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#DOGE Destruction just passed the US House by 2 votes because 2 Democrats are dead and 4 Democrats missed the vote -- including Joyce Beatty from #Columbus, #Ohio???? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This is one of the deescalation tactics @righttobe.bsky.social talks about in their bystander intervention training! They've got a free online session coming up - sign up here! Essential for 2025. righttobe.org/events/bysta...

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

I think it's good when people change their minds. I think that we should encourage those who do to speak out about that. Also, I hope someone who knows this person can help them to connect the dots to other horrible things being wrought by Trump.

submitted 7 hours ago • 16 comments

A new typology database: Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs). atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch Take a look at the article on apprehensional morphology for an example: atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch/contribution... #linguistics #typology

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a feature not a bug.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

if you held on to one of these bad boys until today it'd be worth a lot more because you'd now be doubling way more RAM

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

of all the late season west wing plots to get stuck with, we get secret space mission

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

The biggest and most consistent "states rights" argument the Confederacy made was that states shouldn't be permitted to enforce their own safe haven laws rather than the federal Fugitive Slave Act.

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He’s doing “This is not what I voted for!” about himself lol

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Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

submitted 1 day ago • 348 comments

Whenever you're having a bad day just remember that this is the headquarters of India's Department of Fisheries (Hyderabad)

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Today’s news has me once again thinking about the time Mike Love was driven half mad by someone in the audience eating nachos.

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

i'm so excited to announce i'm starting a new podcast with @bosh.worstpossible.world called "ill conceived", a show about natalism, which is an ideology that sees declining birthrates as the most important issue in American politics we have a trailer of what to expect from our show, listen here!

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Betteridge's law of headlines does not hold here.

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Only two weekends left to sign the referendum petition to STOP #Ohio SB-1 before June 21st! Link below to find where to sign the petition; find us at #Pride, #NoKings, #ICE rallies this weekend as well as community events, colleges, cafes, drive throughs, etc at every county, almost every day!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We're in the last couple weeks of signature-gathering to get repeal of SB1, Ohio's new anti-higher education law, on the November ballot. If you haven't signed, please do! There is also still time to volunteer and opportunities to do so. ohsb1petition.com

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Happy Pride Month! You know who doesn't change their brand image to rainbow just for June? Ctenophores. They make their gay little rainbows all year. It's a Pride parade in the ocean every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. 366 every four years. 🦑🐙

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

it's true that some of these protests had very clear goals; "levitating the pentagon" is one example.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

submitted 3 days ago • 100 comments

There's one quote in NYT's podcast about trans healthcare that perfectly illustrates what's wrong with how media organizations frame this kind of coverage. www.readtpa.com/p/the-quote-...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

"who was president in 2020" remains the most difficult question in the world for a sizable chunk of americans, professional commentators included

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Doesn't even qualify this with references to ostensible violence and disorder, just says protest will be met with force. The authoritarianism is more open and brazen by the day.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

a lot of bus stops in SF are literally just a pole you have to stand next to, but today some guerilla-installed benches suddenly appeared diy cozy architecture >>>>>

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

"george soros funds antifa, so maybe they are more talent constrained than funding constrained?" is so fucking funny

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It is bananas that this is STILL going on. It's all just an enormous, incredibly dangerous grift. The best part was people arguing that this stuff isn't bleach, which I put paid to 12 fucking years ago. thinkingautismguide.com/2013/01/mms-...

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The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

On a total side note, it occurred to me late last week that Republicans went with calling it the Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) partly out of jealousy at Build Back Better (BBB).

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I encourage people who hold the overall correct view that protests have better optics when the protesters are carrying American flags to Be The Change and bring big American flags to protests themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 4 days ago • 894 comments

Pick 1 or 2 items from this list. Then call your state senator on repeat until they agree to help fix that piece of #Ohio's budget bill: bit.ly/OhioBudget2025 Find your state senator: OhioSenate.gov

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 5 days ago • 622 comments

Something worth remembering about immigration: it's not a choice between values and pocketbook. You get both. The best evidence is that immigration enriches us all. If you want to convince yourself, imagine the USA didn't ban Chinese immigration in 1882, or immigration more broadly in 1924.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

The raids in Los Angeles & beyond aren’t about public safety - they’re about terrorizing our immigrant & refugee neighbors in the service of hate.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 6 days ago • 381 comments

honestly this would be a fuckin sweet parade. imagine if the mayor had to ride on a float pretending to give a shit about magic: the gathering

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If you want to find where to sign the repeal petition, volunteer to gather signatures, or donate to the campaign: ohsb1petition.com

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Los Angeles County riders united against hat 🚫🧢

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WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 6 days ago • 157 comments

TIL that in the 1960s the Fantastic Four had a butler named Smedley

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments