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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 22 days ago • 856 comments

Good. Glad to see the organisers have the guts to do this. Pride is a protest against oppression, you can't invite the oppressors to it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

If you want to work for a law firm that will never bow down to Trump or stay silent when he attacks the legal system, we are hiring. www.elias.law/careers

submitted 93 days ago • 123 comments

Efficiency, they said.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

We need to do to Senator Chuck Schumer what was done to President Biden last summer. We need a non-stop drumbeat of complaints to force him out of his leadership position.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 96 days ago • 60 comments

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submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

It’s outrageous that Trump is blocking the Associated Press from White House events. But there’s an upside if the press becomes less dependent on what politicians dole out. After all, journalism shouldn’t look like feeding time at the aquarium. My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

submitted 120 days ago • 40 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 122 days ago • 119 comments

This is a terrible move @msnbc.com. Terrible. The @joy.msnbc.com was a critical part of the evening line-up and @joyannreid.bsky.social brings trenchant political analysis that no one else in the evening line-up has brought. I urge you to reconsider this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 122 days ago • 505 comments

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 122 days ago • 135 comments

Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments

After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care. The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!

submitted 125 days ago • 35 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 123 days ago • 256 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 123 days ago • 13 comments

“The fanatics will never leave, and they're going to do a huge amount of damage but out of this damage will come some kind of shift of mind.” - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social to Waj and Francesca's YouTube show for Zeteo: 'America Unhinged'. Watch/share/subscribe:

submitted 123 days ago • 56 comments

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 123 days ago • 35 comments

For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 123 days ago • 59 comments

For those of you who have noted that Substack is basically a Nazi Bar and you’re looking for a place to move your writing to, the info in this thread may be an option worth looking into.

submitted 128 days ago • 16 comments

In other words: if you participated in the insurrection, you now get a pass on your other crimes that were discovered while you were being investigated for insurrection. For immigrants, the law. For my supporters, everything. apple.news/ATiXJFDLmQlm...

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

Before it's taken offline, I want you to know about the NASA website where you can learn about the stratospheric ozone hole and check on how it's doing. It has cool movies like this one, showing the growth of the ozone hole during the Austral spring last year. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/SH.html

submitted 123 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE cuts 9/11-related cancer research funding, which FDNY commissioner calls "a tragedy for all Americans." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 124 days ago • 179 comments

Thank you for getting it right this evening and for pushing back on the bizarre and dangerous ideas Michael Knowles shared about trans people, @amnanawaz.bsky.social and @pbsnews.bsky.social. My @pbs.org contribution lives to see another day.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

submitted 124 days ago • 175 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 125 days ago • 224 comments

Ironic that Trump built his political rise on birtherism, only to install a non-natural-born citizen as President.

submitted 127 days ago • 12 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 125 days ago • 1018 comments

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 125 days ago • 59 comments

If I hear @amnanawaz.bsky.social or any other presenter on @pbsnews.bsky.social, @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social, or any other @pbs.org show falsely claim that Dump won a majority ever again, I will cancel my monthly contribution. Facts matter. You have a responsibility to do better. 49.8% ≠ majority

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

@amnanawaz.bsky.social @pbsnews.bsky.social Please STOP SAYING A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS VOTED FOR THE DUMP AGENDA. He won a PLURALITY, not a majority. I know you know better, which makes this especially galling. Stop contributing to the lies already circulating in our discourse.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Poacher's paradise

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Unfortunately, this is the last 70+ years of conservative politics if we count white flight from public schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It was the essence of Reaganism in the 1980s as well

submitted 127 days ago • 19 comments

NOAA funds much of SC's climate research. What's at stake if the agency is gutted? ->Post and Courier | #Climate | More info from EcoSearch

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

🎯 ‘It’s a relay, find your team’

submitted 128 days ago • 54 comments