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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 197 comments

The only good use of AI I've seen this far: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rfLp...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 17 hours ago • 47 comments

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 5 hours ago • 248 comments

Found myself thinking today about this Twitter thread I wrote up in 2018 meditating on the possibility that the party of Lincoln & Douglass, the party that saved the union & refounded it on the principle of equality, might end up replacing the Constitution with white nationalist authoritarianism.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1075 comments

Waiting to hear from all the “Trump-Russia was a hoax” crew and somehow they’ve evaporated into nothingness

submitted 17 hours ago • 47 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1056 comments

Hey...look. It's all that awful stuff we were worried about...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

that Trumpers think the US Postal SERVICE should be a profit-making enterprise exposes the fallacy in their conception of government

submitted 22 hours ago • 933 comments

wait yall im not trying to be an alarmist but apparently the pilots are going on strike?!? some girl was already boarded plane for spirit and the plane was de boarded they were told pilots are striking…she said apparently the pilots are saying it’s worse then what we know👀

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

@garyseconomics.bsky.social went on Piers Morgan and had to listen to Dave Rubin launder Trump and Musk's lies while attempting to wake people up to the real problem we face: wealth inequality. Frustrating (because of Ruban and Morgan) but worth your time: m.youtube.com/watch?v=03ly...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1809 comments

X is blocking videos showing lawmakers critiquing Musk's DOGE boys because X IS A CENSORSHIP MACHINE

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I think the energy that can be harnessed right now if someone in a leadership position wants to step up and be a leader is extraordinary.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

FDA staff reviewing Elon Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Pretty embarrassing, America.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“We’ll see you in court.” Gov. Janet Mills is a badass for this.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

Well this isn’t ominous

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

There are so many evil and downright stupid people in this country who want all manner of terrible things to happen to others but I guarantee you there isn't one who wants to die in a plane crash because some juvenile billionaire thought it was epic and based to sabotage all of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

A lot of these people have done unforgivable things. Also holding an anti-Trump conference as Republicans takes bravery that I respect I know, I know, you don't have to hand it to them, but I'm handing it to them with both hands. Republicans who step out of line are getting credible death threats

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 1 day ago • 1070 comments

And who they didn't like

submitted 1 day ago • 482 comments

received a jar of honey from my neighbor's backyard beehive box in exchange for shoveling their sidewalk, which as I understand it is how the economy will mostly function in 6-7 months

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

I'd like to take a break from all of the awful political posting and skeet one of the best songs of all time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK1J...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I think it’s reasonable to assume that what the Trump regime is doing to Ukraine now is related to how they view, and will treat, states & cities they consider either enemies or not of use to them.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I would love to see the branding of this admin as free speech advocates die. They’re thin-skinned censorious egomaniacal losers who are blowing up the world bc they can’t handle criticism. We don’t have to accept their framing of anything.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Adults my whole life: When are you gonna grow up and get serious Adults right after I grow up: There shouldn't be a government

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments