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“[Trump] is making us afraid to stand up for our own rights because we’re then going to be sent to El Salvador"

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

There's a difference between performative outrage and passionate advocacy for human rights. Tony Bisignano delivers on the latter.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The “just asking questions” crowd are going to hate when they hear what the scientific method is

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Analyzing data published on DOGE's own website, the Associated Press found that 40 percent of DOGE's "savings" have not saved the government anything. What a joke.

submitted 76 days ago • 89 comments

This week’s episode is McCutcheon v. FEC, where the Court held that aggregate limits on campaign donations are simply a bridge too far.

submitted 76 days ago • 20 comments

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

submitted 76 days ago • 96 comments

BBC slammed for pulling film that 'humanised Palestinian children' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-slammed-pulling-film-humanised-palestinian-children

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 80 days ago • 83 comments

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a 50+ year master of Russian diplomacy, strategy, and spycraft. Rubio, a politician. Had virtually no diplomatic training or experience. Cat, meet mouse.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

i cannot stress enough that at the very least everyone in leadership needs to go. all of them. probably most electeds over 70 too. primary them all. while we're at it can we just drop the entirety of the ny dem party on a deserted island

submitted 89 days ago • 86 comments

What are Oregon Republican activists talking about in their Facebook groups on a Friday night, you might ask. Trump’s tariffs? Egg prices? Tax policy? Would you believe me if I said “The need for the FBI to look into Barack Obama’s birth certificate?”

submitted 93 days ago • 57 comments

"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later. signed, a former union steward.

submitted 95 days ago • 42 comments

Y'all are probably like, "why is he talking about the WI Supreme Court??" Because the world's most insufferable Nazi is weighing in on it and so is one of the far-right's best "get out the vote" people. Some background🧵 The '23 WI SC race was the most expensive judicial race in US history.

submitted 97 days ago • 16 comments

Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s). [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 98 days ago • 27 comments

i have a very bad feeling party leadership is looping back around to their favorite play when things go bad, asking the republicans nicely to solve the problem for them, and then maybe following up with sternly worded letters when they don’t

submitted 97 days ago • 11 comments

Yes. Former Treasury and OMB officials explained to me in detail what sort of power Elon Musk has now been granted. They described it as akin to having his hands on a series of spigots that he can now turn on and off: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

submitted 99 days ago • 89 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 101 days ago • 496 comments

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

submitted 101 days ago • 253 comments

Man I wonder what they're gonna do with all the people theyre arresting to meet their quotas if other countries don't take them. might have to concentrate them all in some area, maybe a camp of some kind

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

This is my personal version of hell. Just so dystopian I can barely process it.

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

submitted 121 days ago • 2271 comments

The things we are forced to manage through Gofundme as a human race are absurd — feeding people through a genocide as our taxes go to kill them, housing people through a fire as not enough of our taxes go to save them. All in the world’s richest country.

submitted 121 days ago • 4 comments

A former member of the Salem (Oregon) city council has started a new podcast on local politics that's really good. This episode, for example, does a deep dive into who funds the right wing Marion County Commissioners, landfills vs. trash incinerators, etc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

submitted 121 days ago • 13 comments

Hey @democrats.org there’s hope fam

submitted 124 days ago • 50 comments

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

submitted 123 days ago • 329 comments

Yeah John Fetterman going on Fox News and causally equating an arrest with “committing a crime” as if they’re interchangeable certainly portends a very bad next four years

submitted 124 days ago • 19 comments

Reminder that for the US welfare state, the point is not to relieve poverty but to best manage the specter of destitution as a means of disciplining the bottom rung of labor. Countless academics point out it's cheaper to simply house people but for the super rich, in the long run, it absolutely isnt

submitted 130 days ago • 28 comments

This is quite a report about Rep. Kay Granger, whose last vote was six months, ago, found to be living in memory care. The Dallas Express seems to have nailed it, despite no official confirmation from the congresswoman or her staff. dallasexpress.com/tarrant/excl...

submitted 142 days ago • 89 comments

A lot of people are freaking out about this but bird flu still doesn't appear to be spreading person-to-person. All of the human cases have had direct, prolonged exposure to animals. It's worth keeping an eye on, but it's not inevitably becoming the next pandemic.

submitted 145 days ago • 46 comments

There's so much angst and despair radiating all around us. This is wholly understandable, but if something's giving you warmth or strength (even just a bit), be sure to uplift that as well. Help others remember that kindness, solidarity, and care are still at work in the world.

submitted 146 days ago • 51 comments

New Law Requires SNAP Recipients To Balance Food On Nose Until Receiving Command To Eat It theonion.com/new-law-requ...

submitted 150 days ago • 229 comments

"Almost all the children (96%) felt their death was imminent, and 49% actually wished to die, a feeling that was much more prevalent among boys (72%) than girls (26%)" www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 151 days ago • 4 comments

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

submitted 152 days ago • 2120 comments

I just did a long thread about “confronting fascism” or something but deleted it. Here’s what’s important: 3-part virtual series on deportation defense. Anyone can sign up, you don’t have to be a lawyer. Mijente is on ig and x @conmijente. More info and RSVP here: bit.ly/skillupcrewup

submitted 153 days ago • 4 comments

Pope Francis is subtweeting Joe Biden, lol.

submitted 154 days ago • 14 comments

I did not know this many kids get married, jesus christ

submitted 157 days ago • 34 comments

I also promise to stop drinking if I am put in charge of the military

submitted 158 days ago • 91 comments

Drove through a small town in IA last weekend + overheard people saying they wouldn’t meet at a nearby town bc it has too many cops, and that all the cops were now sheriffs, AND that they’re all cowboy sheriffs in the state of Iowa. Not sure if that just means a cowboy had uniform or… something else

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. would not make a good secretary of anything what the fuck is wrong with you www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 160 days ago • 101 comments

"Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation claims Col. Moshe Tetro implemented policy of starvation as head of COGAT in Gaza"

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

will is 100% correct here and what i’ve been so frustrated about.

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment