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I completely agree with this, and with the thread. If you don't discuss racism as a giant motivating factor (not the only one, but a huge one), you can't cover this administration, these people, or their party accurately.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

Doing some arts and crafts. See you soon, Long Beach Tesla

submitted 3 hours ago • 41 comments

Really interesting that this (more sparsely attended) event focused on Trump's sell-out to Russia. I expect fury abt the DOGE cuts. But this is a bit of a surprise.

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

This weekend, join the #TeslaTakedown! We have dozens of protests all over the country and worldwide. Find one in your area or create an event at the link 👇

submitted 8 hours ago • 25 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 3 hours ago • 142 comments

How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this?

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 comments

I must have talked to half a dozen white political reporters over the years who have said "You're wrong! It's not like that! I have relatives who voted for Trump and..." and then they go blank, like they're buffering or something. It is, every single time, a you're-so-close-to-getting-it moment.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Republicans=Nazis

submitted 2 hours ago • 31 comments

I'd guess this "offer" came with some serious, undisclosed threats too. Probably personally to Ze and broadly to Ukraine's future. This is not a negotiation, but extortion.

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

At the Long Beach Tesla Takedown, lots of folks out here (I’d estimate probably 40-50 so far) and lots of support from cars driving by. Come out and join!

submitted 2 hours ago • 37 comments

The Trump administration is canceling presentations including book talks on important civil rights issues at the Carter Center & possibly elsewhere. Let’s celebrate these authors by buying & reading their books. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

submitted 2 hours ago • 81 comments

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

submitted 2 hours ago • 319 comments

In case anyone has any doubt whose idea this is, Musk sent similar emails to employees shortly after buying Twitter www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-ex...

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 2 hours ago • 247 comments

The unqualified Pete Hegseth fires a Black four-star general with a deep record of service. As if Gen. Charles Brown was just some D.E.I. hire. As if Hegseth is not some white hire, lacking in merit.

submitted 5 hours ago • 76 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 7 hours ago • 134 comments

Again for those in the back

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 120 comments

“..many businesses & institutions have caved..it feels like we're not..far frm a climate where the presence of any Black person or non-white, non-male, non-abled person in a company or org could be accused of being a beneficiary of an illegal racial integration scheme. Ths is where we're at.” 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 hours ago • 83 comments

I've heard Trump tell the "Raizin" Caine story numerous times. It's incredibly telling about how he sees the military.

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

And so incomprehensibly cruel & brutish that two mediocre drug-addled madmen are tearing our democracy limb from limb.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I’ll say, I never thought Elon was interesting enough to be influential. But it turns out all he needed to do was be the highest profile person ever to bring back Nazism, and every piece of shit alive would crawl out from under their rocks to do the same.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

WATCH: "There is hope." Despite Trump's attacks on DEI during Black History Month, @katiephang.bsky.social highlights the lawsuits challenging the President's overreach. #KatiePhangShow

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

honestly i genuinely worry because this would be the perfect time for a revisionist power to make moves in the midst of chaos

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 20 hours ago • 113 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 17 hours ago • 316 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1811 comments

"We [the Executive Branch] are the federal law" is a dark horse candidate for most Hitlerian Trump quote from 2025. Surprised this did not get even more media coverage and provoke even more outrage. The literal, actual truth, of course, is that the federal government has three co-equal branches.

submitted 15 hours ago • 74 comments

Um. “The I-Team also reached out Thursday afternoon to the alleged victim, who we’re not naming, but who is not the congressman’s wife.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

Current mood

submitted 14 hours ago • 383 comments

An impactful read from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social; the first book I’ve picked up in quite some time that I couldn’t put down. I’d put this high on the list of required reading for 2025 if we’re to cultivate a strong understanding of how we got here, and how we move forward. Some excerpts:

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Elon has intervened in two legal requests in the US: one for Trump, and another for likely suspect leakers. A description of his efforts to stall the Trump warrant is in the Jack Smith report that Aileen Cannon is refusing to release.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

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submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

Wrote a little something in the mighty @rollingstone.com about #TeslaTakedown. In anticipation of our upcoming second weekend of protests! Join or create an event for ANY day and ANY country at Teslatakedown.com. Download our flyers and background to get informed and get involved!

submitted 20 hours ago • 45 comments

Horrible www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 17 hours ago • 551 comments

Patel: "Anyone that wishes to do harm to our way of life and our citizens, here and abroad, will face the full wrath of the DOJ & FBI. If you seek to hide in any corner of this country or planet, we will put on the world's largest manhunt & we will find you, & we will decide your end state. Not you"

submitted 1 day ago • 1137 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 9 hours ago • 554 comments

Nothing says "coup" quite like a loyalty test for the military! Taken to its logical conclusion: Mump will direct the US military against American citizens. Congress, are you still happy giving up all of your power and authority?

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Part of the preparations for using the American military on American streets to commit violence against American citizens. Full caudillo. bsky.app/profile/avin...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

🚨Thread - start from the top

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Every time I see a headline like this, I check to see whether it was Maggie or Swan bylined.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

Not an exaggeration. We are living through a geopolitical earthquake and the future of the planet depends on people recognizing that and, sadly, that the United States government is no longer on the side of democracy, the rule of law, the international order, progress, security or decency.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments