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submitted 5 hours ago • 570 comments

The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

submitted 6 hours ago • 367 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 12 hours ago • 2329 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1872 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 535 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 3 days ago • 3450 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 3 days ago • 432 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 3 days ago • 515 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 4 days ago • 465 comments

🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1304 comments

American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.

submitted 6 days ago • 820 comments

Trump is illegitimate, Musk is a criminal, it's a coup d'état. #3E

submitted 6 days ago • 227 comments

In the last couple months, I’ve had to break some ties with people I once admired. Fascism is teaching me that I still have innocence to lose, and that the real heroes are scarce.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

submitted 22 days ago • 1111 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 293 comments

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit manuscripts for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

submitted 30 days ago • 148 comments

A letter from Rez. The fear in Indian Country USA is real. It’s not good when tribes are comparing Trump to the genocide era. No one should have to ask: “Will I need a passport to leave the reservation?” - an actual question tribal admin is dealing with now.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

They choose this. They choose this. They choose this. Melania. Usha. Ivanka. They are adults and they choose all this. They can leave at any moment, and every day they are still choosing this. They are not victims, they are henchwomen.

submitted 30 days ago • 233 comments

I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.

submitted 30 days ago • 21 comments

What could go wrong?

submitted 30 days ago • 195 comments

Good news for everyone outside of the US, they no longer have an actual secretary of defence. #Hegseth

submitted 30 days ago • 141 comments

I never, ever, EVER want to hear a single Republican ever talk about "meritocracy" again. That dog will never hunt again.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

ICE is raiding schools; Navajo are threatened with “deportation,” in the first hints of an ethnic cleansing campaign; the federal government is resegregating with snitch tags on everyone who resists; the NIH is frozen; private institutions are acquiescing rapidly… It is day 4.

submitted 30 days ago • 113 comments

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 30 days ago • 145 comments

There are so many stories like this in America right now. So much unnecessary suffering. As a longtime cancer survivor/fighter/haver, I know how scary and stressful it is to have your treatment delayed in ANY way. It’s fucking traumatic. Help this dude out if you can.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 30 days ago • 1357 comments

If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy. Or in prison. Not the Secretary of Defense.

submitted 30 days ago • 492 comments

The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.

submitted 30 days ago • 68 comments

I think it’s really important we identify the companies that are doing the right thing and reward them with our business.

submitted 31 days ago • 669 comments

Heartless. Cruel.

submitted 34 days ago • 1090 comments

American media: What could Elon Musk's hand gesture have meant? German media: We know exactly what the fuck that meant

submitted 34 days ago • 107 comments

Musk did a Nazi salute because he knows there are zero political consequences to him doing so, and he can harass and intimidate anyone who tries to call him out. Expect others to follow suit…there are going to be a lot of unacceptable words and behaviors that are going to become “normal” + defended

submitted 34 days ago • 215 comments

Never thought I’d live to see the ADL call a Nazi salute an “awkward gesture.” Looks like ADL’s been bought.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s pardon of Jan 6 attackers corrupts the rule of law and rewrites history. These were not “hostages.” These were people who used brute force to commit vigilante violence.

submitted 34 days ago • 185 comments

'Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of the Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of the 1975 murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota, moments before handing over power to Donald Trump on Monday.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

This is in public, in the middle of the day, and on camera. Imagine how high he gets at night in private.

submitted 34 days ago • 430 comments