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What if an innocent person is executed? The death penalty is absolute caveman nonsense and does nothing for anyone. It does not bring back the dead. HOW’S THAT FOR A HORROR STORY STEVE

submitted 2 hours ago • 43 comments

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

It continues to bother me that it’s possible for me to read newspapers from 100+ years ago and not data journalism from the 10 years ago (when I wrote about this back then, the main cause was technical breakage and not corporate malevolence)

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Montana is extremely lucky to have Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell standing up in front of openly transphobic lawmakers who wanted to pass a bill that would /take trans kids away from their parents./ Thank you to them, and to the Republicans who crossed the aisle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 14 hours ago • 123 comments

Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom. Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'" 😡 😡 😡

submitted 1 day ago • 138 comments

Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

submitted 1 day ago • 393 comments

fucking christ

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

DEI Obsession Destroys Right Winger’s Brain

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Californians — and ALL Americans — need leaders who have courage in their convictions, and who will show up for them, in the faces of people who want to see us all back in the closet.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

NEW - Dr. Marty Makary, Trump's FDA pick, said at his Senate confirmation hearing that he would review a Biden-era rule that allowed patients to get mifepristone without seeing a health care provider in person. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

These ten Democrats should just quit. To censure Green when there have never been consequences for MTG for egregious behavior whereas Green was protesting fascism. We are drowning in shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

i know some cis folks on here are at least kinda aware it’s bad right now for trans people in america, but sometimes it’s worth calling y’all back to 2016 when a single “transsexuals have to use the wrong bathrooms” bill cost north carolina the nba all-star game & $400 million. this is normal now.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

that or they lied..they think that facts do not matter. they do not care that the quote in the sotu was a lie. they are so so so beyond fact checking.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Colbert nails it

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(shopping at the Respectful Sign Store) Hello may I purchase one of your smallest most demure signs

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Dems made a mistake. Every 5 minutes one should have stood up like Al Green and left. #StateOfTheUnion

submitted 4 days ago • 371 comments

No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.

submitted 4 days ago • 168 comments

Disrupt the fascist speech the entire time.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Every Democrat that voted for Laken Riley Act to punish immigrants for the crime of one individual should hang their head in shame. No care for women who are dying due to overturning Roe v Wade, but go on. #StateOfTheUnion

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

One by one, every Dem should heckle like Green and be proudly thrown out by him. Not sure why all these Dems showed up tbh. They should have followed @aoc.bsky.social's lead and stayed away.

submitted 4 days ago • 1141 comments

As a protest, democratic lawmakers have each written a single letter on their eyelids with a marker At a key moment during the speech they’ll close their eyes to spell the message: P L E A S E B E M O R E P O L I T E , M R . P R E S I D E N T

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 324 comments

He can’t say it, but I’m gonna go ahead and say it: Senator Jamelle Bouie

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

jesus fucking christ, man, it gets really tired noting this kind of thing, but "[veterans] aren't fit to have a job or aren't willing to come to work" is the kind of headline that should absolutely destroy a fucking administration and would, if that administration were led by a democrat

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

Now we're talking

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

submitted 4 days ago • 216 comments

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

submitted 4 days ago • 423 comments

This is genuinely a fantastic plan. Wait until he says something particularly awful and just walk out. He’s self-destruct

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

it’s march? like of the penguins?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

submitted 5 days ago • 413 comments

An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season's flu shot has been canceled, according to a panel member. Officials did not offer an explanation for the scrapped meeting. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 10 days ago • 443 comments

DOGE implied it had slashed $100,000,000 in diversity trainings at the Agriculture Department. The actual savings was $121,000. @janetimm.bsky.social has the receipts: www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 813 comments

Rachel Maddow just cooked MSNBC live on their air and I don’t think I’ve seen something quite like that before. Incredible job, @maddow.msnbc.com.

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

The President of the United States expressing his views on the 1st Amendment

submitted 12 days ago • 4382 comments

The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC. There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA. Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 178 comments

Hanoi Jane is still a real one

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Walked several miles and poked through countless patches of brush and swamp grasses today to find one (1) tiny Chalcoscirtus diminutus lad because I was at a new spot and knew they had to be out there because the habitat was right. He did not disappoint 🖤 #EmotionalSupportSpood

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Most likely explanation is that the militia wing of the President's supporters, whom the President praised and pardoned for previous attacks on democracy, harassed citizens seeking to express dissent. This is the story of many authoritarian states - is it the American story now?

submitted 13 days ago • 70 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 138 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 103 comments