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weird that not many people want to attend the parade with all the tanks and guns even though they were basically promised it would turn violent

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

submitted 6 days ago • 106 comments

June is audiobook month, and @libro.fm is celebrating with recommended #Pride picks, a special signup offer, and more. Best of all, sales benefit indie bookstores. ❤️

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 10 days ago • 236 comments

Don't BE DISTRACTED they scream at regular people. DISTRACTED FROM WHAT, SENATOR? What's the CONCRETE PLAN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS OFFERED TO STOP PEOPLE FROM LOSING THEIR HEALTHCARE?

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 10 days ago • 643 comments

Audiobook Month and Pride both take place in June 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Although, let’s be real, these months last all year long over here at Libro!) What are your favorite audiobooks by LGBTQIA+ authors for folks to read this month and beyond?

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

submitted 26 days ago • 140 comments

dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

This white genocide debacle highlights another reason to be extremely cautious of AI that I don't see people talking about much--if you're getting your information from AI, your knowledge will be selectively curated by the people who control the AI

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

Imagine being lectured by RFK Jr about how to be healthy and then having Mark Zuckerberg tell you how many friends normal people should have

submitted 45 days ago • 128 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 53 days ago • 859 comments

UK TERFs quickly moving onto their next victims #TERFisland #UK #xenophobia #ScratchATERF #transphobia

submitted 55 days ago • 74 comments

There is more evidence behind the claim "JD Vance killed the pope" than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

submitted 56 days ago • 27 comments

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

submitted 55 days ago • 110 comments

There's a way to audit a government agency that actually works. What DOGE is doing is... not that.

submitted 84 days ago • 57 comments

Just read the full Atlantic article about the Houthi group chat. One part that stuck with me is when they say “God Bless” and send prayer emojis to each other after killing 53 people who they considered enemies because they killed others in the name of their God.

submitted 83 days ago • 69 comments

One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass

submitted 107 days ago • 20 comments

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

submitted 237 days ago • 7 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 123 days ago • 302 comments

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

submitted 123 days ago • 33 comments

every inch of progress in the US is like this. BLM, defund the police, trans rights, etc — all marginal, sometimes nonexistent gains followed by massive rightward pendulum swings born of the (false) assertion that by gently prodding an issue, we’ve gone “too far”

submitted 124 days ago • 17 comments

You can, and should, be a pain in the ass when you’re in the minority if it means saving people’s lives. Remember, McConnell, before literally any legislative priorities were introduced by Obama, vowed to make him a one term president because he lost his mind a black man won 1/

submitted 123 days ago • 10 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 124 days ago • 408 comments

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.

submitted 124 days ago • 542 comments

Every member of Congress letting a security guard stop them needs to be interviewed about John Lewis.

submitted 128 days ago • 2 comments

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

submitted 129 days ago • 183 comments

Not to sound alarmist, but alarm sounds

submitted 130 days ago • 2 comments