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I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

submitted 79 days ago • 118 comments

What accommodations can help neurodivergent individuals thrive in different environments? #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #tourette #tourettesyndrome #disorder #adhd #autism #audhd #ocd #dyslexia #asd #Dyspraxia

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 79 days ago • 503 comments

A bit of unsolicited advice: sometimes people feel drawn to apply their efforts in the spaces they are most activated. I encourage folks to consider focusing their actions on the spaces you are most skilled, most grounded, most intact.

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 80 days ago • 74 comments

For years now, groups like Oxfam have warned us about a small number of men accumulating more wealth than half the world’s population These men today are buying elections, backing fascists, and preparing to become trillionaires By not taxing them, we invited the unfolding disaster

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Support community reparations for Autistic People of Color through the Autistic People of Color Fund!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

submitted 160 days ago • 170 comments

This is GROTESQUE. If you aren't already boycotting Elsevier, you need to be.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

this is literally it. If rule of law no longer exist The only redress of grievance is through direct kinetic contact . a modern Civil War, which I would argue we are already in and have been for a number of years is not defined violence until the coercion /misinformation breaks down.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

To be clear: Teen Vogue has been putting out excellent political content since 2016. They just don't get the recognition they deserve because of their readership demographics.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

This is a good action.

submitted 79 days ago • 45 comments

You can say this doesn’t matter because billionaires view normal people as instruments for their will but keep in mind we’re talking about a guy who cried after being booed at a Dave Chappelle stand up set

submitted 79 days ago • 48 comments

The people who rise to lead now will be the leaders. And the people who do not never will.

submitted 79 days ago • 53 comments

For way too many liberals and centrists (especially white people), Gaza is just an abstract political issue, a cudgel for them to beat all their ideological enemies over the head with: those blue haired lefties, the students who protested, those nasty people of color and their qualms about genocide

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

This is Xiomara, she recently had a solid organ transplant and so is even more medically complex than when this was taken She's alive because of Medicaid, she goes to school bc of the US Dept of Ed She yells "HI MATT" when she sees me. Anyone trying to dissuade me from the fight just gets blocked

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

submitted 81 days ago • 53 comments

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

submitted 82 days ago • 959 comments

This is a necessary read from On Tyranny's Timothy Snyder.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Remembering for no reason that what broke phil connors out of his nightmare loop of death and grinding, soul crushingly banal repetition was working to become a person who cared very deeply about and very carefully for the people around him. Just a thought, now that it's Groundhog Day. Again.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

So far we've almost managed to self host Ghost. Harder than I anticipated - I'm not the tech brain of this operation. I'm going to see if we can share accounts of what we did, so others can disconnect from the bigger platforms

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Chat is it bad when Germans starts sending you condolences re: your fascist dictstorship

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

submitted 86 days ago • 334 comments

If I ask my 8yo to do anything she doesn't want to do, she says 'No thanks mate, I'm making nachos' in an Australian accent (almost certainly a Bluey quote). And I hereby give you permission to do the same in your everyday life.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

It’s only been a week and pretty much every cis, het, white, nondisabled person I know has continued to do nothing but occasionally hem and haw over how bad this is for THEIR mental health. YOU are the neighbors who said nothing as their friends and family were hauled away to the railcars.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

submitted 87 days ago • 145 comments

I hope this isn’t an unpopular opinion, but more & more MAGA folks are being impacted by Trump’s policies & cuts Many are confused & scared This is a small window of opportunity to help them see they were lied to. Taken in by hate Will it change things? I don’t know. But it may be worth trying

submitted 86 days ago • 25 comments

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

submitted 86 days ago • 227 comments

“Why isn’t everyone protesting??” My friends, a huge number of your best resistance members have been disabled by an unmitigated pandemic in the last 5 years. Huge amounts of people have died. Others of us won’t risk big crowds. They’ve weakened the base so takeover is easier.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

I've said it before but whether you knew you were a girl from your very first memory or you decided last week that you're going to give this woman thing a try because it seems cool, you're my sister and you deserve to have your rights fought for and protected

submitted 88 days ago • 34 comments

our sector is in CRISIS and the government is just happy to fiddle while Rome burns! we have (but shortly, HAD) one of the most impressive HE sectors in the world and that is falling apart in front of our eyes. you want bloody soft power? sort out the universities you TWITS

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Attacking trans people isn't a distraction that fascists are using to hide what they are up to, transphobia is a core part of their ideology and enforcing patriarchy is an important step in creating the world they want

submitted 87 days ago • 25 comments

The Water (Special Measures) Bill has passed the Commons (it already had passed the Lords). It will become law upon recieving Royal Assent. Key measures include: - ability to block bonuses - imposes automatic & severe fines - criminal charges against bosses - independent monitoring of all outlets

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Still locked down 🙋🏼‍♀️

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

Please shop Black owned businesses.

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

I can count the women I know who have not experienced sexual abuse far more easily than I can count the ones who have.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

I just put on Yes Man with Jim Carrey, a feel-good movie to watch with the family. DH says, "What's it about?" Teen says, "He says yes to everything, but it's 2008, so it's all nice outcomes. If you did that now in 2025, you'd be dead" 😭🤣

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

“COVID-19 infections weaken our immune systems. This makes us more prone to reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, infections with other viruses (e.g. RSV), reactivation of dormant viral infections (e.g. shingles, Herpes-Zoster virus), bacterial infections (Group A strep,TB) and even rare fungal infections.”

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

So many of the trans-exclusionary women carrying water for the far right under the auspices of a false feminism materially & explicitly contributed to this project. They LOVED defining a woman by her possession of a uterus. Which by their definition means post-emergency hysterectomy, I'm not one.

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9% This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic.

submitted 89 days ago • 74 comments