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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

submitted 10 hours ago • 226 comments

Hey when dealing with Nazi disinformation, remember that repeating it only cements it in people’s heads, even if you actively debunk it. RFK: antivax brainworm word salad! You: RFK is pro mass death. Don’t repeat any of their messaging even to prove it wrong.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 830 comments

So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings!

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

Hey folks if you got the most recent iOS update, it’s real simple to turn off Apple Intelligence (which has been toggled on by default in hopes you’ll just go with it) Right there in settings you have “Apple Intelligence & Siri” with a toggle just for AI Flip that switch babyyyy

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 12 days ago • 2372 comments

Reminder that while the “He Gets Us” ads pretend to be “inclusive”/care about everyone, up until 2024, the group that ran them (The Servant Foundation) donated over $60 million to an anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-LGBT rights conservative legal advocacy group (Alliance Defending Freedom).

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

submitted 14 days ago • 52 comments

Max Fisher: "Wielding the power of the state to intimidate news agencies against reporting on the government's illegal abuses of power is literal authoritarianism. I'm not speaking figuratively, I'm not calling it a warning sign. It's authoritarianism. It's here."

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

Excellent, insightful, and necessary words from Karen Attiah. I hadn’t heard about the Target BS and will now be boycotting them.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

Guys, really really really really start wearing masks again. With an information blackout, by the time we find out it’s jumped to human to human contact, it may be too late.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Trans rights are human rights, because if one person isn’t free to be who they are, then none of us are free. The fascists will get around to you eventually.

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

The thing that I’ve always found to be the most upsetting thing about trans bans in sports is how, because there are so few trans women athletes, this is the Federal government going up to the 34 trans athletes at the college level and saying “fuck you specifically”.

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

This is a good action.

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

Remember: if you ever think "the political situation I find myself in will one day make an award-winning movie", you are probably in danger.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Can Gritty primary Fetterman?

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

MASSIVE sale on my book THEY KNEW on Kindle -- now only $2.99! Get it while it lasts! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N...

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

"It is easy, when you do not care about your country, when you do not see people as fellow human beings but as kindling on which to pour your rhetorical kerosene, to talk about secession. You win no matter what because your color is not red or blue but green, the color of money."

submitted 21 days ago • 42 comments

what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 22 days ago • 232 comments

No need to make fun of RFK Jr’s voice when there are plenty of other things about him to criticize. Ableist put downs reflect poorly on the person using them & they hurt everyone else with the same disability www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I’m seeing people applauding RFK Jr for saying “yes” to Long Covid research. Please do NOT applaud this man. Yes it’s a good sign a Republican Senator asked about Covid. But RFK Jr is dangerous, his hires will be dangerous, this will not advance the cause of Long Covid

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 30 days ago • 2541 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 31 days ago • 610 comments

I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work. Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.

submitted 31 days ago • 21 comments

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people. It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

submitted 34 days ago • 138 comments

I wonder what it could be...

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

submitted 37 days ago • 353 comments

David Lynch’s death is a heartbreaking loss, but I think it’s important to remember he spent his last years unable to leave the house, because no one else took Covid precautions, and put him at terrible risk. Who are you harming with your refusal to care about others? variety.com/2024/film/ne...

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

It's wild how quickly the mainstream narrative swung from "climate change won't be a crisis in the US" to "Well of course you can't get homeowners insurance if you live in California or Florida. Everyone knows that!" You could have blinked and missed it.

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

submitted 50 days ago • 91 comments

Excellent thread!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model... fortune.com/article/mack...

submitted 54 days ago • 232 comments

Spending holidays in my gf’s hometown where nobody else masks. We were just in crowded grocery store and a stranger in a mask came up to us and said she was so happy to see us, that she feels like she stands out but her husband has cancer and she just can’t risk it 🧵 1/

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

it’s that time again

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submitted 64 days ago • 116 comments

It still astonishes me that more people in politics and our media pretend to be concerned about kids having missed school than kids having been killed or sickened by Covid.

submitted 67 days ago • 421 comments

Today’s poem is called ‘Tense Christmas’.

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown. The role of media ladies and gentlemen. #covid #covidcanada

submitted 69 days ago • 762 comments