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I believe in science. I believe in human rights. I believe history is important. I believe in knowing when to use an em dash and an en dash. I believe in the Oxford comma. And I believe that I like your dog and cat pictures.
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Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

submitted 4 days ago • 828 comments

Any other *consultants* making this many errors would have been kicked to the curb already.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

To my fellow American women, the Republican government is LITERALLY coming for your vote… youtu.be/nZocqZvcYn8

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

Two market meltdowns. One common denominator.

submitted 5 days ago • 871 comments

And there it is. Motherfuckers.

submitted 5 days ago • 903 comments

The flu epidemic in CA is killing more people than Covid. Wear a mask and stay out of crowded areas. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 14 days ago • 1329 comments

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

submitted 14 days ago • 706 comments

It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there

submitted 14 days ago • 1677 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 732 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 14 days ago • 2968 comments

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

submitted 13 days ago • 215 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

Stop the steal — President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are robbing the American people.

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

From the incredible team continuing to track the effect that abortion bans are having on women's health: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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This should terrify you

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Pete Buttigieg: “Even the greatest country, if it loses the rule of law, will not have much left.” REPOST if you stand with Pete Buttigieg!

submitted 27 days ago • 132 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

Another lie from the Musk-Trump regime

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

👇🏽

submitted 21 days ago • 329 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 21 days ago • 2044 comments

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 27 days ago • 3215 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 29 days ago • 159 comments

The Nazi Party was obsessed with controlling art, pushing ‘good old days’ nostalgia over modernism. They labeled modern art as ‘degenerate’ and promoted rigid, idealized images instead. Suppressing creativity was just another way they tried to control culture and thought.

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

I cannot stress this enough—get physical copies of the books, music, art, and movies that matter most to you. Digital libraries can vanish, licenses expire, and what’s available today might not be tomorrow. Preserve what you love before it slips out of the so-called golden age.

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 640 comments

Elon Musk was not elected to hold Office DOGE is not a Federal Task Force Trump is not a King Keep reposting this

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

Buried deep within Project 2025 is a proposal to completely gut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – a federal agency that helps protect the nation from cyber attacks and election threats. Here's what you should know.

submitted 29 days ago • 58 comments

Seeing "Stop The Thiel." Love it.

submitted 30 days ago • 212 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

Trump's nominee for Air Force Secretary, currently a top official at the national spy satellite agency, arranged a multibillion-dollar contract solicitation in a way that favored Elon Musk's SpaceX. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

'Cataclysmic': Experts say 'drastic change' by Trump's NIH will have 'devastating effect': A "drastic change" announced Friday by the primary federal agency responsible for biomedical and public health research shocked internet critics, with some calling it "cataclysmic." The National Institutes…

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

Mother jones actually broke this story. The Washington Post failed to mention that, and in fact, took credit for the scoop.

submitted 29 days ago • 320 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 30 days ago • 940 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 32 days ago • 127 comments

SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

submitted 29 days ago • 173 comments

🚨 This is sign that DOJ will not abide by the Attorney General Guidelines. Those exist *precisely* to determine the criteria that need to be met to open investigations, which involve information, allegations, or facts that indicate a VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW. Not “vibes” about ethics

submitted 30 days ago • 86 comments

Musk & the DOGE henchmen are now inside & gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. CFPB costs less than $1billion to run, but has returned over $20 billion to ordinary Americans who’ve been victims of big business fraud & illegal junk fees. A great day for corporate scammers.

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

NEW: Trial begins Monday in a years-long redistricting battle that will determine Black representation in Alabama’s congressional delegation through 2030. Here's what you need to know about this lawsuit.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

submitted 30 days ago • 253 comments

1. Unreal that they caved, paid the bribes, and still got burned by Trump. Absolutely shocking. 2. Corporate media is just different shades of the same thing—bought and controlled. Seek out independent journalists (not influencers) if you want real, unfiltered news.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Kamala Harris was not planning an ethnic cleansing to pave the way for golf course courses… Both sides were never the same.

submitted 31 days ago • 1094 comments

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

submitted 30 days ago • 719 comments

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 34 days ago • 616 comments

Marching orders from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.

submitted 39 days ago • 45 comments

@asreial.bsky.social There you are! Tag...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

submitted 52 days ago • 1081 comments