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All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

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Do you have ears? Do you have a brain? Can you hear these words with your ears and your brain? Do you agree? Are you okay? #help 🆘

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He’s threatening to fire federal employees who don’t respond to his email by tomorrow. He has already fired employees with impeccable performance reviews. Promotions will be based on responses to his email rather than detailed performance evaluations by their direct supervisor.

submitted 4 days ago • 1475 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 5 days ago • 567 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 5 days ago • 1564 comments

Here’s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories within their jurisdiction, b) give them a blistering statement, c) blast it out on all channels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

imagine what a weak quisling Rubio is that he cannot even explain to Trump that Russia started the war. Think about that. Utterly spineless.

submitted 8 days ago • 160 comments

Show me some of your favorite things in your home. I need a little break in the clouds. Tell me what makes you happy, even if you don’t know why. 💕☕️🍇🪨

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real.

submitted 9 days ago • 426 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 1032 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 24 days ago • 444 comments

it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic”

submitted 26 days ago • 215 comments

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 25 days ago • 274 comments

I don’t fucking think so.

submitted 26 days ago • 309 comments

CNN's Jim Acosta signing off: "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too." I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too. Pass it on.

submitted 29 days ago • 688 comments

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

submitted 29 days ago • 2740 comments

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

submitted 31 days ago • 685 comments

MERITOCRACY my ass. DEI for White, incompetent, ethically compromised men: contrarian.substack.com/p/the-greate...

submitted 33 days ago • 115 comments

I’m done dating humans. I’ve got a better idea—

submitted 33 days ago • 846 comments

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

submitted 33 days ago • 1978 comments

Donald Trump fired the independent watchdogs, the inspectors general, of at least 12 major federal agencies tonight so he could install his sycophants. Vile.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

Yesterday, ICE raided a business in New Jersey and detained both citizens and non-citizens — without a warrant. They even detained a U.S. military veteran. Nobody is safe.

submitted 33 days ago • 1387 comments

'Canada is Not for Sale' hats go viral in response to Trump's tariff threats and suggestions that Canada become the 51st US state reut.rs/3E8PmDY

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-bla... monstrous to blame victims of genocide

submitted 33 days ago • 75 comments

Also yes project 2025 was always the plan.

submitted 34 days ago • 443 comments

Right out of the gate they are detaining U.S. citizens and saying their “papers”are fake. It was always a lie.

submitted 34 days ago • 1520 comments

Wow

submitted 34 days ago • 889 comments

Eggs: Over easy Steak: Medium Rare w/mushrooms Milk: lactose intolerant and whey allergy - I love oat milk 🖤 Alcohol: wine, bourbon or tequila. Especially a super spicy marg. Warm drink: coffee

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My little Miso died unexpectedly the other night. I found her right after it must have happened. Amazing how much a little rat can capture your heart, and then break it. 🥺 our zoo of furry pals will really miss her, too. 💔

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I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. I know what it’s like to live with constant pain. Pain that is invisible to others, but consuming to the person living with it. From the looks of his x-ray, I can’t imagine how Luigi Mangione must feel sitting in that cell. 😮‍💨🩻

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Things are pretty tough right now, so here are cute pics of fmr President Obama hanging out with kids. 💙

submitted 78 days ago • 883 comments

grappling with the implications of The Claims Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O

submitted 79 days ago • 435 comments

“It’s dark down there, you know.” - Eric Adams, 2024 One for the history books.

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Oh myyy. Nick Fuentes was just arrested for battery. He apparently maced a woman who had knocked on his door.

submitted 82 days ago • 1324 comments

Hi. It's not normal for a nominee to be Director of the FBI to have his own personal hit list of people he wants to take revenge on using the power of the fed'l govt. Do not confirm.

submitted 85 days ago • 568 comments

Yes

submitted 87 days ago • 666 comments

Elders are also protesting, despite the violence of the Moscow backed government and the risk of mass arrests. The younger protestors are shielding them from the water cannons and rubber bullets. All of Georgia remains defiant. #GeorgiaProtests

submitted 88 days ago • 199 comments

Here is Trump’s nominee for FBI Director Kash Patel calling for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media."

submitted 88 days ago • 926 comments

The #Kakistocracy grows: Trump nominated Charles Kushner to be Ambassador to France Kushner pleaded guilty to tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign donations. He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, and sent an illegal recording to his wife in retaliation for cooperating