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My thoughts on last nights firings

submitted 59 minutes ago • 5 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 97 comments

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

The NYTimes apparently didn’t even consider Bannon’s Nazi salute at CPAC to be newsworthy until the far-right French politicians tried to distance themselves from it. And even then, the headline is “Bannon Salute, Echoing Musk, Draws Criticism from French Right”.

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 hour ago • 30 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 539 comments

Despite facing declining poll numbers and growing constituent unrest, Trump is now publicly urging Elon Musk to intensify his efforts.

submitted 59 minutes ago • 258 comments

Does holding a security clearance gives the govt the right to piss test you at any time? If it does, next dem admin should unironically spring surprise inspections on every VC with a clearance. Tons of them will pop hot, yank their clearances, make them liabilities to their firms.

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 3 hours ago • 43 comments

ha ha i am trolling you by identifying undesirables and segregating them from the general population. oh sorry did i use a prison analogy for citizens, whose passports i am making harder to get?

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Extremely terrible!!! A big blow to philosophy and HPS, especially.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Let me take this format for a spin

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submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 2 hours ago • 37 comments

I agree.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Beshear passing on the Kentucky Senate race is maybe disappointing but I think it’s mostly a null tell because he’s obviously going to clear the field any time he decides to go for it

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 1 hour ago • 63 comments

World Wonders What Trump Has On United States That’s Forcing Nation To Keep Him In Power theonion.com/world-w...

submitted 1 hour ago • 80 comments

Every day, they're testing how far they can take this. If they think they can take it all the way, they absolutely will. But we don't have to let them.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 15 hours ago • 224 comments

I replied to this last night and I'm going to send one more slightly desperate post now. My ex is really terrified of this move and this fundraiser is basically the only carrot I have. Every dollar makes it easier for me to get my trans daughter to safety before puberty. gofund.me/8664c1dc

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 14 hours ago • 98 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 1 hour ago • 111 comments

Sure, laugh at the French Third Republic, but it lasted 69 years, which is longer than the US lasted as a universal suffrage liberal democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"You’d be forgiven for feeling powerless, but you’d be wrong. Believing that you can do something, that together we all can, is the flotation device that can keep you from sinking into the politics of despair, of shock and paralysis." A great reminder from @alexwinter.com of the power we have.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

American political press: "As a member of the 4th estate I will lay down my liberty and my life to uphold my commitment to Truth & hold power to account." Also American political press: "If reporting the truth would make me sound silly I will become a loyal propagandist for the president instead."

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 1 hour ago • 91 comments

dictatorship will not bring down the cost of eggs but also you should probably organize against the social fact of dictatorship itself

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

headline sucks but I love that even the French Far Right is like "you all need to stop being Nazi freaks"

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

"DEI" & "woke" are both terms the far right have stolen and are now using as replacements for the N-word and they KNOW they stole "woke" from Black people, they did that deliberately

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 70 comments

This dude doing more and more elaborate crimes because the cops can’t hold him because every time he does one Eric Adams emails an increasingly upset Steven Spielberg pictures of evidence that didn’t go through discovery. The subject line says “New York is an Incredible Place, from bridges to 9/11”

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 hours ago • 183 comments

This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

The media acting like Musk invented the Nazi salute and everyone else is just copying him is the weirdest form of Holocaust denial

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 1 hour ago • 81 comments

We gotta all be able to stand shoulder to shoulder for the foreseeable future.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Assuming we have free and fair elections in 2026, no, not hard. Big assumption though! Just last night he started purging generals and replacing them with loyalists

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

sending this every time I don’t get a reaction in the groupchat

submitted 6 hours ago • 19 comments

RIP to Voletta Wallace, Biggie's mom and also a teacher at my kids' nursery school apnews.com/article/vole...

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 5 hours ago • 86 comments

A lot of republican events are straight up dangerous for formal acts of protest, but going NIMBY-mode on townhalls seems like a perfect way to distort the calculus of GOP electeds

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments