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I continue to speak out against every bill that attempts to remove trans people from public life. And I will continue to do so for as long as I draw breath. I hope one day the government will leave my people alone.

submitted 7 hours ago • 42 comments

The same party that shouted that Obama was a liar and booed Biden during their formal addresses to Congress is now worried about people disrespecting the president with crossed arms.

submitted 15 hours ago • 313 comments

There it is: Speaker of the House says Elon has already started running your Social Security through his AI.

submitted 15 hours ago • 590 comments

Back in Kyiv after three years, and sending a reminder of the reality: Maidan, earlier today.

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It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.

submitted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

Your periodic reminder that this lady is so racist that her husband, a known racist didn't want anything to do with her family because of how racist they were

submitted 20 hours ago • 46 comments

A good day to explore Chicago's Ukrainian Village neighborhood.

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

Rare Disease Day 2025: it’s hard to celebrate this with the NIH budget cuts, threats to Medicaid funding and lawsuit to end Section 504 Disability rights - all of which will severely impact individuals with rare diseases like my daughter Margot. We wear our stripes, we advocate and we fight!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Here is a clear-eyed analysis of Trump's surrender to Putin from @zeit.de (headline with Google Translate), better than any coverage in US institutional media. I wish this coverage were translated and opened to US audiences. We need it.

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Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear and have their heads crush’d like rotten apples!

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.

submitted 2 days ago • 306 comments

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 1 day ago • 437 comments

We're used to seeing this type of propaganda coordination in Russia, and with all the Russia sycophants around the world. So to see this choreographed praise of dear leader in America adds a stomach-turning coda. As I wrote today, Trump isn't just fawning, he's imitating Putin.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Looked at several news articles on Trump's decree that English is the national language. None of them mentioned the question of what legal authority he has to do that. The news outlets simply assume we're living under a dictator with full legislative authority.

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Actually, I think we got all of them in here, explicitly or in context, no? War is peace.✅ Freedom is slavery.✅ Ignorance is strength ✅ Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I will proudly be marching through Budapest city center this summer

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1199 comments

This is a chilling development but as many have eloquently stated, DEI per se is not illegal. Rather than fighting that legal battle which would surely fail, they are using fear tactics to discourage progressive education and inclusive practices that ensure all students feel welcome.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I can't think of anything like that obscene spectacle in the history of modern diplomacy, not just a snide remark or even mutual hostility, but openly belittling and insulting a visiting head of state in public like that? Astonishingly beyond the pale to treat any country's representative like that.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

“There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on. I feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside. I cannot just go and play a tour of beautiful concerts.” Sad that it has come to this. Am not surprised at Tetzlaff's decision, and fully support it. (Gift article)

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I support any & every musician who wants to boycott my country right now. Please do!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

this part should be aired over and over — the complete off the charts mental derangement of the president of the united states as he declares, minutes after threatening World War III, his eternal bond to Putin, as a victim of stuff that came out of Hunter Biden’s bathroom

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

submitted 2 days ago • 305 comments

Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

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we all have to get out of the habit of reporting "trump/musk says x" as "x is probably true"

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

Lawyers for Trump in line to take top jobs at the Justice Department sparred with Democrats on Wednesday over whether the administration could simply ignore some court orders — an early skirmish in a larger fight over the White House’s efforts to claim more sweeping presidential powers.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

All those billions and Jeff Bezos still can't afford dignity

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

Budapest Pride should be held in closed venue for ‘child protection’, says government official

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and after all, who can forget Picasso’s famous mural depicting an impressive 3.4% average growth in per capita income

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And Katharine Graham wept.

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Not a bug, but the feature - and a preview of coming "attractions".

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 248 comments

The U.S. attorney in Washington says DOJ "will be vigilant in standing against entities" like the Associated Press, that "refuse to put America first." The AP's transgression is, apparently, not adopting the president's preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 2039 comments

U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 6 days ago • 491 comments

The Kansas City metro region is home to roughly 30,000 federal workers. At a town-hall, some of them confronted their GOP member of Congress about their worry they'll lose their job. He responded "God has a plan." www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

submitted 6 days ago • 110 comments

Cool, cool. Nothing to see here folks.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Besides enforcing federal law, the FBI protects us from spies, terrorists, & cyber crime. The two top FBI officials have zero FBI experience, are unqualified for the jobs, and unsuited for the jobs.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Government employees do not "work for the president." It doesn't matter what he "wants them to accomplish because he won the election." They work for their agency, and ultimately, for the American people. The GOP is truly in its "working towards the Fuhrer" phase.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments