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A retired English teacher, Social Democrat, news junkie, and non-influencer, I left X and have come here to post a little, read a lot, respond often, and celebrate a healthy online community.
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"Go ahead bigots; we won't stand in your way." - Trump, Bondi, et. al. joycevance.substack.com/p/losing-doj...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

submitted 7 days ago • 168 comments

Native American land loss in the United States of America from 1776 to 1930.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

From the producers of “Honey, I shrunk the economy” and “Throw Medicaid from the train”… Brace yourself for their next horror reboot… “Black Monday: The Fuckening” Releases tomorrow nationwide.

submitted 18 days ago • 345 comments

I wrote a poem.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Every high school teacher knows those boys will get bored after much is torn down. And then their parents will sue and move them to a private school if you try to discipline them.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I'm 74 years old, and it suddenly occurs to me that my generation of sad and waning boomers is the generation blessed to live between the two uprisings of modern fascism.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The real story is that unnamed unknown Yemeni children died as a result of that cringe Signal disaster. Somehow that seems to be lost in all this.

submitted 29 days ago • 132 comments

"She bases her promise of seven blessings (for the gift of $1,000) on Exodus 23, which ironically begins with these words: “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness." baptistnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes! The obvious solution had never even occurred to him.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

submitted 36 days ago • 181 comments

Attacks on DEI are attacks on civil rights themselves. These aren't dog whistles. The are KKK rallying points.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I can't find these hats at any of my local haberdasheries, but they're all the rage among Swiss protesting Trump's foreign policy.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"It is undoubtedly true that the Trump administration won’t stop at denationalizing trans people, but it is also true that a majority of Americans are safe from these kinds of attacks, just as a majority of Germans were.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The big question is how to get that 36.32% off their ass, come election time.

submitted 48 days ago • 9 comments

Where will rifts emerge between GOP governors and Trump? I would argue you need to look at the planned overhaul of the Bead program. GOP governors and (some) senators want fiber. Fiber is what can power data centers and can't be turned off. Fiber creates jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments