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This is America.

submitted 17 hours ago • 199 comments

At the start of this year, three of the institutions most important to American cultural preservation—the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History—were run by women for the first time. As of today, Trump has fired two of those three.

submitted 19 hours ago • 40 comments

In the 1980s, the US experienced one billion-plus dollar extreme weather disaster on average every 4 months. Today? There’s one every 2 weeks, and 9 in 10 Americans say they’ve felt the impacts. Clearly, this is the record to cut—if you don’t want to show how climate change is hitting home.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

submitted 1 day ago • 446 comments

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

submitted 1 day ago • 773 comments

Trans service members are service members. They’ve flown in combat, led troops into battle, and risked their lives to protect us. Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military— which SCOTUS temporarily allowed to take effect— takes away our freedom and makes us less safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

The Trump Administration is basically defunding the UPenn lab that made the Covid vaccine possible and won the Nobel Prize for its research. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

i am explicitly pro-technocrat because we are seeing the alternative

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

We're the bad guys

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Conservative prosecutors under Biden said that his testimony was confused and can't be relied on, and it was a multi-week, breaking-news-push-notifcation news story. Conservative lawyers WORKING FOR TRUMP said that his remarks are confused and can't be relied on and it won't make page A18 tomorrow

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

submitted 2 days ago • 425 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

In a series of unpublicized revisions, DOJ removes references to trans people & gender from critical crime-data surveys Reports @theappeal.org

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Which Trump officials will be on Fox today blaming Biden for stuff when they should be doing actual work for the American people at their agencies? At this point, taxpayers are just paying the salaries for a bunch of daily Fox contributors.

submitted 2 days ago • 145 comments

Details on Khalil and the Jena prison he is confined in: - saw child for the first time via 9 photos printed at Walmart - lost 15-20 lbs b/c of vile food - dorms sleep 70 to room in 35 bunks - lights on 24/7 - dorms are kept frigid - the facility was fixed up in advance of congressional visit

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Your School House Rock moment......

submitted 3 days ago • 580 comments

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

submitted 4 days ago • 1997 comments

Good piece from @nberlat.bsky.social on women candidates open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

"On a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% ... are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to [it]." www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

>Hegseth cut off weapons to Ukraine without telling anyone >he’s cutting Strykers, JLTVs and M-10s >he was using even more Signal chats for official business >he’s randomly slashing the number of General Officers >we’re gonna use AI for C3I HAHA BUT LOOK HE DID SOME PUSH-UPS WITH SOF GUYS!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

This kind of journalism has never been more important. It needs shared widely.👏 60 Minutes cataloguing the state-sponsored extortion of the legal system under Trump. Virtually no-one would go on camera such is the climate of fear. Government by The Mob, exposed.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.

submitted 4 days ago • 664 comments

"America is never going to return to a functioning — let alone thriving — democracy as long as we pretend that it’s not a crime to sell access and influence in the White House for coins that go straight into the pocket of the president or his children." share.inquirer.com/csKOvc

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

🧵 NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night. Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.” She’s a constituent. Not a threat. Fascism again.

submitted 4 days ago • 905 comments

Fourth May Be With You, as they say in Europe.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

other reports have this baby in foster care, and I am more than a little bit curious about who the foster family is and what their relationship to this decision might be

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.

submitted 6 days ago • 392 comments

Apropos of nothing here’s a picture of the Nazi Mother’s Crosses (displayed in the National WWII Museum) awarded to German women who birthed a certain number of children.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The sheriff who’s getting a pass slammed a woman onto the ground, pushed his knee into her back, then pepper sprayed her twice in the face.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

The message being that anything that stops Black people from swimming in shit is “DEI”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Per a new @brookings.edu poll, most Americans (rightly) do not see the Trump administration's approach toward universities as being about combating antisemitism. www.brookings.edu/articles/pol...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms. The area's population is over 72% Black. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

Ron Johnson heard all that and has now twice voted to keep these tariffs in place anyways.

submitted 8 days ago • 132 comments

Okay, but in exchange for fewer and more expensive consumer goods, at least we’re getting lower economic growth and higher unemployment!

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

Is anything more perfect than republicans being like, “we are going to ban anti semitism unless it’s from christians, then it’s ok”

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOX: "Let me make it clear one more time that China and the U.S. are not engaged in any consultation or negotiation on tariffs." @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 56 comments

Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on Congress' appropriation committees said on Tuesday. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments