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Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

April 5, 2025

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

So when does steel making resume? www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aba...

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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 6 days ago • 726 comments

It took me a moment.

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I just want to say to America, while the majority can still afford the internet, thank you. Thank you for making the brain-dead disaster that is Brexit the SECOND stupidest thing a country has ever voted for. Have you decided what to call it yet? How about Trumpageddon? or The Great Trumpression?

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

(1,2) On behalf of every first responder in America and the families who love them, FUCK YOU @RobertKennedyJr AND DONALD TRUMP. My brother Dr. Michael Guttenberg died in 2017 from cancer related to 9/11. He is one of thousands to have become sick and or die. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?

submitted 9 days ago • 572 comments

Not sure who needs to hear this, but to become a naturalized US citizen, an immigrant green card holder must ALREADY pass a high school level test on American history and civics. Most native-born Americans would fail the test if they had to take it

submitted 10 days ago • 736 comments

Reached a milestone today: someone was unpleasant to me on Bluesky! Took longer than I thought it might.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Let it begin.

submitted 15 days ago • 2084 comments

You’re angry but don’t like talking to people on the phone? It’s okay, all calls are going to voice mail. Do it now. If not now, when? 5calls.org

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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2nvE2C2/

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Ten years old ad, morality play, lesson for the world, and indictment of the current US administration.

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Excellent article

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Making No One Want To Do Business With America Again

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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.

submitted 17 days ago • 618 comments

Perhaps the rich could pay their share?

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#StandUpForScience

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

submitted 18 days ago • 394 comments

The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home. downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

submitted 18 days ago • 250 comments

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

submitted 19 days ago • 1570 comments

AI systems don’t hallucinate, they are agnostic about truth. They don’t know or care.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a firm believer that writing can change lives. Do take the time to read this piece - it's an eye-opener. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.

submitted 23 days ago • 320 comments

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

submitted 25 days ago • 1478 comments

No need to mention names. 😄🤣😄

submitted 30 days ago • 167 comments

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

submitted 29 days ago • 459 comments

First they came for the Palestinian protesters And I did not speak out...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Call your senators TODAY (especially the Democratic ones) and tell them in no uncertain terms to vote no on the continuing budget resolution this week. Talking Points Memo breaks it down: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938

submitted 31 days ago • 97 comments

Sad reality

submitted 31 days ago • 165 comments

Strength in numbers for the scientific enterprise! Very happy to have joined the Philadelphia #StandUpForScience rally today, and to have seen so many other people there. These are hard times to be in science and science policy in a lot of ways, but inspiring ones as well!

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

The misleadingly-named “Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement” is a Wall Street group that wants to privatize Social Security, meaning that they want to suck a fat profit margin out of my retirement savings and yours, leaving us with a lot less. No way.