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The US in 2025: a real banana republic and oligarchy

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Marine Le Pen and her €4.7 million stolen from EU funds, she calls it politics. When thieves wear suits and wave flags, it’s not nationalism—it’s organized crime with a voter base.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Speechless. #MomSky 😐

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Are you READY?! 🤚 Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

I will be there. #MomSky

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Celebrating hurting people because that’s the brand

submitted 3 days ago • 688 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 3 days ago • 1138 comments

Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

submitted 8 days ago • 282 comments

“Civil society, the free press, and the judiciary are the antibodies of democracy. When you neutralize them, democracy starts dying.” @arielbrunner.bsky.social What does this mean for nature restoration in Europe? 🧵👇

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Robert Reich hasn’t led us wrong yet. I believe him. #MomSky

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Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 6 days ago • 3583 comments

This report should break something in all of us. 15,613 children. The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0. 26% were under the age of 5

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit with @lambdalegal.bsky.social, a federal district court has BLOCKED Donald Trump’s cruel ban on trans servicemembers from going into effect. We are proud to support our trans servicemembers, and we will keep fighting for them in the Courts.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE COURAGE

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 8 days ago • 320 comments

This! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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28 March 1909 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helena Franková, was born in Kamýk nad Vltavou. She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

"But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, who both remain in their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on administrative leave and told late last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 5 days ago • 354 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 2110 comments

Only a shithole country, a lawless backwater in the middle of a rapid downward spiral, would revoke a student visa over an op-ed.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

This will take you only a few seconds to sign but will benefit birds, other biodiversity and people for generations to come. banleadnow.com/get-involved/

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.

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Tepid illiterate bollocks

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

submitted 7 days ago • 185 comments

This is a great opportunity for Europe. We need to welcome Americans fleeing and/or being kicked out of the US

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

As bad as the Houthi PC Group Chat is, and as bad as the DOGE stories leaking by the minute are...what's happening under the radar is so, so much worse.

submitted 8 days ago • 648 comments

As beta as it gets. People in this administration never take responsibility for their actions and always blame others. Couldn’t be weaker and more pathetic than that. And it doesn’t only apply to Hegseth

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

This whole thread is a really good thread for anyone who feels like they've been too complacent during the rise of fascism & neoliberalism around the world in recent decades & wants to do more to counter it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth is going to get our active duty loved ones killed. He’s unqualified, arrogant, careless, untruthful, immoral, and extremely unintelligent. He meets all the requirements of a TAI-Hire (Trump Appointed Imbecile) #MomSky #FightFascism #TrumpAppointsImbeciles

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 496 comments

The president is laser focused on the big issues

submitted 9 days ago • 1229 comments

Weirdly I get a ton of internal strength (is that a thing?) from the fact that my grandfather survived having his government turn on him.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

We remain united in our belief that governments make better decisions when civil society voices are heard.🗣️ This is not the time to despair. It is the time to be clear, confident and stand together with those that share our values. 🤝 Read more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/03...

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Every time Bondi utters the name Jasmine Crockett, it helps boost Jasmine higher. Bondi’s threats are even better. Jasmine has more followers, more clout, and more love than ever. #MomSky #FightFascism

submitted 8 days ago • 389 comments

Both nature and civil society are under attack pretty much everywhere. You better stand up for both while you still can. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/03...

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With all that we see unfolding these days, my CEO reminds us of the need for healthy civil societies and solidarity www.birdlife.org/news/2025/03...

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Marc Elias: "Elias Law Group will not be deterred ... There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring." "Our democracy is in peril, and the decisions made by lawyers and their firms may very well determine the future of the rule of law."

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

submitted 11 days ago • 430 comments

harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC. time.com/7269604/el-s... www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...

submitted 11 days ago • 295 comments

@greenpeace.org has been ordered to pay $660m for taking part in Standing Rock against the Keystone XL pipeline Those standing up for democracy are punished, while fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay for their planetary disaster, but it's not over yet #Imwithgreenpeace #Iwillnotbesilenced

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Jasmine Mooney is the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. Jasmine felt as if she had been kidnapped — “thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity.” ICE lied to her, bound her in chains, seized every conceivable…

submitted 13 days ago • 212 comments

Our Secretary of Defense almost certainly has more threatening/extremist tattoos and has more credibly been accused of sexual assault than almost all of the people being sent to El Salvador. No exaggeration.

submitted 15 days ago • 261 comments

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

submitted 13 days ago • 533 comments