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"77 million Americans voted for this" #FAFO Yeah, many did... but *that* many? Don't get shortsighted by the number – The results were so *quick* to finalize – Implicit quotes about election interference youtu.be/ClkJcpSdZTs – Twitter hijacking/disinformation www.instagram.com/reel/DCSQwot... ...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Anyone close to me KNOWS I love mess; wealthy white men fighting amongst themselves is 1 such brand. But those of you who think this spat will lead to anything just or equitable, completely bypass reality. Wealthy white man do not [tend to] suffer consequences in our racist system—especially now.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

Via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: ‪ Heartbreaking! Reporting suggests that the facility is currently operating nearly 300 PERCENT above capacity, w 1,700 people crammed into facility w an official maximum capacity of 600. The conditions have devolved dramatically in […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trigger alert: mention of sexual assault 1/4🧵 RAINN—the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network—quietly & quickly caved to Sexual Predator Donald Trump. Volunteers are now barred from offering resources about: ▫️LGBTQ+ survivors ▫️Immigrants ▫️Other marginalized groups newrepublic.com/post/195327/...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Pride Month so far: Jonathan Joss is murdered in a disgusting hate crime and the Navy intentionally announces they are changing the name of the USNS HARVEY MILK. America... now more than ever... David Lynch's words ring loudly. "Fix your hearts or die." This cannot be our normal.

submitted 3 days ago • 202 comments

Thinking about when previous Alabama Senator Tom Whatley had liked porn involving a trans woman on his work Twitter account, after voting to criminalize doctors who provide gender-affirming health care 😞 www.politicalflare.com/2021/03/alab...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The 900+ pages of #Project2025 are daunting, and that's on purpose. So imagine collecting all those sentences and exploring them as different colored islands.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

OK, folks.. There's a LOT of you out there, that DON'T know the meaning of the term "woke". So here it is... Merriam's Dictionary woke, adjective ˈwōk 1 a : aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice) It's NOT a bad term!

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

Cruel and Dangerous… The Trump administration just announced it’s shutting all Job Corps centers nationwide by June 30—no warning, no plan, just blindsiding students and families. Any thought given to the lives this disrupts? Any thought given to the skilled labor shortage this will make worse?

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

What this does, as DHS is well aware, is prevent people engaging with actual service workers and makes their lives harder. It also means utility workers will face hostility and might come to resent migrant communities and activists, which again is probably seen as desirable.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

We could have a streamlined response to H5N1, but instead let's not Making a calendar note about this to my future self www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Re: RFKJr removing the covid vaccine from the recommendation schedule I got covid in 2021, then dealt with #longcovid for the next 12 months. #POTS, insomnia, food intolerance, extreme malaise, stuff I didn't know about b4. It hurt to be told I was just a hysterical woman at the covid clinic. 1/4

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Basically: Me: There be some real mean ones out there smh School reading my private messages: Hey! Don't talk about us like that! *withholds diploma* So they know they be mean huh

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The Election Truth Alliance would not be possible without the countless teachers that helped guide and educate us. To you, we extend our heartfelt thanks and commitment to paying it forward! #TruthMatters #VerifyTheVote #SecureTheMidterms #TheMathAintMathin #TeacherAppreciationWeek #ThankATeacher

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

It's great to see someone becoming so passionate about the defense of someone that he tells a personal story to include a sexual assault that occurred against him. The more people that tell their stories the more people are feeling less alone and blaming themselves. #USDemocracy

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

CSGrad4US is a fellowship + mentoring program for grad students in CompSci/Eng + information sciences (CISE). NSF just removed the personal statement requirement, about how the applicant will contribute to diversity in CISE disciplines, asking applicants to restart the application without it.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

#Boston Trans Day of Visibility March happened on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 from Dorchester to Roxbury Passersby cheered & honked — people understand that what is done to the most vulnerable of us is done to all of us #TDOV www.workers.org/2025/04/85153/

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

The ONLY flag you will ever see me fly. It is for PEOPLE, not places.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Six minutes of stressful ASMR, of these first three months of incompetence

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"A living system — a real country — is complicated. It's a system, where people do things you'll never understand for perfectly good reasons (and vice versa). To accommodate all that complexity, we need complex systems, [...] complex systems are *resilient*." pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I have to give it to them... they're pretty good at keeping up their such conspicuous irony & projection for so long While everyone can get caught in social bubbles, Trump supporters do seem to be more clustered www.wired.com/story/intern... archived: archive.ph/P33n7

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

(trigger warning) They obsess over people's (kids') genitalia With Roe v Wade, all the anti-trans legislation, the SAVE Act — this is social rape 😕 complementing social murder Eugenics by social influence has always been here, now they're saying the quiet part so much louder

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments