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they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

submitted 7 hours ago • 141 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 9 hours ago • 230 comments

March today. Run tomorrow. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

A brief message of encouragement to the April 5th protesters

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Philly!!! #HandsOff

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Warren: "Congress has a chance right now to put a stop to this, but the Republicans in Congress have to be willing to stand up to Donald Trump and say, 'No, you don't get to break the American economy.'"

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I feel like it should be a bigger controversy that the US SecDef doesn’t think germs are real than the fact he doesn’t think national security/security clearance is real. But that is because I know that the #1 killer of military service members - far and away - has always been infectious diseases.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

They are trying to murder Rumeysa Ozturk. For writing a fucking op-ed.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 2 days ago • 224 comments

I think focusing on current law versus current policy is getting it wrong. The key takeaway is Republicans are breaking the rules of the Senate so they can pass giant tax cuts for the rich while taking away health care from the sick and food from the needy. www.americanprogress.org/article/sena...

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled the lawsuit of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D student detained for writing an op-ed, should proceed in Vermont — denying the Trump administration's motion to move the case to Louisiana. We will not stop fighting until Rümeysa is home.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

THIS is the type of action we have been waiting for!!!

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Excellent 🧵

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Thank you, @aclu.org! We scientists (and people who like the idea that one day we will have better treatments) appreciate your working to protect us from this illegal stranglehold

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SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

UVA professor Siva Vaidhyanathan makes the case for sticking by America—and fighting for it. "My family chose this country in the late twentieth century, so to abandon it when it is most in need would betray my father’s dreams and hopes. We love this country deeply because we chose it."

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

With ZERO media attention, on Saturday voters in Louisiana gave a stunning rebuke to the MAGA conservatism of Gov. Jeff Landry and his cruelty-is-the-point criminal justice. Voters lining up to stop America's right turn should terrify Team Trump. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Wasn't expecting Cory @booker.senate.gov blocking senate business with an actual in fact standing filibuster to protest what the fuck is going on but I'll take it. @ossoff.bsky.social @ossoff.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov &c can ask questions to work in breaks

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

If and when popular programs at local libraries are discontinued, will people realize it might be thanks to this action? www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 7 days ago • 277 comments

NEW: Internal staff email from Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch addressing Trump’s executive order. “As always, our work will be shaped by the best scholarship, free of partisanship, to help the American public better understand our nation’s history, challenges and trumphs.”

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

submitted 7 days ago • 378 comments

Hope 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Campus police surveilled, broke into the home of, and PULLED THEIR GUNS on a student for throwing paint on a statue? What the actual FUCK, @upenn.edu?!?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

It's simple. Everyone in the US enjoys the protections of the Constitution - even visitors. So if someone commits a crime here, you give them due process here. You charge them here, try them here, and sentence them here. You don't deport them to an offshore torture prison.

submitted 8 days ago • 893 comments

the Dunkin’ logo has never felt more accurate

submitted 8 days ago • 226 comments

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

submitted 108 days ago • 230 comments

Yes. I do not want to ever 'move on' again. Every time we turn the cheek, overlook the criminality, absolve the sins, they come back worse. I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity. Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again.

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

submitted 9 days ago • 363 comments

The temporary injunction issued by Judge Berman Jackson seeks to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a lawsuit filed by the agency's union proceeds.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Trump's executive order is a disgraceful attack on federal workers. This is an assault on the rights of public servants, including many veterans, who make sure Americans get the services they need like their Social Security benefits and tax refunds. www.npr.org/2025/03/28/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

every little bit of contribution to or normalization of fascism helps fascism. “i’m on substack because that’s where the network is.” every little bit helps! “i’m on x because that’s where my followers are.” every little bit helps!

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Every college and university president in the country needs to read this post one thousand times and internalize its meaning.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments