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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

Our “Not the Gestapo” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered etc

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

After records requests from The Washington Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by U.S. police. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Important investigative work by @douglasmac.bsky.social & @aaronschaffer.com:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

As @hurwitz.bsky.social has reported, this is not only ridiculously expensive—it could be a MASSIVE payday for Elon Musk.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

It's a giant welfare check for defense tech.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Sums it up well

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

US MAGA republicans expected to pass middle of the night bill that would increase the national debt by $3.8 trillion. The bill would end many green-energy subsidies and boost spending on the military and ICE. It’ll also cut millions of low-income USians from food and health programs.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Gerb produces masterful research and documentation. This particular deep historical dive is fascinating, whatever your conclusions may be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9GS... #UFOsky

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@corybooker.com Please fight legislation too. Tooth and nail. Slow this mess down. Rule of law preservation is job number one, by any means necessary. TY.

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This is a fun read www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers. They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

submitted 3 days ago • 403 comments

We want to call out a blatant lie spread by Elon Musk. Under his leadership, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claimed that 40% of calls to the Social Security Administration (SSA) were fraudulent. That’s been thoroughly debunked. An internal review of over 110,000

submitted 5 days ago • 110 comments

Lmao 😂 Trump is so hurt about Bruce Springsteen that he’s now calling for a “major investigation” into him along with Beyoncé, Oprah, and Bono. His retribution tour has officially reached the music industry.

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

"First they came for members of Congress, and I did nothing because I'm not a ... oh, shit. Shit shit shit."

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You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that Biden book and cancer diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans A vengeful Trump has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Thread.

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You can tell that the One Big Beautiful Bill* is truly beautiful because they’re holding the hearing after midnight * Yes, that’s actually the name

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

If you talk about Musk as having stepped back from government, if you write that it in your articles, say that on your news shows or your podcasts, then congrats, you're a rube.

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

There’s no such thing as “new money.”

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Yeah, we have a serious fucking problem. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/secret-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The staging area for unsold Teslas at Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrence, NJ seems to be accumulating a lot more cars, and it's not just Cybers now either, it's all models.

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

Let’s definitely give this guy’s brother-in-law and Peter Thiel all the government contracts for autonomous AI drones. That’ll work out great. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

They’re really going for it.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

so weird how the openly corrupt dismantling of federal governance, consumer protection and the social safety net routinely gets buried below 57 deep dives into that insane eugenicist couple or Mark Cuban's deep thoughts on why young men don't need libraries anymore

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Fetterman isn't doing his job. "Fetterman has missed nearly every committee hearing and regularly skips votes." "I haven’t seen him this year in person,” a House Democratic lawmaker from Pennsylvania said. “My staff reaches out on bills and such.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 13 days ago • 101 comments

“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

It really can't be overstated, this guy's grandad was at Hitler's wedding & created the British Union of Fascists. He now has contracts with the UK government that Starmer refuses to talk about. Those AI face-recognition cameras they trialled in Cardiff? 👇 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

“Big Tech, including Palantir, is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a ‘revolution’ led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend.” They even highlight Alex Karp's creepy heroin piss drone threat.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Hell of a quote to start with. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

For all you Telepathy Tapes fans, Diane Hennacy Powell supports RFK Jr. and even spoke at a convention with him. Someone should get her on the record about this absolute nightmare.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

i will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.

submitted 15 days ago • 125 comments

BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:

submitted 15 days ago • 150 comments

Listen up, CBS and other news media considering bowing to Trump: "In the real world...instead of rewarding those who capitulated early, the Trump administration pressured them even more."

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments