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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

submitted 24 days ago • 232 comments

Hunting mushrooms in a snowy forest, with special guest: my dog

submitted 24 days ago • 193 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

So Trump hurt America's relationship with Canada and made markets wobble all to "get" Canada to do things Canada had announced back in December in coordination with the Biden administration, do I have that right?

submitted 35 days ago • 389 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

submitted 37 days ago • 83 comments

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." FDR 1938

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 42 days ago • 230 comments

This got a substantial response, so I expanded on it here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/stop-respe...

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

It's ridiculous. The GOP relentlessly repeats falsehoods, the historians and political scientists say that's how propaganda works, and the Dem response is to be mad that somebody with 300 followers named ACABussygalore isn't fully aligned with a carefully-crafted press release no one read.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

"Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States. "On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP." uk.news.yahoo.com/brazil-slams...

submitted 43 days ago • 80 comments

Corruption, cynicism, capitulation, and, ultimately, collaboration. www.unpopularfront.news/p/welcome-to...

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 47 days ago • 609 comments

New: Democrats are breaking up with the left on immigration—but not on abortion Dozens of Dems voted for the Laken Riley Act over progressive objections. But Senate Dems unanimously and unabashedly killed a GOP abortion bill. The reason, in one image: www.nbcnews.com/politics/dem...

submitted 47 days ago • 15 comments

The Snitch State: inform on your colleagues if they think of hiring people who aren’t white

submitted 47 days ago • 103 comments

@nickkristof.bsky.social: On his very first day in office, Trump made America weaker and more vulnerable -- by pulling us out of the WHO, pardoning domestic terrorists, and breathing new life into TikTok www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

submitted 47 days ago • 13 comments

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights

submitted 47 days ago • 50 comments

Here are the Top 10 Dogs of the YEAR! youtu.be/W2Lgc-rALEE?...

submitted 70 days ago • 49 comments

The Dogs of 2024 youtu.be/yKcQScxYdYM?...

submitted 69 days ago • 82 comments

Ben Wikler is a progressive who knows how to win elections with a Democratic Party that’s on the side of the little guy.

submitted 98 days ago • 198 comments

Photo of all the workers who have spent the last five years restoring the Notre Dame Cathedral.

submitted 99 days ago • 68 comments

Did you know the county jail in Flint, Michigan, does more than basically any other in the U.S. to promote voting, and civic engagement generally, for incarcerated people? I traveled there to learn more, and found a very complicated story. New for @bolts.bsky.social: boltsmag.org/flint-michig...

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

Day 5 of Georgia protests. Much focus has been on Tbilisi, where 200,000 have been gathering in recent days. However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country. (🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

www.axios.com/2024/12/02/j... Excellent. Raskin is a fighter. We need this type of energy.

submitted 98 days ago • 83 comments

John Ganz in The Nation argues the post-election Dem Party must do more than consider new media strategies. It needs to figure out what/who it is for. Great line about Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown's loss: "The car dealers have replaced the New Dealers." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment