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Democracy is not a spectator sport. Sue the bastard. March. Pester your elected officials. Keep up.

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Today Rs will say public media is a huge burden on taxpayers. This 2022 study found that “despite having the world’s largest gross domestic product (GDP), America spends a comparatively miniscule fraction – less than half of a percent – on public media funding.” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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Miraculous!

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Court records reveal SpaceX insiders’ intense preoccupation with secrecy when it comes to China and detail a network of middlemen peddling SpaceX shares to eager Chinese investors. New @propublica.org @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social

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👇🏽”That’s not efficiency, it’s cruelty and chaos” @ossoff.bsky.social is really good at this

submitted 7 days ago • 251 comments

“Many of the tech billionaires who have merged with Trump believe democracy is an outdated software system that must be replaced. They want a future in which tech elites, armed with all-powerful A.I. systems, are the primary governing force of the planet.” www.thenerdreich.com/existential-...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Your (Putin) wish is my (Trump) command. European officials say the Trump administration has scaled back its involvement in enforcing Russia sanctions, particularly in working groups aimed at stopping sanction circumvention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

I have a few other theories

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.

submitted 10 days ago • 84 comments

“That center-left Democrats have landed on “just let us do technocracy again, but smarter” is another example of a party of elitists in denial about why they are so unpopular.”https://www.splinter.com/abundance-liberalism-is-just-a-new-way-for-technocratic-democrats-to-miss-the-point

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“4. You’ve lived through several waves of feminism, and they’ve culminated in two women who were among the most qualified candidates in US presidential history losing to the same misogynistic con artist.” Ouch.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

man we not gonna have any electricity or monuments in NY 😭

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

“We may retain the appearance of a constitutional democracy even as the rot corrodes the freedoms and values that give that term its weight and meaning. We’ve already reached the stage, after all, where the ruling regime attempts to deport one of its most vocal and vulnerable critics.”

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Attacks on universities are attacks on democracy and human progress. “University leaders would help themselves, and the country, by emerging from their defensive crouches and making a forthright case for inquiry, research, science and knowledge.”

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

The State Department has also been forced to freeze the Fulbright Program and and Critical Languages Scholarships, among other exchange programs, because nothing says "America First" like "we don't care about understanding other places anymore"

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

How it started. How it’s going.

submitted 28 days ago • 211 comments

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

submitted 30 days ago • 336 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 30 days ago • 3377 comments

How it started/How it's going

submitted 30 days ago • 366 comments

The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 36 days ago • 451 comments

“Bitch is now a subsidiary of Massive Bitch with access to Massive Bitch’s massive financial resources, hold for exciting news about what that means for freelance bitches”

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 37 days ago • 210 comments

An FCC probe of an SF radio station over a story it didn't like. A judge-ordered takedown of a newspaper editorial. We are watching the 1st Amendment die rapidly, inspired by a president who declares himself a king How can the media fight back? My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

“@You know who taxed me last year? The IRS. You know who DIDN’T tax me? This self-made genius. (By “self,” I mean family money and government contracts.) And that, my friends, is why he is a man of the people.”

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 38 days ago • 62 comments

SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

submitted 43 days ago • 32 comments

“the rats have moved inside. They’re in the agencies, chewing up the wires. No one seems to be able to get rid of them.“ www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/revolution...

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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 52 days ago • 6552 comments

Opinion: The modern university grew out of an Enlightenment spirit of mind that will always be political. chroni.cl/4jPKDHr

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Fight or resign, Chuck. Fight or resign.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a journalist. My profession is the only one named and protected in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding fathers understood that if the press was stifled, their new democracy would not survive. Here's how you can help journalists like me preserve democracy: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

We desperately need reporters to stop using “Washington” as shorthand for the federal government. Not only because the people of DC literally don’t even get a vote, but because 85% of federal workers live outside of DC, and everyone everywhere is impacted by federal funding and services

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This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 56 days ago • 956 comments

RIP Marianne Faithfull

submitted 59 days ago • 49 comments

Trebek: and now, for our final Jeopardy puzzle, this three letter terror proverbially ate your homework Contestant 3, let's see your answer Me: ruefully reveals the word "dog" Trebek: another wrong answer I'm afraid. The correct answer is of course DEI, that's diversity, equity and inclusion

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Reporter: You blamed the diversity elements but then told us you weren’t sure that the controllers made any mistakes. Trump: It’s all under investigation. Reporter: That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.

submitted 59 days ago • 140 comments

Bannon Talks Techno-Feudalism, by James Livingstone. jameslivingston.substack.com/p/bannon-tal...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

The creeping influence of plutocracy is no longer a distant threat—it is an active force reshaping American democracy. nafoforum.org/magazine/the...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

“‘Reactionary nihilism’ expresses itself as mortal opposition to a perceived catastrophic change in the political order; its deepest premise is that the actual world is devoid of value, impervious to reason, and governable only through brutal acts of will.”

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I‘m happy to take wins when we actually win. This is a silent fart in a cool breeze.

submitted 71 days ago • 6 comments

This is a beautiful tribute.

submitted 73 days ago • 241 comments

We’re getting a horrific glimpse at the possible future. Widespread, cataclysmic climate change tragedies made worse by austerity and blamed on minorities by the Right, who will use their power to enable the wealth class as they continue to profit It doesn’t have to be this way. We can change this.

submitted 81 days ago • 108 comments

Mike Johnson's fake "Jefferson prayer" didn't read like an honest mistake, but a deliberate provocation. He even mocked historians in his intro. I put his stunt into context. Fake history is a linchpin weapon of Christian nationalists. www.salon.com/2025/01/07/w...

submitted 82 days ago • 68 comments