew did I learn some things I didn't know before: Did you know the bill cuts $300 BILLION from the ACA? Meaning that if you're on the ACA, your subsidy will

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

June 11 is an important day in Civil Rights history. In 1963, Gov. George Wallace tried to stop two Black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama. Warren K. Leffler's photos of that confrontation are in the Library's U.S. News & World Report Magazine collection. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This should have more views youtu.be/9ZwlHn6okDY?...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Please note: While the government sends in the military to suppress the largely peaceful protests of a handful of people in LA, it is also working around the clock to push 20 million people off healthcare and blow up the budget to give more $$$ to billionaires. It's megatheft in plain sight.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Whoa… this ⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️⤵️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

submitted 12 days ago • 156 comments

Isn’t this interesting?! Pope Leo has scheduled a mass at Rate Field 2:30 Chicago time on >>>>> June 14th ‼️ Nothing else happening that day, right? 😊

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

If anyone is in Philly come by to the Annenberg Center tonight at 630 pm ET hosting a TED Democracy panel on Truth, Trust and the Media. It's free and there are great panelists. See you tonight.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

My book is really doing the rounds at the moment!

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Currently, an adult has a dependent child if that child is under 18 years of age. Under the new proposed House definition for SNAP, once that child turns seven—usually someone in second grade—they could no longer be considered a dependent, with one exception. www.alternet.org/news-politic...

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

“I think we essentially have become a kleptocracy that would make Putin blush. I mean, keep in mind that in the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.” newrepublic.com/post/195068/...

submitted 36 days ago • 20 comments

100 men vs. 1 gorilla? How about the working class against the oligarchy? The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

submitted 38 days ago • 428 comments

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

submitted 42 days ago • 59 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 44 days ago • 549 comments

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submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

"When pushed for credentials, Instagram's user-made AI Studio bots will make up license numbers, practices, and education to try to convince you it's qualified to help with your mental health."

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

It'll be interesting to see which mainstream media outlets treat this obvious bit of garbage as legitimate and scientifically rigorous.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

In the coming days you’ll see headlines like, “ICE Can Now Come Into Your House Without a Warrant.” They will be false. Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution. That’s the story.

submitted 50 days ago • 30 comments

LoC! Welcome to Bluesky!

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

I just realized it's April 23. That means it's the anniversary of the Farmville, Virginia Motion High School student strike. What? You don't know about that? Well, in 1951, Barbara Johns was fed up with the deplorable conditions in her segregated school, so she organized a strike. 1/

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Big news for Pennsylvanians: GOP sheriff of Bucks County, arguably one of the most important swing counties of the entire nation, is joining ICE's prized 287(g)-model. Sheriff deputies will be authorized to effectively act as ICE agents in Bucks once approved. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/excl...

submitted 53 days ago • 60 comments

Happy #Easter

submitted 56 days ago • 692 comments

Every American should know that the Chamber of Commerce and American Bankers Association literally teamed up with the Trump administration on Monday to end the CFPB rule limiting big credit card providers to an $8 late fee. Today, in light of the agreement, the rule was vacated.

submitted 60 days ago • 38 comments

Pass it on.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

If you voted by mail, registered online or went to a voter registration drive, that's all on the line under the SAVE Act, which the House just passed. But it's not too late to protect voters. Call your senators to vote NO on the SAVE Act: (202) 224-3121

submitted 65 days ago • 16 comments

Can we have some pawsitives vibes for our Hagrid ? He’s at the vet as he’s really not well and have a pericarditis and pulmonary edema

submitted 65 days ago • 8 comments

@sanders.senate.gov + @aoc.bsky.social + Neil Young + Maggie Rogers + more What the heck? Bernie-chella is 🔥

submitted 65 days ago • 20 comments