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It’s not because colleges are “woke” in the right wing sense of that word, but because the majority of Americans who graduate from high school now attend some college. They want colleges white and restricted and inaccessible to most.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

New blog post is up! Some ideas of actions to take if it feels like the world is on fire and you don't know what to do www.unravelingprivilege.com/the-world-is... #blog #writing #journalism #activism #craftivism #resistance

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

TIL a new thing about Spanish Moss!

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

More Fabric Things! This Italian manuscript (Case MS 104) at #NewberryLibrary (from the 15th to 18th c.) has several patterns drawn or punched into its pages! The text at right even discusses the lengths of wool required for a bishop's "episcopal chair"... #ThingsInBooks 1/2 @mildakviz.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

This looks like a good idea. It turns out it wasn't initiated by HCR, so I've deleted her name from the image. I guess whoever thought it up is shy. I plan to do this, even though I can't spend any money anyway until I feel that my Social Security is safe.

submitted 7 hours ago • 31 comments

If you live in or around Kelseyville, CA, and you want Mike Thompson to know how you feel and what’s going through your head, see if you can attend his office hours on Thursday! This is absolutely incredible and now on top of asking for town halls I think we need to ask for this too from every rep!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Union told us flatout not to reply. Anything that requires a response will come down through the chain of command.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

This has been an ongoing project and yet we’re still told to wait for the real trouble where everyone will see a Rubicon being crossed.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

I didn't know what the egg industry in Canada is doing but I do know that a dozen of the commodity eggs here are $4.65. The free range organic ones we buy are around $9.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

And criminals. 90% of handguns used in crimes in Canada come from the US

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

'Neko/Cat' - Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1841. #Caturday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, post a skeleton 🎨Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1844.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

March 4th For Democracy!! 🚨 Get more info, resources, or find a protest: fiftyfifty.one (check back next week for protest listings). 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social FAQs + talking points + other ways to act next. 🪡🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Innaresting: www.ucc.org/27-religious...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

My new favorite tv show is rooms full of angry white people yelling at their republican representatives.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

It’s been wild to see so many headlines about the firings at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and none of them explicitly saying “Trump fired the one Black person and the one woman so he could have an all white male Joint Chiefs”

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

I hope one went to the judge in the case where he’s pretending he has no actual power

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

There has long been a consistent minimization of and even sneering at attention to the misogynistic aspect of fascism by the mostly white dudes who specialize in talking explicitly about extremism and fascism.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

Next big protest from #50501 et al is on March 4

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Also, they've been stripping the Postal Service down to its spare parts for years. Long lines? Fewer hours? Longer delivery times? Lost items...anyone? That's all intentional.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1766 comments

All across the country, civil servants who worked in the federal government for a public good are risking their jobs to pushback against the Trump Administration. Here are some of their stories.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Statement from the Musk-appointed head of SSA celebrating the deletion of research grants studying the financial security of the older adults and the disabled. Just one way that the richest man in the world is dictating societal priorities. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I can't go five minutes without seeing some clout chasing plonker on here posting people doing nazi salutes. So unnecessary

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Hey everybody, just for the heck of it, let’s all post a picture of the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

submitted 18 hours ago • 120 comments

This

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 15 hours ago • 140 comments

This GOP Nazi salute business isn't new. "What interests me is the fact of the gesture, and people’s response to it which is to deliberately not know what it is. A lot of people really don’t want to know that it was what it is, and they have plenty of help." www.the-reframe.com/sabotage-par...

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

Hi! I'm an immigration reporter with Mother Jones magazine. I'm hoping to connect with former and current EOIR employees about policy and personnel changes happening at the agency. We can talk off the record or on background. Please reach out at [email protected] or isabeladias.14 on Signal.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 19 hours ago • 56 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 15 hours ago • 100 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 15 hours ago • 236 comments

I know I talk a lot about my Dad singing, but he spent his teens in North STL before being drafted to serve in Vietnam singing street corner doowop with his brothers. 😂 Ms. Lauryn: "Remember back on the boule(vard) When cats used to harmonize like... Ooh, ooh, ooh!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVY...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Let’s be 100% clear. The postal service is literally in the Constitution, explicitly assigned as a congressional power. If Congress wants to abolish or privatize it, that’s up to Congress. The President can’t just wake up one day and do it on his own.

submitted 15 hours ago • 41 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 hours ago • 108 comments