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I will say again: The destruction of the CFPB—an agency that has brought in $20 billion over a little more than a decade despite having an annual budget that's less than what DOD has spent so far today—is the clearest sign none of this has anything to do with saving taxpayers money.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 7 days ago • 914 comments

This. I found out I was no longer immune to measles when I started IVF. So did every other woman in the IVF orientation session I attended. Stuff wears off.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

If someone won’t resist or reject a terrible request when it’s relatively easy, they will not do so when it’s difficult.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

AHEM.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Creative resistance — and fundraising for trans lives — from some of the feds whose department became DOGE: www.customink.com/fundraising/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Culture strike.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you for taking initiative and for being public about it!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🎯

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I guess I'd rather they publish something like this than not, but man it takes some big brass ones for the Times Editorial Board to come out with something like this after the past decade and a half

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

I was reminded of the time in 1991 when ACT UP activists put a giant condom over Senator Jesse Helms's house. I found this 2008 narrative from one of the provocateurs if you want the whole story https://www.poz.com/blog/in-memory-of-je

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

This applies to much of Project 2025. “If they had the votes, they’d be voting.”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

submitted 18 days ago • 78 comments

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

My heart breaks for the trans kids who were playing soccer with their friends without issue who now have to learn the sting of exclusion from the fabric of their communities. They deserve elected leaders who will fight for them and mean it.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

New KYR for immigration justice advocates: Assessing Risks in Supporting Immigrants at Points of Intervention, Understanding the “Harboring” Non-U.S. Citizens Federal Crime, 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

“Some animals are more equal than others.” We’re speedrunning Orwell’s greatest hits.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

once again, please read the @wired.com guide on protecting yourself from government surveillance…

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

submitted 107 days ago • 31 comments

This is a glaring red flag. El Salvador will accept "deported" Americans, almost surely to be tortured and imprisoned by Bukeles thugs. You cannot legally deport an American citizen. That doesn't mean they won't try. apnews.com/article/migr...

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

@indivisible.org has a handy step-by-step guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is awful, what can we do?! THREAD 1. Indivisible (and others) are calling for in-person Senate visits to oppose this week's Vought nomination vote, sign up here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 2. 50501 is organizing 50 protests at state capitols Feb 5th, most at noon (more threaded)

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

all I've got for today is (yeah still doing this, and this is also a note to self:) take the extra minutes you need to say firmly "this is illegal" rather than rushing out with a weak "critics say this is illegal"

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

submitted 19 days ago • 233 comments

Original image, with alt text

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

“A scam to get around the laws passed by Congress,” you say?

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 19 days ago • 242 comments

hello! just putting this here. please share in your signal groups and slacks. www.propublica.org/tips/#signal

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

These are the same picture.

submitted 21 days ago • 65 comments