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“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 12 hours ago • 506 comments

www.reddit.com/r/Albany/s/T...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 2 days ago • 588 comments

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2291 comments

Tom Homan asks “where is that line,” as if it is mysterious or unknowable. It’s not. Tom’s saying it that way because he’s too much of a coward just to say “she should be arrested for telling people their rights.” Also, to be fair, he may be too dim to understand the line.

submitted 5 days ago • 552 comments

🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

submitted 6 days ago • 336 comments

Booted up this morning after an overnight complete update (highly recommend) and think it’s now time to trade in our old McKinley. What should MapQuest get instead? I’m thinking a Denali.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 8 days ago • 491 comments

If we, as a nation, can’t afford Social Security and Medicare, we can’t afford space travel.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Quid pro quo

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs

submitted 9 days ago • 274 comments

This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

submitted 9 days ago • 202 comments

Every single day, Google provides a new reason to never again use their products. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 10 days ago • 3885 comments

-The GOP only accepts the election results when they win. -The GOP only accepts court rulings if in their favor. -The GOP only protects speech they agree with. -The GOP is a cancer to our democratic Republic.

submitted 11 days ago • 84 comments

FARA says people working in the US for foreign interests have to register with DOJ and disclose gov contacts. It's a transparency law, not an anti-spy law. So this change is incoherent, except as an effort to make foreign influence efforts not transparent. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that they’re broadcasting an entire Trump press conference while Democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by Musk shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

submitted 18 days ago • 105 comments

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

submitted 19 days ago • 364 comments

We are living in a democratic emergency. It is a profound mistake to go along to get along.

submitted 27 days ago • 100 comments