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Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right. Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This truly breaks my 💔 Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽

This is the way.

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Backatcha!

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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

The Associated Press said on Tuesday that one of its reporters was barred from an Oval Office event because the outlet has continued to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name.

Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!

South Korean prosecutors on Sunday indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law.

Some companies are standing up to Trump's racist war on diversity and DEI... www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...

Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years

The president is conditioning federal aid for Los Angeles by demanding that California pass a voter ID law.

Here we go. Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has drafted a constitutional amendment to allow Donald Trump to be president for a third term.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

And so it begins: Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season. “Economic devastation” newrepublic.com/post/190555/...

Kinda funny that MAGA wants us to “get over” January 6th and “look forward not back”, when they still haven’t gotten over the Civil fucking War.

When Democrats take the presidency, the media acts like the only Americans that exist are all right wing. When Republicans take the presidency, the media acts like the only Americans that exist are all right wing.

Erin Burnett is interviewing a young man right now who reported his dad to the FBI for participating in January 6. He says he fears for his life now that Trump is pardoning and commuting, because his dad says he is a traitor and traitors get shot. His mom and sisters are supporting his dad.

Portland, Jamaica

Follow more Black people to balance out the overwhelming presence of annoying white people.

FACTS! Not make believe.

Now that we know ‘Adrian Dittman’ is Elon Musk, take a look at this. Absolutely pathetic.

An important point.

He's always been right.

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior

His owners ...

We're featuring an episode from NPR's science podcast Short Wave about what happens in our brains during conflict: Why it tempts us to shut down, and how we can navigate difficult conversations—political or otherwise—without losing control.

In another major fuck you to Elon Musk, I'd love it if Bluesky took ALL of the good ideas from there, and implemented them here -- bookmarking posts and edit button, longer videos, something similar to Spaces. All the good shit. None of the toxicity. Drop your ideas, too. Please and thank you. 🙏💙

Sigh.

There IS a left-wing agenda, and it’s to prioritize compassion over greed. Kindness isn't a limited resource.

See this Instagram video by @djdelirious416 www.instagram.com/reel/C03omLK...

Zing!

The Department of Gestapo Efficiency will give even more power to the slaveholders of society while facilitating our budget to expand the fascist police state even further until there's a camera at every intersection and a black SUV at the end of every block for "efficiency."