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dreid99.bsky.social
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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 2 days ago • 565 comments

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 2 days ago • 245 comments

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Kill. Me. Now.

submitted 4 days ago • 612 comments

Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 13 days ago • 576 comments

For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for. Yep. White South Africans. Beyond parody.

submitted 15 days ago • 130 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 15 days ago • 271 comments

Former Kamala Harris aide responds: “Deeply unserious people who want to shirk their responsibility. Clowns.”

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective.

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

HIV, transgender care, climate change and other federal websites go dark www.axios.com/2025/01/31/h...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 21 days ago • 274 comments

"...NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking." @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 24 days ago • 101 comments

Kinda perfect that people wrung their hands about not politicizing the DCA tragedy and Trump rolled out with "the gay dude who did DEI killed those people"

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

submitted 24 days ago • 289 comments

Here’s the thing about fascism: it’s actually a spiritual project. That’s why when you say “migration is great for the economy”, fascists don’t care. They think “well, the idea of racial purity is more appealing to my soul than a strong economy, so screw the economy”. That was Hitler’s argument.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

Rent rose by 20 percent across L.A. County after fires. That’s illegal. wapo.st/40NhjKa

submitted 26 days ago • 26 comments

PETRO: “.. Your blockade does not scare me .. I resisted torture and I resist you. .. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.” #Colombia 🇨🇴

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

“The rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are "criminals" simply by virtue of being undocumented is misleading and disingenuous. Crossing the border without proper documentation is a civil violation, not a criminal one. It’s comparable to receiving a parking ticket or speeding ticket”

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Here's what we import from Colombia that will get socked with 25%/50% tariffs if imposed . . .

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

A big one today with @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. It's about Jan 6th but its really about trying to diagnose what precisely is broken about our information ecosystem and why everything feels so stuck. It's about how the internet is a justification machine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 48 days ago • 65 comments