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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Letter to the editor in today's NY Times advocates for gradeless education! She even links to relevant articles and research, including posts by @jessifer.bsky.social and @alfiekohn.bsky.social #edusky #ungrading www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

There’ll be a lot of eyebrows not raised over this.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Seriously though, WTF is wrong with Rep. Nancy Mace? A constituent asked her when she plans to hold a town hall, and in response, she told him ‘Fu*k you’ and berated him.

submitted 10 days ago • 303 comments

Gives me the shivers. 250 years to the day after, the church bells ringing the alarm at Lexington, calling for defenders in what became the battle that began the American Revolution, Same bell.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

For what it is worth, I think you're seeing actual principles being unearthed by realignment. The R->D folks really believed in liberty and freedom from government overreach, and believe it still and since the Democratic party is now clearly the party of Liberty, there they stand.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Emerging pet peeve: It’s Salvadoran. No El. Not “El Salvadorian.” Salvadoran.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Blue checks are coming to Bluesky and I think, depending on how the system is managed, it can be useful for the reason articulated below. A necessary, though not sufficient, part of our ascent out of authoritarianism will involve restoring real sanctions against bullshitters who knowingly lie.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

submitted 14 days ago • 948 comments

Disgusting

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Community College of Aurora recently canceled its citizenship classes due to the loss of a federal grant. Let's start them back up again. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations here: www.coloradogives.org/story/Eiyhlf

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 16 days ago • 296 comments

America, and Americans, are at our best when we recognize that citizenship is a set of duties we owe to ourselves, each other, the nation, and past and future generations. We are at our worst when we see citizenship as merely a source of privileges and benefits to be jealously hoarded.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 18 days ago • 224 comments

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 21 days ago • 93 comments

This is high art

submitted 24 days ago • 542 comments

This is quite literally white supremacist propaganda, and the dissemination of which is official US policy.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Pax Americana rested on three pillars: US military power & defensive alliances, US economic power & free trade, and US diplomatic clout and support for liberal democracy/the rule of law. All three have essentially evaporated in the space of 10 weeks. The American Century (1917-2025) is over.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

submitted 26 days ago • 423 comments

How to tell if your President is a piece of shit, Chapter 851.

submitted 26 days ago • 278 comments

Reminder: as the Dow is tanking faster than 2008, and four dead servicemen arrive at Dover, Trump is golfing: with the saudis

submitted 26 days ago • 654 comments

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 27 days ago • 1193 comments

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

submitted 28 days ago • 300 comments

How to (Self-)Destroy a Hegemon in 6 Easy Steps: 1. Wreck academia + science infrastructure 2. Erect massive tariff barriers + supercharge econ inequality 3. Re-segregate your (very) diverse military 4. Destroy elements of soft power (e.g., USAID) 5. Dismantle your democracy 6. Nuke immigration

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

I know I'm a terribly tedious war bore, but it is utterly nauseating that - within living memory of the Second World War and innumerable other wars - for the president of a country as territorially secure as the US to speak like this.

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

Yes I know the 22nd amendment only says “election” but its whole point was to put term limits on serving as president; it didn’t say more because no one thought the country would ever become so craven; we don’t do that here. These quislings are going to “well actually” us into a banana republic.

submitted 30 days ago • 45 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 32 days ago • 670 comments

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

submitted 33 days ago • 76 comments

The person who Mike Waltz intended to invite to the Signal chat instead of Jeff Goldberg must be a real zero since they didn’t say anything and no one even missed them lol

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

Really does seem like an urgent question for civil-military relations whether this was the decision to execute the attack or they pulled up their socks and went back to trump for a go/no-go at some later moment (which we have no indication of)

submitted 36 days ago • 18 comments

There's a nice collection of people to block showing up in the replies to this first-class post from Rep. Crockett.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

A story that should make American cheeks burn with shame. apnews.com/article/cana...

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments