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Pay attention, America.

submitted 4 days ago • 753 comments

TAX THE CHURCHES TAX THE RICH REMOVE THE CAP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS HANDS OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID AND SNAP AGREE? ✋

submitted 5 days ago • 1047 comments

Keep this in mind about African Americans—this is not our first. Our ancestors fought for the freedoms people take for granted today. White people didn’t just wake up one day and decide to hand out rights to non-white people. It was a battle—hard-won, paid for in blood and sweat—never given freely.

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 2444 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 6 days ago • 1588 comments

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 8 days ago • 1262 comments

I wrote about moral courage, and what those who have it have in common asharangappa.substack.com/p/fearless-s...

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

I try to keep the language on here… PG… but in this case i can’t. You, Trump, are a traitorous piece of shit

submitted 9 days ago • 2035 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 9 days ago • 647 comments

Paul McCartney closing out SNL 50 with the Abbey Road medley live in NYC was pure magic. I feel so lucky to exist in a time where I get to hear him perform.

submitted 11 days ago • 237 comments

It’s FUKKKING tiring already!

submitted 12 days ago • 769 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 11 days ago • 2779 comments

President Musk fired more FAA employees - the IT people who manage the air traffic controls. I am canceling several business trips. I don’t trust flying while these scumbags fuck up air safety. No one should.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

This Michael Steele explosion was worth scraping off of X and posting here: x.com/MikeSington/...

submitted 11 days ago • 155 comments

Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏

submitted 11 days ago • 117 comments

He’s right again.

submitted 12 days ago • 433 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 13 days ago • 1689 comments

Quite the difference in the crowd reaction during the U.S. and Canadian national anthems during the 4 Nations Face-Off tonight

submitted 12 days ago • 522 comments

Count me in, ladies!! 💙💙

submitted 12 days ago • 2411 comments

Canada has never been more united

submitted 12 days ago • 1666 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 13 days ago • 5654 comments

My former law school dean, Harold Koh, used to admonish incoming law students to "Never let your skill exceed your virtue." A while back, I wrote about how lawyers, in particular, have skills they can use for good or evil. Reupping here cafe.com/notes-from-c...

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 316 comments

Friday night feature: Prince was a master of multiple genres, blending rock, funk, R&B, and pop. So much raw emotion expressed in his complex riffs. He had it all - the whole deal, an amazing artist, a “Sexy M.F.” I loved him. His presence was second to none. youtu.be/fnvV6z1J-KI?...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We need to make #CourageIsContagious a trending hashtag and amplify these acts of integrity, bravery, and fidelity to the rule of law. Thank you, SDNY attorneys, for leading by example

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

tRump just fired more than 850 employees in the Indian Health Services. Includes: 90+ physicians 350 nurses 25 nurse practitioners ~20 dentists 43 dental assistants 85+ pharmacists 45 lab technicians 15+ service area chief executives or their deputies. This will have deadly impacts

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At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 14 days ago • 862 comments

I really do feel like I’m losing my mind.

submitted 14 days ago • 919 comments

www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

NEW: By halting the election certification for a seat on its own court, the North Carolina Supreme Court revealed its anti-democratic behavior, causing concern for the future of free and fair elections in the Tar Heel State and beyond.

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 1160 comments

It's kind of weird trying to tell most people that we're in a huge political crisis right now, being led by criminals who are openly defying the law. I feel like I'm living in a different reality from those who are content to ignore it all and won't care unless it directly affects them.

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

Great advice from @mark.bsky.social today: if you see something, save something. @archive.org has a free tool on their website that allows anyone to save a webpage they fear might disappear. There's even a browser extension that allows you to save every page you visit, if you are so inclined.

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

A brisk message from career public servants accustomed to more polite discourse to the traitorous Emil Bove:

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

WATCH THIS CASE!!!!!

submitted 15 days ago • 128 comments

Forever, the courts have been an important arbiter of what a President can, and can’t do. That is under threat now: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-like...

submitted 15 days ago • 380 comments

As you know, I've been in communication with hundreds of federal workers & I've noticed a pattern. This is totally anecdotal, but I feel like I need to say something. For at least 5 agencies, the payment systems went offline briefly & were then restored - all around the time DOGE was there. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 537 comments

Good advice ⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 509 comments

"Making Sense of an Unsettling World" I'll be in conversation with Ivan Krastev @iwm.at this evening, Feb 13, 18:00 CET / 12:00 ET. Livestream available: www.youtube.com/live/Bc6hZqB...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

You’d think the damned attorney general would know the difference between criminal charges and a civil suit.

submitted 15 days ago • 938 comments

Good morning. 🥶 It’s cold again in TX. Everywhere, really (non-weather related). Also dealing with medical issues on the home front so won’t be online much. But want to leave you with this: No, you’re not crazy. It’s all happening. We see it. We feel it. But we are legion. 🗣️

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

god this guy is an idiot. like, a stone cold idiot who sincerely believes that war fighting and preparedness is about having the biggest dick

submitted 15 days ago • 5005 comments

Laughing Kremlin Insiders Say Trump Has Given Putin Greenlight to Expand the War My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-kre...

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

“Trump has packed so much illegal, unconstitutional, lawless activity into three-and-half weeks that the press, politicians, and many Americans have already forgotten or normalized activity that can only be described as a coup.” — Robert Hubbell Newsletter Feb. 13, 2025

submitted 15 days ago • 112 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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