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Union Square anti-Trump rally is on the move.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 7 days ago • 368 comments

haven’t spent money at target in about a month … which is a big deal for our household. 🤷🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Suddenly thinking about all the SpaceX rockets that have blown up, with Elon saying things like "we meant to do that, that's how we learn."

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

This. And holding as @profblmkelley.bsky.social noted, the federal workforce has a large amount of Black folks, one can see how the idea that "federal workforce is doing nothing and getting paid well to do so" is built on anti-blackness. Using racial capitalism allows our analysis to become sharper

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.

submitted 7 days ago • 145 comments

it’s the same as the USPS, as education, as healthcare, etc etc etc.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 8 days ago • 108 comments

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

i will be humming this all week: “Rut-tut-tuh-duh!”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Update: we were able to track down Yesenia, the mother picked up with her 2 kids in Tucson. After a night of interrogation at Border Patrol station, the Venezuelan mother of 4 was deported to Mexico. Her husband and two of her kids remain in US. azluminaria.org/2025/02/16/v...

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

we pulled the trigger & got a costco membership this morning. trying to cut target out of our shopping. it’s definitely never going to be the same shopping experience but it’s still worth it to us to cut ties to target.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

During the nazi regime, there was a common saying of "if only Hitler knew." The negative repercussions of his dictatorship were never his fault, and if he knew, he'd rectify it. People will build elaborate fantasies to protect their cognitive dissonance and act out in weird ways.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

This is the Great Deconstruction. They want to dismantle everything they think enabled the Obama coalition and America's impending multiracial majority. They're preparing for white minority rule. They even hired a white South African expert consultant...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Eric Adams’ law-breaking and shady alliance with Trump have destroyed his mayoral legacy. by Rudy Giuliani

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

If someone on national TV asked you "What has Trump done in the last 4 weeks that you find most concerning?" would you just say, "He hasn't lowered prices." Or is there anything else you might mention about the last month?

submitted 8 days ago • 126 comments

I appreciate summary, I really do. I summarize constantly. It’s one of the quintessential skills of thought and communication. But if someone reads a summary and assumes they fully understands the thing being summarized, I think they’ve fundamentally misunderstood the tool they’re using.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Organizers of nationwide protests planned for Monday, when the U.S. will mark Presidents' Day, appealed to those who oppose President Donald Trump and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk's agenda. www.commondreams.org/news/anti-tr...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not against going after waste in the government and the Pentagon is the biggest offender! Nearly $900 billion a year in spending and has never passed an audit. I wonder if Elon Musk will take on the Military Industrial Complex or if he’s scared he’ll lose all those Pentagon contracts?

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

An underappreciated danger in school voucher schemes is families may take on new debt—to private schools or other vendors—beyond what vouchers cover. HS degree grantors and for-profit microschools can hike tuition and all but force families to take out top-off loans to complete.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Being correct about all of this for years doesn't actually feel good.

submitted 16 days ago • 117 comments

If colleges comply with this letter by the Trump administration, all affinity orgs, affinity graduation ceremonies, and cultural centers funded by the schools could be forced to be shut down before the end of the month. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

Over the past week, russia sent at Ukraine 1,220 glide bombs, 40 missiles and more than 850 drones, including a couple against the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. If russia stops fighting, there will be no more war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine writing a sentence as tortured as this just to say “Nazis support other Nazis”

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

been working for 12 days straight. sooooo looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow & not worrying about work.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices. As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

all day every day

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

this thread right here is why i don’t use AI, ever.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Go off queen

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

FYI, coming up next week: a #SaveOurServices day of action led by unionized federal workers to reject the Musk coup, complete with rallies and social media action. More details at bit.ly/SOSaction, h/t @ericblanc.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

submitted 11 days ago • 135 comments

Appreciate their announcement. Usually they just lie.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

On this 13th day of #BlackHistoryMonth, I am sharing this resource about Assata Shakur I made with some comrades. On May 2, 2013, the FBI announced that it was increasing its bounty for the capture of Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron) from 1 million to 2 million dollars assatateachin.com

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

Damn the cowards at the NPS who implemented this, and damn the fascists who ordered them to do it

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

*education

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

When SDNY refused to drop the Eric Adams case, it was moved to the Public Integrity Section. The acting leader of the Public Integrity Section also refused to drop the case and resigned.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

It's basically this: Over the last 15 years, deeply alienated and lonely internet trolls, amplified by influencer grifters and algorithms trained to increase time on metrics by stewing division, convinced huge swathes of American men that every facet of modern life is feminine and, thus, bad.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance: Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 12 days ago • 247 comments