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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

submitted 14 hours ago • 831 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

replacing our next town hall toolkit with a video of this guy 🫡😭

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Come work for an award-winning news organization with a robust business model and no layoffs in the 25 year history of the organization. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Please play this for your maga relatives. Then ask them to call their reps, all of them. Because Edolf is coming their Social Security... and fast.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

submitted 9 days ago • 230 comments

This is a helpful thread

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

"Musk, with his arrogance and smug superiority, is the final boss of a culture that has for too long heralded STEM as a new vanguard of the intellectual elite while dismissing and trivializing the humanities as frivolous." Hannah Yoest:

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

REPOST: We love comics and so does Julia Shangguan, a Ph.D. student in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Chicago! For The Xylom, she shares a visual journey of how she embraced the intersection of science and art: www.thexylom.com/post/perspec...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and insistence on loyalty to President Donald Trump" was just installed as general counsel of OPM, the agency that sent out the resignation letters. www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

My god I’m old.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Exactly.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

some reporters have been too loose with phrasing like DEI. makes it sound like it's all abt post-George Floyd murder stuff. As he notes, they're ditching anti-discrimination policies that go back to LBJ.

submitted 31 days ago • 65 comments

Are there any parents of teens here? I want TikTok off their phones!!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Have you heard this good news? As of January 1, every single one Chicago's 400+ municipal buildings — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on 100% renewable energy grist.org/cities/chica...

submitted 51 days ago • 416 comments

Gaetz was a very obviously unqualified, even dangerous, nominee. Absurd. Ridiculous. What does that say about the person/the people who put his name forward or ever supported him to become Attorney General of the United States? We’re entitled to know - what was the basis for your support?

submitted 61 days ago • 87 comments

For anyone wondering why out of the blue Trump is suddenly obsessing about Panama… www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The most egregious example of wealth being used to frustrate democratic self-gov't may be the campaign by billionaires to shove school vouchers down the throats of voters who clearly don't like them. My column, no sub. req, at: georgiarecorder.com/2024/12/19/b...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

submitted 65 days ago • 1060 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/o...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

This has ALWAYS been what is going to happen. The way that tariffs work makes them perfect vehicles for presidential corruption. If you're on team Trump you get a waiver. If you're not, well ... sucks to be you. That's why the inaugural committee is cleaning up with CEOs.

submitted 66 days ago • 151 comments

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

submitted 67 days ago • 40 comments

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 68 days ago • 114 comments

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submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This whole interview was, let’s say, revealing.

submitted 88 days ago • 66 comments

I don’t think of Bluesky as an echo chamber. It’s the gathering of the reality-based community and it needs as many members as possible. Not everyone has the same perspective on that reality—that’s pluralism— but everyone is held to basic standards of fact, evidence, and reason.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments