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This is my gardening technique

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Next time someone in Congress glibly dismisses your need for healthcare, remember that they have some of the best healthcare in the country. And it was paid for by YOU.

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In addition to this being appalling from Sen. Gallego, the fact that the senior editor at The Dispatch frames it as coming from a "rising star" Dem and in opposition to "progressives" — as opposed to in opposition to virtually every elected Dem except Suozzi, Moulton, and Newsom — is trash.

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

Noticeable that teenagers routinely demonstrate an ability to speak more clearly about right and wrong than almost every elected leader in the Democratic Party. (See also: gun control, gay rights, racism, etc.)

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

i make jokes here, but the republican plan for medicaid will kill millions of americans. that's not hyperbole, it's fact. they will strip coverage under nonsense pretenses and at the end of it, people you will know will suffer and fucking die. that's the future they want for us.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

"I hate that the thanks I get for donating to a Democratic candidate is having my phone number sold on a list to a hundred other campaigns, all of whom send me passive-aggressive texts asking for my donation, often weirdly attempting a guilt trip, as though I knew them."

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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 23 days ago • 631 comments

Per @thorbenson.bsky.social, I will now be calling her "the Vanna White of shitters"

submitted 25 days ago • 512 comments

While DE school districts are smack in the middle of hiring and recruitment season, the state’s jobs portal - joindelawareschools.org - has apparently expired. Whoops …

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This graph represents tens of thousands of active NSF grants. About 14% of them were awarded in 2020 or earlier, yet none were terminated. All 1044 cancellations occurred since 2021. The odds against such an occurrence arising by chance is p<0.0001, less than 1 in 10,000.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

I’m astounded at how outclassed the Dem leadership is for this moment. Totally unprepared and unable to respond to one of the greatest crises of American history.

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

the entire democratic party needs to bury every clinton consultant at sea and just go pritzker mode. how much bigger a softball can they give you than a suit saying “we want your entire lineage in factories forever”

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Damn, @axios. JD and his family is a problematic foreign power?

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The one we’ve all been waiting for. One if by land. Two if by sea. Today, the Old North Church rang its bells to mark the 250th anniversary of the lantern signal that launched Paul Revere’s midnight ride — and lit the fuse of the American Revolution. #LetFreedomRing

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 45 days ago • 232 comments

When I see Democrats playing gotcha with the abuses and violations of this admin, I wonder, "Do you think this is a fucking game? Do you think the ref is gonna' come and call a foul and make it all right? What the actual fuck do you think is happening here?"

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

World Pride, which is being held in DC this year, has just issued a travel advisory warning international trans visitors to avoid coming. www.nbcnews.com/video/worldp...

submitted 51 days ago • 25 comments

Pleased to share my next book project: PHILADELPHIA’S FIGHTING FLEET: WAR STORIES OF 25 SHIPS FROM AMERICA’S FIRST NAVY YARD It’ll have stories from WW II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War about the ships built in Philly and their crews. (Photo: USS New Jersey)

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

You think???

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. If these people gave a shit about "bringing good jobs back to America," they would be fighting to improve the quality of the jobs we already have. There's nothing inherent to the work of a taxi driver or waitress that has to be less secure than a 1950s factory worker.

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

I love this for them Go fasch lose cash!

submitted 57 days ago • 17 comments

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!

submitted 58 days ago • 1827 comments

Red Wave

submitted 58 days ago • 194 comments

George HW Bush: Recession Clinton: Recovery George W Bush: Recession Obama: Recovery Trump 1: Recession Biden: Recovery Trump 2: Recession hmmm, nope, can't see any pattern here. Then again I'm not a(n) historian trained to assess meaning from the past.

submitted 59 days ago • 29 comments

The Free Library of Philadelphia is hosting several workshops in the coming weeks for federal workers. These events will provide various services to federal employees impacted by DOGE cuts, or who are experiencing job instability. billypenn.com/2025/04/02/f...

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

When hiring, the State of Delaware posts a full pay range. Behind the scenes, it caps a new hire's pay at much less than that. That bait-and-switch needs to change. Read more: delawarebusinesstimes.com/news/viewpoi...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

submitted 60 days ago • 843 comments

Today and every day, You belong here 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransDayOfVisibility

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Four of the seven “towns” in this article are not towns. #themoreyouknow

submitted 63 days ago • 0 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 64 days ago • 669 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 68 days ago • 1138 comments

His senior national security team is walking around planning war strikes on an unsecure channel while using emojis like a bunch of 8th-graders. Oh, and that’s after adding a journalist to their group chat. Read on.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

submitted 71 days ago • 127 comments

Their old road is rapidly aging.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Oh HELL no. This trans-hating schmuck can go stick it. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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ICYMI: Trump has dropped investigations and enforcement actions against 89 lawbreaking corporations, including: -42 cases at the CFPB -15 cases at the DOJ -6 cases at the EEOC -7 crypto cases at the SEC It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.

submitted 85 days ago • 208 comments

You've read the stories about Gavin Newsom throwing transgender people under the bus in sports, prisons, and gender affirming care for trans youth. Now watch the video and listen. It's as bad as it sounds. He betrayed trans people and threw us under a bus driven by Charlie fucking Kirk.

submitted 87 days ago • 108 comments

Gavin Newsom is a piece of conniving crap.

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