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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

submitted 3 hours ago • 377 comments

The people complaining that Cory Booker’s speech was performative are the same ones hoping to go viral for having the funniest sign at a protest.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

baseball beginning again means I need to add the dot org when I search balls and strikes

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Improbably, this program is still up and running—I emailed a request on 3/21 and I just got a FedEx notif to expect a delivery from HHS on Monday! Tl,dr—if you have neighbors, colleagues, service workers, etc, who’ll help take 300 (or more!) Covid tests off your hands, HHS will send ’em. For free!

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

A shorter version of my thread: for chrissakes can we pay attention to what fascism does instead of what it says? No, Trump isn’t trying stupidly and failing to revive U.S. industry. He’s trying quite effectively to burn it down so he can rule the ashes. Seriously. That’s the plan.

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor laws…

submitted 19 hours ago • 295 comments

I sure hope the next time there's an election the Democrats' messaging is less "America needs a strong Republican Party" and more "these corrupt idiots have driven the country off a cliff every single time they've gotten power in living memory."

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

Also, please memorize this: "I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." That, "am I free to leave?", and identifying yourself in stop-and-ID states are the only things you should ever say to police. Ever.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Oh my god… this is real. www.kron4.com/news/propose...

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

what makes humans great is that of all the species to ever live we invented subsistence farming and then immediately invented everything else we ever did in order to not have to do subsistence farming

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

And people keep asking why I moved away…

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Thank you for this. I have already shared it to friends

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So many GOP governors are just mustache-twirlingly corrupt

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 2 days ago • 1035 comments

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

submitted 5 days ago • 596 comments

“Going forward, the department will be led by a board mostly appointed by the Republican governor. The new law, which passed with the support of police unions, also requires St. Louis to commit 25 percent of its budget to policing by 2028.”

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

If the US survives Trump, it will need post-war Europe level rebuilding.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I used to tell student organizers that one thing they had going for them was "everybody loves students." It used to be that criticism of student protest was typically good-natured, even friendly. That's no longer true, and "Free Speech Warriors" telling endless lies is a big reason why.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

10:50 a.m.: WisDems issue a press release saying Elon Musk "committed a blatant felony" in his post about his plans to "hand over two checks for a million dollars each" in Wisconsin on Sunday. Just over a half hour later, reports show Musk deleted the tweet.

submitted 8 days ago • 121 comments

I knew Steve Harvey was an asshole who cheats on all his wives and hates gay people, but there are some real big mask of sanity slips in his relationship advice for women book.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

submitted 8 days ago • 119 comments

Murderbot's pronouns are so it/its that the Japanese translator had to create an entirely new first-person pronoun for it: 弊機 (one among many amazing and interesting translation choices that I swear I'm going to write about one of these days).

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

it is not enough for Republicans to be removed from power. if we want to have a country after, then a lot of these people need to go to prison

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

submitted 10 days ago • 437 comments

honestly? Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The Democrat who announces a primary challenge to Dick Durbin today, rather than waiting for him to announce his retirement, will raise $10 million in a week.

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

If I had a restaurant, I'd have an entree that would be a ribeye steak topped with garlic sautéed mushrooms, served with black beans & rice and creamed spinach. Back of house we'd probably just call it the Shark Week Special.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Today would be a good day to go back and listen to this excellent If Books Could Kill episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

That JB Pritzker sounds relevatory reflects how far a whole generation of Democratic politicians strayed from the absolute basics of electoral politics: say what you mean, act like you sincerely like your constituents, and don't constantly bring up how much you like and agree with your opponents.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

LibGen was the medium from which data was scraped, not the thing doing the data-scraping. Target anger at the right people. Complexities of copyright notwithstanding, before it became Meta’s training tool it enabled a great many people to access academic resources they otherwise could not have.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 15 days ago • 3869 comments

Any pub or show not running or reporting on this comment right here is absolutely caping for this administration. Everyone knows education is the most kitchen table ass talking point ever and specifically saying disabled kids shouldn't have access to it affects so many families

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

Persist Resist Assist oh boy, look, I do mean that in a Mutual Aid way but my brain has been poisoned to put the emphasis on there incorrectly and cue up Sir Mix-a-Lot...

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Time moves in layers- 2025

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

America’s now run by people who thought this was a good idea

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Something you're never taught about. Guess why en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthr...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

This, by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, is very informative

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

Reminder that today is a good day to hex a fascist.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.

submitted 18 days ago • 100 comments

In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...

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