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NASA is being told to cancel 19 active missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE hiring/retention budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

submitted 9 hours ago • 47 comments

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

submitted 14 hours ago • 220 comments

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

submitted 9 hours ago • 249 comments

Slow clap to the person at NYC Dyke March yesterday who wrote their sign on part of a U-Haul box and just kept the logo showing on the back side.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I think people really forget that the Tea Party started as an astroturf campaign

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Congrats, NYC, we made it, the forecast says you can go meet your friend in the park this evening and tie a lightweight long-sleeve shirt around your waist in case you get chilly!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

hi, cis folks! so senate’s king nerd struck the trans healthcare bans from the budget bill—that’s good! but the GOP may put it back in, meaning dems need to be ready to challenge it on the floor—that’s doable, but they need to know you want them to! today’s a great day to call senators: reps.fyi 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

This is maybe the first weather data loss that I can say will, without any doubt at all, kill people. This is some of the core data we use to diagnose rapid intensification when visible satellite and/or hurricane hunter data isn’t available. Anyone on/near the coast just got a lot less safe

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I wrote a thing about the news coverage of the mayoral election and how it was biased towards Cuomo with.... data Read and share!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I sat with a cup of tea & had my mind blown repeatedly listening to this podcast. It’s going to take time to unpack & unwind my brain. You need to hear this.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

living my best life spackling in overalls and drinking Moving Beers, happy goddamn Pride y'all.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I matched today, I added $10. Can you match me and @nora.zone? It is so difficult to figure out new ways to ask, to plead, to tell the story, to say something meaningful. What do we say? How can we make it so that you feel moved to understand, to share, to donate, again and again?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

one of the people I was considering for a grad school advisor 😵‍💫

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

One of the things I said over and over again for four years was that Eric Adams succeeded because Wiley/Garcia didn’t form a coalition until it was too late. It was a .5% win, and people treated it like a landslide. This is what RCV can deliver when candidates see success in each other.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Many years ago, Zohran attended a few meetings of Survived and Punished NY. When we launched our #FreeThemAll campaign to free people in women's prisons who were incarcerated for defending themselves against DV/SA, Zohran who was then working on Cynthia Nixon's campaign got us on her radar.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Zohran Mamdani is the only democrat in the mayoral race that released an LGBTQ platform and the only democrat in the country (that I know of) to commit to safeguarding gender affirming care for youth + adults with $$.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

crying screaming throwing up immediately moving away (unrelatedly)

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Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This... THIS is the future that liberals want

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

the thing is you could spend millions of dollars and all your political will and energy feeding and housing people, too???

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit.

submitted 4 days ago • 380 comments

in terrible news, the cat has figured out that all the stuff in my room is gone and maybe something's weird about that.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

plan for how you are either: -donating to zohran for the general -donating to an org canvassing for him -taking a shift on doors -phone/text banking there is going to need to be an army working against the amount of super PACs the democratic establishment is about to pop up

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

almost enough money to make the buses free.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

IDK, we got a squillion Mamdani canvassers in Bedstuy the last few weeks and all Cuomo sent this assortment of unrelated roommates was a bunch of mailers to the "(my last name) household"

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

as a former (way, way former) local/indy media reporter, I am dorkily psyched to watch @hellgatenyc.com do election night tonight. like, already have the link queued up and ready to go excited.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

With alt text and a note if this happens to you request an affidavit ballot

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: Florida is building a detention facility for migrants nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” in the Everglades designed to help the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. DHS will help pay for the detention facility with money from FEMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

I don't even start TAing until September and I've already misspelled "biogeography" as "biography" like three times, let's start a swear jar.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

lol what a farce

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments