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You know I love a good Venn Diagram. Been seeing this one around lately. Seems to sum up the times.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The news won’t report on it, and the opposition won’t talk about it, but OVERT, OPEN white supremacy and neo-Nazism are the ideologies guiding the White House right. They’re not disguising it in policy, and they’re not hiding their interactions with Nazis and white supremacists.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

I know it all seems overwhelming, but not paying attention right now just cannot be an option. Please share widely. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

“But her emails!”

submitted 22 days ago • 114 comments

i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?

submitted 23 days ago • 286 comments

Poison pill policy

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

submitted 26 days ago • 127 comments

West-to-North view from the 26th floor of Tower Three of Sen̓áḵw. The tallest of 11 towers tops out at 64 stories.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

It’s important to keep in mind that though the administration is deliberately and gleefully evil, some of the bad things they will do will be out of stubborn ignorance and indifference to how things work

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Bleak abdication of constitutional duties and powers. They claim to want to destroy the administrative state, but don't err in believing they planned to actually replace it with something statutory, or anything at all (besides their own corrupted unaccountable version)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The freezing of federal grants, the firing of all inspector generals, the immunization of political violence - does everybody not see what’s happening? In a blitzkrieg, Trump is trying to collapse our democracy - and probably our economy - and seize control. Call it what it is.

submitted 27 days ago • 546 comments

Even when they back down a bit from their most extreme policies, the softened versions will often be moving the Overton Window towards fascism. They don't need to win every fight if the direction remains in their favor, and it remains in their favor every time we normalize what they're doing.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

screams into void as fire engulfs my body

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I use read my new favorite analogy of the 85th percentile rule: "It's like setting a curfew based on when a teenager comes home."

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

After three years of negotiations, Alderman Brian Hopkins has killed the 500 home development proposed at North and LaSalle in Old Town. The project would have included 💯 affordable homes in one of Chicago’s most expensive neighborhoods. Wondering why we have a housing crisis? Look no further.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

This seems extremely bad.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I'm so uninterested in these attempts to understand some (fundamentally unknowable) inner motivation. If you do racist acts ironically you are still acting racist. If you fuck a goat ironically you're still a goat-fucker. Don't piss on my face and tell me it's raining.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I for one would welcome more neighbors. Chicago should be working to make it affordable for residents to stay and easy for new ones to arrive. This decision, and others like it, are what keep us on the path to stagnation and fiscal decline. We can and should do better.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

They told us exactly what they wanted to do ... And now they're doing it.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 32 days ago • 4412 comments

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 31 days ago • 247 comments

trying to strip Native people of their birthright citizenship is a litmus test for all of YOU. the regime is testing how far you’ll go when it comes to standing beside Natives for more immediate things. have you looked into Project 2025’s agenda to privatize and sell off National Forest lands?

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

"considerable flak" = "people accurately noted that these guys are segregationists and biological racists"

submitted 31 days ago • 64 comments

lol they're going to kill FEMA.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

short thread of how point access blocks can facilitate more family sized homes 1. optimize the number of homes per floor (max of 4 in seattle) with all units having a corner aspect (windows on 2 adjacent wides)

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Is he a Nazi or just a contrarian? Doesn’t matter. Is he a Nazi or just trolling? Irrelevant. Is he a Nazi or just hungry for power? Makes no difference. Is he a Nazi or just negatively polarized? Who cares. If you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still a goat-fucker.

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

Genuinely did not see this coming. This is evil. It is also not one of the goals outlined in Project 2025, although expanding resource extraction on Native lands is. (Biden stopped that, citing climate change.)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

How can we reconcile the tension between wanting to limit the impact car-brained NIMBYs have on bike lane or housing development and wanting to make sure the community has a say over fossil fuel infrastructure expansion? Easy— leaders should simply listen to the people who are correct

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The block by block land use fights because of discretionary permitting systems in American cities is wild and needs to be reformed.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 34 days ago • 318 comments

Conservative Outraged Tampons Available In Men’s Grocery Stores theonion.com/conserv...

submitted 33 days ago • 89 comments

Paris doubled its cycling rate in a single year (2022 -2023) by sustained and increased investment in infrastructure (read: political will). NYC will likely have a new mayor at this time next year. Which one has the guts to articulate and deliver a similar outcome? momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Frequency is everything. Frequency has to be a priority. We can do so much better.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

There is a widespread sickness in American punditry where commentators cannot describe basic political realities because it sounds partisan, so they mischaracterize the positions of Democrats and Republicans to avoid appearing like they are taking a stand.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

our crosswalk monitor quit after - despite wearing bright clothes and a yellow vest - nearly being hit multiple times, along with several children... including by a dump truck w/ transfer. all because SDOT refuses to prioritize safe routes and traffic calming near schools.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments