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Everything is going great you guys

submitted 19 hours ago • 82 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 589 comments

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And that's why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

submitted 3 days ago • 699 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 7 days ago • 238 comments

Lol

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 7 days ago • 573 comments

The Education Department has warned U.S. schools that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions — or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

Fox host admits they are a state propaganda entity

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 275 comments

lol THESE WHITE STUDENTS? bsky.app/profile/keit...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

16 free states in the 1850s—states that drew a line against slavery while the country teetered on the edge. Back then, the fight was against enslavers, and the Republican Party led the charge. Now—that same party defends oppression, bans diversity and history that makes them feel uncomfortable.

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

“Say Drake” Bollywood style Squabble up

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Heads up. Great resource today from @legaldefensefund.bsky.social.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

So….. Not DEI? 🤔

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

42 years ago today, Michael Jackson released “Beat It.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

American shoppers pulled back on their spending last month for the first time since August as stubborn inflation continued to bite and harsh weather curbed economic activity: cnn.it/41gtoYI

submitted 12 days ago • 96 comments

The Republican budget cuts taxes for their billionaire donors, while cutting off Medicaid from older Americans in Nursing Homes. Every single Budget Committee Democrat voted against it. And now the battle moves to the House Floor.

submitted 12 days ago • 610 comments

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

submitted 12 days ago • 2124 comments

Anyone else REALLY emotional today? Just me? Oh, ok…

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

no no we don't say "empty carbs" anymore. the preferred term is "emotional support carbs"

submitted 13 days ago • 204 comments

Issa Rae cancels her event at the Kennedy Center after Trump was announced as chairman: “Due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue.”

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 14 days ago • 598 comments

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

submitted 14 days ago • 81 comments

"I have some potentially disturbing news for you," says @garrisonhayes.bsky.social in his latest video. "Throughout American history, the only group of people to consistently get jobs they didn't deserve because they were the right race or the right gender were white men."

submitted 14 days ago • 85 comments

Bingo. Say this. Every day. Every hour. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

The first phase of the rapid-fire effort by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to make cuts appears driven more by an ideological assault on federal agencies than a good-faith effort to save taxpayer dollars, two veteran Republican budget experts said reut.rs/4jZiqyf

submitted 14 days ago • 69 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 14 days ago • 576 comments

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 15 days ago • 180 comments