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In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

submitted 17 days ago • 415 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 8 days ago • 410 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1910 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 11 days ago • 335 comments

every Donald Trump cycle: TRUMP: i'm gonna kill the easter bunny FACT-CHECKER: he has not stated how he is going to kill the easter bunny TRUMP SUPPORTER: i think he means he's going to kill evil bunnies TRUMP: beheads the easter bunny NYT: trump redefines relationship between bunny and head

submitted 13 days ago • 52 comments

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

submitted 13 days ago • 88 comments

if you understand what the actual foundations of national power are--not weird sex fantasies about "frontier mindset" and colonizing greenland--then you recognize that president musk is doing his damnedest to destroy america from within. www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

They don't think the presidency has these powers, a democrat was president less than a month ago and they didn't think he had them. They just think America should be a dictatorship where they rule forever bsky.app/profile/jame...

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

Playbook today is a case study in how NOT to write about an authoritarian takeover. Good lord:

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 17 days ago • 1765 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 18 days ago • 1468 comments

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

submitted 19 days ago • 221 comments

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

submitted 19 days ago • 117 comments

UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.

submitted 19 days ago • 238 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 20 days ago • 1694 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: Court injunction protecting USAID Dems demand hearings on Musk's role Someone introduce articles of impeachment Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

submitted 20 days ago • 364 comments

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

submitted 21 days ago • 4028 comments

This year, nearly every public defender in NYC will be negotiating a new contract. The city has broken promises to pay us equally with city attorneys and prosecutors. For less than 10% of NYPD’s annual overtime spending, the city could pay its public defenders at parity with federal defenders.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 21 days ago • 490 comments

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

submitted 21 days ago • 3934 comments

Sorkin and South Park

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I am so goddamn mad. A friend who’s been FISHING BODIES OUT OF THE POTOMAC appears to be in the Trump purges today.

submitted 22 days ago • 209 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 24 days ago • 246 comments

New: A Boston federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

The DEI talk isn’t about qualifications; it’s about opportunity. This is why nepotism and old-boy networks aren’t frowned upon. It’s not about whether you were qualified; it’s about why you, the black person, got the opportunity. Everything starts from there.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

45/47 has NO PROBLEMS blaming everyone except himself. I don't understand why Democrats refuse to blame HIM for everything. Every. single. thing. It's raining. - that's HIS fault also his rich friends are evil and greedy. It's 105 degrees - HE did it. Also his rich.... Over and over again.

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

Today in civil rights class: We were scheduled to discuss the rape of Recy Taylor and the movement to hold her rapists accountable as a historical example of racist and sexist policing of Jim Crow. Yet, as I was about to start, I called on her and she asked, "What do you think about DEI?"

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

submitted 24 days ago • 351 comments