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Good. Stand your ground, Dems.

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Here's an update from Congress on the fight to protect abortion access across the country. Today, @smith.senate.gov and I reintroduced the Stop Comstock Act. Right wing strategists have been foaming at the mouth for years to abuse antiquated laws to take women back to the 1800s.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ... link.motherjones.com/public/38940...

submitted 6 hours ago • 476 comments

youtu.be/oEqvmD90zRg?...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

We're up to 29 D Senators positions recorded; 6 Nos, 1 Yes, 22 with no position. Tomorrow's going to be a big day when a lot is going to shake loose. Less than 48 left to make your voice heard. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tally-3

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

The Oval Office Swedish Ivy was a gift to John F. Kennedy and has since been a consistent backdrop to some of the most famous White House meetings. But the country’s most famous houseplant has gone missing. What did Donald Trump do with it?

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This #WomensHistoryMonth we once again acknowledge and reckon with Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey, the Mothers of Gynaecology. These enslaved Black women, along with nine other women whose names have been erased, were subjected to human experimentation without anaesthesia. We say their names.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

👇👇👇

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.

submitted 20 hours ago • 39 comments

This can't be good. #transrights #lgbtrights

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

More of this!

submitted 1 day ago • 1398 comments

girls who hate on sex workers are soooooo ugly 🤢

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Fuck these assholes.

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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

Same.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Stay focused

submitted 1 day ago • 452 comments

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

submitted 2 days ago • 215 comments

a democratic senator and members of the board at the university aided and abetted mahmoud khalil's arrest

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington Good morning, beautiful humans. We hope you find strength in your communities today.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

there’s this very american idea that everything we do to fight facism must be “productive” and “results-driven” in order for it to be meaningful as if the act of calling out injustice is not worthwhile on its own.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 2 days ago • 202 comments

Free Mahmoud Khalil! Pass it on.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

submitted 2 days ago • 222 comments

At the end of the day I just wanna Dress like a girl. Look like a girl. Talk like a girl. Act like a girl. Feel like a girl. And I'll be happy

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

They kept switching the meaning of your values until you had none They made you hate everything you stood for until all you had left Was hate. #ThePoet

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Slava Ukraini

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

DC folks-- consider making it out if you're in the area tomorrow.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

To sum it up, the worst of us won. We are confronted every day by their never ending villainous behavior.

submitted 5 days ago • 990 comments

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

First seed has sprouted! An Alaska Shasta Daisy 🌱

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SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Sudbury ON and St John's NL are joining from Canada.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

If you don't 100% unequivocally support trans rights, unfollow me. You will find no comfort here.

submitted 47 days ago • 289 comments

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

submitted 6 days ago • 269 comments

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 10818 comments

The United States should never side with dictators. It’s not who we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

I’ve been critiqued for my appearance all my life—mostly by men who wouldn’t survive 5 minutes under the same scrutiny. But I love my self-expression & no troll is changing that. It makes me effective for the people. Ladies, wear what you want. The haters will have to adjust.

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Today's "woke" is yesterday's "political correctness" is the day-before-that's "try to be polite and treat people decently."

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Anyone: Did you see their matching pi— Me: rage vacuums to Kendrick

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 7 days ago • 2020 comments

Trans people have always been here — and we aren’t going anywhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments