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NYC to CNY (with a brief stop in NC) and making a new life.
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protests can't magically defeat fascism, but massive displays of resistance unsettle the worst people and make good people everywhere feel like they're not alone. 1

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

I guess Stephen Miller ordered the invasion of CA while Trump was out partying!

submitted 17 days ago • 95 comments

You can’t trust a news agency that doesn’t have its reporters’ backs. You have to assume they’re meddling with coverage of the admin in other ways. ABC is toast.

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

June 7, 2025 What I have been quietly working on for a year:

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

submitted 20 days ago • 294 comments

This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is: 🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation 🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation 🔴 massacring civilians 🔴 making declarations of genocide A thread:

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

Donald Trump to NC Republicans: drop dead www.newsweek.com/trump-denies...

submitted 74 days ago • 24 comments

Yeah. It's been wet...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“The MAGA right’s approach can best be described as ‘pro-Israel antisemitism’; a simultaneous embrace of the Jewish state and attack on American Jews’ place in American life.” 5/19/25 (1) www.vox.com/on-the-right...

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

Yesterday, as Congress weighed cuts to Medicaid and food assistance, our interfaith coalition was present—to say healthcare is sacred and human dignity is non-negotiable. This is what faithful advocacy looks like. 📸 Haiyun Jiang and Eric Lee | NYT

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

submitted 44 days ago • 161 comments

To all kindes of mothirs and all manners of motheringe, and moost especiallye to all people who reade to children when thei are younge, for hours, daye aftir daye. Thys ys the worke of hope and dreames, as beautiful as rainbowe and as powerful as all-consuminge storme.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

As the Met Gala approaches, I want to remind people that the Gala is the primary source of funding for the Met’s Costume Institute. The Costume Institute, despite being a major draw for the museum, is not funded from the same big kitty due to misogyny (fashion is for girls).

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

This is important. It's not just people believing antivax lies. It's also health departments without funding to provide and promote vaccines, and parents who want them and can't get them for their kids. Don't just blame the victim's parents.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Really wild situation in the House. Johnson lost a vote attacking expectant and new mothers in his workplace, and is so whiny about it he shut down the whole chamber for a week.

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submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

#USAID workers reaffirm their oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic as they retrieve their belongings for the last time. #USAIDForever

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Lawyers, guns, and money. Thread

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments