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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 22 hours ago • 944 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2739 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2342 comments

lot of ppl saying that shredding state capacity is not how you build an authoritarian but: the entire history of Jim Crow governance refutes that? even with almost zero "state capacity" to speak of, what little there was coordinated with existing extra legal (read: vigilante) capacity

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wild. At the Small Business Administration, some employees were fired, then re-hired, then re-fired. @govexec.bsky.social found at least one employee who was fired, re-hired, re-fired, and then re-hired a second time.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 2 days ago • 247 comments

If you’re not aware that the “sin of empathy” is making real end roads into popular evangelicalism you need to be aware open.substack.com/pub/jaymallo...

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

DEI is the most popular thing in this list lmao

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Our guy walks into a totally unfamiliar environment with the craziest possible shit happening all around him and still somehow manages to make the correct moral choice like 85 times in a row.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

The Failed/Client States of America

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

It’s probably best to stop following / sharing content from this account when it clearly does not care for any form of proper attribution and has the science *very* wrong. 🔭 This is an infrared image of Venus taken by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft’s IR2 camera. 📸 JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

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A few hundred of these moments ahead.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

More than 500,000 tons of American food commodities ‒ valued at over $450 million ‒ are stuck. Grown by farmers in the country’s heartland, this food includes corn and cornmeal, lentils, pinto beans, sorghum, vegetable oil and yellow split peas.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

Roses are red, Elon's a knob,

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

How about some Valentine's Day cards from your favorite characters from The Expanse

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We are now at a stage where there are scandals which would have unraveled any previous presidency occurring multiple times per day, every day, day after day.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This story from CBS is written as uncritically as anything I've read in authoritarian state media.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments