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I can’t emphasize enough that cynicism is a dictator’s best friend. Stay outraged. Believe in and work for democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

The real story is that unnamed unknown Yemeni children died as a result of that cringe Signal disaster. Somehow that seems to be lost in all this.

submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow & ruin pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow forces that destroy the promise, hope, vision. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 3 days ago • 1064 comments

It turns out it’s always veep and never house of cards

submitted 3 days ago • 177 comments

Corollary: society needs to reward telling the truth, especially when it's personally costly. When we punish liars but don't reward honesty, we create a strong incentive to either a) shut up or b) not get caught in a lie, neither of which are quite what we want.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Correct.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

👀

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

"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

submitted 5 days ago • 398 comments

School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 26 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

some good news!!!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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 9 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 27 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 11 days ago • 19 comments

OMG! 🤣

submitted 8 days ago • 160 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.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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 15 days ago • 637 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 9 days ago • 65 comments

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

submitted 10 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 10 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 10 days ago • 457 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 211 comments

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

submitted 15 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 11 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 11 days ago • 167 comments

You know what costs less? Housing.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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 12 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 12 days ago • 67 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 1413 comments

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 13 days ago • 85 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

🪦 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 13 days ago • 135 comments

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 13 days ago • 2920 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

submitted 13 days ago • 2801 comments

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 13 days ago • 248 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."

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Having meatloaf for breakfast. BECOME UNGOVERNABLE, EMBRACE CHAOS

submitted 14 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.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

anger good, dooming bad

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments