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Did you know that the longest solo filibuster in U.S. Senate history was by Senator Strom Thurmond, clocking in at 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957? He was trying to block the Civil Rights Act—a move as outdated as his views.

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He’s basicially Igor www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 75 days ago • 72 comments

Re the Dep’t of Education : I don’t think people who want it to go away know what it does. Here’s one thing. When we moved from NY to Utah we told the new principal that we wanted to have a 504 meeting for our kid who is a Type-1 diabetic. She said “Why? It’s not like she’s in a wheel chair.” 1/

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 105 days ago • 114 comments

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submitted 106 days ago • 31 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 106 days ago • 798 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 107 days ago • 45 comments

I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

submitted 107 days ago • 146 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 108 days ago • 533 comments

What fresh hell will tomorrow bring?

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Wait wait wait also they've added "accessibility" to DEI now as a thing that is banned? To what extent does the screenshot amount to flat-out ordering grantees to violate the ADA??

submitted 125 days ago • 6 comments

Everyone spare a thought for your local “DC friend” who is being absolutely firehosed with insane questions under the assumption they have magical inside information. It’s a frankly insane amount of unpaid emotional labor going on rn.

submitted 206 days ago • 1 comment

Took the day off because. Well, because. Heading to my folks tomorrow, hopefully that will bring me out of this funk I've been in for a week.

submitted 203 days ago • 0 comments

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

submitted 204 days ago • 1169 comments

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

submitted 204 days ago • 285 comments

I'd love to be able to share a feed on 16th century sheep herding techniques! ☺️🐑🐏

submitted 203 days ago • 1 comment

If you begin with “no disrespect”, everyone is expecting some disrespect. You better deliver.

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‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President

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I subscribe to Law Dork. You all should too.

submitted 221 days ago • 1 comment

Why is every newsletter in DC reporting on Love is Blind, like it is newsworthy every day? It isn’t. Please stop.

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I haven’t been on @bsky.app in a while, I’d forgotten how nice it is to see @npr.org in my feed

submitted 227 days ago • 0 comments

This election cycle, AI-generated images have proliferated on social media platforms after politically charged news events. They often spread partisan narratives rather than facts.

submitted 228 days ago • 10 comments

I still can’t figure this place out. I don’t know who to follow. Is there anyone here? Hello?

submitted 601 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone want to help with a good list of follows on here?

submitted 659 days ago • 0 comments

Is the only thing that makes this better than Twitter is that that specific billionaire doesn’t own it?

submitted 664 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, the first thing I do on all new socials is follow @weratedogs.bsky.social

submitted 664 days ago • 0 comments

I suppose I can no longer criticize those who post on other socials about their #Bluesky posts and engagement

submitted 664 days ago • 2 comments