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Happy Juneteenth

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

i need to read this to figure out if this guy was cooking

San Diego #NoKings

[Exit King.]

“No Kings”. Los Angeles. Just wow. Americans all across the country are rising up in protest of Donald Trump.

Look at downtown LA right now

Average Onion subscriber.

“FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is sending signals that FDA will likely not authorize a COVID-19 booster vaccine this year for children, and perhaps not for the general population as a whole, saying he “cannot, in good faith” recommend booster vaccination for children.”

The admin’s attacks on public broadcasting are more traumatizing than that time when Arthur cut his knee on a rusty lima bean can.

May Day is Thursday, May 1. It’s time to organize. @mauricewfp.bsky.social said it tonight: “This is not a resistance. This is an OPPOSITION.” We’re not just surviving—we’re confronting. Stand up. Show up. maydaystrong.org #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

I have served as a lead author on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and author on the 5th national climate assessment. Our ICF colleagues were highly trained professionals who put the science first, second and last. I have never heard one of them ever voice a political opinion. These claims are simply untrue.

With the federal government in chaos, it's on states to protect workers. In Colorado, where laws suppress the right to organize, a bill that empowers people to negotiate for fair pay & safe conditions is expected to head to the governor. It's time to protect workers, @govofco.bsky.social.

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

The best sign of the day, by far.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Social media will not be stopped

Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Perfect 🤣🎯

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

There was a lot of good game animation in 2024, and I found ALL OF IT. #animation youtu.be/eD_dYrVFTEY

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

Tesla is suing Wisconsin after the state blocked it from opening dealerships there. Now, Elon Musk is spending millions to elect one particular judge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court who could hear Tesla’s case.

This is horrific. Due process needs to exist for everyone for reasons exactly like this.

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E

$650 to go. Come on, cowards. Make me drink the terrible drink. itch.io/b/2914/stori...

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

THIS FUCKING GUY

This site was built by trans people and sex workers, and like a hippie who bought his house 20 years before the neighborhood got gentrified, I will die on the hill this place belongs to them

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

COVID, flu, measles, and all airborne viruses can seriously harm anyone, not just people who are immunocompromised. EVERYONE has a medical reason to wear a mask at any time and in any place.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

An excellent lesson from @theverge.com re journalistic representations when facing the degradation of democracy: When something is clearly illegal, say as much. Don't couch it in lawyerly terms. www.theverge.com/policy/63339...

“This is a consistent pattern when people and institutions seek accommodation from this president in order to protect themselves. There’s no such thing as an armistice with Trump; there’s only ever a temporary truce,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes: theatln.tc/BorLeDIB

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

For those who celebrate the downfall of empires (everyone should), raise a glass or a fist to salute tomorrow morning, for at 02:50 UTC the sun will finally set on the British Empire. Empire means domination. Imperialists are the baddies. All empires shall fall. www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

Interior Department employees say they have been scrambling to keep the lights on and do their jobs as budget cuts driven by the Department of Government efficiency team start to bite.