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submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Ahhh...so satisfying. 😃

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Before it's too late...👍

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

😪

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Yes!

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 64 days ago • 608 comments

Yes! Go Jess!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

by @therickwilson.bsky.social 1/3 "Dictators adore military parades for the same reason your MAGA uncle wears a Punisher muscle shirt over his gut: it’s about projecting an illusion of power to mask deep-seated insecurities. Nothing screams, 'I’m totally secure & not overcompensating at all!' like..

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

ICYMI: From March 23rd, protestors from both sides of the US and Canada border held a protest against the Trump regime. This is what the US oligarch media isn't showing you. The protests grow bigger every month. #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne

submitted 75 days ago • 88 comments

LISTEN to Barack Obama: The most important office in this democracy is the citizen. Freedom tomorrow is not a given—it has to be fought for.

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 78 days ago • 499 comments

Cory Booker ending his record-breaking speech on the Senate floor: “Let's get in good trouble." What a fantastic way to cap off his epic 25 hour and 5 minute speech. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 79 days ago • 250 comments

Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke. Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours. Incredible.

submitted 79 days ago • 111 comments

Secretary Clinton asks the question of the day: “How much dumber will this get?” Im afraid of the answer.

submitted 83 days ago • 66 comments

Here’s a wonderful interview between Heather Cox Richardson and Ben Wikler, Chair of the WI Democratic Party explaining the upcoming state Supreme Court election on April 1 and what’s at stake nationally.

submitted 93 days ago • 7 comments

March 15, 2025:

submitted 96 days ago • 68 comments

theblop.org

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 104 days ago • 808 comments

Exactly

submitted 106 days ago • 54 comments

Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

submitted 106 days ago • 159 comments

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt

submitted 107 days ago • 17 comments

38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.

submitted 107 days ago • 52 comments