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The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

submitted 46 days ago • 63 comments

You know what stories I would like to read and hear about? People who have been pushed even more to the left/progressive/ Dem socialist side after the last several years-- and after everything happening with the Dem establishment now.

submitted 39 days ago • 755 comments

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

submitted 39 days ago • 1384 comments

I was pretty pessimistic going into the Trump sequel and I’ve got to admit it’s much worse to an even I imagined.

submitted 39 days ago • 77 comments

Good piece www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 39 days ago • 30 comments

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 39 days ago • 104 comments

Now I want an annotated Richard Scarry book that shows all of the federal funding supporting that work. Farmer Alfalfa's climate mitigation grant, the NIH and CDC helping Dr. Lion, the DoE supporting Miss Honey. Then we can explore how tariffs hurt Stitches the tailor.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Two days later, everyone at VOA has reportedly been fired.

submitted 39 days ago • 136 comments

We’re not “heading” towards fascism. We’re there.

submitted 39 days ago • 37 comments

I know it's not taking Surrender Dem skulls but we do have local elections in a lot of places and people can take their pounds of flesh out of Republicans before the main event next year. I'm just saying.

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

submitted 39 days ago • 315 comments

You know how much you love the "magic" of ILL? Defend it by defending IMLS.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Spokane WA cops illegally arresting and assaulting immigrants

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

'the good times are done. Go eat a shit sandwich while Musk plays video games and Trump golfs and you'll like it'

submitted 41 days ago • 81 comments

Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."

submitted 41 days ago • 556 comments

this is a taxpayer-funded public social media account

submitted 41 days ago • 163 comments

Every time I check the news:

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Explanation of video

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Spokane WA cops illegally arresting and assaulting immigrants

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 42 days ago • 1396 comments

You don't have enough contempt for these people.

submitted 41 days ago • 30 comments

If you can watch this without feeling something like fighting back an ugly cry, you're a Replicant or a Republican. Hopefully, a Replicant.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

The thing that Senate Democrats don't seem to understand is if they, the elected leaders and proud institutionalists, so easily give up, then the message they are communicating to is that this is either (a) all fine, actually or (b) utterly hopeless. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-k...

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

Hate to do tech support here but come on @bencollins.bsky.social. We need this.

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submitted 41 days ago • 29 comments

Bribes and cash-ins for their fiendish friends. Pain and paying a tax to Turbo Tax for you.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

submitted 41 days ago • 45 comments

As Shock G once said, "All around the world, authoritarians have this hair."

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938. History doesn't change it just repeats.

submitted 42 days ago • 61 comments

Only thing time has changed is our Nazi car makers now have hair plugs.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

i genuinely have no idea what's best for southwest, financially, but i am reminded of the immortal words of Costco founder Jim Sinegal: "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

submitted 43 days ago • 53 comments

In 1905, my great-grandfather helped @stevevladeck.bsky.social's great-grandfather escape arrest by Imperial Russian police who didn't like his speech. 120 years later, Steve has the best summary I've seen of key legal questions the case of Mahmoud Khalil: www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...

submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

This is replacement theory. It is a debunked white nationalist conspiracy theory that was normalized by Tucker Carlson. It’s a blatant lie meant to turn Americans against immigrants.

submitted 43 days ago • 91 comments

Stock crashes are good

submitted 44 days ago • 142 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 44 days ago • 227 comments

Betar USA says today “expect naturalized citizens to be picked up within the month.”

submitted 44 days ago • 67 comments

Senator Kelly responds to Elon Musk

submitted 44 days ago • 96 comments

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

submitted 44 days ago • 52 comments

tesla stock is down 36% over the past month alone. any competent board of directors would’ve ousted a CEO destroying the price like this.

submitted 44 days ago • 39 comments

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "We were the leader of the free world, but it appears to many leaders and people all over, to include Republicans in Nebraska, that this administration is walking away from that legacy."

submitted 44 days ago • 633 comments

He's doing for Tesla what he did for Twitter!

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

Trump Shrugs Off Danger of Ukraine Getting Totally Obliterated

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Gargamel seems unbothered by the smell of Smurf skin cooking

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Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

submitted 44 days ago • 58 comments

This is why despite how bleak things may seem, I always make it a note to share organizing victories, even small ones. They matter more than you might think.

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I did a cartoon about the disproportionate amount of attention we are forced to pay to the worst couple of people in the world www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3...

submitted 44 days ago • 27 comments

checking in on state media 👀

submitted 44 days ago • 248 comments