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But why defund schools? To curate failure — to say that public schools are broken and public school teachers are inept all in a push to privatize public schools. To dumb down the populace. To demonize a system that educates over 90% of kids in this state… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

submitted 4 hours ago • 197 comments

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

submitted 6 hours ago • 224 comments

"Veterans know the layoffs aren’t about saving money. They’re about weakening the institution and ultimately privatizing and gutting VA disability funding, as spelled out in Project 2025." share.google/pz6mLWSzZIYC...

submitted 6 hours ago • 391 comments

The Trump administration is quietly expanding its work with Palantir to consolidate data from across the government and create detailed files on everyone in the U.S. This is incredibly dangerous for all of us, but especially for vulnerable communities already in the government's crosshairs.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

🧵 PBS and NPR have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now. Trump's unusual "rescission" request has been sent to Congress, starting a 45-day clock for Congress to either approve or ignore the proposal.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 4 days ago • 862 comments

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

submitted 5 days ago • 946 comments

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

submitted 5 days ago • 321 comments

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

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54% of children in America are insured by Medicaid. The ONLY party looking to kick them off is the GOP. The ONLY party trying to defund the ACA is the GOP. The ONLY party trying to get rid of vaccines and medical research that saves lives is the GOP. The cruelty is always the point.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

I love my beloveds with autism, and each and every single person I know who has autism has demonstrable talents (music, physics, visual art) and panache galore, unlike the joyless ghoul RFK jr. Cannot wait until this administration is in the rearview mirror

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

submitted 8 days ago • 742 comments

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

submitted 8 days ago • 4574 comments

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

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NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...

submitted 8 days ago • 688 comments

Just as measles outbreaks rise and unvaccinated kids die or get seriously ill, the HHS FY26 proposed budget slashes CDC vaccine education programs. Secretary Kennedy downplays risk of measles, raising alarm among health leaders. Vaccination efforts must be enhanced to save lives.

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200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

If you’re an everyday American, this is a very familiar story. We all live this reality.

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

Please take a moment to read and share Call your Congressional representatives 202 224-3121 Ask them Why ICE is allowed to operate in masks and conceal their identities? This must be addressed No DUE PROCESS No EXPLANATION @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

The Dept. of Justice has filed its first voter suppression lawsuit aimed at disenfranchising voters. This is a critical juncture for democracy. Paige and I discuss the implications and how it echoes claims made by failed state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. youtu.be/8XEW-Ga428M

submitted 10 days ago • 323 comments

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

submitted 10 days ago • 246 comments

If only the New Yorker had read @albertburneko.bsky.social six months ago it could have avoided wearing the clownshoes today defector.com/what-the-fuc...

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

Trump's DOJ has granted Boeing a non-prosecution agreement over the 737 MAX crashes, despite the company's repeated attempts to deceive regulators. Boeing donated $1M to Trump's inauguration and has paid AG Pam Bondi's former lobbying firm at least $480K. Follow the money.

submitted 10 days ago • 177 comments

Young people are facing a future defined by societal & ecological collapse. What’s “missing from the conversation” is why these fossil fuel psychopaths, knowingly burning our kids’ futures for 50 years, are allowed to dictate our politics & lives when they should be rotting in jail.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

🚨 ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.

submitted 10 days ago • 1727 comments

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

submitted 10 days ago • 885 comments

A real presidential post

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

This hits hard.

submitted 13 days ago • 1313 comments

TRUTH

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

This is going to keep happening until the regime is out of power

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

I keep hearing comments like “I plan to ignore it for the next four years”. This Billionaire Bill shuts down democracy. Look away at your peril.

submitted 14 days ago • 133 comments

My dad wants to talk about college protests bc that's all he sees on Fox News. He has no idea of the many ways the legislation Republicans are trying to pass will impact millions of Americans for years to come. It should be a LEGAL REQUIREMENT that "news" stations inform the public of pending bills!

submitted 14 days ago • 68 comments

Yes, White people. It can happen to you too. 😏 ktla.com/news/man-31-...

submitted 14 days ago • 159 comments

I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

"If it all seems utterly stupid and terribly cruel and amazingly damaging to this country, it’s because it is."

submitted 15 days ago • 81 comments

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

submitted 16 days ago • 103 comments

As Budget Chair I got constant Republican lectures to ignore looming climate disaster because of the debt. “The debt, the debt, the DEBT!!” Now they’re in charge and they’re hiking debt limit $4 trillion for tax breaks, mostly to the richest. What a sham.

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

Bad people know that one way to control people is to make them feel economically uncertain, so more of their time is spent worrying about their own precarity and less on the general welfare and/or what the bad people are doing. There's a reason the current administration is undermining the economy.

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

House Republicans have passed the budget bill that extends the Trump tax cuts, guts Medicaid and other services, and dramatically expands spending on immigration enforcement and the military. Chris Lehmann of @thenation.com calls it "a mugging conducted by the 1% against the rest of us."

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

The law couldn’t be clearer. I gave him weeks to review the language. I read it out loud to him for good measure. He still refused to say the simple truth: it is illegal for the president to weaponize the IRS against his political enemies.

submitted 15 days ago • 157 comments

😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.” www.instagram.com/reel/DJ_0Sj0...

submitted 15 days ago • 62 comments

This is the whole point of what Stephen Miller is doing with Harvard & other schools. It’s not about protests, anti-semitism or anything else. It is their plan, many years in the making, to dismantle the US university system. Schools must unite & fight together, not individually.

submitted 15 days ago • 179 comments

At this point trumps tariff threats are just stock market manipulation. Nobody will prosecute him. Just fyi: break the law today you better hope statute of limitations runs out… you will be held accountable eventually

submitted 15 days ago • 299 comments

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 15 days ago • 167 comments

The man with the nuclear codes walked into a wall. 😬

submitted 17 days ago • 1124 comments