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There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1073 comments

#AcademicSky As reported by a UCLA prof: the faculty senate at Rutgers took up the attached mutual defense resolution. Their unions (full time faculty, grad workers, post docs + adjunct faculty) voted to endorse it. Michigan & Northwestern looking into it too. senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 41 comments

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

RT if you will be able to look your kids and grandkids in the face and tell them you did everything you could to keep Americans free.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

A legend.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

If you are not watching @booker.senate.gov right now, drop everything and turn him on. History in the making.

submitted 2 days ago • 214 comments

BREAKING: Sen. Booker breaks record for longest Senate speech in history. WATCH LIVE NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Nf...

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

Absolutely horrible for museums and libraries. The arts continue to be decimated: bookriot.com/imls-gutted/

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

submitted 2 days ago • 372 comments

Nice people made the best Nazis. My mother spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves, chose not to focus on politics... They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. Naomi Shulman www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 1027 comments

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

submitted 3 days ago • 7456 comments

Are you READY?! 🤚 Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

the U.S. government is targeting legal noncitizen scholars, not on the basis of any wrongdoing, but as part of a larger assault against an educated public.

submitted 6 days ago • 110 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 7 days ago • 1334 comments

DOJ is ran by a woman who accepted a bribe from Trump org and worked for a lobbying firm that used a pay to play scheme to connect Turkish officials with Trump which led to the betrayal of the Kurds in exchange for illicit money (bribes). 💰

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

1st time protester here. Join me and thousands of others on April 5th. Now is the time to be visible and vocal.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

MAGA: An international terrorist ideology and movement sponsored by transnational oligarchs and hostile entities e.g. Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other satellite states. Trumpian: A member or follower of the regressive terrorist far-right MAGA ideology and movement. #3E #sec

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

Shot / Chaser. 🍁 Beware Pierre Poilievre. #cdnpoli #3E #EndImpunity

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments

Bidenomics worked. The media failed.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."

submitted 10 days ago • 302 comments

NSC is organizing and planning for war on SIGNAL?!! First: that’s very illegal. Second : thats very stupid. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Timeline cleanse 🌞

submitted 11 days ago • 2005 comments

Has any new drug saved your life or the life of someone you know? If so, you can thank the NIH, which Trump and Musk are illegally destroying, in violation both of the law creating the NIH, and appropriations laws telling NIH what money to spend and how

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

A North Carolina appeals court heard state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin's (R) bid to throw out 65k ballots and overturn the results of his losing election. “Now the right to vote is not absolute,” Griffin's lawyer said in court.

submitted 11 days ago • 116 comments

The right wing literally spent 50 years building a massive, successful propaganda apparatus across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable, and the Internet that fills the public's heads with pebbles and hatred 24/7 we can't selectively unpair electoral delusion from the long, successful attack on the press

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

Elon Musk has already poured $12+ million into an effort to shift control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to right-wing judicial activists. This is an unprecedented effort to seize control of a powerful state court. And it won’t be the last. Here’s the full story: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

Putin will ‘try to play’ Trump – says analyst Fiona Hill www.channel4.com/news/putin-w...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

The Trump admin says it's "currently evaluating whether to invoke the state secrets privilege" for answers to some questions about the immigrant flights a federal judge ordered them to produce, privately to him, by noon today. Here are the questions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

ICYMI: A federal judge blocked enforcement of President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. “We should all agree, however, that every person who has answered the call to serve deserves our gratitude and respect.”

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

Despite Massive Cuts to Higher Ed, We Faculty Are Thrilled about Our New Multi-Million-Dollar Football Coach www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/des...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“That’s it. Now that you understand that you can see how everything that's happening fits within that lens. Now the only question is what do we do about it?”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Judge Chuang: The Trump admin's "actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."

submitted 16 days ago • 81 comments

GOP lawmaker Justin Eichorn (R-MN) has been arrested on felony charges for soliciting sex from a teenage girl. He had previously spread claims that Democrats and LGBTQ people were trying to groom children.

submitted 16 days ago • 958 comments

Days after introducing a bill that would make “TDS” classified as a “Mental Illness”…Justin Eichorn arrested for Soliciting a Minor. You can’t make this shit up. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

The pardons are dictorial to begin with, but doing and undoing absolute decrees hardly seems like a viable system. Presidential immunity, pardons, executive orders, and unregulated control of JSOC all need to be removed from the presidential arsenal. Make presidents servants again. #EndImpunity

submitted 16 days ago • 99 comments

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing cancer with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are.

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

Brown skies and high winds in Oklahoma today. On days like this you can really see how the dust bowl happened.

submitted 20 days ago • 367 comments

Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

submitted 19 days ago • 251 comments

Today Trump has tainted the Great Hall at the Department of Justice with baseless lies of weaponization of law enforcement and Jan 6 “hostages.” This is a dark day in American history.

submitted 20 days ago • 98 comments