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🗣️ "No vouchers! Fund our schools!" Texans are filling up the state Capitol! Call your Representative NOW to tell them to vote NO on Greg Abbott's private school voucher scam: bit.ly/stoptxvouchers #txlege

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 11 days ago • 940 comments

“1950s manufacturing economy? Best I can do is 1890s manufacturing economy.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The first Democratic candidate that runs on the messaging of "Look. ALL of these losers should be in jail and if you elect me I will do everything I can to put them in jail" will win their primary and then their general in a landslide.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is a German woman being marched past the bodies of Holocaust victims. After World War II, it was a common refrain among German civilians: They just didn't know. For that reason, many were forced by Allied troops to bear witness. Like this. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 23 days ago • 1069 comments

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

submitted 27 days ago • 123 comments

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

submitted 28 days ago • 552 comments

🔥 JUST NOW: “LET KIDS LEARN!!” A Tennessee House committee disrupted, forced to adjourn over Lamberth & Watson’s cruel bill to keep undocumented kids out of schools (aimed at SCOTUS) — as the entire audience repeatedly recited the pledge of allegiance. 🇺🇸

submitted 29 days ago • 191 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 32 days ago • 713 comments

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

So the protests are working better than anyone imagined.

submitted 37 days ago • 20 comments

Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

submitted 55 days ago • 171 comments

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

submitted 55 days ago • 424 comments

🐺⛰️📚 ✊ 📖 The Defiant - Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America by @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social Bookshop Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... Library: search.worldcat.org #booksky #politics #protest #civilrights #history

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 58 days ago • 1919 comments

In Ferguson, they swept phone data from the crowd, then later drove down streets and if there were 2 or more of those people in a house, they raided it.

submitted 61 days ago • 24 comments

Worth remembering: the richest guy in the world has spent the last year and a half absolutely begging people to call it X, but everyone you know still calls it Twitter—and thinks it sucks.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

submitted 72 days ago • 1175 comments

"Even the employees came out to record the show on their phones," said the frontman for Knuckleadz, the Whittier street punk band that performed inside McDonald's on Slauson and Central Avenues. By @theglutster.bsky.social lataco.com/punk-band-pl...

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

submitted 81 days ago • 456 comments

Every. Single. Time.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

In case you're looking for an indie bookstore that stands on business, Lit. on Fire Books stopped selling JK Rowling books in something like 2018, stopped selling Neil Gaiman in July of 2024, & as a bonus I've never given a dime to Colleen Hoover lol. #Boycott #NeilGaiman #JKRowling #ColleenHoover

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

This is just one article about the environmental impact of AI systems… and just one reason for my very strong feelings that no, we should NOT all be using this and teaching our students how to do so, let alone incorporating it into classes and assignments.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I really do believe AI is inherently fascist. Both the resources it takes to generate and the soullessness of its output render it entirely irredeemable, but it also hollows out any meaning we can get from communication and art and reduces human life to an aesthetic it wears like a skinsuit.

submitted 105 days ago • 72 comments

Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came after the attack. It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.

submitted 117 days ago • 207 comments

Teamsters strike at Amazon begins tomorrow at 6am ET

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

submitted 122 days ago • 114 comments

New screenprint from Justseeds artist Aaron Hughes - Solidaridad Sin Fronteras! justseeds.org/product/soli...

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

MAGA owns the Washington Post now. The Los Angeles Times. Wall Street Journal. Fox News. 200 local Sinclair TV stations. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Amazon. Google will kiss the ring. MAGA owns the news you see, the social algorithms you use, the products you're shown and, soon, internet search.

submitted 126 days ago • 10 comments

a grim case study in how the A.I. rush is not only going to exploit our history but attempt to bury it altogether, from @tomscocca.bsky.social: www.indignity.net/the-washingt...

submitted 128 days ago • 5 comments

My take on the Hunter Biden news is that trump has proposed creating a network of concentration camps to deal with the undocumented millions in our country

submitted 137 days ago • 155 comments

Among the funniest developments in these generally bleak times is the attempt, by obvious frauds and bootlickers, to identify themselves as "disruptors."

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s appointments are dangerous and worthy of attention. The strategy of theft through saboteur appointments, however, is nothing new. Reagan, from whom Trump plagiarized his slogan, was the gold standard, an almost immediate backlash to the many federal victories of ’30s-’60s era movements. (1/)

submitted 144 days ago • 3 comments