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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

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A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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NEW VIDEO: One of the most egregious abuses of power and attacks on the federal judiciary is taking place in Maryland and it is not getting the urgent attention it deserves. In a normal time this would be a national scandal. Paige and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqrO...

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Lindsey Boylan explaining the importance of ranking five names (and NOT RANKING CUOMO)

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 7 days ago • 401 comments

“…that sentiment in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but, I hope, to the world, for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.” —Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 22, 1861

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Y'all!! Resistance Summer School made @thecut.com !! This is a great piece about the new wave of post-grad, independent lectures being taught outside traditional structures. As I said in the article, we don't need to wait for elite permission to share knowledge! www.thecut.com/article/lear...

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

another one of these things www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.

submitted 15 days ago • 80 comments

I’m grateful for the incredible life lessons my dad has taught me. As a construction worker, he built homes across the Hudson Valley. He instilled in me the value of hard work, service to your community, and standing up for what is right. Happy Fathers Day!

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 16 days ago • 92 comments

Every neighborhood should make itself the wrong neighborhood. We all should record the actions and impacts of this tyrannical government and share the videos and images widely. At the end of the day, it will make our case and power our victory over these thugs.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: A federal court ruled there's no legitimate basis for Mahmoud Khalil's continued detention, and that it's unconstitutional for the Trump administration to use vague foreign policy grounds to deport people. This is a win for free speech. We won't stop fighting until Mahmoud is released.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

All Hail Trump! www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagl...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

One of the great weaknesses of the democracy coalition is that it's got a lot of people who think that if an election isn't tomorrow and isn't for president, nothing matters. The GOP build up its political reserves by planning and always voting in GOPers at every level in every election.

submitted 21 days ago • 27 comments

Eye-opening analysis of WNBA players’ pay relative to the NBA, adjusting for the leagues’ relative sizes and season lengths, by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Outrageous ktla.com/news/local-n...

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🚨🚨🚨 CBO MAKES IT OFFICIAL: 16 MILLION Americans would become uninsured under the #MAGAMurderBill when combined w/IRA subsidy expiration: acasignups.net/25/06/04/cbo...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup. $TSLA @cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...

submitted 26 days ago • 56 comments

The integrity of our legal profession is on the ballot in this year's D.C. bar election. Please cast your vote by TOMORROW www.directvote.net/DCBA

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 146 comments

Never change, Penzeys

submitted 30 days ago • 37 comments

Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

submitted 30 days ago • 379 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 30 days ago • 1116 comments

New from @chloeneast.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: AEI cited her work to make the case for SNAP work requirements. Chloe explains that her and other research show that work requirements reduce SNAP access while doing nothing for employment outcomes. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-aei-g...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments