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touching the stove and feeling nothing

Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀

"First they are coming for the federal unions—the lowest hanging fruit, the most bureaucratic unions, the ones barred from striking. Then they will proceed to come for all public sector unions. Then they will come for private sector unions." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

The administration has canceled 45 RECOVER #LongCOVID grants. These grants examined pathology, & were vital to understanding infection-associated chronic illness as a whole. Half of those with #LongCOVID at 6 mo. meet criteria for #MECFS. 🧪 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Connecticut Intelligence Center worried that Luigi Mangione is becoming a "Robin Hood" like figure and that "citizens may see Mangione’s alleged actions as an attack against a system designed to work against them," per report obtained under FOIA: prospect.org/justice/2025...

This is maybe even more relevant today. Just change "is on the moon" to "is building AGI" or "is going to Mars." www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey

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NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

My god. This is almost certainly @immdef.bsky.social’s client Andry, who an American journalist watched being beaten in El Salvador when renditioned there on false accusations by the Trump administration. This is a crime against humanity.

NEW: Cuts to Columbia University funding have shuttered a prominent research center into ME/CFS, a debilitating condition with no FDA-approved treatments. It's a gut punch to a community that for years has been frustrated by a lack of funding. Developing... www.statnews.com/2025/03/19/m...

BREAKING NEWS: @theonion.com revealed terrifying information about elon musks secret compound

The kid (he was born in 1995) filing impeachment charges against Judge Boasberg is married to Dinesh D'Souza's daughter? This whole country is one giant grift, isn't it?

The specific quote from General John DeWitt, justifying Japanese internment: “The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”

Okay the tanky kids were right... @iwriteok.bsky.social is a straight up fed poster. ;)

Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.

"theblop" (the big list of protests) a big index of upcoming US protests with search filters theblop.org

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Chuck Schumer is a call to action not a name

Sharing a classic that came up multiple times this week: beware of decisions that are hard precisely because the options are similar, and therefore the choice doesn't actually matter. wavelength.asana.com/workstyle-de...

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

when you've lost Peter Doocy ...

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

A different manifestation of the political compass (creator: unknown)

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

NOW: Protesters outside the federal Immigration court building in Dallas are calling for James Rodden, an ICE attorney we identified as the operator of an anonymous racist X account, to be fired.

This is NOT what I had in mind when I voted for the man who pretended to work at McDonald's for a day and then drove around in a dump truck. I thought he would continue doing those things, thereby providing valuable services in my community