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It is one thing to see the insane numbers of government jobs being cut. It's another thing to read the testimonies of civil servants who were axed. Check this out. And if you've been knifed in the back, add your story: trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 8 days ago • 1222 comments

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

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Since federal health information is getting harder to come by, I thought I'd share this new resource. Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine launched an online Avian Flu Resource Center--a one-stop clearinghouse for trustworthy information on bird flu. www.vet.cornell.edu/highly-patho...

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

I need the Oh, Mary! proshot to release RIGHT NOW.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re at karaoke, sing an anti-fasc, feminist, or queer joy song.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.

submitted 11 days ago • 190 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 12 days ago • 480 comments

If the government won’t buy $400 million of my shoddy armored trucks, I’m going to be coming an even bigger libertarian.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

every single Republican in Congress is a massive cuck, never seen anything like this. we are in a constitutional crisis because these people are far more pathetic than the founding fathers could have ever imagined

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

there is something kind of interesting about how "executive potentially defying court orders" is immediately legible even to the mainstream press as a constitutional crisis, when everything trump had done up until that was largely shrugged off

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂 www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

"What are we supposed to do, we don't control Congress" "What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority" "What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"

submitted 16 days ago • 150 comments

Responding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

A MINOR

submitted 16 days ago • 231 comments

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we instantly recognize in other contexts.

submitted 17 days ago • 410 comments

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

submitted 18 days ago • 104 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 18 days ago • 791 comments

this should have been their posture for every single nominee from jump. all of them. complete opposition.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 20 days ago • 507 comments

Everyone! The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is now available FOR FREE FOR EVERYONE 700+ pages of amazing writing on BIPOC and Global Majority futurisms! Download a copy and check it out! (Click "Open Access Content is available for this title") www.routledge.com/.../Taylor.....

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 22 days ago • 152 comments

Does Chuck Schumer know he is the highest ranking democrat in the senate?

submitted 22 days ago • 143 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 23 days ago • 744 comments

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

submitted 23 days ago • 309 comments

Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.

submitted 23 days ago • 285 comments

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

submitted 23 days ago • 306 comments

Has congress passed a law superseding or eliminating the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961? Has the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional? Then why are journalists reporting that Trump and Musk are "shutting down" USAID. They are not authorized to do so.

submitted 23 days ago • 168 comments

what's funny about this sentiment is that we've seen with our own eyes what happens when a political party opposes absolutely everything the party in power wants to do and makes a big show about it: they won everything

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 26 days ago • 4415 comments

<whispers> DEI is just another word for democracy. Democracy is diverse. Democracy is equality. Democracy is inclusive. Every attack on “DEI” is actually an attack on democracy.

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments