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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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If you're looking for details for your calls, House Dems produced this tool where you can how many people in your district are at risk of losing jobs, health care, and food on the table from the House GOP budget. "For the sake of the X people in CA-54 who will lose their Medicaid, please vote no."

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So let me get this straight. They want to defund Medicaid, halt NIH grants, pause vaccine research and expect us to believe that killing Americans isn't their agenda?

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Ugh this handbasket has like no leg room

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

OMG

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somehow its possible to feel really lethargic and sad but also gripped with a panicky terror like something awful is about to happen at any second. the human animal is truly amazing

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Canada. One of our closest allies. And yes, they absolutely need to take immediate steps to protect themselves and their country from the US. This is all kinds of messed up

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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RED STATES: Remember this when you’re on your own… Trump said: “If it was up to me … I’d end (FEMA) right now.” He wants your state to handle disasters alone—no federal help.

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I lowkey think that Dems are so bad at persuasion because they’re all tied up with truth and factchecking instead of doing some good, god’s honest propaganda.

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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 30 days ago • 132 comments

Philly celebrates differently than the rest of us 😂

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every present sorrow seemeth chief

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Let's talk about some of the reporting on the ICE raids that took place in Denver/Aurora yesterday. There are clearly some inaccuracies circulating online right now Let's start with this one It's categorically not true. (this aired this morning on @FoxNews) 1/

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I’m a Chiefs fan and still find this so funny

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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

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Orwellian, if Orwell were really stupid insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

submitted 27 days ago • 67 comments

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

Oh, that’s bad.

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The NTSB will from now on issue notification and updates on news conferences exclusively through the Elon Musk owned X platform. They will no longer email notifications to the press or issue notifications via NON Musk platforms. In case you wanted to know how the fascism was going.

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I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

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Yes!

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Let's be clear about what happened today: Donald Trump tried to cut a giant chunk of government funding — hurting preschoolers, seniors, and veterans. Trump's illegal shutdown is blocked for now — but don't forget that he tried to cut programs supporting working families.

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The State Department suspended all applications for passport gender changes in response to President Trump's executive order restricting transgender rights. We know this has caused confusion. We're monitoring the situation closely — here are 2 important things to know.

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Oh this is adorable: skyspace.me/index.html?b... #skyspace

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This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

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In case you missed it: 2024 was the world's warmest year since @noaa.gov records began in 1850. Global surface temperature was 2.32°F (1.29°C) above the 20th-century average. The 10 warmest years since 1850 have all occurred in the past decade.

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In his inauguration speech Trump announced his fascist anti-immigrant raids and mass deportation attempts. We are not helpless. Here are 7 action items you can start to take now to help protect our immigrant neighbors: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...

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I can get behind this sentiment 100%. I don’t have art to offer, but do have this beautiful view from a year ago…

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We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

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Trump, less than two years ago:

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Biden: The ERA is now an official amendment Everyone: Lol whatever you can't do that Trump: The law banning TikTok is invalid Everyone: Well, I guess he said so so we can't do anything

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Don’t forget who started this all off. (H/T to whoever created this collage… I found it w/o attribution…)

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This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1887. Pinkerton detectives killed a fourteen year old boy in Jersey City, New Jersey during a coal wharves strike. Let's talk about the murderous law enforcement agency and the capitalists who loved it.

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wrote a farewell to my, our, beloved David Lynch: about getting "fix your hearts or die" tattooed, the legions of queer and trans art his work has since enabled, and losing his genius in part to the ecological decline caused by the human hubris his work obsessed over. @them.us

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Going forward, many people are going to tell you that you are required to respect them or listen to them or agree with them or be nice to them because some politician or intellectual or billionaire said so, and I am here to preemptively remind you that you are still free to tell them to fuck off. 😘

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