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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

submitted 31 days ago • 119 comments

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards... (checks news) a sieg-heiling billionaire? 😬🤦🏻☄️

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

submitted 74 days ago • 77 comments

What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...

submitted 79 days ago • 49 comments

Several people incarcerated in Virginia’s Red Onion prison have intentionally burned themselves in protest against inhumane conditions including racial and physical abuse, medical neglect, excessive solitary, food covered in maggots, and dog attacks.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Thousands of people have viewed this list of some actions that folks can take now [that aren't voting or protesting]. Thousands of people won't take any of these actions but some will and that's great: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 83 days ago • 76 comments

A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...

submitted 84 days ago • 240 comments

“A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History” Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Hope is not a feeling... but a practice. - Rabbi Sharon Brous

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One reason physicians can’t just go rogue and disregard state laws banning abortion, as I keep seeing people suggest (or demand). Link in next post

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

submitted 90 days ago • 783 comments

ISO volunteers to hand out copies of Heather McGhee's "The Sum of Us" to pink clad crowds leaving screenings of "Wicked"...? (or I can just echo the calls to GO SEE THE FILM!)...

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submitted 91 days ago • 3829 comments

🔔 Fighting against deportations: "Building Rapid Response Network" webinar 🔔 12/4 @ 3-4:30pm ET Anti-deportation organizers will share best practices for building a rapid response network. Register: bit.ly/buildingrrn @detentionwatch.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @cosecha.bsky.social & GLAHR

submitted 93 days ago • 25 comments

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

submitted 95 days ago • 121 comments

Pablo Casals absolutely shreds in this recording of Beethoven's archduke trio. Like I can see him smashing his cello into expensive bits right after recording stops. Here for it. 😂

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta assume folks in other states are also calling on their reps to vote against HR9495, allows Treasury to cancel 501C3 status of NGOs deemed "dangerous" w/o due process. Like... a Rawlsian veil of advocacy? Kantian advocacy imperative?? 😂

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

This will be bad. Gonna probably give to AALDEF again. Will post more as I hear what other groups are planning to do to help those threatened. www.aaldef.org

submitted 97 days ago • 11 comments