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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 11 days ago • 108 comments

Remember when FDR yelled, "Adolf, STOP!" -- and the next day, the Luftwaffe was grounded while the Wehrmacht retreated to a Düsseldorf beer hall where they all knocked back a few cold ones.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Trump's syphilitic-emperor routine yanking tariffs up and down at random, and the obvious fact that he doesn't have the balls for a real fight, is about the worst imaginable situation trade-wise prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.

submitted 21 days ago • 296 comments

I'm teaching Toni Morrison's "Racism and Fascism" piece next week. I plan to focus on her argument that people who engage in fascist behavior often do it because it's fun and thrilling.

submitted 20 days ago • 44 comments

if you are looking for a politics that fights for the conditions in which families can flourish you are looking for feminism. if you have ended up in “pro-natalism” you have taken several wrong turns and are surrounded by racists and eugenicists. turn back immediately and reflect on what happened

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Untrustworthy will be her nickname, and this will be her meme in perpetuity.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

👁️ 👁️‼️

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Pacifica artist Oscar Lopez has a reputation for building community and using his art to tie contemporary experiences of immigrants and farmworkers to Indigenous history.

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An NPR investigation uncovered 40,000 vets facing foreclosure due to a VA mistake. A rescue program is helping many of them, but others fear being left out if Congress cuts this new lifeline.

submitted 41 days ago • 145 comments

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

submitted 63 days ago • 48 comments

This is NOT pro-life🤡💩

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

submitted 63 days ago • 530 comments

It was a mistake that so many voted for these two SMDH

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

submitted 63 days ago • 1108 comments

2/19: MSNBC celebrates its NAACP Image Award and Joy Reid’s book Medgar & Myrlie. 2/22: Trump calls MSNBC a “threat to democracy” after NBCUniversal’s lawsuit settlement. 2/23: Joy Reid ( @joyannreid.bsky.social ) canceled. When Trump sent the heat, @MSNBC.com bent the knee—AGAIN!

submitted 68 days ago • 336 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 68 days ago • 596 comments

Maybe hating on dick bosses is the great unifier, the thing that brings all Americans together.

submitted 68 days ago • 305 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 68 days ago • 261 comments

Wow! What a great cover!

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submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

True story. Thanks, Joe.

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

From today’s #50501 rally in Washington, DC. The patriotism and earnestness were off the charts. And that’s not a bad thing. As a liberal who learned how to do much of her activism from anarchists though, let’s just say this wasn’t my usual milieu and I struggled a bit. (and that’s OK too)

submitted 74 days ago • 48 comments

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.

submitted 74 days ago • 123 comments

Want to learn more about the General Strike? Here’s our Welcome Packet. We’re so happy you’re here! #USprotests docs.google.com/presentation...

submitted 85 days ago • 111 comments

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

submitted 79 days ago • 251 comments

Next, drump will rename the center🤬

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

submitted 79 days ago • 614 comments

The world in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism. The top aide to the president of the United States supports it. apnews.com/article/germ...

submitted 82 days ago • 476 comments

For 4 years, there was no scandal, no closing of key institutions that keep us safe & functioning, no chaos, & no planes falling from the sky. There was a quiet president who got to work for all Americans. The GOP whined a lot. But mostly, it was recovery, rebuilding, and an America for everyone.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

submitted 84 days ago • 108 comments

JUST IN: The case, brought by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees, was intended to block the administration's efforts to dismantle USAID.

submitted 84 days ago • 41 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. This action violates the Constitution.

submitted 84 days ago • 115 comments

Make no mistake, we are now in nazi land.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

submitted 85 days ago • 407 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 85 days ago • 167 comments

Republicans have been ordered by their billionaire Puppet Master to end Medicare as we know it. Democrats have 215 members in the House who can stop this extreme effort. All we need is three House Republicans to join us.

submitted 85 days ago • 1068 comments

We asked DOGE Caucus Republicans to keep Donald Trump's campaign promise: No cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. They refused, saying that "there will be some cuts" and "everything is on the table." And Marjorie Taylor Greene tossed Trump's campaign flyers in the air.

submitted 108 days ago • 84 comments

DOGE employee Marko Elez, who was given access to U.S. Treasury payment systems, has resigned after racist posts were found. On X, Elez advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act and wrote comments such as "normalize Indian hate", according to the Wall Street Journal.

submitted 85 days ago • 42 comments

Rep. Ro Khanna is fundraising off the failed vote (19-20) he did not show up for to subpoena Elon Musk

submitted 85 days ago • 163 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 85 days ago • 224 comments

It’s not just that the buy-out won’t be honored; it can’t be honored. They have neither authority nor appropriations to honor the promise. “Fraud in the inducement.”

submitted 85 days ago • 539 comments

Parking spaces in my building go for $12 an hour which means the parking space earns more than a minimum wage worker.

submitted 85 days ago • 24 comments

NEWS: USAID is shrinking its essential worldwide staff to 294 — a massive decrease from 14000. An internal breakdown shows the agency being left with just 12 people assigned to Africa, 21 to the entire Middle East, and 8 to Asia.

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 85 days ago • 1547 comments

I just deleted a post to sign up for general work strike due to unknown origins of the organizer, plus they ask for personal information that shouldn’t be necessary. I will be more vigilant in sharing protests, so should we all.

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