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The right wing imagined this,wrote it down,built power over decades&is implementing an incredibly unpopular&destructive agenda.Every time somebody from center to left tells me what’s not possible it shocks me.Look around. Political imaginaries+ daring+ resources makes the world.For worse or better.

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

Any time it rains you should be able to leave work early to go to the bookstore

submitted 20 hours ago • 135 comments

This is also known as invading Panama.

submitted 20 hours ago • 607 comments

For those who created #WinterKits last year and this winter & anyone else, we invite folks to create #Spring/SummerKits: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Mustache-twirling fascism with a side of inexcusable resource consumption and resulting ecological catastrophe, but with a low effectiveness, extreme risk of false positives, and utterly no human accountability. What could go wrong?

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

In this time of acrimony and discord, I've decided to rise above it all and be the bigger person. Once I am physically larger than my enemies, I shall simply eat them

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

In Ramadan, we need food. My children are hungry and do not eat all day. When it is time to break the fast, they cannot find food because it is expensive. I am also sick. Is there anyone who will donate to me and my children? We are hungry. Share to help. 🇵🇸🇺🇲💔 chuffed.org/project/1182...

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No one ever said they were creative.

submitted 1 day ago • 898 comments

is it “interesting” in the sense that it demonstrates how a hegemonic group believes that being prevented from violating the rights of others is the same thing as being persecuted? or is it “interesting” in some other, less true way?

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

The proposed cuts to school meal programs in the latest US budget reconciliation package will be a huge setback for students all across the state. #uspol #childhunger #southcarolina

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My novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club and 9 more books are under review for a statewide ban in South Carolina. There will be a hearing tomorrow 3/13. I'm not optimistic that LNATTC will survive this challenge, but it's still possible. Context here: www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/3/...

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So you know how the climate crisis is messing up crop yields? And how microplastics are now everywhere? NEW RESEARCH: : microplastics are sabotaging photosynthesis in food crops like wheat in ways that could throw 400 million people into starvation in next 20 yrs.🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

“Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order”? Beyond parody. Which Ivy League will be endowing an Andrew Jackson Chair of Indigenous Peoples’ Studies?

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submitted 2 days ago • 851 comments

One cool way to avoid feeling vilified for your religious beliefs is to not try to force the entire country to live according to them.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Given that @schumer.senate.gov is on here, shouldn't he have also posted this garbage over here so that we remember how much the likes of him need to be ousted? This is the opposition party folks, this is who we apparently have to oppose fascism, FASCISTS.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Wearing pink jackets? Singing songs? “Alerting” voters? Eternally fundraising. Powerless even when they hold power. Once again as always, the palatable veneer of earnest statecraft over the thrashings of a violent capitalist empire reducing at last to its simplest and most loathsome terms.

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"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

War criminal joins Harvard as a professor named after another war criminal.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Go ahead, keep complaining…

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

Please go and read this thread if you find yourself despairing the “recent collapse” of our democracy. A critical look at history shows that only pretense and decorum have fallen. Grim, yes, but we only win and rise by first acknowledging the true nature of what is before us.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump announces more tariffs on Canada and says, "The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State."

submitted 2 days ago • 1469 comments

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

submitted 3 days ago • 2878 comments

The Agriculture Department has killed $1 billion in funding that was used to buy local food for schools and food banks. This will affect people in over 40 states. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Alright, if you’re a part of #Readersky & you want to support indies without the zon, here are alternatives: ~ iBooks ~ B&N ~ Kobo ~ Thalia ~ Libby ~ Everand ~ Fable ~ Indie Author websites ~ Hoopla ~ itchio ~ Ko-fi ~ & Smashwords. #SpreadTheWord #Booksky

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

submitted 3 days ago • 620 comments

JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter. Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them. Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.

submitted 4 days ago • 1178 comments

Are there any Black women in STEM starter packs floating around? If so can my brilliant fiancé @ikhea.bsky.social be added? She finally made the switch to Bluesky and could use some follows!

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

Robert Reich breaks down how billionaires like Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg are tightening their grip on media and democracy—siding with Trump to protect their wealth and power. When they talk about “free markets” and “personal liberty,” they mean their freedom from accountability.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

submitted 4 days ago • 182 comments