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Good morning, beloved. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Talked with an old friend yesterday, and of this kind of thing he says either it’s not true or not his problem

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

reading Bonhoeffer on life in Nazi Germany and oh boy

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 555 comments

Trying very hard to avoid the urge to dunk tweet, but I'll just say that Nate Silver is a perfect example that IQ is astrology for men who think they're too smart for astrology.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

I just watched that clip of Elon talking to the Newsmax host while high & I have nothing funny to say. Just... it's starkly terrifying that a drug-addicted Nazi billionaire has taken control of the US government, & that that is not in the least a hyperbolic or subjective summary of what is going on.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

We knew they would go after legal immigrants But when we said it, they said we were crazy

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"So far as we approve of monarchy... in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other." --Thomas Paine

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NEW UPDATE to Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting. - a few people have written to me to ask if I could include HEADINGS and I have done so. Also added a few more ideas. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 3 days ago • 518 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

ok who wants to move to a remote island in Ireland www.forbes.com/sites/rebecc...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

it’s also important to remember that most of these voters’ news intake is basically unrecognizable from yours, powered by an algorithm designed by people who wanted them to vote for trump, and deliberately obfuscated and scuttled anything that might make them hesitate.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

Employee salaries only account for 5% of the federal budget. Trying to balance the budget by firing workers is like trying to save money at home by not buying soap.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Dr. Neil Stone on why autism is NOT caused by vaccination.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

submitted 6 days ago • 717 comments

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 7 days ago • 510 comments

I've been thinking a lot about how we hold elected officials and supreme court judges to lower ethical standards than kindergarten teachers.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 10 days ago • 390 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 11 days ago • 1185 comments

Trump on the Russia-Ukraine war: "I'm interested primarily from the standpoint of death."

submitted 11 days ago • 186 comments

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of Elon’s effort to eliminate it is that Americans will have no recourse when they’re screwed over by a bank.

submitted 11 days ago • 153 comments

Oh, I missed this: The Pope directly refutes JD Vance here: "The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan” … that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception."

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

This whole thread - but also, and despite my own deep cynicism, I have still been surprised by all the powerful institutions complying in advance. My uni is striking all mentions of diversity. The last 18mos has shown admins are generally unwilling to stand for academic freedom with their faculty.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

👇🏽🤔 💰

submitted 11 days ago • 243 comments

The more Wisemans I watch the more I see how often his subject is this: cultures live and die by how well, and wisely, older generations hand off their legacy to the generations that come up behind them

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

TIL . . . (from this NYMag story: nymag.com/intelligence...)

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

submitted 12 days ago • 203 comments

“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire… Not a root or a branch will be left to them. “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 🧵 Ok, so ideally I would like this post, dating from 1912 and alerting the scientific community of the time to the dangers of coal exploitation and consumption on the greenhouse effect and climate change, to go viral in order to inform the wider community.

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

*Well, you see, the pioneers of the electronic frontier get arrows in their backs

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

This passage from Tocqueville (1840) leapt out at me as I was revisiting Democracy in America tonight. The last line especially made me think of the tough-guy-bad-ass-outlaw MAGA types who sycophantically hang on every word from their Daddy-who-will-regularly-spank-them in the White House.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

submitted 13 days ago • 225 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 14 days ago • 862 comments

One of the saddest truths I have come to know is that the most talented, caring and beautiful souls I know are filled with constant, mind-churning self-doubt, self-loathing, and Imposter Syndrome… while the heinous bullies sleep like babies, wake up refreshed, look in the mirror, and see perfection.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

From Nick Flynn's book, Low. #poem #poetry #books #nickflynn #writing

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment