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girard.bsky.social
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Winston Churchill was right: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Too many Americans have fought and died defending democracy. We must stand with our European allies against the authoritarianism of Putin and Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 228 comments

Bleak but true. To have any hope of rebuilding it, any Democratic president that comes next would have to match Trump’s aggressive pace and wield the executive branch to destroy the billionaires’ power for good and permanently safeguard our regulatory agencies. Hard to imagine.

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

i hope it’s clear that big tech is not an ally. it only was as much as it was profitable. textboon rainbow capitalism, and now when they saw the writing on the wall, they flopped back into fascisms arms

submitted 18 days ago • 90 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

"...the question arises of what should be done and, more critically, what can be done? The sad answer is not that much. Those with the direct institutional power to slam the brakes lack the will and those with the will lack the power." Brutal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

gravity is doing a better job opposing the GOP than the Democrats are

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 59 comments

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

submitted 26 days ago • 212 comments

Mr. President: Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, I have a better idea.   In Denmark, everyone is guaranteed health care, college education is free, parents receive 1-year of paid paternity leave & workers don’t make less than $22 an hour.  Let's steal those ideas.

submitted 32 days ago • 423 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 37 days ago • 2388 comments

HELL YEAH! Congressman Jim McGovern TORE Speaker Mike Johnson a new for saying it wasn’t “his place” to question Trump’s January 6 pardon. “Not your place?? WHO THE HELL’S PLACE IS IT?” He said. “How about you stand with the officers who protected you and not a reality show wannabe dictator.” 💙

submitted 37 days ago • 640 comments

Refreshing to hear someone speak truth to power. I commend her bravery! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBg2...

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submitted 71 days ago • 94 comments

Health Insurance CEO Reveals Key To Company’s Success Is Not Paying For Customers’ Medical Care theonion.com/health-insur...

submitted 72 days ago • 283 comments

bop

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

They caught the Healthcare CEO killer.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Love to "drain the swamp" by making... - A tobacco and mining lobbyist Chief of Staff - An Iraq War hawk Secretary of State - A Qatar and Amazon lobbyist Attorney General - A billionaire Wall St CEO Commerce Secretary - A billionaire hedge fund manager Treasury Secretary

submitted 95 days ago • 53 comments

Is anyone on the right still trying to claim that Project 2025 wasn't the plan the whole time? The dude literally wrote the FCC chapter. I wonder if he'll really try to ban TikTok; something Trump "promised" he wouldn't do. www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/m...

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

So did all these news orgs just schedule these pieces for *after* the election or what

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submitted 107 days ago • 274 comments

Hello, world!

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments