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"no video games unless you finish your food, Songs in the Key of Life"

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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

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49% of Troy was like "they tried to kill us yesterday" but 51 were chanting HORSE! HORSE! really loud

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HAPPENING NOW: 1000+ U.S. Jews are outside ICE headquarters in NYC demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and protest the Trump-Musk deportation agenda. We are Jews for freedom and democracy saying #FreeMahmoud

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some good news!!!

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Reconsidering Reparations Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change. Monday, March 31st at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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Legislators whose ancestors were large slaveholders have a current median net worth five times larger than their peers whose ancestors were not slaveholders: $5.6 million vs. $1.1 million. Wealth stays within rich families across multiple generations. This power is significant. #USDemocracy

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Michelle Obama: Kids should have nutritious meals. The pro-life party: This is an outrage! RFK Jr: Kids should have measles, mumps, and polio. The pro-life party: Yes, king! Tell it like it is!

submitted 23 days ago • 224 comments

Trump has shown a clear pattern of freeing white criminals while imprisoning or deporting non-white people who have not been charged with crimes. We'd call this racist, but that would upset right-wing birthers who don't read our paper, so we'll call this "an unusual pattern."

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

OMG! 🤣

submitted 4 days ago • 161 comments

Widespread dismissive psychiatric responses to people who identify with poorly understood syndromes like long Covid, chronic Lyme, fibromyalgia etc is ironic given that most all psychiatric diagnoses are characterized by similarly thin etiological basis, circular definition, etc.

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I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

submitted 11 days ago • 640 comments

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

1. CONFIRM YOUR SOLIDARITY NETWORKS 2. CONCENTRATE ON THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE FIRST. 3. FIGHT WHERE YOU CAN/WITHIN YOUR CAPACITY.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

The Trump administration has just removed a federal ban on contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains. This is a result of Trump’s executive order to combat DEI.

submitted 6 days ago • 458 comments

Violation of court order to deport a life-saving doctor. I think ICE has been assigned quotas.

submitted 7 days ago • 213 comments

Los Angeles pre-EPA and Los Angeles post-EPA.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

Congress is broken because too many people in power are comfortable doing nothing. I’m running for Congress to stand for YOU instead of the few. We need new people in office that fight for you, not just their re-election.

submitted 7 days ago • 167 comments

You know what costs less? Housing.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

We are at zero percent of achieving our goal, and our hearts are heavy with sadness Hind a little girl in Gaza only dreams of living like other children but the closed border denies her milk and us food Life is unbearably hard Please donate and support us to give Hind a chance 😞💔🙏🏼 gofund.me/984f18ca

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Columbia disenrolling a fifth-year doctoral candidate poised to graduate this spring because she was forced to “self-deport” by ICE should be a major scandal.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

This. Touch grass. Take a few deep breaths. Stream “The Wild Robot” and have a piece of pie. Watch Planet Earth. We fight again tomorrow. Non-violently. Don’t play yourself.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

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I wrote this on young men, and why we need to stop lying about why they're easy prey for reptiles like Andrew Tate. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

There are simply no quick fixes for anything. It's all just persistent, focused and ongoing work.

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🪦 New Yorkers are in front of the New York Stock Exchange for a mass die-in to symbolize how these devastating cuts will destroy families & take lives. Deep spending cuts to programs like healthcare, food assistance, and education is a matter of life & death for millions. Congress: #StopTheCuts!

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 9 days ago • 2930 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

Keep fighting back. Remember the Polish opposition slogan following the December 1981 declaration of martial law: "The winter is yours. The spring will be ours."

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Having meatloaf for breakfast. BECOME UNGOVERNABLE, EMBRACE CHAOS

submitted 10 days ago • 330 comments

The communist manifesto is 44 pages long, available for free online, and was read by starving factory workers in mid-1800s London who worked 100 hours a week at the orphan-crushing machine. A wage worker in 2025 could listen to the entire thing on their commute and radicalize by lunch.

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anger good, dooming bad

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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 12 days ago • 1217 comments

sometimes I wish my husband could just push me around in a big wagon so I could lay back and look at the sky

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NEW: I just asked Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett if she had a message to Elon Musk. What would she say to him? Here was her answer: “Fuck off.”

submitted 27 days ago • 705 comments

Yes. Please folks. Exercise caution and compassion in posting.

submitted 29 days ago • 29 comments

They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.

submitted 29 days ago • 924 comments

Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

submitted 29 days ago • 449 comments

Heard a song from the 80s reference a "long distance call" and it occurred to me that this is a concept that no longer holds any emotional currency whatsoever

submitted 31 days ago • 1351 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 30 days ago • 306 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 30 days ago • 2223 comments