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WATCH: @krystalball.bsky.social explains Trump’s strategic crypto reserve heist — billions into the pockets of his rich buddies at the expense of the American taxpayer. “it’s just theft” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGuPMOh...

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

I understand cults of personality. But THAT personality? THAT GUY?!? In centuries of “strong men”, Trump is a soiled Kleenex of a person. An unwashed foreskin given sentience. A flatulence choir. He wants your degradation, and so many men just give it and give it.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

There's a weird sad vindication Ohioans are feeling rn. This is the JD Vance we know. He has no soul so all he can do is copypasta the worst traits of the loudest meanest person in the room (the only person in the room he admires). And this is the result.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 1644 comments

“Internet celebrity” is a wild way of spelling sex predator and human trafficker

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Zelenskyy is the man all these sycophants wish they could be. The WH administration is a disgrace.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Couldn’t agree more. This is how the Tea Party transformed the Republican Party back in 2009: they kept confronting reps and Senators all across the country until it snowballed into a major media issue. Scientists all across the country: do this! Students, fellows, PIs, you all can do this.🧪

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

So this week I was in SF. Visited the Presidio and saw there was an exhibit on Japanese Exclusion at the Officers' Club, so we went in. My teen has been learning about Fred Korematsu in civics, and I want him to understand this history. The exhibit was powerful. But--

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 7 days ago • 220 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 8 days ago • 2233 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 8 days ago • 2872 comments

The TN Ed Report on Trump’s ed agenda: “While putting the Smackdown on the Dept of Education and advancing a school privatization scheme are both devastating, Trump is not content to stop there… Tennessee is no stranger to this march toward theocracy.” open.substack.com/pub/theeduca...

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

The way she spoke to him was like an adult to a misbehaving child and I think that works?

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Gonna need more non-disabled people to see stuff like this and understand that ableism is also one of the integral -isms the right is devoted to, so it should be jettisoned whenever and in whomever you encounter it

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Hunter Schafer announced in an 8+ min video that her new passport misgenders her, presumably because of Trump's announcement that the US govt only recognize gender as assigned at birth. she (rightly) connects it to fascist history, like Nazis burning the Institute of Sexology in 1933 @teenvogue.com

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

the meanest and nastiest part of these layoffs is they aren’t even saying “sorry guys, this isn’t personal, it’s just about budget cuts.” they’re going out of their way to make them firings, not layoffs, and telling you it’s your own fault

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

And a third piece today: The NYT Style section declared this the year in which "medieval" was in. @profgabriele.com and I talk at @slate.bsky.social about what we think that means. More peasant revolt. Less King Arthur. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Election security is national security. And in its crusade against federal agencies, the Trump administration is gutting parts of the government that help protect against cyberattacks, combat foreign interference, and regulate campaign finance in federal elections.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

The only reason the GOP is ‘panicking privately’ is because their constituents are yelling publicly. Otherwise they wouldn’t care. That means our organizing, our phone calls, our rallies, and our protests are working. Don’t let up on these cowards for one second. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 10 days ago • 793 comments

504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

If there were ever a time to talk about America and kings, it’s NOW. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

He will burn down whatever he can, however he can Our systems of governance, rule of law, global alliances, even the Constitution. Consumed by vengeance and greed, he is the greatest threat to our Republic since its founding. We must meet this moment with the force of a thousand suns. Or perish.

submitted 11 days ago • 703 comments

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

submitted 12 days ago • 171 comments

Never heard of ASPR? It’s the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response. For health emergencies. Like natural disasters or infectious disease outbreaks. You may not know or think much about ASPR on the regs, but you’ll notice when it’s not there for the next health emergency.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Keep those phone calls coming! You are making a difference! So many of trump’s gambits at destroying our infrastructure are STOPPED because of “outcry”. Outcry? That’s you, calling them.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now: - H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled - TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak - Measles in Texas - Expanding - Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years - Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

submitted 16 days ago • 93 comments

Stand with science. Always.

submitted 16 days ago • 519 comments

Any short-term savings from the funding freeze, one federal firefighter said, are likely to be eclipsed by the vast resources needed to combat even larger wildfires.

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

Kinda hard not to think they're... chopping up the country and stripping it of all its protections in order to serve us up to something, someone worse. They're just putting the country's neck not just under the boot, but the blade.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

Law Dork on Tuesday: “Trump is a salesman, as is Musk, and they are both trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.” www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

👇🏽

submitted 16 days ago • 89 comments

If you're in NYC, please go. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 793 comments

Attacking CPFB just so happens to clear the way for X payments www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

Daily reminder: social security is OUR money. We paid into it. There is a $2.5 trillion SURPLUS. Hands off Social Security, Republicans!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 18 days ago • 1150 comments

“Barring AP journalists... because of the news agency’s editorial decisions is an affront to the First Amendment and a free press,” said PEN America's Tim Richardson. “It is retribution, plain & simple, & a shameful attempt to bully the press into ideological compliance.” (gift link) wapo.st/4jRK2VQ

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Not "unexpectedly". Everyone who was paying attention was saying this would happen with Trump's tariffs. Economists predicted it. Everyone saw this coming but you, because you bent the knee in advance, @nytimes.com.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

Internal NIH guidance updated yesterday. Just canceling stuff each day from here on out I guess, pending new guidance. Killing science off both slowly and incredibly rapidly.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 18 days ago • 336 comments

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

submitted 18 days ago • 42 comments