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Go vote Mississippi! Only a few hours left.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEWS: Trump is blocking nearly all asylum seekers — but is now funneling government cash into supporting an influx of white South Africans who want to emigrate now that apartheid is over. Details from a confidential government memo viewed by The Lever. www.levernews.com/trump-taps-r...

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

“The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families—sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.“ —Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

If you wondered whether PROOF was correct that Trump and Bukele are now in the international slave trade, here is breaking news revealing that Bukele wants to sell the 250 slaves Trump sold _him_ to Venezuela. Unreal. Vile. And a Crime Against Humanity.

submitted 53 days ago • 99 comments

here's what you can do to derail Schedule F and restore an independent civil service: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-tangible...

submitted 53 days ago • 38 comments

If gang affiliation is illegal, why isn't every Proud Boy and Klan member, and home grown Nazis sent to El Salvador?

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

“Off screen, Ralph is a passionate health advocate and honored AIDS activist. In 1990, she founded The DIVA Foundation, a national nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization, as a memorial and lifelong pledge to the many friends she has lost to HIV/AIDS.”

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 54 days ago • 923 comments

🧪⚛️🪐🔭🎢 #AcademicSky

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

What purpose does this serve except being horrible to children www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 55 days ago • 37 comments

Good tips if you're protesting today. Stay safe! 🇺🇸📣✊

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

In fiscal year 2024, Target CEO Brian Cornell received total compensation of $19,203,353. This included a base salary of $1.4 million, $14.7 million in stock awards, and $3.1 million in other compensation. This compensation was 719 times the median employee pay of $26,696.

submitted 54 days ago • 22 comments

We all know this doesn't "solve" the problem. But if nothing else, this shatters the assertion that all Democrats can do is to plead with Republicans since they are in the minority in Congress. It should be a reminder that we can, in fact, expect more from our elected leaders. Do. Something.

submitted 55 days ago • 19 comments

It's hard to explain to people outside this fight that Texas is currently trying to ban kids from using public libraries... but they are; it's passed out of committee, and it's going to a floor vote. 🚨If you know ANYONE in Texas it's time for them to call their reps and demand NO ON HB3225🚨

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

The goal is not removing one person from the country without cause or due process. The goal is creating a SYSTEM whereby anyone can be removed from the country without cause or due process. This is their test case and they know they'll probably only get one.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: In a landmark ruling, Michigan's supreme court has struck down mandatory life without parole sentences for youth up to age 21. What this means: Nearly 600 Michiganders who expected to die in prison will now get a shot at a different outcome. I took a few days to write about what's next:

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank. I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any). We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

submitted 54 days ago • 18 comments

Congrats to Royce! DEI is OVER and merit is BACK!

submitted 55 days ago • 27 comments

As we're about to hear a whole lot more about autism and vaccines, the great @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has already pointed out the only relevant relationship between the two. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

submitted 55 days ago • 107 comments

This is... so grotesque. Absolute anarchy.

submitted 55 days ago • 42 comments