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Happy International Women's Day! May every woman find their way into the room where their voice is most needed—whether that's a board room, a legislature, or a PTA meeting. When we stand up and speak our values, women change the world!

submitted 7 hours ago • 251 comments

this dude paid a billion dollars because he was mad that a lady didn't like his ideas

submitted 6 hours ago • 45 comments

The idea that the post should be “profitable” is exactly what’s wrong with this whole thing whether in Denmark or the US. Gov’t should be about delivering services and public goods, not profit. Otherwise, they’re corporations that make legislation…which is, well, both relevant & unacceptable.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Stand up. Show up. Is it going to be tough? Yes. Is the deck stacked? Yes. Can we still save lives and save rights? When it's raining too hard, do we say, "Well no point in bringing an umbrella"? No.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Fun fact about Trump tariffs you won’t see in 99% of the reporting: Trump tariffs are illegal. Congress controls tariffs just like tax rates. President can change a tariff only for national security emergency, meaning war.

submitted 4 days ago • 548 comments

Because people locally know I’m a trained herbalist they like to ask me about vaccines. My answer is always the same. We vaccinate at my house. All of us stay up to date. I can’t give you medical advice but I can tell you vaccines are a social good.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Saying there's nothing we can do, that any atrocity at all is inevitable, is complying in advance. As @prisonculture.bsky.social says, none of us actually knows what's going to happen. If you stop fighting because you expect to lose, you just gifted the fascists a win.

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 305 comments

The republicans are building the infrastructure of fascist repression and a brutal police state.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

submitted 9 days ago • 1189 comments

MAGA censors in Connecticut are furious that the state wants to have, like, standards for evaluating whether library books are age-appropriate, rather than the current favored method of chasing the librarians with pitchforks. ctmirror.org/2025/02/26/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 10 days ago • 444 comments

Or churches, organizations, community members…this doesn’t have to be about political parties. It can simply be about we, the people sharing together in the “town hall” setting.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing this nonsense coming is exactly why I cancelled my WaPo subscription after years and years once Bezos starting flexing editorial control.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We can still stop the GOP from destroying Medicaid But it's going to a national pushback that scares Republicans more than Trump. What you need to know about this fight that truly just began last night, informed by the awesome @bbkogan.bsky.social's monster thread.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

💜 Equity: A UU Shared Value 💜 From our Universalist roots declaring that every soul is held in love to our commitment to justice, UU calls us to build communities where all flourish with dignity. How are you making equity real in your life? Read more: bit.ly/uu-equity #UU #Equity #Inclusion

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Check out the February 24 edition of The Sweet Potato, our roundup of online UU Young Adult Ministries, Pastoral Care offerings, educational programs, job opportunities, support groups, media, Young Adult owned creative enterprises and more. icont.ac/50Ys6 💗

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Oh Statue of Liberty has been removed from USCIS logo. Not subtle! www.lexisnexis.com/community/in...

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

THIS IS FUCKED UP GILEAD SHIT!!! Call your lawmakers TODAY and say FUCK NO!!! 5calls.org fox2now.com/news/missour...

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

I’m teaching a course based in my research next week! It’ll have time for learning about public intimacy, reflecting on your own experience, and discussion with other people who do this work, too. Join us!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

this is such a great idea 👇👇👇

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

I’m teaching a course based in my research next week! It’ll have time for learning about public intimacy, reflecting on your own experience, and discussion with other people who do this work, too. Join us!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Montanans: Oppose Montana Senate Joint Resolution 15 Resolution on Obergefell that aims to overrule same-sex marriage participate.mtleg.gov

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 16 days ago • 858 comments

Hey Druids! /|\ Check out what the UUs are doing 🥳

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

🌱 Tiny Forests, Big Impact 🌱 Miyawaki Forests are transforming urban spaces, restoring ecosystems, and cooling cities. Thanks to Bio4Climate, co-led by UU Beck Mordini, these forests are taking root in the Northeast. 📖 Read more: tinyurl.com/tiny-forest. #UU #UnitarianUniveralist #ClimateChange

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

In case anyone missed it, we have reached the "arrest teachers and librarians" part of the fascism The books in question are largely LGBTQ+ literature and resources. Though any book with sex with it can be targeted. Or rather, the librarian can if a child reads it. This was Page 5 of Project 2025.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The message is clear. The Trump WH thinks democracy is a joke.

submitted 16 days ago • 239 comments

South Dakota is set to approve a law that would force anyone accessing a site with any "material harmful to minors" — including Bluesky, Twitter, Netflix — to present a government ID, scan their face or otherwise undergo state-mandated surveillance There are criminal penalties for non-compliance.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Wonder what Sen. Mike Lee and all the ‘constitutional conservatives’ and ‘limited government’ Republicans make of the GOP president calling himself a “king.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

submitted 17 days ago • 216 comments

27 GOP members of Congress are on the fence about the budget bc they know cuts to Medicaid will be disastrous for their states. If you have a GOP rep, call and email NOW and say what a terrible idea cutting Medicaid is + if they support it now, they lose your support in the midterms. 202-224-3121.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

For a brief and lucid explanation of the complexity of biological sex…see the comments from this judge. You don’t have to be a biologist to get it.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Sending you, @nicolepressley.bsky.social, deep deep thanks for your work and this most recent Side With Love email—my people are hungering for things to do grounded in faith. I will be glad to share the Action Center with them!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 19 days ago • 132 comments

Queerness exists in nature! Take it from an artist who illustrated hundreds of examples of it. From last year’s issue on love. https://orionmagazine.org/article/homosexuality-nature-animals-mating-biological-exhuberance/

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

So people get that Kennedy’s wellness camps for those with ADHD and addictions are concentration camps, right?

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 21 days ago • 909 comments

So, they are - illegally dismantling US govt, disabling Congress - burning our alliances, turning US into global pariah - reigniting inflation, exploding the deficit, unraveling US public health system - putting backdoors into Treasury This feels more like an attack on the US than a new government.

submitted 22 days ago • 296 comments

BBC’s Steve Rosenberg reports from Russia that JD Vance’s speech at the Munich conference “has gone down well in Moscow.” That alone should tell you everything you need to know about the speech and what the Trump administration really stands for.

submitted 21 days ago • 92 comments

What can you do? Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness. Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up. Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards. Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies. Resist. Stand with others.

submitted 23 days ago • 787 comments