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A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

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the last decade has really helped me understand in a more visceral sense what it meant when God hardened the pharoah’s heart

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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 2 days ago • 427 comments

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

submitted 4 days ago • 354 comments

A great deal of trouble we face now is that those in power assume everyone working for the public good has to be part of a grift because they literally cannot conceive of a public good. They are broken, deranged people, almost to a one. I'm struggling with the response to this.

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 6 days ago • 1129 comments

A recommendation for the Mirena IUD: I menstruate so rarely that today I was alarmed and baffled as to where that blood came from. (Getting it put in is a whole rant about medicine's piss-poor management of women's* pain, but once it's in it's great.)

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for @saraamueller.bsky.social

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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 7 days ago • 2113 comments

Currently editing an article about quantum computing, and I wish the reporter had any skepticism for claims being made by the same people who monetize people's belief in the usability of AI.

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the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Someone tell Chuck Schumer’s imaginary friends to tell Chuck he sucks shit.

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Meet a guy locally who used to be in tech but now owns a herd of goats that he rents out to eat stuff and does that full time and I'm now wondering if this can be my exit strategy 🐐

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for context, the last time Columbia students were so mad at the school they seized a building, no one was expelled, and the school was so sorry it canceled classes for the rest of the semester and the Grateful Dead came and played in the center of campus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Co...

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

I’m just regular scrolling! It’s not my fault the doom is there!

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

the internet would be so cool if it wasn't evil

submitted 9 days ago • 111 comments

AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”

submitted 9 days ago • 330 comments

A smidge late (we moved in in November), but the city welcoming committee just came by with goodies! Seeds from the garden club, magnets and branded doodads from local businesses, map of state bike trails, & a whole 3-ring binder of information like history, girl scout signups, utility phone numbers

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The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

hey @shanaqui.bsky.social, fun thread for you

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So let me get this straight—the GOP is out here banning drag shows, screaming about “protecting children,” but now they’re totally fine with forced genital exams on kids without parental consent? The party of “small government” is suddenly BIG on state-sponsored invasive procedures.

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Gonna repeat myself here: The generation of leaders that got us into this mess will not be the ones to get us out of it. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

I'll add it doesn't even matter if he does support Hamas (not that I believe he does) - everyone is entitled to due process. Everyone.

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

Epic idea

submitted 11 days ago • 570 comments

It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks

submitted 15 days ago • 267 comments

Not hearing enough noise about Mahmoud Khalil from folks who like to quote the "first they came for" poem. Y'all get that the point is that they came for controversial, easily othered groups first, right? Now, it's trans people, immigrants, and student activists. Your turn will come. Fight now.

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While debunking the egregiously profitable scare tactic of falsely claiming vaccines are a direct cause of autism, it is also critical to remember that people with autism can, do, and will lead wholly fulfilling lives while the children we lose to preventable illnesses due to fear of autism will not

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

It is frankly ridiculous how much I am a sad wilty plant that needs sunlight and dirt. Two hours or so planting trees in the back yard and I feel great -- relaxed like I would not have believed was possible two days ago.

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Btw, I know there's always concerns with talking to press for a protest, be sure to have someone solid as your PR rep, someone who doesn't need to hide necessarily. Also make them someone identifiable and not just "the people's collective for justice" or something people have no idea who you are.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I NEED GOOD, THOUGHTFUL LEADERS TO GET WAY BETTER AT USING THE INTERNET LIKE FIVE YEARS AGO

submitted 13 days ago • 554 comments

Randomly thinking of the time my fundy private school considered a sports team, but limited jersey numbers. No 1, 3, 7 (12?) because those are God's numbers. No 6 obviously, iirc also no 0. Only up to 19 for some reason, maybe jersey space? That wasn't why it went nowhere, but didn't help.

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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN WOULD PREFER IT IF PEOPLE STOPPED CALLING HIS OFFICE Amidst a flood of concerned constituents descending on Republican town halls, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) said that he would prefer it if people stopped calling his office. heartlandsignal.com/2025/03/06/m...

submitted 16 days ago • 104 comments

I don't know why I ever think FedEx will deliver something on the day that it claims. It was allegedly on the truck for delivery today, and now it's "We'll add a delivery date as soon as your package starts moving."

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

submitted 15 days ago • 160 comments

i know some cis folks on here are at least kinda aware it’s bad right now for trans people in america, but sometimes it’s worth calling y’all back to 2016 when a single “transsexuals have to use the wrong bathrooms” bill cost north carolina the nba all-star game & $400 million. this is normal now.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments