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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 9 hours ago • 860 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 21 hours ago • 104 comments

He was too Black for the moment.

submitted 10 hours ago • 399 comments

Scenes from yesterday's #TeslaTakedown protest in Seattle. This protest was easily triple the size of last week's, maybe bigger. The line of protestors stretched about 3-4 blocks, with some demonstrators on both sides of a major thoroughfare.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...

submitted 22 hours ago • 284 comments

In East Texas: “.. ‘The guy in South Africa is not doing you any good — he’s hurting you more than he’s helping,’ he added, referring to Mr. Musk and drawing nods and applause from many in the room.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And that's why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

submitted 11 hours ago • 634 comments

They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general. They’re not hiding the racism.

submitted 20 hours ago • 224 comments

The Philadelphia Eagles 🦅 have declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate their awesome victory with this shit ass piece of shit. 💩 This is really America’s team, goddamnit

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

What’s wasteful is ordering feds to explain their jobs instead of letting them DO their jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 394 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1550 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 1 day ago • 1563 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 568 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1123 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

The Mississippi Legislature is NOT a "public body" and NOT subject to the Open Meetings Act under state law, a judge has ruled. That means a quorum of House Republicans will be able to continue to meet and make key legislative decisions in private. #MSLeg @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 4 days ago • 844 comments

Can someone explain to me like I’m 12 just how these guys are dismantling the government so easily? Because what’s their enforcement mechanism? Can’t federal employees just ignore them and continue their work?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 5 days ago • 1219 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 5974 comments

Protests beget more protests as people see that its ok to express frustration openly.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

Play stupid segregationist games Win stupid segregationist prizes. I’m going to Costco. Anyone want anything?

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

For those keeping track, @nytimes.com ran the story today on the bottom of page A22.

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments

BREAKING: As the Trump administration works to rehire the critical nuclear safety experts they fired – they can’t figure out how to reach some of the employees. Unbelievable.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 9 days ago • 1614 comments

I'm going to share a thread of local news coverage of the Musk obliteration of USAID, and in particular, the faith-based funding. 1/x 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Again, being right is awful.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

Trump-Musk are firing roughly 5,200 federal employees who work on health care this afternoon: www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1088 comments

Today's local headlines: Alabama Senate passes bill to detain people for 48 hours to check immigration status Alabama schools could lose millions for skipping daily pledge, prayer Alabama schools, maps, and agencies may soon be required by law to use ‘Gulf of America’ 1/2

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?

submitted 13 days ago • 1425 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 12 days ago • 3883 comments

This is evil, but also, good job to Wanda for squarely saying, “Donald Trump did this.”

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.

submitted 13 days ago • 434 comments

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

This isn’t “defying the courts.” What you’re describing is authoritarianism.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

DO NOT MEMORY HOLE THE NAZI SALUTE! Elon Musk did it not once but twice, and with vigor! It’s been 3 weeks, and there’s been no accountability. Institutionalized Judaism has let him off the hook. It is up to us to remember, to never forget the ancestors who deserve better, and to make it stick.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

If I hear "scathing letter" one more time...

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

Congressperson John Lewis, whose ‘good trouble’ they love to quote so much, was arrested 45 times in his life. The last was in 2013 protesting for immigrants, during the Obama presidency.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

It's cute of Dem congresspeople to tell us that, unlike us, they simply can't afford to get arrested by police

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

There are more proverbial layers in a singular performance by Kendrick Lamar than any artist I encounter at a museum. He shifts my soul. Every time.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Also - and I wish there was more advocacy for civic engagement from voices in our community rather than just pointing out the bad - but please call your elected officials.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments