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Based on his social media profile, the man who allegedly murdered the United Healthcare CEO is an Ivy leaguer and fan of Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel and other right-leaning personalties. He also attended a $40,000 per year prep school. Guessing he could afford insurance…

submitted 163 days ago • 249 comments

We found concerning levels of formaldehyde in furniture stores, inside a nail salon, in cars and at a dinner party. How High Are Formaldehyde Levels in Your Home? We Tested It. @tophersanders.bsky.social

submitted 163 days ago • 6 comments

Biden: I thought it was really important for the President of the United States to stand up and right a wrong that had been ignored for a long time.. we're not about erasing history but recognizing history, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

submitted 163 days ago • 38 comments

Really weird to hear this said when I live and teach in Texas where is it STATE LAW to force K-12 to recite the U.S. Pledge and Texas State Pledge to the flag every frickin day and as @kevinmkruse.bsky.social said, say this while in front of flags #history #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians

submitted 163 days ago • 25 comments

“Birthright citizenship” isn’t, and shouldn’t be discussed as, a special thing for children of noncitizens. My family’s been here for centuries. I have no claim to citizenship and no documentary basis for it other than because I was born here and the 14th Amendment applies to me same as anyone else.

submitted 164 days ago • 67 comments

Remember, with all this talk about removing the 14th Amendment because of birthright citizenship, it's the same amendment addressing insurrection and public office. Mighty convenient for those same insurrectionists stirring up hate. #14thamendment #fourteentheamendment #insurrection

submitted 163 days ago • 6 comments

When Trump hawked a bunch of Trump-branded merchandise ahead of Election Day, it was bizarre but understandable: He was facing a cash-crunch and wasn't sure if he'd win. The fact that he's still doing the same thing during the transition is even weirder. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 163 days ago • 130 comments

Thinking more and more that this may be the most important story of the year -- a denial of service attack on democracy funded by the wealthiest man alive.

submitted 163 days ago • 31 comments

The truth about Kash Patel is just as unsettling as that stare: he is an extreme conspiracy theorist who has made a career out of lying, cheating and scamming. It's no wonder why Trump picked him, but there could not be a worse man for the job of FBI director.

submitted 163 days ago • 142 comments

Trump thinks that elections aren't already based exclusively on the Electoral College. It's the dementia.

submitted 163 days ago • 507 comments

Someone needs his diaper changed.

submitted 163 days ago • 3605 comments

#Syria now faces a huge challenge: putting back together a country divided by 13 years of civil war and a half-century of brutal dictatorship. The rebels are themselves significantly divided. Here's the background you need on the key players in the transition: https://buff.ly/4g1TnYY #News

submitted 164 days ago • 5 comments

Highly skilled firefighters are the last line of defense against wildfires, but that line is fraying because the government decided long ago that they’re not worth very much. (Published March 2024)

submitted 164 days ago • 33 comments

Syrians around the world celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad regime – video

submitted 164 days ago • 20 comments

Good message for Republican Senators afraid of Trump and caving to him and his base which is constantly threatening them. One day Mullin was warning Matt Gaetz was a drug addled sexual predator. The next day he backed him for Attorney General.

submitted 164 days ago • 100 comments

Today I am thinking about American journalist Marie Colvin and French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik who risked their lives to tell the truth about the Assad regime. They were assassinated in Syria just for shining a light on peoples suffering during the civil war. Let us remember.

submitted 164 days ago • 18 comments

Like when girls and young women repeatedly complained about Trump walking through their dressing rooms while they were mostly naked because he owned the pageants?

submitted 164 days ago • 215 comments

Welker: You said you could end the war in 24 hours. Trump: I'm trying to. Welker: Have you talked to Putin? Trump: No Welker: You haven't talked to president Putin since you've been elected? Trump: I don't want to say that, but I haven't spoken him recently.

submitted 164 days ago • 140 comments

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...

submitted 164 days ago • 268 comments

Barack Obama at the Obama Foundation Democracy Forum: “Purity tests are not a recipe for long term success.”

submitted 166 days ago • 129 comments

"BREAKING: Donald Trump says he'd 'absolutely' consider taking the U.S. out of NATO. This reckless move would destabilize global security and empower authoritarian regimes.

submitted 164 days ago • 668 comments

Not only did Russia just lose Syria, they also had another 1460 casualties today, the equivalent in personnel to just over two battalions worth of soldiers.

submitted 164 days ago • 11 comments

If the past is any guide, even limited efforts to protect the public from formaldehyde are all but guaranteed to hit a dead end when Donald Trump takes office. “It will likely take years for the EPA to do anything on this,” one expert said. By @fastlerner.bsky.social & @shaw.al

submitted 164 days ago • 14 comments

I can't help but read this, the lack of immediate media outrage, and wonder if legacy media has given up or simply never cared. This is why I am expanding Democracy Docket as fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy voice. Sign-up for free. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 164 days ago • 332 comments

And there it is: Assad in Moscow. Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

submitted 164 days ago • 413 comments

Nearly every single Republican voted against releasing the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Remember this the next time they pretend to care about protecting minors.

submitted 165 days ago • 1637 comments

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 425 days ago • 987 comments

This story out of Montana is horrifying, outrage-inducing, and a reminder that @propublica.org may be the most important journalism organization in the country right now. Incredible work by @davidmcswane.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

submitted 165 days ago • 62 comments

If you're more upset with Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of peremptorily pardoning his own officials then you are about Trump appointing someone who’s promised to use the federal govt to exact personal retribution for Trump, then you need to think a little more critically.

submitted 166 days ago • 651 comments

My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

submitted 166 days ago • 227 comments

Crockett: He has talked about reparations for white folk, something that if black people start to mention reparations, everybody wants to lose their minds.

submitted 170 days ago • 230 comments

If, at some point in the future, Democracy Docket goes quiet or goes bankrupt, it will be because its subscribers and members have decided that it is no longer worth supporting. Until then, I can promise you, it will not obey and it will not back down. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 170 days ago • 59 comments

Your fight for truth is weakening the tyranny. #NAFO

submitted 171 days ago • 51 comments

BREAKING: President Biden officially pardons Hunter Biden

submitted 170 days ago • 1379 comments

Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋

submitted 170 days ago • 2492 comments

I know I should quit eating Thanksgiving leftovers… But I can't quit cold turkey.

submitted 172 days ago • 655 comments

Forgive me if this is petty but the next account I’d like to surpass here on Bluesky is CNN. They helped normalize Trump at every turn and did nothing to help tell the truth about Kamala. Time to show them what we think. Can you RT this and follow us if you haven’t. 💙🙏

submitted 172 days ago • 545 comments

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submitted 172 days ago • 7 comments

Well played. And frighteningly accurate.

submitted 173 days ago • 1590 comments

This is getting worse quickly, too. At the end of August I had identified 3,495 accounts that X was withholding in Turkey at the request of the government. Today that number is 3,826:

submitted 172 days ago • 15 comments

For every one worried about the future, I’m want to share a series of action items we can take so that our fears become productive. The amazing Earthjustice is the first one… actl.ink/ejlm youtu.be/D1MYZ6RUjMQ?...

submitted 172 days ago • 30 comments

"The conflicts of Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon all come together and overlap in Aleppo.” @yarotrof.bsky.social describes a turning point www.wsj.com/world/middle...

submitted 172 days ago • 23 comments

Fellas, I don’t post here a lot but you should absolutely know this // help me spread the word! Violent crackdowns are happening in Tbilisi, Georgia. We are fighting for our lives here. Please, please, please help us spread the word.

submitted 172 days ago • 143 comments

It is part of Project 2025 as well. Authoritarians see everyone, the military included, as tools for their imperial-expansionist or domestic repression/population engineering schemes. If you are a vet, you are no longer of use to these plans.

submitted 172 days ago • 40 comments

In 2023, our team created an interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established — and could take away. Most rights are based in statute, but rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn. ⤵️

submitted 173 days ago • 108 comments

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

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submitted 173 days ago • 320 comments

I’ve noticed this, too. (Post by @mmpadellan.bsky.social)

submitted 172 days ago • 646 comments